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Nalini Malani Lets the Walls Speak with a New Installation in Venice

Nalini Malani Lets the Walls Speak with a New Installation in Venice

Published by José Betancourt

Entering the cavernous Magazzini del Sale in Venice, viewers encounter Nalini Malani’s animations, which are projected directly onto the uneven brick walls of the former salt warehouse. Her images flicker, dissolve, and reappear as they are cast across architecture shaped by centuries of trade. The installation feels both contemporary and archaic: moving images that seem less like digital projections than pigment placed on stone, recalling cave paintings set in motion. This tension between past and present runs throughout Of Woman Born, Malani’s latest project, which was commissioned by the Kiran Nadar Museum of Art and is being presented during the opening of the Venice Biennale next month. Drawing on tens of thousands of hand-drawn images translated into animation, the installation brings together mythology, literature, and sound in a layered environment that unfolds as the viewer moves through the space. Beyond the exhibition itself, Malani has also extended one of her recurring figures—the “Skipping Girl”—across Venice, where she appears on posters and public signage, guiding viewers to the work. Long engaged with questions of violence, displacement, and …

Precious Okoyomon’s Whitney Biennial Installation Is a True Shocker

Precious Okoyomon’s Whitney Biennial Installation Is a True Shocker

Published by José Betancourt

Earlier this month, the Whitney Biennial went on view to the usual amount of fanfare—but one work was notably missing from the show. That work, a room-filling installation by Precious Okoyomon featuring stuffed animals and racist dolls suspended from the ceiling by nooses, was initially meant to appear in the lobby. But shortly before the exhibition opened to the press, the artist and the show’s curators pulled the plug on that plan. The issue, Okoyomon told ARTnews this week, was not the piece’s disturbing subject matter but a more practical problem: they felt they needed more space to realize such an ambitious project. “It didn’t work,” they said of the initial lobby idea. The dolls and animals “needed to be lower. You have to engage with them in a place where you can look at them and be with them.” Related Articles We met on the Whitney Museum’s the eighth floor, where their installation, titled Everything wants to kill you and you should be afraid (2026), finally went on view Wednesday. Cupping their poodle, Gravity, …

Where can I watch Sarah Mullally’s installation as Archbishop of Canterbury?

Where can I watch Sarah Mullally’s installation as Archbishop of Canterbury?

Published by Sam Flores

LONDON (RNS) — When The Rt. Rev. Dame Sarah Mullally is installed as the 106th archbishop of Canterbury on Wednesday (March 25), she will become the first woman ever to lead the Church of England and serve as convener of the Anglican Communion. She is a former chief nurse of the United Kingdom’s National Health Service, making Mullally also the first archbishop of Canterbury to have led a major public agency in the country. In the congregation at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent on Wednesday, along with royals, politicians, clergy from around the world and schoolchildren, will be representatives from the NHS, testifying to Mullally’s accomplishments before she was ordained in 2002. RELATED: Watch the Installation of the Archbishop Canterbury live In another first, at least in recent memory, she took part in a pilgrimage, walking the 87 miles from St. Paul’s Cathedral in her London diocese, where she has been bishop since 2018, to Canterbury. You can watch her installation at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, in southwest England, on the website of the Archbishop of …

Meet the African women bishops attending the archbishop of Canterbury’s installation

Meet the African women bishops attending the archbishop of Canterbury’s installation

Published by Sam Flores

NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) — Five African Anglican women bishops said they will attend the historic installation of the first female archbishop of Canterbury, even as GAFCON, an alliance of conservative primates strongly represented in Africa, has urged a “principled disengagement” from the traditional center of Anglican power in England. The Most Rev. Sarah Mullally, a 63-year-old former nurse, will be installed on Wednesday (March 25) at Canterbury Cathedral in England, the final step in making her the head of the Church of England and the convener of the worldwide Anglican Communion. She is ​the 106th archbishop of Canterbury and the first woman to hold the office in the church’s 1,400-year history. “We are standing in solidarity with the archbishop of Canterbury,” the Rt. Rev. Rose Okeno, bishop of Butere, in Kenya, told Religion News Service, “strongly witnessing the love of Christ that transcends all social, religious, economic, cultural and political barriers, and which affirms the dignity of all ​h​umans as equal, created in his image, imago Dei.” Top row, from left: the Rt. Revs. Rose …

Light Art Installation Returns to San Francisco Bay Bridge

Light Art Installation Returns to San Francisco Bay Bridge

Published by José Betancourt

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines LIGHTS, ART, ACTION. After a three-year absence, a popular light art installation has returned brighter and revamped to the San Francisco Bay Bridge, in a sign of “commitment” to the arts, reports ABC 7. During a Friday lighting ceremony, artist Leo Villareal, who designed the work first installed in 2013, said its much-awaited, upgraded comeback, thanks to $11 million in fundraising, was due to a “communal effort.” Meanwhile, Mayor Daniel Lurie said Villareal’s swirling light piece was symbolic of the city’s pledge to boost its historic art scene, which has seen recent art school and museum closures. “Our arts, our culture has always led the way and we are doing so again and this illustration tonight … we are going to lean into our arts,” said Lurie. IN MEMORIAM. Agosto Machado, the artist and activist known for his involvement in the Downtown New York art scene and whose “altar sculptures” are on view in the current Whitney Biennial, died on Saturday, reports Alex …

UK grant set to cover nearly half the cost of EV charger installation

UK grant set to cover nearly half the cost of EV charger installation

Published by skeptic

Flat owners, landlords, renters, and businesses will be able to get grants of up to £500 per EV charger thanks to an increase in UK Government grants. The uplift will cover almost half the cost of a typical EV charger installation until March 2027, helping thousands more drivers access cheaper domestic electricity rates at home or work to power their car for as little as 2p per mile. Expanded access to home charging will help more households make the switch, and UK businesses gear up for the EV revolution, as the latest figures show EV drivers can save up to £1,400 on running costs compared with a comparable petrol car when accessing cheaper domestic rates. The move is the latest in a raft of government actions to tackle two of the biggest barriers to driving electric: upfront costs and worries about finding somewhere to charge. Helping drivers make the switch to electric Currently, over 55,000 drivers have already saved thousands towards buying a new EV thanks to the government’s £2bn Electric Car Grant. The scheme …

Alejandro G. Iñárritu resurrects lost footage from ‘Amores Perros’ in new LACMA installation

Alejandro G. Iñárritu resurrects lost footage from ‘Amores Perros’ in new LACMA installation

Published by Sam Flores

Darkness engulfs me right before I step into a dream. The Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu guides me from a pitch-black hallway into an open space, where beams of light and smoke, interspersed with sounds from the streets of Mexico City, create a vortex into a unique cinematic experience. Inside the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Iñárritu is giving me a tour of his new installation “Sueño Perro”: a sensorial celebration of his 2000 debut film, “Amores Perros,” in honor of its 25th anniversary. The only physical elements on display are six film projectors and the celluloid that contains frames of unreleased footage, which are shown on screens of different sizes around the room. Detached and unburdened by the need of a narrative, the images simply exist. “I love doing installations,” Iñárritu says in Spanish. “It’s like playing a game with your friends. And it’s liberating for me, because I don’t have to think about selling tickets.” Before arriving at LACMA, his “Sueño Perro” mesmerized audiences in Milan, Italy, and in his hometown …

David Hockney to Paint Window Installation at Turner Contemporary

David Hockney to Paint Window Installation at Turner Contemporary

Published by Jenni Sidey

This spring, David Hockney will unveil a major new work at Turner Contemporary in Margate, UK, as part of the gallery’s 15th-anniversary celebrations. The piece, a massive 22-by-32-foot installation, will transform the museum’s floor-to-ceiling window in the Sunley Gallery overlooking Margate’s beaches and the North Sea. Running from April 1 to November 1, the window work depicts a sunrise in Normandy, based on an iPad painting Hockney created in 2020. Clarrie Wallis, the director of Turner Contemporary, said in a statement that “illuminated at night, the work becomes a point of light on the seafront.” Related Articles Turner Contemporary, which opened in 2011 and welcomed over 322,000 visitors in the 2023-24 year, is inspired by the life and work of JMW Turner. Hockney has said he draws inspiration from the iconic landscape painter; back in 2007, the Bradford-born artist co-curated an exhibition of Turner’s watercolours at Tate Britain. Hockney fever shows no sign of slowing down in the UK. Next month, London’s Serpentine Galleries opens its first-ever show by the octogenarian artist from March 12 …

NY Archbishop Hicks commits to missionary church at installation

NY Archbishop Hicks commits to missionary church at installation

Published by Sam Flores

NEW YORK (RNS) — Archbishop Ronald A. Hicks began his first homily as the leader of about 2.5 million New York Catholics by speaking Spanish, quoting from a hymn almost every Mass-going Latino knows. “Lord, take my life,” he began in Spanish, imperfectly quoting from “Alma Misionera,” or “Missionary Soul.” He continued, “I’m willing to do whatever you want, no matter what it is, you lead me to serve.” On Friday (Feb. 6), Cardinal Timothy Dolan formally stepped down after more than 16 years leading the Archdiocese of New York as Hicks became his successor. Hicks most recently served as bishop of Joliet, Illinois, and previously led an orphanage in El Salvador, was a Chicago priest and served as a seminary formation director. At age 58, he presumably will have almost two decades to lead the influential diocese before he is expected to submit his resignation at 75. At his installation Mass in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, Hicks made two things crystal clear: that he seeks to lead a church that will, at its heart, be missionary, …

Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing

Trump Building Top Secret Installation Under East Wing

Published by José Betancourt

Heather Diehl/Getty Images Three months ago, the Trump administration broke ground on its highly controversial plans to add a sprawling ballroom to the White House’s East Wing. The State Department-funded buildout attracted plenty of scrutiny from congressional inquiries, lawsuits, and the press. Just this week, a US District judge will be weighing a bid by a preservation group to grind the $400 million plans to a halt. Meanwhile, as CNN reports, a far more discreet plan is in the works. An existing bunker, called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, which was built in the aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, had to make way for the ballroom. Plans to rebuild an underground shelter that could once again provide protection for key White House officials have been shrouded in plenty of secrecy. And given the country’s current precarious state of unrest — in large part the result of the Trump administration’s controversial actions — that’s not particularly surprising. It sounds like a formidable installation. A source with knowledge of the matter told CNN …