Episode No. 11 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Shirin Neshat and curator Mari Carmen Ramirez.
Neshat discusses the art she’s made in response to Iran’s Green Revolution and to the Arab Spring. “The Book of Kings,” an exhibition of Neshat’s new work, is on view at Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York through February 11.
Neshat has been the subject of major survey exhibitions at museums in Spain, Germany, England, Italy, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Among many other honors, she won the Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival for “Women Without Men” and the First International Award at the 1999 Venice Biennale. Next year the Detroit Institute of Arts will present a major retrospective of her work.
On the second segment, Museum of Fine Arts Houston curator and MFAH International Center for the Arts of the Americas director Mari Carmen Ramirez discusses a new digital project launching today: Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art, a major online archive that will include 10,000 primary source documents about Latin American and Latino modern and contemporary art.
Air date: Jan. 19. 2012.
Shirin Neshat, My House is Burning Down, 2012.
Shirin Neshat “The Book of Kings” January 13 – February 11, 2012 Installation View: Gladstone Gallery, New York Photo: David Regen Copyright Shirin Neshat Courtesy Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels.
Shirin Neshat, Sara Nafisi, 2012.
Shirin Neshat, Omer, 2012.
Shirin Neshat, Bahram, 2012.
Shirin Neshat, Unveiling from the series “Women of Allah,” 1993. Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Shirin Neshat, Passage Series, 2001. Passage is in the collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Shirin Neshat, Tooba (still), 2002. Collection of the Seattle Art Museum.
Shirin Neshat, Tooba (still), 2002. Collection of the Seattle Art Museum.
