BANKSY INSPIRED BY THE CHURCH
The anonymous street artist Banksy is known for his graffiti work and graphic statements. His latest work is a sculpture being displayed at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool alongside artistic masterpieces by Rubens and Van Dyck within room three of the museum’s 17th century old master galleries, reported CultHub. His new art work, Cardinal Sin, is a vandalised statue of a priest with a sawed off face, in place of the face is an arrangement of blank tiles which gives it a pixellated look. The sculpture is a comment on the child abuse cover-up within the Catholic church and is being displayed “for an indefinite amount of time.” And […]
SEE SOUND BY DEAF ARTIST
Performance artist Christine Sun Kim focuses on what she calls “the physicality of sound”. The taste curators at Nowness posted cult filmmaker Todd Selby’s short showing how Kim works in NYC’s Chinatown as she picks up sounds from the streets and balloons to create “seismic calligraphy” with the help of nails and vibrating subwoofers. Kim explains, “It’s a lot more interesting to explore a medium that I don’t have direct access to and yet has the most direct connection to society at large.” Since “social norms surrounding sound are so deeply ingrained that, in a sense, our identities cannot be complete without it.”