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The Year in Screens: The Defining Moving Image and Digital Works of 2019 (ARTnews)
From museums and galleries to movie theaters and streaming shows, this article gathers up the best screen-based art of 2019.
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Artist William Kentridge’s Hand-Drawn Art Projected as Video Onto Times Square Billboards
As part of Times Square's long-running Midnight Moment series, Kentridge's 'To What End?' will be running for three minutes every night through the month...
Video Edge
Why Video Is the Art Form of the Moment (Artsy)
“At the 2019 edition of the Venice Biennale, video reigned. Arthur Jafa, who began his career as a cinematographer for commercial directors including Spike...
Video Edge
Dawn of the MTV Era: Video Art Pioneer Nam June Paik’s Vision
Three-year traveling exhibit opens in London for the groundbreaking Korean-American artist known as the father of video art.
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‘ICON’-ic: Rashaad Newsome’s Video Installations
The artist's videos will be displayed on a range of screens, including on Westfield World Trade's 19 screens of varying size, one measuring four...
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Steve McQueen’s ‘Static’ to Be Displayed at MoMA This Summer
The Museum of Modern Art will display Static (2009), a recently acquired digital projection of a 35mm film by the artist and filmmaker Steve...
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Times Square’s Midnight Moment Ushers in Spring with High-Speed Color
Times Square’s Midnight Moment series will usher in spring with Japanese artist Naoko Tosa whose Sound of Ikebana (Spring) will run from 11:57 PM...
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Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi Mixes Renaissance Work with Comprehensive Bill Viola Video Art Exhibit
Florence’s Palazzo Strozzi has opened Electric Renaissance, a significant exhibition celebrating the master of video art, Bill Viola, and presenting works that span his long...
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New York’s Public Art Fund Presents a ‘Commercial Break’ of Video Art Throughout the City
New York’s Public Art Fund has commissioned 23 artists to create platform-specific pieces of video art for their new city-wide exhibit Commercial Break ....
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Artist Magdalena Fernández Repurposes Her Stormy Work to Live Inside a Water Cistern
Artist Magdalena Fernández has repurposed her 2009 video installation piece 2iPM009 to take up the space in the decommissioned Houston Cistern at Buffalo Bayou...
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Artist Jaime Carrejo’s Video Piece ‘One-Way Mirror’ Examines the Cultural Implications of a Border Wall
The Denver Art Museum’s new exhibit Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place features installations by 13 Latino artists that express experiences of contemporary life...
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Artist Santtu Mustonen Takes 3D Graffiti to the New York City Ballet
Artist Santtu Mustonen’s Cross Pollination is a new large-scale video art installation currently showing in the foyer of Lincoln Center’s David H. Koch Theater as...
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The Royal Ontario Museum Presents ‘Isaac Julien: Other Destinies’
The Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) will be presenting works by renowned contemporary installation artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Isaac Julien: Other Destinieswill be on view...
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Artist Richard Mosse Uses Military-Grade Cameras to Capture Migration Crisis in ‘Incoming’
"I am European. I am complicit. I wanted to foreground this perspective in a way, to try to see refugees and illegal immigrants as...
Video Edge
Public Discourse Creates Unique Video Art in Palo Alto’s City Hall
Palo Alto’s City Hall is the site of artist Susan Narduli’s “media arts representation of democracy unfolding in realtime.” Entitled “Conversation,” the interactive video...
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Video Artist Pipilotti Rist’s Distorted Face Will Take Over Times Square in January
January’s Midnight Moment in Times Square will come courtesy of pioneering video artist Pipilotti Rist, in partnership with her current retrospective at the New Museum,...
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Ragnar Kjartansson: Designing and Displaying the Artist’s Video Installations
On exhibit through Jan. 8 at the Hirshhorn Museum is a retrospective of internationally renowned Icelandic artist Ragnar Kjartansson's highly personal, sometimes ironic artwork.
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Video Artist Ragnan Kjartansson Channels Sinatra in Art Piece ‘God’
Video artist Ragnan Kjartansson’s God, now on view at Washington’sHirshhorn Museum is a half-hour experimental piece in which Kjartansson fronts a retro jazz band singing...
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National Portrait Gallery Presents ‘Bill Viola: The Moving Portrait’
"Doing a retrospective of Bill Viola's work shows that portraiture is not a concept that's stuck in the 18th or 19th centuries."
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Pipilotti Rist’s New Museum Retrospective Is a “Particular Brand of Technicolored Feminism”
The New Museum’s Pipilotti Rist: Pixel Forest is the first major retrospective of the Swiss multimedia artist’s work. Writes ArtSlant’s Olivia B. Murphy, “With screens exploded and fractured...
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Whitney Exhibit Celebrates Over a Century of Experimental Film
The new Whitney exhibit Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 uses a combination of projections, sculptures, installations, 360-degree videos, and VR headsets to present the ways in...
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Comprehensive Diana Thater Exhibit Now Showing at Chicago’s Museum of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination, the artist’s first comprehensive U.S. exhibit. Thater’s dynamic, immersive installations address key...
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‘Pixel Forest:’ New Museum Presents the Work of Pioneering Artist Pipilotti Rist
New York’s New Museum is presenting the first New York survey of the work of Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist, who has achieved international renown...