Contemporary Fine Art
Contemporary Fine art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century. Contemporary Fine…
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‧‧‧ One of 273Contemporary Fine art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century.
Contemporary Fine art provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the issues relevant to ourselves, and the world around us. Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world.
Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that challenge traditional boundaries and defy easy definition. Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organizing principle, ideology, or ‘ism.’
Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality.
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The Museum presents the work of under-recognized artists, and has mounted ambitious surveys of important figures such as Ana Mendieta, William Kentridge, David Wojnarowicz, Paul McCarthy and Andrea Zittel before they received widespread public recognition. In 2003, the New Museum presented the highly regarded exhibition Black President: The Art and Legacy of Fela Anikulapo-Kuti.
Continuing its focus of exhibiting emerging international artists, the museum organized the much discussed and visited exhibition, The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, in 2009.
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Hard Boiled by Frank Miller & Geof Darrow
Moebius introduced Darrow to Frank Miller which led to a friendship and eventually two collaborations. Hard Boiled by Darrow and…
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