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The Cantor Arts Center presents Trevor Paglen’s Sight Machine, a new multimedia performance in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet and Obscura Digital

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墨境 Ink Worlds: Contemporary Chinese Painting from the Collection of Akiko Yamazaki and Jerry Yang

May 23, 2018–September 3, 2018

FINAL WEEKS: CLOSES SEPT 3

Ink Worlds considers ink painting from the 1960s through the present, examining salient visual features and international connections, as well as the ongoing impact of historical techniques, materials, and themes. In so doing, the exhibition addresses not only the capacity of ink painting to evolve but also the contemporary nature of ink painting as a distinct genre whose achievements can already be documented.
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Films by Britta Erickson from the series The Enduring Passion for Ink feature artists Xu Bing...

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Sydney Skelton Simon—Working Metal in 20th Century Sculpture

Working Metal in 20th-Century Sculpture

January 31–April 30
Lynn Krywick Gibbons Gallery

Photograph by Isaac James

Metal sculpture created directly by the artist's hand is the focus of a new exhibition by Sydney Skelton Simon, a PhD candidate in the Department of Art & Art History, whose proposal was selected in the fall. Featuring small-scale sculptures, photographs, and sound recordings, this exhibition explores modes of working with metal that depart from more traditional casting methods.

Above photograph by Isaac James

 

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The Dancing "Sowei:" Performing Beauty in Sierra Leone

March 21, 2018–April 29, 2019

This exhibition focuses on one spectacular work in the Cantor’s collection—a sowei mask, used by the women-only Sande Society that is unique to Sierra Leone. Used in dance by senior women of the society, the sowei mask symbolizes knowledge of feminine grace and is part of a young girl’s initiation into adulthood. Thus, for many women of the region, beauty is literally performed into existence through ndoli jowei (the dancing sowei or the sowei mask in performance). Take an in-depth look at a sowei’s aesthetic expressions of elegance, from its serene gaze of inner spirituality to the corpulent...