OX – Body

Body

The beauty of human decomposition

According to the Wellcome Collection, Kusozu: the death of a noble lady and the decay of her body was painted some time in the 18th century…

Ana Mendieta (1948–1985)

It’s commonplace to note when exhibitions offer a timely opportunity to reconsider an artist’s work, but in Ana Mendieta’s case such observations are as disturbing as they are apt.

Elizabeth Catlett: a sculptor with Eye on social issues

Elizabeth Catlett, whose abstracted sculptures of the human form reflected her deep concern with the African-American experience and the struggle for civil rights, died on Monday at her home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where she had lived since the late 1940s...

Kusama and anti-war activism

Yayoi Kusama has always had a strong political conscience, and has been vehemently opposed to war since her teens. Some of her earliest surviving paintings relate to the horrors of war: Accumulation of the Corpses...

Hannah Hoch: Social conscience and political commentator of unmediated expression

Hannah Höch was a pioneer Dadaist of 1920’s Berlin. Somewhat forgotten, or at least pigeon-holed by art history; a social provocateur who clashed with the Nazis and was found guilty of Entartete Kunst(degenerate art)...

Artists defend human dignity in the face of institutional dehumanization

70 miles north of the US–Mexico border, Other TARGET/s condemns migrant detention, mass incarceration, and the juvenile justice system, by reaffirming a sense of shared humanity...