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Video Art

LAS Art Foundation Pushes Quantum Art Forward in a New Venice Commission

The organization's exhibitions are deliberately designed to help observers engage with complex topics like A.I. and quantum physics without prior knowledge.
By Elisa Carollo
A close-up shows a woman with smeared red lipstick holding a large patterned snake wrapped tightly around her neck and shoulders, her expression tense and intimate.

Marina Abramovic Brings Psychodrama to Copenhagen’s Cisternerne

We spoke with the artist about her striking overlaps with Maria Callas, how museums must better evolve to meet the needs of the public and her utterly surprising guilty pleasure.
By Sarah Moroz
Two monumental video projections stand freestanding in a grand interior, showing nude figures moving through rocky landscapes, reflected on a polished wooden floor.

Meet the Collector: Julia Stoschek On the Challenges and Rewards of Collecting Durational Art

With more than 900 works spanning video, film and immersive installation, her collection reflects decades of commitment to preserving and advancing the language of moving images.
By Elisa Carollo
New York Observer: An image shows two drag performers in elaborate orange costumes and tall headdresses posing underwater among colorful coral and fish, referencing the exhibition’s playful reinterpretation of Darwin and queer marine life.

Don’t Miss: “Darwin in Paradise Camp” at the Whitworth in Manchester

By Henry Roberts
A person in elaborate costume and face covering made of beads stares directly at the camera, evoking the serpent-like, mythological figure from Emilija Škarnulytė’s work Riparia.

Emilija Škarnulytė’s Future Archeology Dazzles at Tate St Ives

By Farah Abdessamad
A gallery with multiple large-scale projections showing animated scenes from Lawrence Lek’s NOX series. In the center sits a modular concrete-like pavilion of tiled benches and vertical supports, lit from below with warm LEDs that accent the structure.

At the Bass in Miami, Lawrence Lek’s Odyssey for an Era Shaped by A.I.

By Elisa Carollo
A picture in picture video still with a full screen image of a blonde woman and a boxed image of a brunette

Don’t Miss: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s ‘Desire Inc.’ and the Seductive Screen

By Sam Moore
A barefoot woman with long brown hair plays a cello in a dimly lit hallway, wearing headphones and sitting on a cushioned chair, surrounded by rugs, lamps and heavy drapery—another scene from The Visitors.

The Promise and Impossibility of Belonging in Ragnar Kjartansson’s Most Beloved Work

By Astra Lincoln
An older man, duplicated in frame, appears to interview himself in a studio filled with charcoal drawings of still life objects including a Moka pot.

William Kentridge Wants to Starve the Algorithm

By Dian Parker
A digitally rendered female figure with pale skin, glasses and shoulder-length hair appears in front of a satellite map showing dredging and airstrip development at Subi Reef in the South China Sea, overlaid with geo-intelligence data.

One Fine Show: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s ‘Of Humans, Cyborgs and AI’ at the Nevada Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
An expansive indoor space contains three enormous illuminated video panels showing the surface of the sun, a nebula-like explosion, and a blue celestial body, with several silhouetted visitors standing in front of each.

Ryoji Ikeda’s “Data-Verse” at the High Is an Ego Killer

By Leia Genis
A close up film still of a woman's face; her eyes are partially closed and she looks to be resting her head on a pillow.

Black Identity Across Continents: An Interview With Artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Deborah-Joyce Holman

By Gameli Hamelo
Image of screens in the city

Coco Fusco’s New Public Project Brings the History of New York’s Migrants to the Streets

By Elisa Carollo
A man in a hat smirks in front of a colorful geometric background

Biennale Artist Jeffrey Gibson On Spirituality, Ecology in Politics and His Next Chapter

By Dan Duray
A black and white still of hands tied together with twine

‘Richard Serra: A Film and Video Exhibition’ at Dia Chelsea Celebrates His Cinematic Oeuvre

By Daniel Schindel
Electronic billboards in Times Square showing underwater divers.

Martha Atienza’s ‘Our Islands’ Brings the Seas of Philippines to Times Square

By Elisa Carollo
Flash Lights yellow and blue in the darkness

Pierre Huyghe’s Show in Venice Presages Inhuman Perspectives

By Elisa Carollo
A tiger man wearing a hat

Now On View: Ho Tzu Nyen’s Poetic Meditations On Time, Tigers and Colonialism

By Mána Taylor
Portrait of a white man - Bill Viola

Bill Viola, Who Pioneered Video to Explore Human Consciousness, Dead at 73

By Elisa Carollo
An art installations with dyed silk and other elements

Joan Jonas Brings Her Experimental Video Performance Art to MoMA

By Nadja Sayej
A man in a basketball uniform leaps on a basketball court

One Fine Show: Paul Pfeiffer at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

By Dan Duray

Shamel Pitts Asks Important Questions of Dance’s Elite Institutions

By Wana Udobang

This List Matches Hundreds of Free Experimental Art Films to Your Pandemic Mood Swings

By Clayton Schuster
A film still of T.J. Wilcox's 'Spectrum'

T. J. Wilcox’s Video Rainbow Honors the Icons and Memories That Made Him

By Osman Can Yerebakan
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