}); }, } Free with general admission. The Arts Council Collection’s new national touring exhibition, Criminal Ornamentation: Yinka Shonibare MBE curates the Arts Council Collection, opens at Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester on 21 September, before touring to venues in Exeter, Wakefield and Southampton. The clothed body is at the heart of Shonibare’s practice, also figuring in works such as Fire, Water, Earth, and Air (all 2010), and this exhibition explores how Shonibare subverts the ability of clothing to fix identity in place and time. Du Bois, Maria Goeppert Mayer, Steve Jobs, Bruce Lee, Ana Mendieta, Joni Mitchell, Toni Morrison, Barack Obama, Steven Spielberg, Carl Stokes, Donald Trump and Tiger Woods. All Rights Reserved.var w = Math.max(document.documentElement.clientWidth, window.innerWidth || 0), var $form = $(formElement); throw Error('onSuccess callback is required'); (function defernl() { © Yinka Shonibare CBE. In 2014, Shonibare was the subject of the first contemporary art exhibition at The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA. Shonibare’s work is included in many prestigious collections, including Arts Council Collection, UK; Tate, London; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Museum of Modern Art, NY; The Art Institute of Chicago; MCA, Chicago; The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; National Gallery of Modern Art, Rome; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, AU; Smithsonian Institutes National Museum of African Art and Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden; Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Magasin 3 and Modern Museet, Stockholm; Nouveau Musée National de Monaco; Newark Museum, New Jersey; Wroclaw Contemporary Museum, Poland; San Francisco MoMA; MFA Boston; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Seattle Art Museum; Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis; Speed Art Museum, Louisville; New Orleans Museum of Art; Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio; RISD Museum, Providence; and Davis Museum, Wellesley College. Print sponsor. The four walls of the main gallery—North, South, East and West—features photographic tondos of Medusa based on Caravaggio’s portrait in the Uffizi Gallery, Florence. 'slideOutDown': 'slideOutUp' ); Dr. Keeley’s talk will be followed by a discussion led by Sarah C. Nuñez, Assistant Director of the Cultural Center at the University of Louisville and Karina Barillas, Director of La Casita Center, incorporating community members. Production still from the “Art in the Twenty-First Century” Season 5 episode, “Transformation,” 2009. //default prefix is 'artnet_newsletter_' The inaugural exhibition in the Driehaus Museum’s new contemporary art series, A Tale of Today, focuses on Yinka Shonibare CBE, an artist who draws on history, politics, and fashion influences to explore and critique our understanding of the past with equal doses of humor, irony and theatrics playfully woven in. pagetype = document.querySelector('meta[property="og:type"]').getAttribute("content"), Shonibare’s Refugee Astronaut is a disheveled space traveler toting his worldly possessions on his back—pots, pans, butterfly net, stool and family photographs—ready to find a new oasis. $form.find('.invalid-email').show().siblings().hide(); I always imagine Yinka Shonibare’s figures as characters within an unfolding drama. function initNewsletterSignup() { )+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/ prefix = 'artnet_newsletter_'; In these grand sculptures, the artist encapsulates the sheer volume of wind three-dimensionally with exquisite dynamism. var valid = ctx.validate( $form, $email); + '