Hong Hao: “Reality continues to inspire our desires”

This week, I focused on Chinese photographer Hong Hao. Hao studied at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, and spent a decade printmaking before discovering a new passion for photography in 1999.  Hao enjoys working in series, taking time to master a medium before moving to the next. His first series, Selected Scriptures, is an

Tania Bruguera: “Art is useful”

I continued my research on the creatives featured in the Artists as Activists exhibit this week with Cuban-born performance artist Tania Bruguera. Bruguera’s most notorious work, and the piece that will be shown as a video at the NCSML, is Tatlin’s Whisper #6 – Havana Version. Tatlin’s Whisper was a free speech performance during the Havana Biennial

David Černý: “I just enjoy pissing people off”

This week I began my second summer working at the National Czech and Slovak Museum, albeit from home. For the weeks leading up to the museum’s reopening, I will be researching into the lives of the artists featured in the NCSML’s Artists as Activists exhibit.  The first artist on my list is Czech multimedia sculptor