"After a delayed application process and an aborted initial commission, the US has at last appointed its artist for next year's Venice Biennale: the Utah-born, Mexico-based artist Alma Allen. The Art Newspaper's editor-in-chief in the Americas, Ben Sutton, talks Ben Luke through this confusing saga. Kasra Jalilipour's The Dance (2022), part of the exhibition Deviant Ornaments © Kasra Jalilipour At the National Museum of Norway in Oslo a new exhibition, Deviant Ornaments, focuses on the expression and representation of queerness in Islamic art over more than a millennium."
"And this episode's Work of the Week is the Cree artist Duane Linklater's wintercount_215_kisepîsim (2022), a piece using recycled canvas from teepees, and referencing the deaths of First Nations children after they were separated from their families in the Residential School system in Canada. It's part of an exhibition called Winter Count: Embracing the Cold, at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, and we talk to two of the four curators of that show, Wahsontiio Cross and Jocelyn Piirainen, about the work."
The United States appointed Alma Allen, a Utah-born artist based in Mexico, as its representative at the next Venice Biennale following a delayed application process and an aborted initial commission. Deviant Ornaments at the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo examines the expression and representation of queerness in Islamic art across more than a millennium and includes Kasra Jalilipour's The Dance (2022). Duane Linklater's wintercount_215_kisepîsim (2022) repurposes recycled teepee canvas to reference deaths of First Nations children separated from families by the Residential School system. Winter Count: Embracing the Cold at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa features Linklater's work.
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