Swagato Chakravorty

Swagato Chakravorty is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Art, combined with Film and Media Studies, at Yale University. His research explores moving-image art and expanded cinema since 1989, focusing on the work of artists from the global South that intersect with documentary, archival, and performance-based practices. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Some artists and exhibitions can be summarized into a set of statements, the fundamentals of the work distilled. Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts is not among those.
Bruce Nauman, One Hundred Live and Die, 1984. Neon tubing with clear glass tubing on metal monolith, 118 x 132 1/4 x 21 inches. © 2018 Bruce Nauman/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Dorothy Zeidman. Courtesy the artist and Sperone Westwater, New York.
A Lost Future, at the Rubin Museum of Art, is a tripartite exhibition that forms part of the museum’s year-long exploration of “the future.” Curated by Beth Citron, the Rubin’s curator of modern and contemporary art, the show opened on February 23 and runs through January 28, 2019.
The Otolith Group, Santiniketan Studies (A Century Before Us II): Tapovan Study Circle, 2018. Digital collage on Somerset Museum Rag paper, 13 1/2 x 20 inches. Courtesy the artists.
To walk into Jack, Sean Shim-Boyle’s first exhibition at Jane Lombard Gallery, is to walk into a space where things are off-kilter, amiss, just slightly wrong.
Sean Shim-Boyle, Golden Egg, 2018. Gold-plated resin 3D print, 12 x 9 x 9 inches, handmade edition of 5 + 1 AP. Courtesy Jane Lombard Gallery.
Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works at Pioneer Works is a triumph of an exhibition that is deservedly attracting massive audiences.
Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works (exhibition view). Photo courtesy of Pioneer Works.
It is possible to experience the exhibition Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light (Yale University Art Gallery, February 17 – July 23, 2017) in reverse-chronological order, since one may enter the gallery from either end.
Thomas Wilfred, Unit #50, Elliptical Prelude and Chalice from the “First Table Model Clavilux (Luminar)” series, 1928. Metal, fabric, glass, and electrical and lighting elements on a maple table. 41 × 32 1/2 × 18 3/4 inches. Gift of Thomas C. Wilfred, 1983.66.1. Courtesy Yale University Art Gallery.

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