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post notes on art in a global context skip to content post notes on art in a global context moma regions see all regions africa central africa eastern africa northern africa southern africa western africa asia east asia south asia southeast asia west asia central asia central eastern europe the americas themes see all themes pedagogies one work many voices a global museum new york crossings contemporary crisis and dissent art and the political transnational histories and non aligned networks abstraction art and gender bridging the sacred about search for southeast asia a global museum bagus pandega aesthetic of modularity bagus pandega assembles various electronic components musical instruments found objects and 3 d printed custom parts and software into artworks that combine and generate kinetic acoustic and light elements in a modular way each of the constituent components can be replaced modified or exchanged to form another iteration despite the technical marvel of his installations pandega s approach to artistic practice remains fundamentally diy an artistic ethos that intentionally bypasses industrial standards pandega has adopted this maker mentality rooted in indonesia s 1990s media landscape to reexamine the collision between society and nature as seen in the diasporic mythology ibrahim soetomo africa one work many voices sabelo mlangeni other love stories two white shirts and a black top one long sleeve two short sleeve two bald heads and a crowned shrub of twists relaxed wrists and palms caressing a near empty wine glass some hands submerged in pockets and another gently placed on a hip pressed cotton embroidered lace a ring a watch a necklace three radiant gazes mbulelo kj abudu central asia a global museum haptic entanglements ornament as method in contemporary kazakhstan the essay approaches the intimate configurations captured in kazakhstani artist lidiya blinova s finger ornament as a site of artistic expression that reworks local ornamental production dissolving categories of high and amateur domestic and public visual and haptic in so doing the essay highlights how the artwork accentuates the conceptual potential of its primary reference the ornament of textile associated with the pre soviet culture of kazakh nomads in order to align with the artistic intention to foreground regional creative forms the essay proposes a speculative turn adopting a relational reading and an intertextual analysis between the artwork finger ornament and traditional textile ornamentation alexandra tsay subscribe to our newsletter please enable javascript in your browser to complete this form email phone sign up africa c map africa in morocco reflections from the 2026 research trip c map africa in morocco reflections from the 2026 research trip from february 5 to 11 2026 members of the c map africa group from the museum of modern art traveled to morocco on a research trip that included several cities marrakech casablanca rabat tangier and tétouan over the course of the visit the group met with leonardo bravo michelle elligott thomas j lax kate lewis ksenia nouril smooth nzewi oluremi c onabanjo and beya othmani africa art and the political from ornament to theory reimagining the school of the sign as a grammar of liberation as if intoxicated with beauty the letter seeks to surpass its utilitarian role and its function as a conventional sign of the alphabet it aspires to become a plastic expression and succeeds magnificently elsewhere words become obstinate labyrinths in which solids and voids hold each other in balance where shadow lydia haddag southeast asia a global museum tricky terms coming together arianna mercado david morris and wing chan and carlos quijon jr in conversation in recent years the practice of the jakarta based collective ruangrupa has gained exceptional traction in the contemporary art world the book how to pin down smoke ruangrupa since 2000 published in 2025 maps out the genealogy of the animated and complex ecosystem that ruangrupa has cultivated and which has shaped the trajectory of the group s practice carlos quijon jr talks to the volume s editors to discuss their editorial processes and considerations arianna mercado david morris wing chan and carlos quijon jr south asia art and the political it s not about superimposing one history onto another it s about finding forms of solidarity that grow from where you re rooted maya varma in conversation with shrujana niranjani shridhar part ii maya varma a lot of your work turns toward the lineages that shape dalit life and knowledge when you think about these histories how do you understand the inheritances you re carrying forward what pasts are you in conversation with and how do you imagine the canon you re stepping into shrujana niranjani shridhar i think we maya varma and shrujana niranjani shridhar africa art and gender a painting in pieces the defacing of younousse seye s mame coumba bang on february 1 1974 the senegalese newspaper le soleil published a shocking headline younousse s slashed painting a simple matter of scissors according to the article senegalese artist younousse seye b 1940 discovered that her painting mame coumba bang n d had been vandalized as she guided ethiopian visitors around the second salon des artistes sénégalais at marion johnson kristyna le and mackenzie tor the americas bridging the sacred the silence of sanctuary how the museum served as a safe space for haitian vodou art in times of danger we learn to seek sanctuary a place of safety and security when the world we know is under attack once we have regained our strength perspective and a better vantage point for reclaiming what was lost we must consider when to leave the protective space that has sheltered us from harm during petrouchka moïse south asia art and the political what do we allow dalit women to do shrujana niranjani shridhar in conversation with maya varma part i maya varma to begin i wanted to talk about where you come from how has mumbai shaped you as an activist and as an artist what did the city mean to you growing up shrujana niranjani shridhar for me mumbai has always been a working class city that s its defining character any city that grows because people come shrujana niranjani shridhar and maya varma africa one work many voices mourning against the archive in gabrielle goliath s art south africa s official record marks 1991 as a significant moment in the nation s transition from the racially segregated regime of apartheid to a democratic government amid political unrest massacres and a state of emergency the year is remembered in mainstream history as the beginning of multiparty negotiations between the minority national party the recently unbanned african stefanie jason southeast asia art and the political hanoi children s palace nostalgia for the new socialist human beyond formal schooling hanoi children s palace extended socialist cultivation into leisure time reverie artistic endeavors and sports training more than simply school routine rituals were designed to develop the body and mind of the new socialist human laying the foundation for building socialism in post independence vietnam taking the ideological history architecture and uncertain future of the children s palace as a point of departure within the city s broader projection of the creative industries as a strategic force the project sought to examine how the institution s pedagogical inheritance persists within the textures of everyday life and socialist memory vân đỗ posts navigation show more articles post notes on art in a global context post is the museum of modern art s online resource devoted to art and the history of modernism in a global context it is the public face of contemporary and modern art perspectives c map a cross departmental internal research program at moma that fosters the multiyear study of art histories outside north america and western europe twitter please enable 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