Diana d'Arenberg

3 weeks ago | ocula.com | Elaine YJ Zheng |Diana d'Arenberg

The young Korean artist's prize-winning work was lauded by the jury for its 'potent symbolism'. Shin Min, Ew! There is hair in the food!!, P21, Art Basel Hong Kong (28–30 March 2025). Courtesy Art Basel Hong Kong. Seoul-based artist Shin Min has been awarded Art Basel and MGM's new prize for a series of sculptures referencing her time working high-intensity, low-wage fast food jobs.

Jun 2, 2024 | ocula.com | Sam Gaskin |Diana d'Arenberg |Michael G. Irwin

Colonialism and Commercial TradeCandice Lin's concern with the legacies of colonial trade is evident in her early works. It Makes the Patient See Pictures, her 2012 solo exhibition at François Ghebaly in Los Angeles, for example, included figurines with phallic-shaped heads that reference the 19th-century Yoruba carvings of Queen Victoria. In A Body Reduced to a Brilliant Colour, a 2016 solo exhibition at London's Gaswork, Lin explored the relationship between bodies and commodities.

May 23, 2024 | ocula.com | Diana d'Arenberg

You don't have to like Bruce Nauman's work. In fact, many don't. The Indiana-born, New Mexico-based artist's exhibitions have confounded the wider public and critics alike. In a frequently cited quote from a 1987 interview with critic Joan Simon, the artist himself has described the impact of his work as being 'like getting hit in the face with a baseball bat. Or better, like getting hit in the back of the head.

Mar 27, 2024 | ocula.com | Diana d'Arenberg

For hundreds of years, Indigenous histories in Australia were depicted through a colonial lens, which celebrated British colonisers as explorers and relegated Indigenous stories and experiences to the sidelines. First Nations artist Daniel Boyd holds up a different perspective, working to dismantle and reinterpret the foundational myths and narratives that have dominated Australian history.

Aug 4, 2023 | ocula.com | Tessa Moldan |Diana d'Arenberg |Nicholas Nauman

Early YearsMendieta was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1948. In 1961, Ana and her sister, Raquel, were sent to the United States by their father, who had engaged in counter-revolutionary activity and was confined for 18 years due to his involvement in the Bay of Pigs. Fleeing to the United States in Operation Peter Pan, which saw over 14,000 unaccompanied minors leave the country between 1960 and 1962, she arrived in the United States at the height of the civil rights movement.