Mána Taylor

1 month ago | observer.com | Mána Taylor

Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader, ATTENTION, 2022. Photograph by Ron Amstutz“Practically all my life, people have spoken or voiced on my behalf,” artist Christine Sun Kim once said. But at the Whitney, in an exhibition spanning four floors, it’s her voice we perceive in the signature graphs and charcoal notations that fill the walls. For Kim, who is Deaf, art is a language.

1 month ago | observer.com | Mána Taylor

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Jan 17, 2025 | art.newcity.com | Mána Taylor

Nearly touching the ceiling, at twenty-six feet tall, Nick Cave’s “Amalgam (Origin)” is a colossal self-portrait. In the center of the room at the new Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, a newly renovated Beaux-Arts bank with marble floors and columns, the bronze figure seems to belong in the space. There is often an immediate moment of awe when experiencing a work of art larger than yourself.

Dec 4, 2024 | observer.com | Mána Taylor

Divine Voices: How Art and Religion Intersect in Janet Cardiff’s ‘Forty Part Motet’ “I am interested in how sound may physically construct a space in a sculptural way,” the artist writes, “and how a viewer may choose a path through this physical yet virtual space.” Visitors basking in Cardiff’s soundscape in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine.

Aug 16, 2024 | observer.com | Mána Taylor

Sigur Rós’ Jónsi Has Flooded the Reykjavík Art Museum with Emotion “Jónsi: Flóð,” the musician's first solo exhibition in Europe, is an immersive experience that fuses sound, light and scent to evoke memory. Jónsi, REK (Plate Tectonics) (2024).