In the photograph, “Woman Wading in Flood,” Alam captures a street scene filled with people wading through water during the horrific 1988 flood in Bangladesh.[...]
Shezad Dawood’s Wrathful Activity, Fierce Energy, which is on long-term loan, has been guarding the Rubin Museum’s main entrance for the past two years[...]
On August 5, 2018, the Bangledeshi photographer and activist Shahidul Alam was arrested in his home and taken to Keraniganj Prison.[...]
Taiwanese American artist Hsieh Tehching spent an entire year living inside his studio, from 1980 to 1981, resulting in the performance work One Year Performance.[...]
When you envision two people saying goodbye, you might expect them to embrace and talk about when they will see each other next.[...]
Meiro Koizumi creates videos that investigate difficult emotions in ways that border on both the tragic and the humorous[…]
Does your heart echo with words you never had the chance to say, with feelings you could not express?[...]
Pallavi Paul’s installation Burn the Diaries (2014–2019) poses questions about the power of language and truth.[...]
This sculpture is a life-scale bronze casting of artist and cultural engineer Genesis Breyer P-Orridge’s arm [...]
This image shows photographer and activist Shahidul Alam’s image of singer and performer Smriti Azad protesting at a rally at Shaheed Minar, a national monument in Dhaka [...]
Following the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal on April 20, 2015, artist Tsherin Sherpa returned to his home city of Kathmandu. There he initiated a body of work that [...]
The Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room is reopening and featuring a different Buddhist tradition: Kagyu, or Precept Transmissions, which grew from lineages of transmitted[...]