Shiva Ahmadi’s video animation Lotus begins with a peaceful scene. A central figure sits on a lotus flower in the traditional pose of the Buddha.[...]
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 [...]
Stupas came to symbolize the Buddha’s enlightened body and mind. Prayer wheels, ritual implements containing mantras that are believed to be released as the wheel turns, are also associated with relics.. [...]
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 [...]