Eliana Willis

Anicka Yi has created giant kelp pods filled with animatronic insects, injected live snails with oxytocin, and developed soil whose environment is governed by A.I. Later this year, her unique brand of oddball technology-infused art will receive its largest stage yet. The Korean-American artist has been chosen to create the next Turbine Hall commission at […] More

In the winter of 2017, an exhibition of contemporary Iranian art opened at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, drawing special attention because it coincided with President Trump’s then-recent travel ban targeting Muslim-majority countries. The show would travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston that same year, playing an important role as cultural ambassador during a […] More

What does Anish Kapoor have to show for his controversial monopoly on Vantablack, the self-proclaimed “blackest material in the universe”? The world will find out during next year’s Venice Biennale, when Kapoor unveils a series of works made with the technologically-advanced substance at the Galléria dell’Accademia. When London aerospace company Surrey NanoSystems announced that they had invented a “super […] More

“The male body is under the spotlight,” says Alona Pardo, a curator at the Barbican Art Gallery in London who has organized a hit show on masculinity in its many guises and meanings. The exhibition has struck a nerve in the wake of the #MeToo movement. The spectacular downfall of toxic alpha-male film producer Harvey Weinstein, […] More