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Video Art

A gallery with multiple large-scale projections showing animated scenes from Lawrence Lek’s NOX series. In the center sits a modular concrete-like pavilion of tiled benches and vertical supports, lit from below with warm LEDs that accent the structure.

At the Bass in Miami, Lawrence Lek’s Odyssey for an Era Shaped by A.I.

The artist’s sentient autonomous cars are endowed with intelligence but stripped of agency, drifting through a ruined society in the throes of burnout, anxiety and existential dislocation.
By Elisa Carollo
A picture in picture video still with a full screen image of a blonde woman and a boxed image of a brunette

Don’t Miss: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s ‘Desire Inc.’ and the Seductive Screen

The artist argues that mass media is “feeding like a vampire” on those who consume it.
By Sam Moore
A barefoot woman with long brown hair plays a cello in a dimly lit hallway, wearing headphones and sitting on a cushioned chair, surrounded by rugs, lamps and heavy drapery—another scene from The Visitors.

The Promise and Impossibility of Belonging in Ragnar Kjartansson’s Most Beloved Work

If the piece makes a visitor out of its viewer, the show itself is a fantastic host.
By Astra Lincoln
An older man, duplicated in frame, appears to interview himself in a studio filled with charcoal drawings of still life objects including a Moka pot.

William Kentridge Wants to Starve the Algorithm

By Dian Parker
A digitally rendered female figure with pale skin, glasses and shoulder-length hair appears in front of a satellite map showing dredging and airstrip development at Subi Reef in the South China Sea, overlaid with geo-intelligence data.

One Fine Show: Lynn Hershman Leeson’s ‘Of Humans, Cyborgs and AI’ at the Nevada Museum of Art

By Dan Duray
An expansive indoor space contains three enormous illuminated video panels showing the surface of the sun, a nebula-like explosion, and a blue celestial body, with several silhouetted visitors standing in front of each.

Ryoji Ikeda’s “Data-Verse” at the High Is an Ego Killer

By Leia Genis
A close up film still of a woman's face; her eyes are partially closed and she looks to be resting her head on a pillow.

Black Identity Across Continents: An Interview With Artists Nolan Oswald Dennis and Deborah-Joyce Holman

By Gameli Hamelo
Image of screens in the city

Coco Fusco’s New Public Project Brings the History of New York’s Migrants to the Streets

By Elisa Carollo
A man in a hat smirks in front of a colorful geometric background

Biennale Artist Jeffrey Gibson On Spirituality, Ecology in Politics and His Next Chapter

By Dan Duray
A black and white still of hands tied together with twine

‘Richard Serra: A Film and Video Exhibition’ at Dia Chelsea Celebrates His Cinematic Oeuvre

By Daniel Schindel
Electronic billboards in Times Square showing underwater divers.

Martha Atienza’s ‘Our Islands’ Brings the Seas of Philippines to Times Square

By Elisa Carollo
Flash Lights yellow and blue in the darkness

Pierre Huyghe’s Show in Venice Presages Inhuman Perspectives

By Elisa Carollo
A tiger man wearing a hat

Now On View: Ho Tzu Nyen’s Poetic Meditations On Time, Tigers and Colonialism

By Mána Taylor
Portrait of a white man - Bill Viola

Bill Viola, Who Pioneered Video to Explore Human Consciousness, Dead at 73

By Elisa Carollo
An art installations with dyed silk and other elements

Joan Jonas Brings Her Experimental Video Performance Art to MoMA

By Nadja Sayej
A man in a basketball uniform leaps on a basketball court

One Fine Show: Paul Pfeiffer at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

By Dan Duray

Shamel Pitts Asks Important Questions of Dance’s Elite Institutions

By Wana Udobang

This List Matches Hundreds of Free Experimental Art Films to Your Pandemic Mood Swings

By Clayton Schuster
A film still of T.J. Wilcox's 'Spectrum'

T. J. Wilcox’s Video Rainbow Honors the Icons and Memories That Made Him

By Osman Can Yerebakan
Marina Abramovic, Freeing the Voice, 1975; publ. 1994. Black and White photograph with letter press text panel, 29 3/4 x 39 1/2 in.

Early Work by Marina Abramovic Shows She’s Better Raw Than Refined

By David D'Arcy
Steve McQueen. Static. 2009.

Steve McQueen’s Post-9/11 Statue of Liberty Film to Make Museum Debut

By Alanna Martinez
Suzanne Wright, 8 Shuttles, 2016.

A Whitney Houston-Inspired Art Show Puts Women Center Stage

By Alanna Martinez
Angst 3, Anne Imhof, 18. and 19. October 2016, 19h–23h, Musée d’art contemporain Montreal.

The Montreal Biennial Is a MasterClass in How to Ask Big Questions With Art

By Alanna Martinez
Installation view of Alexander Calder: A Survey in East Building, National Gallery.

Inside the New National Gallery

By Alina Cohen
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