Yinka Shonibare, MBE @ Brooklyn Museum

Experience a wide selection of contemporary art at The Brooklyn Museum. Yinka Shonibare MBE, British - Nigerian artist's conceptual sculptures, videos,and photography explore class, immigration, imperalism and colonialism. The intriguing work uses Dutch wax fabrics, headless scuptures, eroticism, politics, and humor. The Dorian Gray and the ramblings of a dandy are a couple of narratives explored by this interesting artist.

The artist's website:

http://www.yinka-shonibare.co.uk/yinka-shonibare-home.html.
Also, Sun K. Kwak's torn black tape landscape environments, Reflections of the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video, and Tavares Strachan: The Distance Between What We Have and What We Want (Arctic Ice Project). We've been otherwise engaged this past spring and had not been to the BM since the winter. We caught the final day of the Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea show, which was too good to miss.



Above: Oarsman in a Top Hat, by Gustave Calliabotte

But there are still plenty of thoughtful and provocative works to see, in new and existing collections, at the Brooklyn Museum. Don't forget the long-term installation of Judy Chicago's Dinner Party.

Brooklyn Museum:
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/