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A tall, metal sculpture that has the form of an abstracted feather standing upright. In 1926 New York customs officials tried to collect import duties on the sculpture not believing it was art.
May 2, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Something fishy going on at Newark Airport… news.artnet.com/art-world/gh...
Are This Artist's High-Tech Works Held Up in Customs Due to Tariffs?
Artworks by Sam Ghantous that contain the same materials used in microchips have been held up in customs for a week. It's unclear why.
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May 2, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Team member Sam Ghantous is opening a show today at Yve Yang Gallery (12 Wooster St, NYC) 😍
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YveYANG Gallery presents "your golf course made my GPU", a show of new artwork by Sam Ghantous that engages with issues currently seizing headlines across the world. These glittering objects mine subjects as diverse as video games, global logistics, and renaissance paintings, dredging our contemporary moment to reincorporate its material substrate. At the core of the show is a three-channel video that weaves together industrial footage with advertisements for luxury hotels in the imperfectly buffering reality built by today's technology. Ghantous churns through references like the trawlers scooping the ocean floor in his film. "Tiger Woods cuts through pulverized digital promises," synthetic narrators intone over footage of the fallen hero, trapped in the dunes at the Augusta National Golf Club. His plight is contrasted with the planet’s unstoppable momentum. The film is paired with two-dimensional works that, like the film, seek to reunite circuits with their geological lineage. These UV prints on silicon wafers resemble giant microchips, cut with mutant reimaginings of art history.
May 2, 2025 at 1:09 PM