Nick cave artist

Nick Cave, the American performance artist and textile sculptor best known for creations he calls "soundsuits," wearable sculptures made of wildly colored and shaped fabric, fringes, feathers,...

“I hope we will dream together.” Nick Cave’s soundsuits are bombardments of recycled texture, color, pattern, and form. They are both sculpture and costume for choreographe…

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We ran into a lot of folks at the art fairs last week. Some we knew, others were artists and gallerists we were meeting for the first time. Either way, the

The artist’s fantastical soundsuits come to the Guggenheim in a retrospective that is haunting but sedate without his performing rumble and clatter.

JACKSON — An exhibition of 17 works examining the socially engaged practice of artist Nick Cave is among the newest offerings of the Mississippi Museum of Art.

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When we think of sculpture, noisemaking costumes crafted from found objects don’t usually come to mind. But Chicago-based artist Nick Cave has always defied categorization, creating works that straddle performance art, sculpture, and dance. Sponsored by Flux Projects, Cave’s new work, "Up Right Atlanta," is a collaboration with local choreographer T. Lang.

Nick Cave, who considers himself a humanitarian before an artist, created his first Soundsuit in 1992, after the appalling discharge of police officers involved with the Rodney King beating. Originally created as a sculptural costume, Cave discovered it rustled to movement when put on- each creating their own distinguishable noise. Reminiscent of African and Caribbean ceremonial garb as well as haute couture, Soundsuits examine themes of identity, transformation, ritual, and spiritual…

A portmanteau of forevermore and for others, Forothermore is a prescient title for the first retrospective of artist Nick Cave. The career-spanning survey opens this week at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, a city the renowned artist, designer, educator, and activist has called home for the last 30-plus years. Forothermore is organized asContinue reading "Nick Cave On Silence and Compassion Ahead of His First Retrospective at Chicago’s MCA"