The Art Angle Podcast: Artist Anish Kapoor on Showing in China, Working With the World’s Blackest Material, and the ‘Disease of Nationalism’ in 2019

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Already one of the world’s most renowned and visible artists,
Anish Kapoor is entering new territory by opening multiple major
exhibitions on opposite ends of the Earth within a few weeks of
each other this fall. On October 25, he debuted twin shows of new
work at Lisson Gallery’s two spaces
in New York. And on November 10, he unveils a significant solo exhibition
split between Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and the
Taimiao Art Museum of the Imperial Ancestral Temple, making him
only the second non-Chinese artist to show at the threshold of the
Forbidden City.

In the midst of this historic whirlwind, Artnet News
editor-in-chief Andrew Goldstein sat down with Kapoor inside
Lisson’s New York headquarters to discuss his newest
perception-defying sculptures, the relationship between his
activism for human rights and his decision to exhibit in the heart
of China, and the ongoing controversy around his work with “the blackest material in
the universe,” Vantablack.

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