{"id":10233,"date":"2023-04-11T14:40:06","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=10233"},"modified":"2023-04-11T14:28:40","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T18:28:40","slug":"tony-cragg-at-lisson-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/11\/tony-cragg-at-lisson-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Cragg at Lisson Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters and police clash in a blaze of color in British sculptor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tony-cragg.com\/\">Tony Cragg<\/a>\u2019s 1987 piece \u2018Riot\u2019 a sculptural installation running the length of one of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lissongallery.com\/exhibitions\/tony-cragg-riot\">Lisson Gallery<\/a>\u2019s Chelsea spaces. \u00a0Forty years ago, Cragg made a name for himself with artworks and installations composed of found plastic elements, a material that lacked the associations carried by more traditional media like bronze, marble or wood.\u00a0 Inspired by social unrest in \u201880s Britain, Cragg employs a modern material, fragmented and formerly discarded, to illustrate conflict between citizen and state. (On view in Chelsea through April 15<sup>th<\/sup>).<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 4015px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/mcusercontent.com\/6c6876dc7ff53694967151f73\/images\/86907a7c-0106-f7c2-89ad-6066103048f1.jpg\" width=\"4015\" height=\"2950\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tony Cragg, detail of installation of Riot, 1987 at Lisson Gallery in Chelsea, March \u201923.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protesters and police clash in a blaze of color in British sculptor Tony Cragg\u2019s 1987 piece \u2018Riot\u2019 a sculptural installation running the length of one of Lisson Gallery\u2019s Chelsea spaces. \u00a0Forty years ago, Cragg made a name for himself with artworks and installations composed of found plastic elements, a material that lacked the associations carried &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2023\/04\/11\/tony-cragg-at-lisson-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tony Cragg at Lisson Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[10304,10305,8,117,10306,38,9340,4164,10303,8984],"class_list":["post-10233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-hottest-show","tag-80s-britain","tag-80s-england","tag-art","tag-chelsea","tag-civil-unrest","tag-installation","tag-lisson-gallery","tag-plastic","tag-riot","tag-tony-cragg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2F3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10234,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10233\/revisions\/10234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}