Angelbert Metoyer

The nomadic New Orleans-born artist Angelbert Metoyer is one of the most imaginative creatives working today. He is highly collected in the United States and his work is exhibited in the permanent collections of various museums. He is interested in what he refers to as the “hidden language of religion” and across all of the mediums he works in – painting, sculpture, performance, video art and sound art – his explorations act as a powerful conduit to ancestral memory and what the radical psychoanalyst Carl C Jung would describe as the essential a priori archetypes that define what it means to be human.

Angelbert Metoyer exploded onto the art scene in 1995, when at the age of 18 he was included in dual exhibitions at Project Row Houses (Houston) and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. A series of solo exhibitions followed, at Barbara Davis Gallery (Houston), New Gallery/Thom Andriola (Houston) and Gerald Peters Gallery (Dallas). Over the years, Metoyer has become an increasingly recognizable player on the international stage with celebrated multi-media shows at Miami Art Basel (2009) and The Dactyl Foundation (2008), and he remains involved in various ongoing collaborations with the illustrious likes of the post-punk poet Saul Williams and the hip-hop performer Mike Ladd. Metoyer’s intuitive practice effortlessly spans a variety of media, but at the base root of his art-making are his dextrous drawings, which depict mythical creatures, star charts, anatomical studies and haunting ancestral figures.

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Arrival City

What will be remembered about our century, more than anything except perhaps changes to the climate, is the final shift of human populations from agricultural life to cities, the effects of which are being felt around the world. Arrival City gives us an on-the-ground view of this phenomenon—from Maryland to Shenzhen, from the favelas of Rio to the shanty towns of Mumbai, from Los Angeles to Nairobi.

Arrival City is a book which provides a detailed tour of 30 cities and villages on five continents, introducing the people and communities whose tragedies and victories are changing the world.

The author’s exhaustive research and investigative discoveries, drawing on the latest developments in scholarship, will change our views of migration, cities, population growth, foreign aid and politics.

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Doug Saunders

Doug Saunders is a Canadian-British author and journalist. He is the author of the book Arrival City: The Final Migration and Our Next World (2010) and the London-based European bureau chief for The Globe and Mail. He writes a weekly column devoted to the larger themes and intellectual concepts behind international news, and has won the National Newspaper Award, Canada’s counterpart to the Pulitzer Prize, on four occasions. He won the prestigious Donner Prize for the best book on public policy in 2011.

This site is intended to list and index his writings in various media in one handy location, to provide news of interest to his readers, and to help people get in touch.

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