Now live – María Berrío: A Day’s Cadence
An extended reality (XR) exhibition of new works by the Brooklyn-based artist. The exhibition is also available to view via the App Store on Vortic Collect
Khadija Saye: in this space we breathe
This special presentation for London Collective on Vortic Collect coincides with the launch of Breath is Invisible (7 July–9 Oct 2020), a new public art project in Notting Hill
Celia Paul: My Studio
An extended reality (XR) exhibition of new paintings by the celebrated British artist to launch London Collective, a new section on the Vortic Collect app that brings together 42 of the UK’s best commercial galleries to present exhibitions on the new extended reality app for the art world.
Secundino Hernández: Dreaming of Wild Honey
An extended reality (XR) exhibition of new paintings by the Spanish artist. The exhibition is available exclusively online and via the App Store on Vortic Collect.
The Long Read: Milton Avery – Form into Colour, by Edith Devaney
In this week's The Long Read, first published in 2017 on the occasion of Milton Avery’s first UK exhibition for ten years, Edith Devaney considers the evolution and influence of Avery’s work.
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The latest from Victoria Miro artists around the world
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March 13 2020
Temporary Gallery Closures
In order to ensure the safety and wellbeing of our visitors, artists, and staff, Victoria Miro has temporarily closed its galleries in London and Venice. The Victoria Miro team is working remotely and is very much available by phone and email. We invite you to join us here and on social media to explore our artists, and we look forward to welcoming you to the gallery again soon. -
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January 6 2020
Reopening from 5 July – Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years at The Holburne Museum, Bath
The exhibition (now extended until 3 January 2021) is the first to survey works made by the artist between 1982 and 1994. These ground-breaking ‘lost’ pots have been reunited for the first time to focus on the formative years of one of Britain’s most recognisable artists. The Holburne Museum, Bath -
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July 8 2020
Tate announces that Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms will now take place in 2021
The focused exhibition (rescheduled to take place in 2021) will be a rare chance to experience two of the artist’s immersive mirror room installations juxtaposed with photos and footage of early performance works and studio happenings. Tate Modern, London -
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June 26 2020
Anna Brady for The Art Newspaper writes about London Collective
Anna Brady for The Artnewspaper reports on the launch of London Collective, a new co-operative set up in March during the UK’s coronavirus lockdown. -
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June 26 2020
Melanie Gerlis covers London Collective for the Financial Times
London Collective brings together 42 of the UK’s best commercial galleries to present exhibitions and artists’ projects on Vortic Collect, the new extended reality app for the art world. As the project launches, read coverage by Melanie Gerlis for the Financial Times. -
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June 27 2020
New permanent commission Schism by Conrad Shawcross, opening at Château La Coste
On the grounds of the estate, Shawcross has created a new permanent and monumental commission for Château La Coste. Schism (2020) continues the artist's research into the peculiar geometric, philosophical, and even political potential of the tetrahedron. Château La Coste -
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June 26 2020
Now open – Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden (1966–2020) at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Narcissus Garden dates back to 1966, when Kusama first participated in the 33rd Venice Biennale. It has now been installed in a version adapted to Louisiana's Lake Garden. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art -
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June 18 2020
Now open – Tal R: Animals and People at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
The centrepiece of the exhibition (18 June 2020–17 January 2021) is a series of new bronze sculptures, which Tal R has been working on over the past few years. This is the first time the works have been presented together. Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen -
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News story
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June 10 2020
As reported in The New York Times, Sarah Sze’s ambitious installation for LaGuardia Airport’s new Terminal B is unveiled
'Sze's sculpture, titled “Shorter Than the Day,” after a line in an Emily Dickinson poem, functions almost like a timekeeper. She has engineered a vast matrix of metal rods that cohere into a monumental yet ethereal globe. Suspended from a central spot on the ceiling of the departures level, it descends through a cutaway in the floor and is visible floating overhead from baggage claim.' Hilarie M Sheets, The New York Times -
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June 11 2020
Njideka Akunyili Crosby participates in the 2020Solidarity project
Njideka Akunyili Crosby joins the roster of artists participating in Wolfgang Tillman's foundation, Between Bridges' project aimed at helping cultural and music venues, community projects, independent spaces and publications during the current pandemic. Blend in — Stand out, 2019, is available via these venues: Cafe Oto (London), RUYA MAPS ((London), twelvebooks (Tokyo), Utrecht (Tokyo), with more to be announced. -
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June 2 2020
Chantal Joffe creates a special cover for the RA Magazine
For Summer 2020 issue of the magazine, produced as the RA closed its doors in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus, the editorial team invited writers and artists to respond to the relationship between art and the domestic world. A special cover was created by Chantal Joffe, depicting her sister and niece in their doorway. RA Magazine -
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May 18 2020
Grayson Perry by Jacky Klein, plus IGTV Q&A
Published by Thames & Hudson, this updated and expanded third edition of the definitive book on the artist launches 21 May 2020. -
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May 2 2020
Work by Conrad Shawcross goes on view at Salisbury Cathedral – take a virtual tour of the exhibition and read a digital copy of the catalogue
In celebration of the 800th anniversary of the laying of its foundation stones, Salisbury Cathedral presents the exhibition Celebrating 800 years of Spirit and Endeavour. Conrad Shawcross’s monumental sculpture Formation I (The Dappled Light of the Sun) is featured as part of a series of sculptures on the grounds of the cathedral. Salisbury, Wiltshire -
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Interview
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May 22 2020
Grayson Perry talks to the New York Times
'Art is a process. It’s expressing yourself and doing something, and throwing yourself into it and getting better at it and trying again. That’s what it’s about. And people are responding to that now.' In this interview feature, Perry talks about Grayson's Art Club and subsequent exhibition. Alex Marshall, The New York Times -
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April 3 2020
New York Botanical Garden announces new dates for its Yayoi Kusama exhibition Cosmic Nature
Cosmic Nature, a multisensory presentation of Yayoi Kusama’s profound connection with the natural world, originally planned for 2020, has been rescheduled for spring–fall 2021. In a special message, Kusama said: 'The passion that I and those at The New York Botanical Garden have poured into this exhibition is still burning. Everyone, I hope you will wait.' New York Botanical Garden -
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April 15 2020
A Message From Yayoi Kusama To The Whole World
Today, with the world facing COVID-19, I feel the necessity to address it with this message. -
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Public Art
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April 4 2020
A new mural by Isaac Julien goes on view in La Jolla, California
La Jolla, California, has just welcomed a newly installed public work by Isaac Julien. Julien’s mural, ECLIPSE (PLAYTIME), is a still from the artist's 2013 film Playtime in which he explores and critiques how the flow of financial capital controls the contemporary art world. La Jolla, California -
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Profile
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March 19 2020
Dee Rees writes about Wangechi Mutu in The New York Times for its special feature on the African-American art shaping the 21st Century
‘This is the black art that is defining the century’ – The New York Times invites 35 top African-American artists to highlight the works that inspire them. Dee Rees, The New York Times -
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January 27 2020
The Telegraph profiles Hedda Sterne
'Hedda Sterne rejected the macho art world of the Fifties. Lucy Davies salutes an uncompromising talent.' Lucy Davies, The Telegraph -
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February 19 2020
The New York Times T Magazine commissions Chantal Joffe
Work by the artist was commissioned to accompany Megan O'Grady's essay on why tales of female trios are newly relevant. Joffe's painting Me, Em and Nat depicts herself and her sisters as children in the 1970s. Megan O'Grady, The New York Times -
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Interview
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January 31 2020
Stan Douglas talks to Interview
'I can’t predict the future, so in a way, my science fiction – like everything else, like historical things – is an allegory of the present.' Ella Huzenis, Interview -
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January 2 2020
Sarah Sze writes about her experience as the Alan Kanzer artist-in-residence at the Zuckerman Institute
An interdisciplinary collaboration between the School of the Arts and Zuckerman, the Kanzer program gives visual artists time to forge interactions with scientists working on the brain, the senses, perception, learning and memory. Sarah Sze, Columbia News -
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Review
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February 19 2020
Aesthetica reviews Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger and Scenes from the Blackout
'Both the structure and the subject matter of the exhibition offer an overarching sense of displacement or the uncanny.' Robyn Sian Cusworth, Aesthetica Magazine -
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March 5 2020
As reported in The New York Times, Sarah Sze has been commissioned to create a new permanent installation for La Guardia Airport
Sarah Sze has been commissioned by the Public Art Fund, the New York-based nonprofit for public art, in partnership with LaGuardia Gateway Partners to execute a large-scale project integrated throughout the architecture of the arrivals and departures hall of the new Terminal B, expected to open later this year, alongside commissions by Jeppe Hein, Sabine Hornig and Laura Owens. The New York Times -
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Publication
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January 24 2020
Just published – Hedda Sterne: Vertical-Horizontal
Accompanying the artist's first solo exhibition in the UK, held at Victoria Miro Mayfair (29 January–21 March 2020), this fully illustrated book features an essay by Eleanor Nairne examining the themes and motifs of Sterne’s work and the context in which it was made. -
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January 15 2020
Stan Douglas to represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022
Stan Douglas has been selected to represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022. Douglas's multidisciplinary works, including films, photographs and, more recently, theatre productions, reflect on the dynamic potential embedded in pivotal historical moments. -
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November 28 2019
Gropius Bau announces a major Yayoi Kusama exhibition as part of its 2020 programme
The artist's first large-scale retrospective in Germany takes place 4 September 2020–17 January 2021 and will subsequently be on view at the Museum Ludwig and Fondation Beyeler. Gropius Bau, Berlin -
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November 25 2019
Guggenheim Bilbao to present Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement in June 2020
Isaac Julien’s Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (on view 25 June–27 September 2020) traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildings, offering a meditation on the iconic work and on the legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992). Guggenheim Bilbao -
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June 2 2020
Hettie Judah writes about I See You in The i
'While affectionate, intimate, beautiful and humorous, the works are not lascivious.' Hettie Judah, The i -
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May 27 2020
Flora Yukhnovich: The Venice Paintings
During a recent two-month residency, Flora Yukhnovich used the opportunity to engage more fully with Venetian culture. Her sources include the music of Vivaldi and the memoirs of Casanova, in addition to one of her key influences, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whose works she was able to study first hand to create this new suite of paintings for this exhibition. -
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Feature
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May 15 2020
The Long Read: Grayson Perry – very much his own man, by Lisa Jardine
In this The Long Read, first published in 2004, the distinguished historian Lisa Jardine considers the ‘extraordinary power and contemporary importance’ of Grayson Perry’s work. -
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May 15 2020
Weekly Watch: Tal R in his own words
In this interview with Elephant, the artist talks about intimacy in painting, working without prior information and being open to others telling his story. -
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Art fair
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May 8 2020
Victoria Miro participates in the inaugural Frieze Viewing Room with new and significant works by 21 gallery artists and estates
The gallery premieres work directly from the studios of Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Secundino Hernández, Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul and Sarah Sze. These new pieces are shown alongside notable works by Milton Avery, Elmgreen & Dragset, Alex Hartley, Ilse D’Hollander, Idris Khan, Yayoi Kusama, Howardena Pindell, Tal R, Do Ho Suh, Adriana Varejão and Francesca Woodman. -
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May 6 2020
Now open – the inaugural Frieze Viewing Room VIP Preview
Victoria Miro is delighted to participate in the inaugural edition of Frieze Viewing Room with a presentation featuring new and significant works by 21 gallery artists and estates. -
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News story
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April 27 2020
Grayson’s Art Club on Channel 4
Launching at 8pm on 27 April 2020, the series will offer master classes, top tips and inspiration. Each episode of Art Club will be themed, and Grayson is asking members of the public to send in artwork responding to each theme. -
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April 23 2020
The Guardian previews Grayson’s Art Club
'Grayson’s Art Club launches on Monday with Perry promising to help “battle the boredom” and take viewers “on a journey of art discovery” with a six-part series of themed shows where the British public is encouraged to create their own work.' Lanre Bakare, The Guardian -
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April 16 2020
Stephen Willats: Going Round a Corner, North Ormesby, Middlesbrough 2016
Created in 2016, this is a preview of a film by Stephen Willats, released ahead of his major exhibition Human Right at Mima, Middlesbrough (4 March – 4 June 2017). -
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News story
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April 15 2020
Remembering Bruna Aickelin
We are saddened to learn of the death of Bruna Aickelin. Here, we remember our good friend, whose gallery, Galleria Il Capricorno, was renowned for showing key twentieth-century artists and, later, many international contemporary artists. -
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April 6 2020
Conrad Shawcross is the 2020 patron of Art UK
The online home for every public art collection in the UK, Art UK collaborates with over 3,200 British institutions opening up the UK's art collections for enjoyment, learning and research. -
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Review
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March 10 2020
The March issue of ArtReview features a review of Stan Douglas at Victoria Miro
'Douglas's film plays with questions of ethics... but more profoundly with questions of communication.’ Nina Power, ArtReview -
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March 7 2020
Francesca Woodman: On Being an Angel opens at C/O Berlin
On Being an Angel (7 March–6 June 2020) is the first German exhibition of a cross-section of Woodman's work, from small-format black-and-white and rare color photographs to the late, larger-than-life works created with experimental techniques such as the diazotype. C/O Berlin -
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March 4 2020
A new exhibition, ZERO IS INFINITY, ZERO and Yayoi Kusama, opens at the Yayoi Kusama Museum
The first group exhibition at the Yayoi Kusama Museum (5 March–31 May 2020) focuses on Kusama's activity in Europe during the 1960s and introduces the work of the artist network ZERO, first initiated by Heinz Mack and Otto Piene in Düsseldorf in 1958. Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo -
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Event
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March 3 2020
Howardena Pindell in conversation at The Armory Show
Taking place at 2pm on Sunday 8 March 2020, Truth, Fiction, and Memory is an in-conversation event featuring the artist, and writer and editor Kimberly Drew. The Armory Show, New York -
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Review
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March 2 2020
Studio International reviews Hedda Sterne at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Long-known as ‘the only female at the birth of abstract expressionism’, Romanian-born Sterne always denied being an abstract painter, and this gem of an exhibition makes it clear why Anna McNay, Studio International -
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March 1 2020
Conrad Shawcross features in Under the Stars at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
The exhibition (21 March–20 September 2020) presents examples of stargazing and mapping by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, highlighting the commonalities and connections in our shared attempts to understand the night sky and our place in relation to it. Sydney, Australia -
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News story
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February 27 2020
Just announced: Grayson Perry is the recipient of the Erasmus Prize 2020
The Praemium Erasmianum Foundation has announced that Grayson Perry is the recipient of the Erasmus Prize 2020. -
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February 26 2020
Selected works by Tal R are on view at Victoria Miro New York – Office
Paintings on view (until 25 April 2020) include a number of works featuring images of family and friends, such as Emma in drawing room, 2018, and still lifes of casually arranged everyday objects, such as Yellow monkey, 2019. 534 West 24th Street New York, NY 10011, USA -
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February 25 2020
María Berrío is featured in Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020 at NMSU Art Museum
The inaugural exhibition (28 February–28 May 2020) of the new University Art Museum (UAM) at New Mexico State University (NMSU) aims to expand and enrich the compelling conversations regarding motherhood in today’s socio-political climate. New Mexico State University Art Museum -
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February 25 2020
Victoria Miro presents works by Conrad Shawcross at The Armory Show
Victoria Miro participates in The Armory Show (Booth 600) with a solo presentation of new and recent works by Conrad Shawcross. Booth 600, Pier 94, New York City -
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February 24 2020
Wangechi Mutu is featured in the Centre Pompidou’s exhibition Neurones/Les Intelligences Simulées
The exhibition (26 February–20 April 2020) highlights the continuity of research by artists, architects, designers and musicians alongside that developed by major scientific laboratories. Centre Pompidou, Paris -
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February 18 2020
Isaac Julien features in Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at the Barbican
This major exhibition (20 February–17 May 2020) considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from the 1960s to the present day. Barbican Art Gallery, London -
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February 18 2020
Grayson Perry: My Life in Six Objects in 1843 Magazine
'Sketch books are the most talismanic objects in my artistic life. I carry them around with me most of the time.' 1843 Magazine -
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February 17 2020
Château La Coste presents Escalations, an exhibition by Conrad Shawcross
Situated at three sites spread across the grounds, the exhibition (29 February–19 June 2020) explores the artists continued relationship with geometry and philosophy, physics and metaphysics. Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France -
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February 17 2020
Grayson Perry, Wangechi Mutu and Francesca Woodman feature in Bodyscapes at The Israel Museum
Examining the relationship between nature and culture through the prism of the body, this exhibition (21 February–3 October 2020) brings together historical sources and artworks ranging from prehistory to contemporary art in a variety of media. The Israel Museum, Jerusalem -
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February 17 2020
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: the Allbritton Art Institute Artist Conversation 2020
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is the subject of the Allbritton Art Institute Artist Conversation 2020. On Wednesday 19 February 2020 (5:30pm) the artist will discuss her work with critic Jason Kaufman at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The event is free and open to the public. Baylor University, Waco, Texas -
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February 16 2020
Isaac Julien and Do Ho Suh feature in When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art opening at Minneapolis Institute of Art
The exhibition (23 February–24 May 2020) considers how contemporary artists are responding to the migration, immigration, and displacement of peoples today. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota -
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February 14 2020
Wallpaper* writes about Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger
'Beneath the film’s retro-futuristic veneer and vibrant passages of colour – a stylistic nod to avant-garde cinema – lies a pressing message for our times.' Jessica Klingelfuss, Wallpaper* -
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February 13 2020
Wallpaper* selects Victoria Miro’s Idris Khan presentation as one of its Frieze LA highlights
'…it’s his suite of Large Rhythm Paintings, based on sheet music, that has us completely entranced…' Wallpaper* -
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February 12 2020
Song Mirror, a performance inside Doug Aitken’s Mirage Gstaad
Taking place on Saturday 29 February 2020, Song Mirror is a new musical performance composed by Doug Aitken that will be performed live by six vocalists from the Los Angeles Master Chorale. Gstaad, Switzerland -
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February 11 2020
The Art Newspaper’s top shows to see during Frieze LA, featuring Howardena Pindell and Do Ho Suh
TAN's selections include MOCA's With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985, featuring Howardena Pindell, and Do Ho Suh's 348 West 22nd Street, on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The Art Newspaper
