Surface Work, now open at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Installation view, Victoria Miro Mayfair. Left to right: Alma Thomas, Untitled, 1961; Adriana Varejão, Azulejão (Moon), 2018; Howardena Pindell, Untitled, 1971
Surface Work, now open at Gallery I, Wharf Road
Installation view, Gallery I. Left to right: Angela de la Cruz, Deflated IV (White), 2009; Adriana Varejão, Parede con Incisão a la Fontana 3, 2002
Surface Work, now open at Gallery II, Wharf Road
Installation view, Gallery II. Left to Right: Martha Jungwirth, Untitled, 2018; Joan Mitchell, Red Tree, 1976; Louise Fishman, Bearer of the Rose, 2017; Victoria Morton, Feed Me, 2014
Surface Work exhibition guide
Your online guide to the 54 artists in our international, cross-generational exhibition of abstract painting by women
Chantal Joffe: Pastels, now open at Victoria Miro Venice
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The latest from Victoria Miro artists around the world
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Exhibition
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25 April 2018
Stephen Willats: Control, now open at Tate Liverpool
A project and events programme (25 April – 16 May 2018) devoted to Control Magazine. Founded in 1965 by Stephen Willats, Control remains one of the few artists' publications from the 1960s thriving to this day. Tate Liverpool -
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Review
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24 April 2018
Surface Work is Time Out’s Show of the Week
★★★★ 'This show of abstract art by women isn't just a powerful statement that women were there too, but that they were knocking up some of the best abstraction in the biz in the process.' Eddy Frankel, Time Out -
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News story
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20 April 2018
The Financial Times announces Victoria Miro’s representation of the Ilse D’Hollander Estate
D’Hollander’s soft, small-scale but highly charged works often draw on the Flemish countryside and are increasingly finding their audience with recent institutional shows in Europe. Melanie Gerlis, Financial Times -
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Exhibition
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13 April 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Hayward Gallery Billboard is unveiled
Dwell: Aso Ebi, 2017, is on view until February 2019. The work is installed on the façade of the Queen Elizabeth Hall, opposite the Hayward Gallery. Southbank Centre, London -
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13 April 2018
Stan Douglas to feature in Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art, opening soon at Tate Modern
This major exhibition (2 May – 14 October 2018) tells the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art. Tate Modern -
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Review
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15 April 2018
Laura Cumming reviews Surface Work in The Observer
★★★★★ 'To see all these works in London, for the first time, is both momentous and poignant.' Laura Cumming, The Observer -
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Gallery Event
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10 April 2018
Surface Work Tours
Led by curators and featured artists, these informal tours are free to attend and will last around 30 minutes. No booking necessary. -
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Exhibition
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25 April 2018
Varda Caivano in The Divine Joke, curated by Barry Schwabsky
An exhibition at Anita Rogers Gallery, New York (25 April – 2 June 2018) curated by the critic and poet Barry Schwabsky. Anita Rogers Gallery, New York -
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Exhibition
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16 April 2018
Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Main Thing, coming soon to The Lowry
An exhibition (19 May – 2 September 2018) of works from across Joffe's career addressing themes of portraiture, motherhood, passing time and art's relationship to history. The Lowry, Salford -
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Event
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11 April 2018
A Wayne McGregor triple bill, featuring Kairos with set design by Idris Khan, at Nationaltheater, Munich
Performances by Munich's Bayerisches Staatsballett include Kairos, McGregor's reimagination of Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, with set design by Idris Khan and score by Max Richter. Nationaltheater, Munich -
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Exhibition
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26 April 2018
Work by Maria Nepomuceno features in the opening displays of the Norval Foundation, Cape Town
The Norval Foundation (opening 28 April 2018) is a new centre for the research and exhibition of 20th and 21st-century visual art from South Africa and beyond. Norval Foundation, Cape Town -
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Exhibition
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3 April 2018
Secundino Hernández at Kunsthalle Helsinki
An exhibition (14 April – 13 May 2018) of new paintings in addition to a selection of works from the past five years. Kunsthalle Helsinki -
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Review
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20 April 2018
Louisa Buck reviews Surface Work in The Telegraph
'This museum-quality show brings together more than 50 international artists… to confirm that women are – and always have been – at the forefront of non-figurative art.' Louisa Buck, The Telegraph -
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News story
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21 April 2018
Victoria Miro announces representation of The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander
The first London exhibition of works by the Belgian artist will be held at Victoria Miro Mayfair in November 2018. Paintings by D’Hollander are featured as part of the gallery’s exhibition of abstract painting by women, Surface Work. -
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Art fair
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25 April 2018
Victoria Miro at Art Monte-Carlo
Victoria Miro participates in Art Monte-Carlo (Booth B4, 28-29 April 2018) with works by Doug Aitken, Stan Douglas, Elmgreen & Dragset, Idris Khan, Yayoi Kusama, Jorge Pardo, Conrad Shawcross and Francesca Woodman. Grimaldi Forum, Monaco -
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News
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26 April 2018
Victoria Miro at Frieze New York
Victoria Miro participates in Frieze New York (Booth B5, 3-6 May 2018) with a presentation of works by gallery artists. Randall's Island Park, New York -
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Exhibition
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22 March 2018
John Kørner: Running Problems at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
For his first museum exhibition of the artist in Belgium (25 March – 17 June 2018) Kørner creates an integrated environment of painting and installation. Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium -
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3 April 2018
Celia Paul, curated by Hilton Als, at the Yale Center for British Art
The exhibition (3 April – 12 August 2018), specially selected by Als in collaboration with the artist and a deeply personal testament to their transatlantic friendship, will focus on Paul’s recent works, New Haven, Connecticut -
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Exhibition
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6 April 2018
Grayson Perry: Folk Wisdom at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
The exhibition (13 April – 2 September 2018) is produced in collaboration with La Monnaie de Paris museum, where it will be on view during autumn 2018. Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki -
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Exhibition
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20 March 2018
The 21st Biennale of Sydney, featuring NS Harsha
A new work by NS Harsha will be on display in the Art Gallery of New South Wales (16 March – 11 June 2018). Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney -
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Review
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10 April 2018
Matthew Collings reviews Surface Work the Evening Standard
★★★★ 'Surface Work has a lot of playfulness as well as dignity.' Matthew Collings, Evening Standard -
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Exhibition
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7 March 2018
Do Ho Suh: Almost Home at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
The exhibition (16 March - 5 August 2018) will feature a major installation of the artist’s Hub sculptures along with a group of semi-transparent replicas of household objects, titled Specimens. Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC -
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Exhibition
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27 December 2017
Tate Liverpool to host Life in Motion: Egon Schiele / Francesca Woodman
The exhibition (24 May – 23 September 2018) pairs work by the artists to explore motion in drawing and photography. Tate Liverpool -
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Exhibition
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26 March 2018
Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves at The Whitworth
Ten Thousand Waves (on display 30 March – 28 August 2018) is the most recent in a series of major moving image acquisitions by the Whitworth, and was supported through Art Fund’s Moving Image Fund. The Whitworth, Manchester -
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1 March 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the Art Gallery of Ontario
The major exhibition (3 March – 27 May 2018) continues its North American tour. Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto -
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News story
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6 March 2018
Do Ho Suh to create a new film for the V&A’s presentation Robin Hood Gardens: A Ruin in Reverse at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia
Suh's film will be screened in the Pavilion of Applied Arts (26 May – 25 November 2018) where the V&A will present Robin Hood Gardens: A Ruin In Reverse, centred around fragments of Robin Hood Gardens that will be transported to Venice from Poplar, East London. Venice, Italy -
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Exhibition
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21 February 2018
Now extended – Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins at Dallas Museum of Art
This installation (on display 1 October 2017 – 29 April 2018) is the first mirror pumpkin room created by Kusama since 1991, and the only Infinity Mirror Room of its kind in a North American collection. Dallas Museum of Art, Texas -
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Event
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25 April 2018
Do Ho Suh to take part in the Words/Works/Walls conference, Oxford
Words/Works/Walls: Conceptual Architectures in Visual Cultures (11 May 2018) is a day conference in consideration of walls as barriers, as modes of presentation, as frameworks for understanding, and as key components of global visual culture. Ertegun House, Oxford -
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Event
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25 April 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby in conversation with Naomi Beckwith
An in-conversation event (26 July 2018) as part of Anderson Ranch's Summer Series. Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Snowmass Village, Colorado -
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Event
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23 April 2018
Sarah Sze to give the Bobbie and Mike Wilsey Distinguished Lecture for 2018
The artist discusses her work in a free public talk (6-7.30pm, 10 May 2018) held at Stanford University. No registration is necessary. Doors from 5.30pm. Hauck Auditorium, Stanford University -
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News
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23 April 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Charles Gaines in conversation at The Broad Stage
Presented by Sotheby's Institute of Art and The Broad Stage, and moderated by Anne Ellegood, the event takes place at 7.30pm, Mon May 21 2018. The Broad Stage, Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center -
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Preview
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22 April 2018
Elephant features Adriana Varejão’s Parede con Incisão a la Fontana 3 in its Contemporary Classics column
'Adriana Varejão's slashes after Lucio Fontana have a more gruesome story to tell than her predecessor's punctures, making it a fitting inclusion in a groundbreaking new show on female abstract painters at Victoria Miro gallery in London.' Charlotte Jansen, Elephant -
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Exhibition
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20 April 2018
Closing soon – Grayson Perry: Making Meaning at The Gallery at Windsor, Florida
The first annual exhibition (15 January – 27 April 2018) at Windsor in a three-year collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts, London. Vero Beach, Florida -
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Exhibition
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14 April 2018
Tal R: this is not Detroit, opening soon at MOCA Detroit
The intricate, multipart installation (11 May – 29 July 2018) manifests the artist’s fantasy of Detroit. Seven large-scale paintings, rendered in a rich and moody palate of blues, depict the artist’s vision of specific Detroit neighborhoods he has never visited. MOCA, Detroit -
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Review
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13 April 2018
Caroline Douglas, Director of the Contemporary Art Society, writes about Surface Work in her Friday Dispatch
'How interesting to consider that through those macho times, it was these brave, smart women who were doing the business.' contemporaryartsociety.org Caroline Douglas -
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Channel
11 April 2018
Chantal Joffe: Pastels
A short film on the occasion of the artist's exhibition of new and recent pastels at Victoria Miro Venice (14 April – 19 May 2018). -
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Exhibition
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7 April 2018
Do Ho Suh: Passage/s, coming to Towada Art Center
An exhibition (2 June – 14 October 2018) featuring an installation Suh's Hub works, along with the video My Home/s, 2014-2016. Towada Art Center, Aomori, Japan -
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7 April 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors, coming to The Cleveland Museum of Art
Focusing on the evolution of her immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms, the most significant North American tour of Kusama’s work in nearly two decades continues at The Cleveland Art Museum (7 July – 30 September 2018). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio -
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Feature
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6 April 2018
Skin, Or Surface: Simone White writes about Njideka Akunyili Crosby in Frieze
'Skin, or surface – the painting’s surface itself – is thus implicated in a history of (unexamined) ideas about seeing the black woman.' Frieze Simone White -
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Exhibition
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6 April 2018
Stephen Willats is featured in Fashioned from Nature at the V&A
Willats’ Variable Sheets/Optical Shift, 1965, is included in the exhibition (21 April 2018 – 27 January 2019), which invites visitors to think about the materials of fashion and the sources of their clothes. V&A, London -
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Preview
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3 April 2018
Francesca Gavin writes about Surface Work in the Financial Times
'It demonstrates how women have been central to the development of the dialogue around the abstract – the 20th century’s most defining change in visual culture.' Francesca Gavin, The Financial Times -
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Exhibition
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1 April 2018
Grayson Perry – Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life, opening soon at Shipley Art Gallery
A Crafts Council touring exhibition (5 May – 28 July 2018) of two large-scale tapestries. Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead -
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Exhibition
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26 March 2018
Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences tours to Bristol Art Museum
Inspired by Hogarth’s morality tale, A Rake’s Progress, Perry’s tapestries (on display 31 March – 24 June 2018) follow the socially-mobile life of fictional character Tim Rakewell from infancy to untimely death. Bristol Museum -
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Exhibition
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24 March 2018
David Harrison in Sawdust and Sequins: The Art of the Circus
The exhibition (24 March – 3 June 2018) at the Royal West of England Academy also features work by Sir Peter Blake, Abigail Lane and many others. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol -
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Exhibition
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20 March 2018
Grayson Perry in Things of Growing Beauty: British Studio Pottery at the Fitzwilliam Museum
A collaboration with Yale Center for British Art, where it was first displayed, the exhibition (20 March – 17 June 2018) traces the changing nature of British studio pottery through the evolution of specific types of vessel. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge -
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Exhibition
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17 March 2018
Inka Essenhigh: A Fine Line at Virginia MOCA
A survey (17 March – 19 August 2018) of some 30 paintings from across the artist's career. Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art -
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Profile
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16 March 2018
Celia Paul writes in the FT about painting from life – and loss
'My mother sat for me for 30 years. I still feel very connected to her. The grief is not how I expected it to be.' Celia Paul, Financial Times -
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News story
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13 March 2018
Yayoi Kusama to create her first permanent UK installation for the Elizabeth line at Liverpool Street
Kusama will create her first permanent UK installation, titled Infinite Accumulation, for the new Crossrail station at Liverpool Street. -
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News story
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13 March 2018
Conrad Shawcross to create a major new public artwork for the Elizabeth line at Liverpool Street
'Manifold' will be a bronze sculpture positioned outside the Moorgate entrance of the Elizabeth line station. -
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Exhibition
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13 March 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, opening soon at Museum MACAN, Jakarta
The first large-scale exhibition (12 May – 9 September 2018) of Yayoi Kusama’s work in Indonesia includes more than 130 works that span almost 70 years. Museum MACAN, Jakarta -
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News story
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13 March 2018
The Art Newspaper reports on the announcement of Crossrail Art Programme works by Yayoi Kusama and Conrad Shawcross
Commuters travelling on the new Elizabeth line across London will encounter major new works by Yayoi Kusama and Conrad Shawcross at Liverpool Street as part of the Crossrail art programme. The Art Newspaper Gareth Harris -
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Exhibition
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8 March 2018
Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth line, featuring Chantal Joffe, Conrad Shawcross and Yayoi Kusama
The exhibition (13 March – 6 May 2018) brings together unseen material by Joffe, Shawcross, Kusama and all the artists contributing to the Crossrail Art Programme. Whitechapel Gallery -
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Exhibition
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8 March 2018
Stephen Willats to feature in FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
Titled An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, the inaugural edition of the Cleveland Triennial (14 July – 30 September 2018) comprises artist commissions, performances, films, and public programmes to examine the ever-changing and politically urgent conditions of an American city. Cleveland, Ohio -
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Exhibition
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4 March 2018
Celia Paul in All Too Human: Bacon, Freud and a Century of Painting Life at Tate Britain
Tate Britain's major exhibition (28 February – 27 August 2018) celebrates painters in Britain who found new ways of depicting people, places, feelings and relationships. Tate Britain -
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Review
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4 March 2018
Tim Adams selects Celia Paul’s Painter and Model as one of his highlights of All Too Human at Tate Britain
'By making herself both artist and subject she regains power over her own image.' Tim Adams, The Observer -
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Exhibition
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3 March 2018
Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love at Matsumoto City Museum of Art
Taking place in the artist's hometown of Matsumoto City, this major retrospective (3 March – 22 July 2018) features some 180 works drawn from across Kusama's career. Matsumoto City Museum of Art -
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News
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2 March 2018
Conrad Shawcross’ The Optic Cloak wins a World Architecture News Award
The Greenwich Peninsula Low Carbon Energy Centre, by C.F. Møller Architects in collaboration with Conrad Shawcross, wins in the category of Metal in Architecture. -
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Exhibition
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1 March 2018
Isaac Julien’s Ten Thousand Waves is featured in The Rebellion of Moving Image at MOCA Taipei
The nine-screen installation of Ten Thousand Waves continues its world tour as part of the exhibition (3 March – 6 May 2018), curated by Huang Hsiang-Ning. MOCA Taipei, Taiwan -
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Feature
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1 March 2018
Olivia Laing writes in the Spring 2018 issue of Tate Etc about ageing bodies and her experience of modelling for Chantal Joffe
'I loved the way she articulated the smart of being there at all, an animal with its eyes open, not quite gelling with the room.' Olivia Laing, Tate Etc -
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Channel
1 March 2018
A walk-through of Jules de Balincourt’s exhibition, They Cast Long Shadows, at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Quiet, reflective and mysterious, new paintings by the Brooklyn-based artist continue an intuitive approach to image-making, where the world we inhabit is filtered through the artist’s own psychological landscape.
In Focus
In the Studio: Chantal Joffe
A short film on the occasion of the artist's exhibition of new and recent pastels at Victoria Miro Venice (14 April – 19 May 2018).
