Now open – Howardena Pindell: New Works
An exhibition of new spray dot paintings featuring a monumental diptych.
On view in London – Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins
Completed over the past six years, this major new series of paintings offers an expansive meditation on sin and the complex experience of sinfulness.
On view in Venice – Alex Hartley: Closer Than Before
The first site-specific installation at Victoria Miro Venice features a dynamic architectural intervention that transforms part of the gallery
On Vortic – Emma Talbot: Magical Thinking
Victoria Miro Projects launches an online presentation of new paintings by Emma Talbot. This is the fourth in an ongoing series by invited international artists on Vortic.
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Review
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June 2 2023
Adrian Searle reviews Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins
★★★★★ ’Voluptuous, narcotic, symbolist phantasmagorias in which nature is both fecund and corrupt, these paintings are among the most seductive things Ofili has ever done.‘ Adrian Searle, The Guardian -
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Gallery Exhibition
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June 2 2023
Chris Ofili: Pink Daydreams of a Faun
On view at Wharf Road is this series of ten prints on unique Suminagashi paintings, published in 29 suites by Two Palms, New York. In addition to the suite on view is a new book published by Victoria Miro, which includes an essay by Minna Moore Ede. Victoria Miro, London -
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Publication
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June 2 2023
New Chris Ofili publications: The Seven Deadly Sins and Pink Daydreams of a Faun
Two new books on the artist are available to purchase in person at the gallery or via our online store. -
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News story
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April 25 2023
Acclaim for Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me at Tate Britain
★★★★★ ‘In a career spanning 40 years, he has matched searing political conviction and intellectual heft to formal experiments in filmmaking.‘ – inews; ★★★★ ‘Julien is unafraid to be spectacular, lushly beautiful, even extravagant, but always with the sucker punch of his critical eye and political subject matter.‘ – Evening Standard -
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Review
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June 2 2023
Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins reviewed by Ben Luke
★★★★★ ‘He’s a true great, and this show is a summery, sultry, sensuous smash.’ Ben Luke, Evening Standard -
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Art fair
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June 6 2023
Victoria Miro at Art Basel
Our booth this year (Hall 2.0, Booth E3, 15–18 June 2023) features works by Elmgreen & Dragset, Secundino Hernández, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, Idris Khan, Yayoi Kusama, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Howardena Pindell, Paula Rego and Hedda Sterne. -
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News story
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May 19 2023
Acclaim for Sarah Sze: The Waiting Room
★★★★★ An unassuming door leading off the courtyard in front of Peckham Rye station is a portal to a transcendent experience. – Ben Luke; ★★★★ An astonishing phantasmagoria, filling the gloom of a long abandoned and forgotten interior in Peckham Rye railway station in London with sound and images. – Adrian Searle -
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Exhibition
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May 19 2023
On view at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art – I Am Seen… Therefore, I Am: Isaac Julien and Frederick Douglass
Isaac Julien’s immersive, multi-screen film installation Lessons of the Hour anchors this exploration of Frederick Douglass’ reflections on image-making, race, and citizenship. On view 18 May–24 September 2023. Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art , Hartford, Connecticut -
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Exhibition
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May 23 2023
Works by Kudzanai Violet-Hwami, Chris Ofili, Paula Rego and Stephen Willats feature in Tate Britain’s rehang
Tate Britain has just opened a complete rehang of its collection — the first time in 10 years that the the gallery's free displays have been presented anew. Much-loved and iconic works are joined by a host of new discoveries and additions. See works by VM artists Kudzanai Violet-Hwami, Chris Ofili, Paula Rego, and Stephen Willats among the 800 works by over 350 artists spanning six centuries. -
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Exhibition
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May 11 2023
Sculptures by Tal R on view in Venice
Over the summer months (18 May–27 August), three important bronze sculptures by Copenhagen-based artist Tal R will be on view in the canalside garden of Palazzo Experimental, Dorsoduro, Venice. Palazzo Experimental, Venice -
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Exhibition
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May 9 2023
Paula Rego: Crivelli’s Garden opens this summer at the National Gallery
On view 20 July–29 October 2023 this free exhibiiton explores the relationship between Paula Rego’s monumental painting and the 15th-century altarpiece and National Gallery staff that inspired it. National Gallery, London -
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Exhibition
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May 11 2023
Grayson Perry: Smash Hits opens in Edinburgh this summer
Held at the Royal Scottish Academy, the exhibition (22 July–12 November 2023) will encompass more than 80 works from across his career. -
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Exhibition
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May 30 2023
Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now, opening soon at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
On view 27 June–8 October 2023, the exhibition, which originated at M+ Hong Kong, features some 200 works – paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, and archive material that documents the artist's happenings and performances – examining Kusama’s work since her first drawings as a teenager, during World War II, until her most recent immersive installations. Guggenheim Museum Bilbao -
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Interview
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May 10 2023
Alex Hartley talks to Wallpaper* about his new exhibition Closer Than Before
‘I always hope I can surprise people and then drive people from one work to another to try and forge connections…’ Thea Hawlin, Wallpaper* -
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Exhibition
Posted
May 16 2023
Sarah Sze: The Waiting Room
For her long-awaited project with Artangel, Sarah Sze is transforming a large Victorian waiting room at Peckham Rye Station that has lain empty for almost 50 years. On view 19 May–16 September 2023. Peckham Rye Station, London -
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Exhibition
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May 12 2023
Yayoi Kusama: You, Me and the Balloons, opening soon at Factory International, Manchester
Conceived especially for the soaring spaces of Factory International, the exhibition (30 June–28 August 2023) celebrates three decades of the pioneering artist's inflatable artworks, which are brought together for the first time in this major exhibition. Factory International, Manchester -
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Exhibition
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February 28 2023
Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, on view at the New Museum
The New Museum presents a major solo exhibition (2 March–4 June 2023) of the work of Wangechi Mutu, bringing together over one hundred works from across her twenty-five-year career. New Museum, New York -
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Review
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May 9 2023
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: A Making of Ghosts is reviewed by Artforum
‘By layering the images, Hwami pierces moments of privacy with the invasiveness of the camera’s eye.’ – Daniel Culpan Daniel Culpan, Artforum -
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Exhibition
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April 29 2023
On view at the Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo – Yayoi Kusama’s Self-Obliteration/Psychedelic World
The exhibition (April 29–18 September 2023) focuses on the psychedelic aspects of Kusama's work and presents rich variations of her creations from different periods. Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo -
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Exhibition
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April 26 2023
Isaac Julien: What Freedom Is To Me at Tate Britain
This ambitious solo exhibition (26 April–20 August 2023) reveals the scope of Julien’s pioneering work in film and installation from the early 1980s through to the present day. Tate Britain -
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Review
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February 26 2023
María Berrío: The Children’s Crusade is reviewed by The Boston Globe
‘The ambiguity is the point: Berrío’s works are powerfully alluring, both in craft and sentiment: They ache with a desire for childhood to be kind and gentle, as childhood should be.’ – Murray Whyte Murray Whyte, The Boston Globe -
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News
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April 6 2023
Sarah Sze: Timelapse is reviewed by The New York Times
‘Sze nails the Guggenheim challenge with “Timelapse,” her installation of sculpture, video, paintings, photographs, plants and hardware-store supplies stacked, dangled and stretched throughout the museum.’ – Martha Schwendener Martha Schwendener, The New York Times -
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Review
Posted
March 2 2023
Roberta Smith reviews Wangechi Mutu at the New Museum in The New York Times
‘...Wangechi Mutu has turned the New Museum into a magical matriarchy. Or something close. It has become an enveloping, shadowy place shot through with flaming color, incalculable beauty, but also disease and violence.’ Roberta Smith, The New York Times -
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Exhibition
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March 31 2023
Sarah Sze: Timelapse at the Guggenheim Museum
On view from 31 March 2023, Sarah Sze's site-specific installations transforms the iconic Guggenheim architecture into a tool for timekeeping and a meditation on the multitude of ways that we mark and experience the passage of time. The Guggenheim Museum, New York -
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Review
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April 3 2023
Jerry Saltz reviews Sarah Sze: Timelapse at the Guggenheim Museum
‘...seeing Sze commandeer a big space is to experience her at her full powers.’ –Jerry Saltz Jerry Saltz, Vulture -
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Review
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March 15 2023
The Financial Times reviews Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined at the New Museum
Ariella Budick for The Financial Times reviews Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined, on view at the New Museum until 4 June. Ariella Budick, The Financial Times -
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Exhibition
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February 14 2023
The Hilton Als Series: Njideka Akunyili Crosby travels to The Huntington
For this exhibition (15 Feb–12 June 2023), Als and Akunyili Crosby selected collage-based paintings from “The Beautyful Ones”, the artist’s ongoing series of intimate portraits of Nigerian children, including members of her own family. The Huntington, San Marino, California -
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Exhibition
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February 9 2023
Now extended – Two Worlds Entwined: Annie Morris and Idris Khan at Newlands House
The exhibition (now on view until 4 June 2023), featuring the artist couple’s work side by side for the first time in the UK, explores the artistic practices of Morris and Khan within the historic and intimate setting of Newlands House gallery. Newlands House Gallery, Petworth, West Sussex -
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Exhibition
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February 12 2023
Stephen Willats features in the LACMA exhibition Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952–1982
The exhibition (12 February–2 July 2023) explores how the rise of computer technology, together with its emergence in popular consciousness, impacted the making of art in the age of the mainframe. Los Angeles County Museum of Art -
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Profile
Posted
February 14 2023
The New York Times profiles Wangechi Mutu
Aruna D’Souza from The New York Times profiles Wangechi Mutu ahead of her ambitious New Musuem survey opening 2 March 2023. Aruna D’Souza, The New York Times -
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Exhibition
Posted
February 16 2023
María Berrío: The Children’s Crusade, on view at ICA Boston
The exhibition (16 February–6 August 2023) will present a selection of new and existing works from Berrío’s series The Children’s Crusade. This series blends the history of the Children’s Crusade of 1212 with the contemporary mass movement of peoples across borders. ICA Boston -
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Exhibition
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February 7 2023
Now open – Sharjah Biennial 15, featuring work by Isaac Julien and Wangechi Mutu
Conceived by the late Okwui Enwezor and curated by Hoor Al Qasimi, Director of Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah Biennial 15: Thinking Historically in the Present (7 February–11 June 2023) reflects on Enwezor's visionary work, which transformed contemporary art and established an ambitious intellectual project that has influenced the evolution of institutions and biennials around the world. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates -
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Interview
Posted
February 16 2023
Studio International interviews curator of exhibition Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982
Read an interview with Leslie Jones, curator of the group exhibition Coded: Art Enters the Computer Age, 1952-1982, featuring work by Stephen Willats. On view at LACMA until 2 July 2023. Bronaċ Ferran, Studio International -
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Exhibition
Posted
December 15 2022
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement at Philadelphia Museum of Art
On view from 28 January–29 May 2023, Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement, 2019, explores the life, work, and legacy of the Italian-Brazilian modernist architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914–1992). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania -
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Exhibition
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January 3 2023
Stan Douglas: 2011 ≠ 1848, coming soon to Remai Modern, Saskatoon
The exhibition (3 February–4 June 2023) comprises a series of works inspired by historical events of social and political turbulence. Douglas connects points of social rupture, rendering in minute detail and with technical ingenuity historic moments of protest, riot, and occupation from 2011 that echoed upheavals that swept Europe in 1848. Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada -
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Exhibition
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December 12 2022
Paula Rego: The Story of Stories at Pera Museum, Istanbul
The exhibition (23 December 2022–30 April 2023), curated by Alistair Hicks, re-affirms the importance of Rego's work in Portugal in the 1960s and focuses on her emergence as an important artist on the London scene in the 1980s and 1990s. Pera Museum, Istanbul -
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Exhibition
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December 10 2022
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
On view 10 December 2022–9 July 2023, Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass is an immersive and poetic meditation on the great 19th-century abolitionist. The poignant 10-screen film installation collapses time and space to bridge persistent historical and contemporary challenges of the day. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond -
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Exhibition
Posted
November 28 2022
Doron Langberg at Rubell Museum Miami
An exhibition (28 November 2022–12 November 2023) featuring new and recent works by the artist. Representing a new generation of figurative painters, Langberg creates luminous, vibrant, and often large-scale works that hinge on a sense of intimacy. Rubell Museum Miami -
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Exhibition
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November 29 2022
A major solo exhibition by Do Ho Suh announced at the National Galleries of Scotland for 2023/24
The exhibition will explore the foundational role that drawing and paper play in Suh’s artistic practice, focusing on his collaborative methods, experimental techniques, and innovative use of materials. -
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Interview
Posted
November 28 2022
Yayoi Kusama discusses her retrospective at M+ with Wallpaper*
Wallpaper* interview the artist about her major retrospective at M+, Hong Kong. Megan C Hills, Wallpaper* -
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Exhibition
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September 16 2022
Conrad Shawcross: Cascading Principles: Expansions within Geometry, Philosophy, and Interference at the Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford
This exhibition (28 September 2022–30 September 2023) brings together more than 35 sculptures realised by the artist over the last 17 years. These pieces, placed across three floors, will co-exist with the Institute’s unique architecture and the intellectual concerns of its occupants as explorers at the boundaries of knowledge. Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford -
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Exhibition
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March 14 2022
Extended to June 2023 – Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms at Tate Modern
The focused exhibition (18 May 2021–11 June 2023) is 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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Exhibition
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June 6 2023
Opening soon – Flora Yukhnovich: Ashmolean Now
On view 8 July 2023–14 January 2024, the exhibition – the first in a series in which invited artists respond to the collections of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford – features new work by Flora Yukhnovich, who was drawn to the museum’s Still-Life Paintings Gallery of Dutch and Flemish oil paintings from the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford -
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News story
Posted
June 1 2023
London Gallery Weekend: Chris Ofili and Isaac Julien
For London Gallery Weekend our exhibitions will have extended opening hours, with a private view on Friday (all welcome) of Chris Ofili’s new exhibition and a special Sunday viewing of exhibitions by Ofili and Isaac Julien. -
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Publications
June 1 2023
Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins
This exquisitely produced book is published by Victoria Miro on the occasion of the exhibition Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins. Chris Ofili invited seven writers – Hilton Als, Inua Ellams, Marlon James, Anthony Joseph, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo, Attillah Springer, and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye – to contribute new writing. Like Ofili’s paintings, their poems and narratives are not confined to illustrating single sins but meditate, personally and expansively, on sinfulness. Victoria Miro, 2023Chris Ofili: The Seven Deadly Sins£ 60.00 -
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Publications
June 1 2023
Chris Ofili: Pink Daydreams of a Faun
This beautifully designed book reproduces Chris Ofili’s series of prints inspired by L’Après-midi d’un faune, Stéphane Mallarmé’s Symbolist poem of 1876. Mallarmé’s poem is printed in French and English alongside an essay by Minna Moore Ede, who traces the poem’s legacy across works by Debussy, Manet, Nijinsky and others, and considers its influence as a generative impulse in Ofili’s work. Victoria Miro, 2023Chris Ofili: Pink Daydreams of a Faun£ 45.00 -
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Art fair
Posted
May 16 2023
Victoria Miro at Frieze New York
Works by Jules de Balincourt, María Berrío, Alex Hartley, Secundino Hernández, Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, John Kørner, Doron Langberg, Wangechi Mutu, Alice Neel, Maria Nepomuceno, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul, Howardena Pindell and Sarah Sze. Booth A07, The Shed -
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Exhibition
Posted
May 10 2023
Opening soon at Tate Modern – Capturing the Moment, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Alice Neel and Paula Rego
Subtitled A Journey Through Painting and Photography, the exhibition (13 June 2023–28 January 2024) explores the dynamic relationship between the two mediums through some of the most iconic artworks of recent times. Tate Modern, London -
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Channel
May 9 2023
Alex Hartley: Closer Than Before
The first site-specific installation at Victoria Miro Venice, Closer Than Before (on view 22 April–17 June 2023) features a dynamic architectural intervention that transforms part of the gallery, providing context for new wall-mounted works that continue the artist’s interest in layering, materiality, illusion and how art questions our relationship to time. -
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Channel
April 27 2023
Victoria Miro Projects – Emma Talbot: Magical Thinking
An online exhibition of new paintings by Emma Talbot. This is the fourth in an ongoing series of presentations by invited international artists on Vortic. -
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Interview
Posted
April 26 2023
Sarah Sze talks to Erika Balsom in the May edition of Frieze
On the occasion of her show at the Guggenheim Museum, the artist discusses how shifts in scale and juxtaposition reflect an experience of time. Erika Balsom, Frieze -
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Review
Posted
April 14 2023
Sebastian Smee reviews Sarah Sze: Timelapse in The Washington Post
‘ …Sze takes confounding complexity as a given — as something to embrace. That’s part of what makes her one of the most interesting artists alive.’ – Sebastian Smee Sebastian Smee, The Washington Post -
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Feature
Posted
April 10 2023
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: A Making of Ghosts is included This Week in Culture
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: A Making of Ghosts is featured in This Week in Culture by Cultured Magazine. Cultured Magazine -
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Talk
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April 7 2023
Artist Conversation: Ali Banisadr at Princeton University
Taking place on Thursday 13 April 2023, on the occasion of the installation of his artwork Return to Mother at Mathey College, Banisadr will join Mitra Abbaspour, Haskell Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, in conversation. Mathey College, Princeton University -
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Exhibition
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March 23 2023
Now extended to July 2023 – One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection
The exhibition (on view until 16 July 2023) provides an opportunity to come closer to Yayoi Kusama through five of her artworks in the museum's collection, including two Infinity Mirror Rooms. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC -
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Interview
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March 22 2023
Isaac Julien features on the cover of April’s Frieze
Ahead of his major exhibition at Tate Britain, the artist considers how his films will exist in the future, in conversation with Deborah Willis. Frieze -
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Review
Posted
March 22 2023
Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined at the New Museum is reviewed by The Wall Street Journal
Peter Plagens reviews Wangechi Mutu's major exhibition at the New Museum, on view until 4 June 2023. Peter Plagens, The Wall Street Journal -
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Art fair
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March 21 2023
Victoria Miro at Art Basel Hong Kong
Victoria Miro is delighted to participate in Art Basel Hong Kong (Booth 1C21) with a presentation of new and historical works by Milton Avery, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Inka Essenhigh, Secundino Hernández, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami, Chantal Joffe, Yayoi Kusama, Doron Langberg, Alice Neel, Chris Ofili, Celia Paul and Flora Yukhnovich. Booth 1C21, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre -
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Exhibition
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March 17 2023
Chantal Joffe features in Finding Family at the Foundling Museum
This exhibition (17 March–27 August 2023) looks at the ways in which artists have represented and responded to ideas of family, past and present. Foundling Museum, London -
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Exhibition
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March 17 2023
David Harrison features in Dog Show at Thames-Side Studios Gallery
On view 18th March–2nd April 2023, also featuring artists including Marcus Harvey, Matthew Collings, Richard Deacon, Shani Rhys and Zebedee Jones. Thames-Side Studios Gallery, Greenwich, London
