Doug Aitken: Return to the Real
Exhibition 2 October–20 December 2019
Rock My Soul, curated by Isaac Julien
Exhibition 2 October–2 November 2019
Grayson Perry: Super Rich Interior Decoration at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Exhibition 25 September–20 December 2019
Opening soon in Venice – Idris Khan: Words Beneath Words
Exhibition 26 October–14 December 2019
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The latest from Victoria Miro artists around the world
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Exhibition
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22 October 2019
Isaac Julien and Do Ho Suh feature in When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art at ICA Boston
The exhibition (23 October 2019–26 January 2020) considers how contemporary artists are responding to the migration, immigration, and displacement of peoples today. ICA Boston -
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News story
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22 October 2019
Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art honours Howardena Pindell
This year’s gala (22 October 2019) marks the 65th anniversary of the Archives and will honor the achievements of artist Howardena Pindell, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and art historian Alexander Nemerov. New York -
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Exhibition
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6 October 2019
Varda Caivano features in the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Slow Painting, curated by Martin Herbert
Opening at Leeds Art Gallery (24 Oct 2019–12 Jan 2020), Slow Painting features 19 artists whose work spans a myriad of styles and applications, from figuration to abstraction. Leeds Art Gallery -
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Exhibition
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10 October 2019
Sarah Sze’s Triple Point (Pendulum) goes on view at MoMA
First exhibited at the 55th Venice Biennale, where Sze represented the United States in 2013, the work hovers between many forms at once. MoMA reopens to the public on 21 October 2019. MoMA, New York -
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News story
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22 October 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is a recipient of the 2019 African Art Award
Njideka Akunyili Crosby will be honoured alongside artist Elias Sime at a gala at the Smithsonian's National Museum of African Art on 25 October 2019. Washington, DC -
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Exhibition
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25 September 2019
Doug Aitken features in TRANSFORMER: The Rebirth Of Wonder at 180 The Strand
Aitken’s New Era, 2018, is featured in The Store x The Vinyl Factory exhibition TRANSFORMER: The Rebirth Of Wonder at 180 Strand, curated by Jefferson Hack (2 October–8 December 2019). 180 The Strand, London -
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Exhibition
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7 October 2019
Ruby City’s inaugural programme includes an exhibition dedicated to Isaac Julien’s Playtime
On public view from 13 October 2019 (until 2020), Julien's immersive video installation addresses representations of global capital. San Antonio, Texas -
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Preview
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11 October 2019
Anatomy of an Artwork: Wangechi Mutu’s She Walks
The artist blends nature, fashion and science to create an elegant, race-spanning amalgam of femininity Skye Sherwin, The Guardian -
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Exhibition
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10 October 2019
Now open at the Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo – Spirits of Aggregation
An exhibition (10 October 2019–31 January 2020) of works from Kusama's Accumulation or Aggreggation series, first created in the early 1960s, presented with associated documents and photographs. Also on show is the installation Dots Obsession and works from Kusama's ongoing My Eternal Soul series. Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo -
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Interview
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10 October 2019
Read Doug Aitken’s interview in Wallpaper*, which explores the making of new works for his current Victoria Miro exhibition and includes an 18-page journey into Americana
‘I always see art as a necessity. You make it because it has to be made’ Hunter Drohojowska-Philp, Wallpaper* -
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Exhibition
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7 October 2019
Wangechi Mutu and Do Ho Suh feature in Ruby City’s inaugural exhibition Waking Dream
Mirroring the interests and character of Pace herself, Waking Dream (13 October 2019–2022) underscores several themes reflected in the Linda Pace Foundation Collection, including the creative self, notions of home, vulnerability and resilience. San Antonio, Texas -
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17 September 2019
Conrad Shawcross features in the Science Museum exhibition The Art of Innovation: From Enlightenment to Dark Matter
The exhibition (25 September 2019–26 January 2020) explores the relationship between science and art over the past 250 years, and how it has helped to interpret, study and explore the world around us. Science Museum, London -
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Exhibition
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9 October 2019
Interiorities, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Adriana Varejão, opening soon at Haus der Kunst, Munich
The exhibition (29 November 2019–29 March 2020) focuses on interior of the imagination, as well as with the interior as a real setting, as a private retreat or shelter, or as a space with the potential to reflect and change the social and political zeitgeist. Haus der Kunst, Munich -
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Exhibition
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22 August 2019
Do Ho Suh: Robin Hood Gardens at the V&A
Suh’s panoramic film (on view 7 September–13 October 2019) uses time-lapse photography, drone footage, 3D-scanning and photogrammetry to create a visual journey in which the camera ceaselessly pans through and around the building. V&A, London -
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Exhibition
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5 July 2019
Sculptures by Conrad Shawcross are installed in the gardens of Wilton Crescent
Three sculptures — Formation II (The Dappled Light of the Sun), 2015, Manifold 5:4, 2016, and Paradigm B (Solid), 2019 — are installed in the private gardens of Wilton Crescent, SW1, and are viewable from the street. Wilton Crescent, London, SW1 -
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Exhibition
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13 May 2019
Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston at Tate Britain
On view until 17 November 2019, Looking for Langston is a film that breaks down traditional divisions between different art forms, and explores Black, queer desire in a setting which has no clear time or place. Tate Britain -
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Interview
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1 October 2019
Isaac Julien, curator of Rock My Soul, discusses the exhibition in the Evening Standard
‘These artists are using their practice to re-articulate the question of self-esteem against the ways in which they or their works have been seen, and to challenge assumptions’ Nick Curtis, The Evening Standard -
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News story
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24 September 2019
Khadija Saye: in this space we breathe
Khadija Saye: in this space we breathe, a portfolio of nine silkscreen prints by the late British-Gambian artist, is offered in support of the Estate of Khadija Saye and the Khadija Saye IntoArts Programme. -
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News story
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20 September 2019
Grayson Perry writes in the FT about his new exhibition Super Rich Interior Decoration
'Perhaps unusually for a contemporary artist, I often prioritise how my work might flourish in a domestic setting…' Grayson Perry, The Financial Times -
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Commission
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9 September 2019
Wangechi Mutu: The Met Façade Commission
Wangechi Mutu has created sculptures for The Met's Fifth Avenue façade niches – the first-ever such installation on the Museum's historic exterior – inaugurating a new annual artist commission series (on view 9 September 2019–12 January 2020). The Met Fifth Avenue, New York -
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News
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24 September 2019
Stan Douglas is awarded the 2019 Audain Prize for the Visual Arts
This annual prize worth $100,000 is awarded to a senior artist in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the arts. -
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Exhibition
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14 August 2019
Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures at Nasher Sculpture Center
The exhibition (14 September 2019–5 January 2020) focuses on Elmgreen & Dragset’s sculptural production, presenting together for the first time a large selection of sculptures that illustrate the artists’ use of multiple aesthetics and working methods. Dallas, Texas -
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Interview
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26 September 2019
ES Magazine’s Art Edition features a cover story interview with Grayson Perry
The artist talks to Nick Curtis in an interview featuring new portraits shot by Martin Parr. Nick Curtis, ES Magazine -
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Exhibition
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17 September 2019
Francesca Woodman: Portrait of a Reputation at MCA Denver
Featuring over 40 unique vintage prints, as well as notes, letters, postcards, and other ephemera related to the artist’s burgeoning career, this exhibition (20 September 2019–5 April 2020) details Woodman’s creative coming-of-age primarily during the years 1975-79. MCA Denver -
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Exhibition
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7 September 2019
Doug Aitken: Sonic Mountain (Sonoma) is unveiled at The Donum Estate, California
The installation responds to changes in the surrounding environment and creates patterns of sound as wind moves through it. The Donum Estate, Sonoma, California -
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Exhibition
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1 September 2019
Stephen Willats features in Still Undead: Popular Culture in Britain Beyond the Bauhaus at Nottingham Contemporary
Still Undead (21 September 2019–12 January 2020) explores how Bauhaus ideas and teaching lived on in Britain, via pop culture and art schools. This exhibition coincides with the centenary of the pioneering art and design school’s founding in Weimar. Nottingham Contemporary -
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Interview
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24 September 2019
Grayson Perry talks to Vogue ahead of his exhibition Super Rich Interior Decoration
As his latest show opens at Victoria Miro in Mayfair, the artist tells Vogue about satirising the art-buying habits of wealthy collectors, his alter ego Claire's evolving style, and "biting the hand that feeds him" with his tongue-in-cheek pottery. Sophie Heawood, Vogue -
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Exhibition
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16 September 2019
Ilse D’Hollander at The Arts Club
The exhibition (16 September 2019–January 2020) features canvases and works on cardboard by the late Belgian artist, focusing on the rich dialogue between representation and abstraction in her work, and shedding light on the ways in which colour and form are perceived. The Arts Club, Dover Street, London -
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News story
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7 August 2019
Chantal Joffe, Idris Khan, Grayson Perry and Conrad Shawcross donate works to Willow Foundation’s The Extraordinary Collection
Works are available to view at a public exhibition at Coutts, The Strand (23–27 September 2019) and will be sold on behalf of Willow, a national charity working with seriously ill 16–40 year olds, at a private auction at Coutts on 25 September 2019. -
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Exhibition
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30 August 2019
Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room – My Heart is Dancing into the Universe goes on permanent display at Crystal Bridges Museum
Previewing from 31 August 2019 and on view to the public from 2 October 2019, Infinity Mirrored Room – My Heart is Dancing into the Universe conveys the illusion of being unmoored in endless space. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas -
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News
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24 September 2019
Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass goes on view at the SCAD Museum of Art
Lessons of the Hour (until 15 December 2019) is a meditation on the life, words, and actions of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), the visionary African American abolitionist and freed slave, and on the issues of social justice that shaped his life’s work. SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah -
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Exhibition
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20 August 2019
Adriana Varejão: Otros cuerpos detrás at Museo Tamayo
A monographic exhibition (24 August–10 November 2019) exploring the lines of research that the Brazilian artist has developed in her artistic practice since the 1990s. Museo Tamayo, Mexico City -
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22 August 2019
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem travels to the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts
This major traveling exhibition (on view at the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, 14 September–8 December 2019) features works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Isaac Julien, Wangechi Mutu and Howardena Pindell. The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan -
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Exhibition
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19 August 2019
Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now featuring Grayson Perry and Stephen Willats at the British Museum
Celebrating the power of contemporary drawing, this display at the British Museum (12 September 2019–12 January 2020) explores how artists have used the medium to examine themes including identity, place and memory. British Museum, London -
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28 June 2019
Adriana Varejão: Por uma retórica canibal at MAMAM, Recife, Brazil
Curated by Luisa Duarte, this major exhibition (28 June–8 September 2019) features works created from the early 1990s to present. Recife, Brazil -
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Exhibition
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16 August 2019
Now open at MFA Boston – Women Take the Floor, featuring Alice Neel
This reinstallation of the Level 3 galleries (on view 13 September 2019–3 May 2021) challenges the dominant history of American art by focusing on the overlooked and underrepresented work and stories of women artists. Museum of Fine Arts Boston -
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26 May 2019
Shine of Life by Yayoi Kusama is unveiled at Kistefos-Museet, Norway
The largest sculpture by Kusama in the Nordic countries has been unveiled at Kistefos sculpture park and museum. Kistefos-Museet, Norway -
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Exhibition
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23 July 2019
NS Harsha: Gathering Delights at CHAT, Hong Kong
A major survey (28 July–3 November 2019) of the artist, featuring some 30 works that more than 20 years of his practice. CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile), Hong Kong -
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Exhibition
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9 July 2019
Isaac Julien: Baltimore goes on view at the Baltimore Museum of Art
The work (on view 14 July 2019–5 January 2020) unfolds across three videos as a narrative of two people, filmmaker Melvin Van Peebles and an Afro-Cyborg woman embodied by Vanessa Myrie, making their way through significant cultural sites of the city. Baltimore Museum of Art -
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Exhibition
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11 July 2019
Opening in May 2020 – Yayoi Kusama at the New York Botanical Garden
Just announced: The New York Botanical Garden will host an exhibition (2 May–1 November 2020) of work by Yayoi Kusama. The New York Botanical Garden -
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Exhibition
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17 October 2019
Isaac Julien features in Love and Ethnology at HKW, Berlin
Subtitled The Colonial Dialectic of Sensitivity (after Hubert Fichte), the exhibition (18 October 2019–6 January 2020) examines Hubert Fichte’s writing and takes it as the starting point for new artistic works on questions of representation and restitution. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin -
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Exhibition
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16 October 2019
Do Ho Suh: 348 West 22nd Street at LACMA
A recent gift to LACMA, 348 West 22nd Street (on view from 10 November 2019) replicates the artist’s ground-floor residence from a single New York building. LACMA, Los Angeles, California -
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News story
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16 October 2019
Conrad Shawcross to create a major new work for Ramsgate Royal Harbour in 2020
In connection with Turner Contemporary, Shawcross has been commissioned by local primary school children to make a new work for the Kent town. Ramsgate, Kent -
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Film
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12 October 2019
A behind-the-scenes look at Ruby City
A short film of Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas, featuring works by Wangechi Mutu, Do Ho Suh and interview with Isaac Julien, whose immersive video installation Playtime is one of the opening programme's exhibitions. Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas -
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Review
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11 October 2019
The Brooklyn Rail writes about Wangechi Mutu’s Met Façade Commission
'The NewOnes, will free Us (2019), Mutu’s site-specific installation, rises to the challenge as her tranquil yet stately figures breathe life into the overlooked front of the building…' The Brooklyn Rail Ann C Collins -
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Exhibition
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11 October 2019
ICA Miami presents Yayoi Kusama: All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins
ICA Miami presents a special off-site exhibition (12 October 2019–31 January 2020) of Yayoi Kusama’s All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins in the Miami Design District, marking the first time that one of Kusama’s signature Infinity Mirror Rooms will be on view in Miami. ICA Miami -
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10 October 2019
Isaac Julien features in Migrating Worlds: The Art of the Moving Image in Britain at Yale Center for British Art
The exhibition (10 October–29 December 2019) brings together work by eight of Britain’s leading film and video artists in the first exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art dedicated exclusively to the moving image. Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut -
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Preview
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8 October 2019
Yayoi Kusama features on the cover of Numéro Magazine ahead of her major public work for Place Vendôme
Out on 11 October 2019, Numéro's art issue features a 16-page profile of the artist who will take over Place Vendôme during FIAC. Hettie Judah, Numero Magazine -
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Review
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3 October 2019
Frieze reviews Elmgreen & Dragset: Sculptures at Nasher Sculpture Center
'In their first US survey at the Nasher Sculpture Center, the artists are darkly comic jesters in a royal court…' Grant Klarich Johnson, Frieze -
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News story
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3 October 2019
The Guardian reports on Elmgreen & Dragset’s return to their 2005 work Prada Marfa, now a Texas landmark
For the first time in almost 15 years, the artists Elmgreen & Dragset have returned to an installation they expected to ‘just disappear’ Janelle Zara, The Guardian -
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Channel
2 October 2019
Doug Aitken: Return to the Real
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Interview
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1 October 2019
Doug Aitken talks to Wallpaper* on the eve of his exhibition Return to the Real and an exclusive collaboration in the magazine’s forthcoming issue
‘It’s a counterpoint to that world of de-materiality and speed… and about seeking something which is unique or being in a place which is physical and tactile or a moment which is unrepeatable.’ Nick Compton, Wallpaper* -
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Talk
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1 October 2019
Frieze VIP Programme: Conversations on Collecting Sculpture – Allan Warburg, Clare Lilley and Ingar Dragset
Part of Frieze Official VIP Programme, this talk (11am–12noon, 4 October 2019) takes place in the Deutsche Bank Wealth Management Lounge and is moderated by Louisa Buck. -
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Film
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1 October 2019
Now online: Sarah Sze’s TED Talk How we experience time and memory through art
In this talk, recorded at TED in April 2019, Sze's takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through her work. -
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Interview
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1 October 2019
Secundino Hernández talks to My Art Guides about his exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice
'Gradually I started to look at Venice from a human and emotional perspective rather than from an architectural one.' Mara Sartore, My Art Guides -
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Channel
1 October 2019
Doug Aitken: Inside Out
A preview of Doug Aitken's exhibition Return to the Real at Victoria Miro. -
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1 October 2019
Doug Aitken: Slow Wave
A preview of Doug Aitken's exhibition Return to the Real at Victoria Miro. -
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1 October 2019
Doug Aitken: All Doors Open
A preview of Doug Aitken's exhibition Return to the Real at Victoria Miro. -
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Preview
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26 September 2019
Jackie Wullschläger writes about Rock My Soul in the Financial Times
'Who owns black experience? Arguments across the generations play out at Victoria Miro’s group show, Rock My Soul, curated by Isaac Julien…' The Financial Times Jackie Wullschläger -
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Channel
24 September 2019
Grayson Perry: Super Rich Interior Decoration
Grayson Perry discusses Super Rich Interior Decoration, his new exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair (25 September–20 December 2019), casting an anthropological eye on the heady collision of art, money, power and desire.
In Focus
Doug Aitken: Return to the Real
A look inside Return to the Real, an exhibition of new works by Doug Aitken now on view at Victoria Miro Wharf Road. Conceived as a unified composition of sound, light, form and movement, the exhibition explores our rapidly changing relationships to one another and the world around us in an age dominated by technology. 'These artworks question how we navigate a world of increasing speed and transition, the direction of where we can go and how we can confront the future.’ – Doug Aitken
