Stan Douglas: Doppelgänger
Exhibition 31 January–14 March
Hedda Sterne at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Exhibition 29 January–21 March
Hernan Bas: Venetian Blind at Victoria Miro Venice
Exhibition 8 February–14 March 2020
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Exhibition
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February 13 2020
Just announced: two of Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Rooms to go on view as part of Tate Modern’s 20th anniversary celebrations
The focused exhibition Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Rooms (from May 2020) 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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February 6 2020
As reported in The New York Times, Seattle Asian Art Museum reopens, featuring an installation by Do Ho Suh
Reopening on 8 February 2020, the newly renovated and expanded Asian Art Museum offers a thematic exploration of art from the world’s largest continent. Seattle, Washington -
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Review
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February 2 2020
Laura Cumming reviews Hedda Sterne
***** ‘Moving freely between figuration and abstraction, Europe and America, the late Hedda Sterne approaches the sublime in this momentous first UK solo show’ Laura Cumming, The Observer -
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Exhibition
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January 12 2020
Isaac Julien’s Western Union: Small Boats at Neuberger Museum of Art
The Neuberger Museum of Art features one of artist Isaac Julien’s most important works, Western Union: Small Boats, (on view 12 February–31 May 2020), a video installation that focuses on journeys across the Mediterranean by so-called 'clandestines' who leave Libya to escape war and famine. Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY -
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February 7 2020
Idris Khan creates a unique work for Fine Cell Work’s Human Touch exhibition and sale
This exhibition (Sotheby's, London, 26 February-3 March 2020; bidding from 12 February 2020) and sale of works a ground-breaking collaboration between international contemporary artists and stitchers working in prisons, trained by the leading charity and social enterprise Fine Cell Work. Sotheby's, London -
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Event
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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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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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News story
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January 29 2020
Isaac Julien creates a limited-edition boxed set of five prints for Art Fund’s Prospect Cottage campaign
Julien's photographic work has been created for Art Fund's campaign to protect Derek Jarman's Prospect Cottage and secure its future as a centre of creative activity. -
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Exhibition
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February 4 2020
Sarah Sze: Images in Debris at MOCA Toronto
Constellatory, monumental, intimate and immersive, Images in Debris (on view 6 February–10 May 2020) is one in a series of sculptures by Sarah Sze where light, movement, images and architecture coalesce into a single, precarious equilibrium. Toronto, Canada -
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January 6 2020
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years, now open at The Holburne Museum, Bath
The exhibition (24 January–25 May 2020) 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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January 19 2020
Now open – An Exhibition of Works by… featuring Adriana Varejão at Witte de With, Rotterdam
Taking blue and white ceramics as a starting point, this exhibition (19 January–19 July 2020) of international artists explores the migration of form. A conversation with the artist takes place on Saturday 25 January 2020. Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam -
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February 3 2020
Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger features in The Imagination of Time at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum
The exhibition, held as part of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (7–23 February 2020) considers notions of time as explored in art and imaging. It marks Doppelgänger's debut in Asia. Tokyo, Japan -
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January 31 2020
Grayson Perry features in Utopias at Whitworth Art Gallery
The exhibition (31 January–27 September 2020) crosses genres, media and timeframes to provide a playful and provocative framework for probing how Britain's literary and visual culture has perpetuated an idea of a utopian society that fosters nostalgic yearnings for a seemingly lost past. Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester -
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Profile
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January 27 2020
The Telegraph writes about Hedda Sterne ahead of the artist’s first solo UK exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Hedda Sterne rejected the macho art world of the Fifties. Lucy Davies salutes an uncompromising talent. Lucy Davies, The Telegraph -
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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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Exhibition
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January 15 2020
Stan Douglas to represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2021
Stan Douglas has been selected to represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2021. 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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Preview
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January 25 2020
Jackie Wullschläger selects Hedda Sterne for the FT’s Critics’ Choice
'Motion and lights were always Sterne's subjects; now the sense of speed animating her "New York" paintings yielded to the meditative, impressive series Vertical-Horizontals, featuring luminous striated lines and quivering uneven bands. They are the focus of this first UK show…' Jackie Wullschläger, The Financial Times -
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News story
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January 22 2020
Howardena Pindell is announced as a 2020 USA Fellow
Pindell is among the 50 artists across ten creative disciplines announced as Fellow by United States Artists (USA) on 22 January 2020. -
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Exhibition
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January 9 2020
Isaac Julien features in Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, opening soon 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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January 8 2020
Now open at the Foundling Museum – Portraying Pregnancy, featuring Chantal Joffe
This major exhibition (24 January–26 April 2020) explores representations of pregnancy through portraits from the past 500 years. Foundling Museum, London -
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January 7 2020
Coming soon – One with Eternity: Yayoi Kusama in the Hirshhorn Collection
The exhibition (4 April–2 September 2020) celebrates the Hirshhorn’s landmark acquisition of two of Yayoi Kusama’s iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC -
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January 6 2020
Coming to the Centre Pompidou – Alice Neel: Un regard engagé
A major retrospective (10 June–24 August 2020) highlighting the political and social commitment of the painter. Centre Pompidou, Paris -
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January 7 2020
The Tokyo 2020 official posters, featuring work by Chris Ofili, go on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo
Chris Ofili's The Games People Play is among commissioned works by leading contemporary artists. The works are on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo from 7 January–16 February 2020. Tokyo -
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Event
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January 10 2020
Wangechi Mutu to deliver Tang Teaching Museum’s Winter/Miller Lecture
The third annual Winter/Miller Lecture (27 February, 6pm) is free and open to the public. Saratoga Springs, NY -
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News story
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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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January 6 2020
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem travels to SCMA
This major traveling exhibition (on view at SCMA 17 January–12 April 2020) features works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Isaac Julien, Wangechi Mutu and Howardena Pindell. Smith Art Museum, Northampton, MA -
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News story
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December 11 2019
ARTnews announces mirroring UK and US debuts of Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger in concurrent exhibitions at Victoria Miro in London and at David Zwirner in New York
In the two-channel video, an astronaut and her doppelgänger are sent to two different planets; one is welcomed, and the other is treated as a potential foe. The exhibitions will mark the US and UK premieres of the piece. Alex Greenberger, ARTnews -
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Exhibition
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November 29 2019
Interiorities, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Adriana Varejão, 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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December 7 2019
Jorge Pardo: Flamboyant at the Pinacoteca de São Paulo
The exhibition (7 December 2019–2 March 2020) showcases an original interactive installation comprised of 14 pieces, which invites the public to experience a moment of enjoyment and contemplation. São Paulo -
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Exhibition
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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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Exhibition
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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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Exhibition
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July 11 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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Preview
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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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News story
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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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News story
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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 -
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Art fair
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February 10 2020
Victoria Miro participates in Frieze LA with a solo presentation by Idris Khan
A solo booth of new paintings, sculptures and works on paper by Idris Khan, who will be present at the fair with the gallery. Booth B11, Paramount Pictures Studios -
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Interview
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February 7 2020
Idris Khan is profiled in the Financial Times ahead of his solo presentation with Victoria Miro at Frieze LA
'Their intensity casts a spell over the space, as if Mark Rothko had found inspiration in a Renaissance Madonna.' – Rachel Spence Rachel Spence, The Financial Times -
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Exhibition
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February 5 2020
Coming soon – Time Present: Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, featuring Idris Khan
The exhibition (21 March 2020–8 February 2021) presents a broad spectrum of international photography collected by Deutsche Bank over the course of four decades. Palais Populaire, Berlin -
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January 24 2020
Varda Caivano features in the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Slow Painting, curated by Martin Herbert
Currently at The Levinsky Gallery in Plymouth (24 Jan–28 Mar 2020), Slow Painting features 19 artists whose work spans a myriad of styles and applications, from figuration to abstraction. The connecting thread is that their paintings that take their time, and invite the viewer to do the same. The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth -
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Publications
January 24 2020
Hedda Sterne: Vertical-Horizontal
Published on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition in the UK, at Victoria Miro Mayfair, Hedda Sterne: Vertical-Horizonal features an essay by Eleanor Nairne examining the themes and motifs of Sterne’s work and the context in which it was made, and is richly illustrated with reproductions of the exhibition’s paintings and works on paper. Victoria Miro, 2020Hedda Sterne: Vertical-Horizontal£ 26.00 -
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January 15 2020
Wangechi Mutu is featured in Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives at McMullen Museum of Art
The exhibition (27 January–31 May 2020) explores the contemporary legacy of the long movement of people, things, and ideas across the Indian Ocean. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston, MA -
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January 14 2020
Château La Coste to present an exhibition of works by Conrad Shawcross
Situated at three sites spread across the grounds, the exhibition (from 29 February 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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News
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January 6 2020
Yayoi Kusama: Open the Shape Called Love at Ackland Art Museum
The exhibition (31 January–12 April 2020) presents the distinguished collection of James Keith Brown ’84 and Eric Diefenbach, with a focus on Kusama's early works on paper, a range of Infinity Net paintings, examples of her sculpture and multi-media work, and a tabletop mirror box. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC -
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January 6 2020
Ian Hamilton Finlay is featured in the UCL exhibition Witnessing Terror: French Revolutionary Prints
The exhibition (14 January–12 June 2020) showcases UCL Art Museum’s unique holdings of prints related to the French Revolution and draws out the contemporary relevance of revolutionary iconography in work by Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925−2006) that engages with the long-term legacy of the Terror. UCL Art Museum, London -
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News story
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December 27 2019
Wangechi Mutu features in TIME’s 28 Outstanding Women
Women everywhere pushed the world forward—and many made history, shattering long-standing glass ceilings to become 'firsts' in their fields. Deb Haaland and Sharice Davids, TIME -
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Exhibition
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December 20 2019
Just announced – Howardena Pindell: Rope/Fire/Water at The Shed, New York in October 2020
An exhibition (7 October 2020–17 January 2021) examining the violent, historical trauma of racism in America and the therapeutic power of artistic creation. The Shed, New York -
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December 16 2019
Yayoi Kusama’s Where the Lights in My Heart Go goes on view at Aspen Art Museum
On view 20 December 2019–10 May 2020, Where the Lights in My Heart Go, 2016, creates the illusion of a continuously expanding universe, toying with our sense of visual perception. Aspen, Colorado -
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Review
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December 16 2019
Frieze reviews Slow Painting at Leeds Art Gallery, featuring Varda Caivano
All attention is an act of devotion, and patience is the pleasure of this touring exhibition of contemporary paintings… Cal Revely-Calder, Frieze -
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Review
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December 12 2019
Martin Gayford writes about Celia Paul in The Spectator
There is a feeling in the remarkable ‘My Mother and God’ (2019), and some more recent portraits, that the subject is immersed in a void, a dark vat of space… Martin Gayford, The Spectator -
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News story
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December 11 2019
Isaac Julien and Yayoi Kusama are among Artsy’s Most Influential Artists of 2019
Few artists have done more to push video art forward in recent years than Isaac Julien… Artsy -
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Interview
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December 10 2019
The Way I See It: Sarah Sze and Siddhartha Mukherjee on Louise Bourgeois’ Quarantania, I
In this BBC Radio 3 series, leading creative thinkers choose an artwork from the Museum of Modern Art, and talk about how it inspires or provokes, thrills or surprises them. Presented by Alastair Sooke. BBC Radio 3 -
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Exhibition
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December 9 2019
Yayoi Kusama: Fireflies on the Water at Toledo Museum of Art
This special presentation of Kusama's installation (14 December 2019–26 April 2020) is made possible through a generous loan from the Whitney Museum of Art. Toledo, Ohio -
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News story
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December 7 2019
Expert Eye: Isaac Julien shares his favourite works at Art Basel Miami Beach
The UK artist and filmmaker shows his regard for long overlooked artists, including Faith Ringgold, Howardena Pindell and Frank Bowling, as featured in The Art Newspaper. Gabriella Angeleti, The Art Newspaper -
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Interview
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December 5 2019
Wangechi Mutu is one of the FT’s Women in 2019: the game changers
As her new works stand watch over the Met, the Kenyan-American sculptor talks about reshaping art history. Annalisa Quinn, The Financial Times -
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Exhibition
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December 4 2019
The new Rubell Museum features works by Celia Paul and Hernan Bas
Opening on 4 December 2019 the new Rubell Museum features a museum-wide installation of works that chronicle key artists, moments, and movements over the past 50 years. Rubell Museum, Miami -
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News story
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December 2 2019
Wallpaper* writes about Elmgreen & Dragset’s Bent Pool
‘Swimming pools are woven into the very fabric of Miami Beach,’ Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset said of their site-specific work, ‘what they represent is actually something in danger of becoming frivolous, rather than remaining iconic.’ Benoit Loiseau, Wallpaper* -
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News story
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December 1 2019
Celia Paul’s Self-Portrait is featured in The Times’ best art books of the year
'Her painting and writing are of a piece — closely observed, not seeking to flatter, and with people always as her focus.' Michael Prodger, The Times -
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News story
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November 27 2019
Howardena Pindell is honoured with the rank of Distinguished Professor by the State University of New York
The artist is one of three faculty from Stony Brook University’s College of Arts and Sciences honoured with the rank of Distinguished Professor by the State University of New York Board of Trustees. Stony Brook University, New York -
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Exhibition
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November 26 2019
Rubell Museum’s inaugural installation for its new campus features major work by Yayoi Kusama
Opening 4 December 2019, with immersive installations by Yayoi Kusama including Where the Lights in My Heart Go, 2016. Rubell Museum, Miami, Florida -
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Review
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November 26 2019
Frieze reviews Celia Paul: Self-Portrait
'Paul works from a place of intense sensitivity and quietude, focusing on spirit and atmosphere over anatomy, an approach she says is only possible when she has a meaningful bond with her sitters.' Rosanna McLaughlin , Frieze
In Focus
Idris Khan is profiled in the Financial Times ahead of his solo presentation with Victoria Miro at Frieze LA
The artist made his name with intense monochrome prints but now he’s channelling something new. By Rachel Spence
Idris Khan is riding the crest of a wave. Still only 41, the British contemporary artist has been displayed in institutions including the British Museum in London and the Whitworth in Manchester. In November, he unveiled a significant public sculpture, 65,000 Photographs, on London’s South Bank.
Image: Idris Khan
© Photographed for the FT by Tori Ferenc
February 7, 2020
I’m always learning… All these things are a progression
