Secundino Hernández: Grapado a la piel at Victoria Miro Venice
Exhibition 13 September–19 October 2019
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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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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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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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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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Exhibition
Posted
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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Event
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17 September 2019
When science meets art: Marcus du Sautoy and Conrad Shawcross
In this talk (Royal Academy of Arts, 25 September 2019), Mathematician Professor Marcus du Sautoy and Royal Academician Conrad Shawcross will explore how themes of possibility, imagination and philosophical thinking are shared by art and science. This event will be chaired by Samira Ahmed, journalist, writer, broadcaster and presenter for BBC Radio 4 Front Row and BBC one programme Newswatch. Royal Academy of Arts, London -
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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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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
Posted
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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Interview
Posted
16 September 2019
Wangechi Mutu talks to The Guardian about her Met Façade Commission
'The works represent a new era… I’m always looking to tell the truth and persuade humanity to look forward and see our way through all the complicated political ineptitude and human misery we have put ourselves in.' Nadja Sayej, The Guardian -
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Exhibition
Posted
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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Exhibition
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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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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
Posted
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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Exhibition
Posted
2 July 2019
Tal R: eventually all museums will be ships at Hastings Contemporary
An exhibition (6 July–13 October 2019) of new and recent paintings, sculptures and drawings by the Copenhagen-based artist marks the opening of Hastings Contemporary. Hastings Contemporary -
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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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Exhibition
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22 July 2019
Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour at Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh
The exhibition (25 July–2 November 2019), which is the final stop of Julie Cope’s Grand Tour, includes the complete series of tapestries and a selection of artefacts from A House for Essex. Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh -
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Exhibition
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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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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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Exhibition
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29 June 2019
Chantal Joffe is included in Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art
The exhibition (29 June–27 October 2019) is the first survey exhibition of collage ever to take place in Britain. It spans a period of more than 400 years and includes more than 250 works. Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh -
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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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12 July 2019
New commissions by Alex Hartley are featured in In Ruins at Witley Court
Presented by Meadow Arts, In Ruins (12 July–3 November 2019) looks at ideas of ruin and decay through installations, sculptures and other work set in Witley Court's historic landscape. Witley Court, Worcestershire -
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Exhibition
Posted
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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Exhibition
Posted
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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Interview
Posted
19 September 2019
Grayson Perry talks to The Times ahead of his new exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair
The artist gives Richard Morrison a tour of his new show, Super Rich Interior Decoration. Richard Morrison, The Times -
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Exhibition
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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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Publications
11 September 2019
Secundino Hernández: Grapado a la piel
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Secundino Hernández: Grapado a la piel, at Victoria Miro Venice (13 September–19 October), this fully illustrated book includes new text by the author, screenwriter and director Ray Lorgia. Victoria Miro, 2019Secundino Hernández: Grapado a la piel£ 23.00 -
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Interview
Posted
3 September 2019
Conrad Shawcross talks to ARTNews about Golden Lotus (Inverted), his current installation at the Saatchi Gallery
‘My work is very scientific and rational but having the car there, spinning around, is a gesture that comes from my heart rather than my head.’ Ana Finel Honigman, ARTNews -
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Just announced
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30 August 2019
Works by Secundino Hernández to go on view at Victoria Miro New York – Office
Concurrent with the artist's solo exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice, a selection of new works by Secundino Hernández will be on view at Victoria Miro New York – Office Victoria Miro New York – Office -
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Event
Posted
28 August 2019
Howardena Pindell takes part in a MoMA panel discussion
In celebration of the publication of Among Others: Blackness at MoMA, Howardena Pindell takes part in a panel discussion on 8 September 2019. MoMa -
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Exhibition
Posted
28 August 2019
Opening soon at the Yayoi Kusama Museum – 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
Posted
27 August 2019
Ahead of her Met façade commission Wangechi Mutu is profiled by W Magazine
'What the work describes is how it feels to be a woman on the inside. Pulling out all of that psychological matter and turning it into something physical is part of my task, my job, my triumph.' Eve MacSweeney, W Magazine -
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Review
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26 August 2019
Nancy Durrant reviews Grayson Perry: Julie Cope’s Grand Tour in The Times
'It’s clever, knowing and deeply touching.' Nancy Durrant, The Times -
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Event
Posted
22 August 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby in conversation with Siddhartha Mitter
On the occasion of the US publication of a monograph on “The Beautyful Ones”, this conversation (Sunday 8 September 2019, 3pm) between Akunyili Crosby and writer Siddhartha Mitter, who authored a new essay for the book, reflects on the series’ complex history and weaves together the social, cultural, personal and political strands of its making. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York -
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Exhibition
Posted
21 August 2019
Wangechi Mutu and Do Ho Suh to 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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Exhibition
Posted
21 August 2019
Ruby City’s inaugural programme will include 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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Review
Posted
15 August 2019
The Financial Times reviews Milton Avery: The Late Portraits
'Avery’s late portraits testify to an artist who was both a consummate observer of humanity and nature, yet also capable of transforming those impressions into images that transcended time and place.' – Rachel Spence Rachel Spence, The Financial Times -
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Exhibition
Posted
14 August 2019
A major exhibition by Sarah Sze to open at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
For her second solo show at the Fondation Cartier, Sarah Sze will create an immersive exhibition (12 December 2019–10 May 2020) in dialogue with the transparent spaces of Jean Nouvel’s iconic building. Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris -
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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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Publications
2 August 2019
Milton Avery: The Late Portraits
Milton Avery: The Late Portraits accompanies an exhibition at Victoria Miro Venice of portraits drawn from the last four years of Milton Avery’s life. This book has been lavishly designed by Atelier Dyakova in London and features text by Waqas Wajahat, with detailed reproductions of the exhibition's paintings, and drawings. Victoria Miro, 2019Milton Avery: The Late Portraits£ 40.00 -
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Review
Posted
31 July 2019
Kunstbulletin reviews Stephen Willats: Languages of Dissent at Migros Museum
'At the Migros Museum, the English artist’s output is presented in a remarkable retrospective that cogently illustrates his creative evolution.' Kunstbulletin -
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Event
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22 July 2019
Stephen Willats: CONTROL Magazine launch
The launch of CONTROL Twenty One takes place on Monday 29 July, 6:30–8:30pm at Chalton Gallery, London NW1. Chalton Gallery, 96 Chalton St, London NW1 1HJ -
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Exhibition
Posted
12 July 2019
Doug Aitken: New Horizon
This nomadic art installation and series of happenings comes to Massachusetts (12-28 July 2019) accompanied by a series of live events and experiences taking place across the state, all centred around a mirror-surfaced hot air balloon and gondola that vividly contrasts with the natural settings of New England. Massachusetts -
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Exhibition
Posted
12 July 2019
Sweet Harmony: Rave Today, featuring Conrad Shawcross
As part of this exhibition (12 July–14 September 2019) about the impact of acid house and rave culture, Shawcross presents Golden Lotus (Inverted), a 1981 Lotus Elite, stripped of its engine and overturned, that rotates to a specially-composed soundtrack by Mylo. Saatchi Gallery, London -
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Review
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12 July 2019
The Times features Little Sparta in its selection of the best outdoor art in Britain
'Arguably the artist Ian Hamilton Finlay’s greatest work… this magical (a word that really doesn’t do it justice) garden is littered with 275 of his witty, elegant and often poetic sculptures and text pieces (these often hewn into the smooth stones that are dotted around this lush trail). Nancy Durrant and Rachel Campbell-Johnston, The Times -
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Interview
Posted
10 July 2019
Howardena Pindell talks to The Brooklyn Rail
'I find it very soothing to replace the circle as a negative symbol with something that’s positive.' Toby Kamps, The Brooklyn Rail -
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Exhibition
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10 July 2019
Alex Hartley features in Where Function Ends: Responses to the Architecture of Sir Edwin Lutyens
To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Sir Edwin Lutyens, Hestercombe Gallery presents new work by three artists that responds to the legacy of the man whose designs transformed the Hestercombe site (on view: 14 July–27 October 2019). Hestercombe, Somerset -
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Exhibition
Posted
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
Posted
5 July 2019
Grayson Perry is included in Talking Maps at the Bodleian Libraries, Oxford
The exhibition (5 July 2019–8 March 2020) is a celebration of maps and what they tell us about the places they depict and the people that make and use them. Bodleian Libraries, Oxford -
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Event
Posted
2 July 2019
Isaac Julien and Maria Balshaw in conversation
A discussion between Isaac Julien and Director of Tate, Maria Balshaw (6.30–7.30pm, 5 July 2019), exploring themes of time and temporality in relation to his ground-breaking film Looking for Langston, which is currently on display at Tate Britain. Tate Britain -
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Exhibition
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29 June 2019
Expect the Unexpected, featuring Sarah Sze, opens at The Lowry, Salford
An eclectic and provocative exhibition (29 June–29 September 2019) of work by visual artists who incorporate elements of chance in their work, inspired by John Cage’s hugely influential performance piece 4’ 33”. The Lowry, Salford -
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Exhibition
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28 June 2019
Howardena Pindell is featured in ACE: Art on Sports, Promise, and Selfhood
The artists in this exhibition (28 June–7 December 2019) use sports and athletic culture to explore how youth, gender, race, promise, and identity are intertwined with athleticism. University Art Museum, University at Alabama -
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Interview
Posted
24 June 2019
Isaac Julien is interviewed by Nick Compton for Wallpaper* – now online
‘That was one of the things I realised at SESC Pompéia; there was a choreographic conversation happening in the way Lina Bo Bardi worked scenographically,’ Julien says. ‘I had a light bulb moment in relation to my thinking about space and architecture and the distribution of images in space.’ Nick Compton, Wallpaper* -
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Exhibition
Posted
24 June 2019
Doug Aitken is featured in The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100
This major exhibition (28 June–1 December 2019) at The Garage, Moscow, takes a look at a future already in the making, when the environmental agenda will become one of the main political questions. The Garage, Moscow -
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Interview
Posted
21 June 2019
Isaac Julien is interviewed by and creates a limited-edition cover for Wallpaper*
The June edition of Wallpaper* features a limited-edition subscribers' cover by the artist and, in an interview with Nick Compton, previews his major new work, Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement, on view at Victoria Miro (7 June–27 July 2019). Wallpaper* -
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Channel
21 June 2019
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (teaser)
A teaser of Isaac Julien's new nine-screen installation, which premiered at Victoria Miro. The work traverses a collection of Lina Bo Bardi’s most iconic buildings, offering a meditation on the work and legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer (1914–1992). -
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Exhibition
Posted
18 June 2019
Paintings by David Harrison are included in Dog Show at Southwark Park Galleries
An exhibition (18 July–8 September 2019) of dog-related artworks by David Harrison, Joan Jonas, Martin Creed, Lucian Freud, William Wegman, David Shrigley and others. Southwark Park Galleries -
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Exhibition
Posted
18 June 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Wangechi Mutu feature in I Am... Contemporary Women Artists of Africa at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art
Taking its name from a 1970’s feminist anthem, I Am… Contemporary Women Artists of Africa (20 June 2019–15 March 2020) draws upon a selection of artworks by women artists from the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art’s permanent collection to reveal a more contemporary feminism that recognises the contributions of women to the most pressing issues of their times. Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington, DC -
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Review
Posted
16 June 2019
Waldemar Januszczak includes Victoria Miro’s summer group show in his Sunday Times Culture review
"From a distance, Berrio’s pictures look like huge watercolours, faded and pale. But when you get close, you see they are actually collages made of delicate Japanese paper in pastel shades. Beautiful." Waldemar Januszczak, The Sunday Times -
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Interview
Posted
14 June 2019
Apollo interviews Howardena Pindell
‘There are some black artists who don’t want to be in shows that are labelled “black art”. I don’t mind it because I want people to be able to find me,’ Gabrielle Schwarz, Apollo
