Final week – Idris Khan: Words Beneath Words at Victoria Miro Venice
Exhibition 26 October–14 December 2019
Celia Paul at Wharf Road
Exhibition 13 November–20 December 2019
Doug Aitken: Return to the Real
Exhibition 2 October–20 December 2019
Grayson Perry: Super Rich Interior Decoration at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Exhibition 25 September–20 December 2019
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The latest from Victoria Miro artists around the world
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Interview
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5 December 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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29 November 2019
Interiorities, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Adriana Varejão, now open 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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News story
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25 November 2019
Victoria Miro announces representation of María Berrío
Victoria Miro is pleased to announce representation of María Berrío. Work by the Brooklyn-based artist will feature as part of the gallery’s presentation at Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2019. Her first solo exhibition in the UK will take place at Victoria Miro in June 2020. -
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Exhibition
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28 November 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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News
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2 November 2019
Zadie Smith: The Muse at Her Easel, a consideration of Celia Paul’s memoir, Self-Portrait, in the New York Review of Books
'Her story is striking. It is not, as has been assumed, the tale of a muse who later became a painter, but an account of a painter who, for ten years of her early life, found herself mistaken for a muse…' The New York Review of Books Zadie Smith -
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News story
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27 November 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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26 November 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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Exhibition
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4 December 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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Commission
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21 November 2019
Idris Khan’s public sculpture 65,0000 Photographs is officially unveiled at One Blackfriars
For this towering sculpture and major public work, Khan has drawn from his personal archive of images from the past six years – some 65,000 images. Using this number of photographs, he has created a monumental column for One Blackfriars. The sculpture represents the volume of photography in the modern age and draws attention to the almost forgotten art of photographic printing, in our ever more digitised world. One Blackfriars, London -
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Commission
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7 November 2019
Conrad Shawcross: Bicameral is unveiled at Chelsea Barracks
Made of anodised aluminium, standing 8m tall and with 693 component parts which cascade down in scale as they radiate out, Bicameral is an unprecedented structure, created entirely without welding whilst using techniques drawn from Japanese wood joinery. Chelsea Barracks, London -
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Commission
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26 November 2019
Bent Pool by Elmgreen & Dragset is unveiled in Miami
Commissioned by the City of Miami Beach’s Art in Public Places Program, and located in Pride Park, in front of the Miami Beach Convention Center, Elmgreen & Dragset’s 20-foot-high sculpture Bent Pool, 2019, is an upright arching swimming pool that welcomes visitors to the recently renovated site. Pride Park, Miami -
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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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Profile
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14 November 2019
Getty launches its Recording Artists: Radical Women podcast with an episode dedicated to Alice Neel
Artists Simone Leigh and Moyra Davey join host Helen Molesworth to discuss the life and work of Alice Neel in the first of a season of podcasts focusing on audio interviews with six women artists whose lives span the twentieth century. -
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News story
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13 November 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is featured in TIME 100 Next
The first-ever TIME 100 Next, a new expansion of the TIME 100 list of the most influential people in the world, highlights 100 rising stars who are shaping the future of art, business, entertainment, sports, politics, health, science and activism, and more. TIME -
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News
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30 October 2019
Celia Paul is awarded Harper’s Bazaar Artist of the Year
Harper’s Bazaar Women of the Year Awards recognises the outstanding achievements of women in the worlds of fashion, film, art, music, philanthropy and literature. Celia Paul was awarded Artist of the Year at a ceremony held at Claridge's on 29 October 2019. -
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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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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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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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24 October 2019
Tal R: Men Who Can’t Sit on Horses at Magasin III, Jaffa
The exhibition (24 October 2019–27 March 2020) features a single painting – Natten (The Night) – commissioned especially for Magasin III Museum & Foundation for Contemporary Art. Magasin III, Jaffa -
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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2 December 2019
Last chance: Doug Aitken features in TRANSFORMER: A 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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News story
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2 December 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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1 December 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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Review
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26 November 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 -
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News story
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26 November 2019
The US premiere of Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement takes place at Art Basel Miami Beach
Isaac Julien’s nine-screen installation (on view 5–8 December 2019) offers a meditation on the iconic work and legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer, Lina Bo Bardi. Presented by Victoria Miro, Nara Roseler, Jessica Silverman in collaboration with Ron Mandos. Miami Beach, Florida -
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News story
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26 November 2019
Victoria Miro participates in Art Basel Miami Beach with works united by the theme of water
Victoria Miro is delighted to participate in Art Basel Miami Beach (Booth H7) with works united by the theme of water, by Doug Aitken, Milton Avery, Jules de Balincourt, Hernan Bas, María Berrío, Elmgreen & Dragset, Secundino Hernández, David Hockney, Christian Holstad, Isaac Julien, Yayoi Kusama, Wangechi Mutu, Chris Ofili, Jorge Pardo, Celia Paul, Howardena Pindell, Tal R, Do Ho Suh and Caroline Walker. Miami Beach, Florida -
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News story
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25 November 2019
ARTnews announces Victoria Miro’s representation of María Berrío
'Berrío will have a solo exhibition at the gallery’s space in the British capital in June 2020.' ARTnews -
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Exhibition
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25 November 2019
Just announced: Guggenheim Bilbao to present Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement in 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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22 November 2019
Howardena Pindell features in Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 at the Whitney
The exhibition (22 November 2019–January 2021) foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. Some expand techniques with long histories, such as weaving, sewing, or pottery, while others experiment with textiles, thread, clay, beads, and glass, among other mediums. The traces of the artists’ hands-on engagement with their materials invite viewers to imagine how it might feel to make each work. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York -
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Exhibition
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21 November 2019
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years, coming soon to The Holburne Museum, Bath
The exhibition (24 January–25 May 2020) is the first to survey Grayson Perry’s earliest forays into the art world will re-introduce the explosive and creative works he made between 1982 and 1994. These ground-breaking ‘lost’ pots will be 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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Review
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20 November 2019
Book of the week: The Guardian reviews Celia Paul’s Self-Portrait
'The publication of this, her first book, is of great significance.' Frances Spalding, The Guardian -
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Review
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19 November 2019
Time Out reviews Celia Paul
★★★★ '…what you’ll see in this show is stately figures illuminated like the saints of religious iconography, and expansive stretches of enticing sea and trees frothing with blossom.' Rosemary Waugh, Time Out London -
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Interview
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18 November 2019
Idris Khan talks to the British Journal of Photography as his new public sculpture, 65,000 Photographs, goes on view in London
Khan’s eight-metre-tall public sculpture in London represents every image the British artist has taken over the past five years: 'It is about using the physicality of a photograph to show time' Marigold Warner, British Journal of Photography -
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News
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16 November 2019
Designboom writes about Bicameral, a new public sculpture for London by Conrad Shawcross
Bicameral has been unveiled at Chelsea Barracks – a major real estate development in central london. The piece is the first artwork to be installed as part of a program of public commissions for the new neighborhood. Located in close proximity to london's oldest botanical garden, Bicameral seeks to reflect the area's rich botanical history, while paying homage to the materials and craftsmanship at the heart of the new masterplan. Designboom -
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Picture story
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15 November 2019
Anatomy of an artwork: Celia Paul’s My Sisters in Mourning
Skye Sherwin writes about Celia Paul's painting in The Guardian. Skye Sherwin, The Guardian -
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Interview
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15 November 2019
Doug Aitken talks to LA Magazine as he is awarded the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Alumni Award from ArtCenter College of Design
'I’m personally very addicted to what hasn’t existed! If I can put my energy to what doesn’t exist yet, that’s my goal.’ Merle Ginsberg -
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Exhibition
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13 November 2019
Just announced: an exhibition at the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum by Sarah Sze
Taking place across Rotunda Ramp 6 and Tower Gallery 7, this exhibition (9 October 2020–21 March 2021) will immerse visitors in today’s generative proliferation of images through painting, sculpture, print, sound, video and photography. Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York -
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Talk
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11 November 2019
Wangechi Mutu and Howardena Pindell take part in Conversation, Looking Back at 50 Years of Change in the Visual Arts
On the 50th anniversary of African American Studies at Yale, this panel (Thursday, 14 November, 2019, 5.30 pm) brings together Yale School of Art alumni Howardena Pindell, M.F.A. 1967, Wangechi Mutu, M.F.A. 2000, and Kevin Beasley, M.F.A. 2012, with Courtney J. Martin, Director of the Yale Center for British Art, to reflect on changing perceptions of black visual arts since 1969 and to share views on how to ensure an inclusive global art world for the future. Yale University Art Gallery -
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Interview
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11 November 2019
Idris Khan talks to Robert Elms for Listed Londoner
The artist talks to Robert Elms as a new sculpture at One Blackfriars is unveiled. Robert Elms, BBC Radio London -
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Profile
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11 November 2019
Paul Laster profiles Do Ho Suh for Whitehot Magazine
When Do Ho Suh broke onto the New York art scene in the late-1990s, you could tell a star was born. A graduate of Seoul National University, Rhode Island School of Design and Yale University, Suh mines the traditions of his Korean heritage while reflecting on his personal experiences. Paul Laster, Whitehot Magazine
The US premiere of Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement at Meridians, Art Basel Miami Beach
Isaac Julien’s nine-screen installation (on view 5–8 December 2019) offers a meditation on the iconic work and legacy of the visionary modernist architect and designer, Lina Bo Bardi. Presented by Victoria Miro, Nara Roseler, Jessica Silverman in collaboration with Ron Mandos.
Curated by Magalí Arriola, Meridians is an ambitious new sector that will premiere at the 18th edition of the Miami Beach show this December.
Image: Isaac Julien, Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement, 2019
© Isaac Julien, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice
