Closing soon – Hernan Bas: Cambridge Living at Victoria Miro Mayfair
6 September – 21 October 2017. Image: Hernan Bas, Suicide Sunday (Taking on Water), 2017
Tal R: Sexshops at Victoria Miro, Wharf Road
20 September – 20 December 2017. Image: Tal R, Dirty Dick, 2017
Idris Khan: Absorbing Light at Victoria Miro, Wharf Road
3 October – 20 December 2017. Image: Cell, 2017 (detail)
Celia Paul: The Sea and The Mirror at Victoria Miro Venice
23 September – 16 December 2017. Image: Celia Paul, Sea at Noon, 2017
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The latest from Victoria Miro artists around the world
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Exhibition
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20 October 2017
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors tours to The Broad, Los Angeles
The exhibition (21 October 2017 - 1 January 2018) will provide visitors with the opportunity to experience six of Kusama’s infinity rooms alongside large-scale installations and key paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the early 1950s to the present. The Broad, Los Angeles -
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Art fair
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16 October 2017
Victoria Miro at FIAC 2017
Victoria Miro returns to FIAC (19 – 22 October 2017, Grand Palais, Stand 0.B16) with a four-person presentation of works by Doug Aitken, Secundino Hernández, Yayoi Kusama and Conrad Shawcross. -
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News
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18 October 2017
Doug Aitken receives the inaugural Frontier Art Prize in Paris
Aitken is the first recipient of The Frontier Art Prize. He was honoured at a dinner on 18 October, the opening night of the FIAC Art Fair, at the Musée Picasso Paris. -
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News
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11 October 2017
Njideka Akunyili Crosby is awarded a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship
The MacArthur Fellowships are awarded to talented individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. Akunyili Crosby is among 24 MacArthur Fellows just announced by the MacArthur Foundation. -
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Exhibition
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6 October 2017
Alice Neel: Painter of Modern Life at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
Conceived by Jeremy Lewison, the exhibition (13 October 2017 - 14 January 2018) presents more than seventy paintings. Deichtorhallen, Hamburg -
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Event
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10 October 2017
Book now: Stan Douglas artist’s talk at Tate Modern
On 25 October 2017, in conversation with Mark Godfrey, the artist discusses his latest body of work, which will be on show at Victoria Miro Mayfair from 26 October. Tate Modern, London -
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Exhibition
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9 October 2017
Yayoi Kusama in Etre Moderne: Le MoMA à Paris at Fondation Louis Vuitton
The exhibition (11 October 2017 – 5 March 2018) showcases some 200 works that trace MoMA's history of collecting. Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris -
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Exhibition
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6 October 2017
Tal R: Academy of Tal R at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Touring from Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the exhibition (14 October 2017 - 14 January 2018) features works from the mid-1990s to the present. Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam -
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News
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11 October 2017
Idris Khan’s Monument and Pavilion of Honour for Wahat Al Karama, UAE’s Memorial Park, receives an American Architecture Prize
'This work exemplifies the power of fusion between art and architecture in a project that conveys purpose and emotion and creates a place of reflection, serenity and significance for its nation.' -
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Feature
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6 October 2017
Mark Rappolt writes about Tal R’s Sexshops paintings and interviews the artist in the October issue of ArtReview
'Space is hinted at only so that its absence can be revealed, just as the conventional sexshop offering aims at accelerating libidos via various approximations – but never realisations – of the thing itself.' Mark Rappolt, ArtReview -
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Interview
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5 October 2017
Idris Khan interviewed in ES Magazine’s Art Issue
An OBE is just the latest accolade to be bestowed upon Idris Khan. Ahead of his forthcoming politically infused show Patricia Nicol meets the acclaimed artist. Patricia Nicol, ES Magazine -
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Exhibition
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1 October 2017
Now open: the Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo
The Yayoi Kusama Museum opens in Tokyo with the exhibition Creation is a Solitary Pursuit, Love is What Brings You Closer to Art. Tokyo, Japan -
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Exhibition
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27 September 2017
Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! at Arnolfini, Bristol
On show for the first time outside of London, the exhibition (27 September - 24 December 2017) tackles one of the artist's primary concerns: how contemporary art can best address a diverse cross section of society. Arnolfini, Bristol -
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Exhibition
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6 October 2017
Coming soon: Njideka Akunyili Crosby at Baltimore Museum of Art
Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s solo exhibition at Baltimore Museum of Art (25 October 2017 – 18 March 2018) will feature new works by the Los Angeles-based artist. Baltimore Museum of Art, MD -
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Exhibition
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23 September 2017
Wangechi Mutu at The Contemporary Austin
In conjunction with the newly installed Water Woman at Laguna Gloria, Mutu premieres a solo exhibition (23 September 2017 - 14 January 2018) of new and existing works at the Jones Center on Congress Avenue – her first major monographic exhibition in Texas since 2004, and her first solo exhibition in Austin. The Contemporary Austin, Texas -
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Exhibition
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15 September 2017
Sarah Sze creates a site-specific installation for Haus der Kunst, Munich
Centrifuge, a new site-specific installation (15 September 2017 - 12 August 2018), radically transforms visitors’ perception and experience of the museum’s Middle Hall. Haus der Kunst, Munich -
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News story
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8 September 2017
Architectural Digest reports on Chris Ofili’s immersive art environment at MCA Chicago’s brand new restaurant
Chris Ofili's immersive installation is unveiled at Marisol, the brand new restaurant at MCA Chicago. Architectural Digest -
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Review
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15 September 2017
Frieze reviews Hernan Bas: Cambridge Living
'The paintings have a dreamlike quality, as though time has been suspended; their subjects are on the cusp of sexual maturity, at once recognizable and anonymous, intimate and aloof.' Harriet Baker, Frieze -
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Review
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6 September 2017
Jenny Uglow reviews Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! for The New York Review of Books
Grayson Perry: The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! opens at Arnolfini, Bristol, on 27 September 2017. Jenny Uglow, The New York Review of Books -
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News story
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8 September 2017
Idris Khan included in Apollo 40 Under 40 Global
Idris Khan included in Apollo 40 Under 40 Global Apollo -
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News
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7 September 2017
Njideka Akunyili Crosby included in Apollo 40 Under 40 Global
Njideka Akunyili Crosby included in Apollo 40 Under 40 Global Apollo -
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News
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8 August 2017
Idris Khan’s monument for UAE Memorial Park is shortlisted for a World Architecture Festival award
Khan has been shortlisted in the Civic and Community category of the World Architectural Festival, which will be held in Berlin (15-17 November 2017). -
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Exhibition
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19 October 2017
Stephen Willats in Idea Home Show at Mima
The exhibition (21 October 2017 – 18 February 2018) takes a political look at how residents and practitioners working between art architecture and activism are proposing solutions for alternative models for living. Mima, Middlesbrough -
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Preview
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18 October 2017
The LA Times previews Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at The Broad
A sneak peek of the major touring exhibition ahead of its opening at The Broad, Los Angeles. Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times -
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Review
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17 October 2017
The Evening Standard recommends Idris Khan: Absorbing Light in the London Art Gallery Guide
'The comprehensive new show features sculpture, paintings, a multi-part installation and works on paper, all exploring questions of perception, imprisonment, personal testimony, and aesthetic and metaphysical conundrums.' London Evening Standard Jessie Thompson -
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Event
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16 October 2017
An Evening with Grayson Perry at St George's Bristol
Grayson Perry offers insight into his artistic practice, influences and view of the world at this event, organised in association with Arnolfini (24 October 2017, now sold out). St George's Bristol -
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Preview
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13 October 2017
Artsy previews the new children’s book Yayoi Kusama: From Here to Infinity
'As a whole, it reflects the brilliant colors and serene poetry of the artist’s work, with an eye to developing art lovers of the future.' Casey Lesser, Artsy -
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News story
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12 October 2017
As reported by the BBC, Grayson Perry contributes work to Bethlem Gallery exhibition at The Bethlem Hospital
'Art is the greatest asset to mental health I have. It has this amazing ability to go under the radar and it goes down little pathways which are un-trodden and yet it's still a very legitimate way of thinking and feeling and getting on with your life.' BBC News -
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News story
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11 October 2017
The National reports on Idris Khan’s receipt of a 2017 American Architecture Prize
'Completed last year, the centrepiece of Wahat Al Karama is a 90-metre long monument comprising 31 tablets which symbolise the support between the UAE’s military, the families of its servicemen and women and the country’s citizens in the face of adversity.' Nick Leech, The National -
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News story
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11 October 2017
The New York Times reports on Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s receipt of a 2017 MacArthur Fellowship
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, 34, a Nigerian-born painter now living in Los Angeles whose work explores transnational identity, studied both biology and art as an undergraduate, and, as the daughter of scientists, had to grow into the idea of art as a potential career. “I think of my studio as a lab sometimes,” she said. “When I’m working out a new idea, I try to be as methodical as I can.” Jennifer Schuessler, The New York Times -
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Review
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11 October 2017
Jackie Wullschlager reviews Être Moderne: Le MoMA à Paris, featuring Yayoi Kusama, in the Financial Times
'Rarely loaned MoMA treasures on show in Paris reveal a provocative American identity.' Jackie Wullschlager, The Financial Times -
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News story
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10 October 2017
Njideka Akunyili Crosby to be honoured at the 2017 Hirshhorn gala
Akunyili Crosby is among three generations of trailblazing women artists to be honoured at the event on 6 November 2017. Lincoln Center, New York -
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Exhibition
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10 October 2017
Do Ho Suh: Passage/s coming to Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden
For his first solo exhibition in Scandinavia (17 November 2017 – 15 April 2018), the artist presents an installation of his Hub works. Bildmuseet, Umeå, Sweden -
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News story
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9 October 2017
Idris Khan and Isaac Julien donate works to Art For Grenfell
The auction (which took place on 16 October 2017) to raise money for those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire raised £1.9million in total. Sotheby's, London -
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Exhibition
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9 October 2017
Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow, opening soon at Queensland Art Gallery
The exhibition (4 November 2017 – 11 February 2018) is a focused survey of Kusama's work, taking in key motifs as they have developed since the 1950s. Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia -
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Exhibition
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9 October 2017
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Predecessors tours to Tang Museum
Previously on view at Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, the exhibition (14 October – 31 December 2017) unites for the first time many works from the artist's Predecessors series. Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY -
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Exhibition
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9 October 2017
Stephen Willats in Open Codes: Living in Digital Worlds at ZKM Karlsruhe
Artworks and scientific works based on digital as well as on analog codes are presented in this exhibition (20 October 2017 – 5 August 2018). ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, German -
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Exhibition
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7 October 2017
Doug Aitken in Future Shock at SITE Santa Fe
Aitken's Migration, 2008, is featured in SITE's re-opening exhibition (7 October 2017 – 1 May 2018). SITE, Santa Fe, New Mexico -
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Event
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6 October 2017
Frieze Masters Talks: Isaac Julien in conversation with Nicholas Cullinan
Now available as a podcast: Isaac Julien in conversation with Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery. Frieze Masters, Regent's Park, London -
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Exhibition
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6 October 2017
Doug Aitken in Performance! at Le Tripostal, Lille
Part of the Centre Pompidou's 40th anniversary celebrations, this exhibition (6 October 2017 – 14 January 2018) features Aitken's installation New Skin, 2002. Le Tripostal, Lille -
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Review
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4 October 2017
Nick Compton writes about Idris Khan: Absorbing Light in Wallpaper*
'This is a dark, unsettling kind of minimalism, exercises in imagination rather than just formal experiments in mass and volume.' Nick Compton, Wallpaper* -
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Review
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4 October 2017
Rachel Spence reviews the Istanbul Biennial, curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, in the Financial Times
'Spare, cadenced and profoundly ruminative, it responds to political turmoil by highlighting its human cost with imagination and respect.' Rachel Spence, The Financial Times -
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Exhibition
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3 October 2017
Work by Chantal Joffe to feature in From Life, coming to the Royal Academy in December
The RA's exhibition (11 December 2017 – 11 March 2018) looks at the past, present and future of working from the life model, one of the cornerstones of artistic process. Royal Academy of Arts, London -
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Channel
3 October 2017
John Kørner: Altid Mange Problemer
Filmed on the occasion of John Kørner: Altid Mange Problemer at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (18 June – 13 August 2017), the largest exhibition of the artist’s work to date, Kørner talks about the genesis of his work, including his signature use of yellow, his 2008 series based on the human tragedy of war, and the shifting form and meaning of ‘Problems’ in his work. As he says: ‘I mostly recognise a “Problem” as a metaphor for ongoing life.’ -
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Event
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2 October 2017
Isaac Julien participates in the Serpentine Galleries Marathon 2017
Guest, Ghost, Host: Machine! (7 October 2017) brings together artists, scientists, activists, engineers, poets, sociologists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, anthropologists, theologians and musicians to consider the advent of ‘artificial intelligence’, consciousness, interspecies cooperation, machines, trans-humanism and non-linear time. City Hall, London -
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Art fair
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2 October 2017
Sarah Sze creates a new work for Frieze Sculpture
Hammock (for A. Albers), 2017, joins the outdoor display of international sculpture selected by Clare Lilley, Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park (4 – 8 October 2017). Regent's Park, London -
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Review
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1 October 2017
Mousse Magazine reviews Tal R: Sexshops
'He shines at whittling down his imagery, parking at the border control between picture and pattern, and placing chunks of unabashed color that are soft and strong, airy yet structural, dense yet buoyant.' Nicholas Hatfull, Mousse Magazine -
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Preview
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30 September 2017
The Guardian visits the Yayoi Kusama Museum ahead of its public opening
'It was, perhaps, only a matter of time before Kusama, whose work has appeared at the Tate Modern, the Pompidou in Paris and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, gave her name to a space she can genuinely call her own.' Justin McCurry, The Guardian -
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News story
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30 September 2017
Nancy Durrant features Tal R: Sexshops as one of her Frieze Week highlights in The Times
'The Copenhagen-based artist Tal R’s extremely jolly paintings depict the exteriors of sex clubs, massage parlours, strip clubs, adult theatres and other red-light establishments around the world, in a pointed questioning of what we think of as beautiful, meaningful and desirable.' Nancy Durrant, The Times -
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News story
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29 September 2017
Ben Luke selects Idris Khan and Tal R exhibitions for his Frieze Week highlights
Victoria Miro exhibitions are featured in the Evening Standard's guide to Frieze week. Ben Luke, The Evening Standard -
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Preview
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28 September 2017
The New York Times previews the Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo
'Even the restrooms are covered in polka dots.' Motoko Rich, The New York Times -
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Screening
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28 September 2017
The new, digitally-remastered 2K version of Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask receives its world premiere at the BFI London Film Festival
Screenings take place at NFT3: 5 October 2017, 9pm; Studio: 8 October 2017, 2pm. BFI Southbank, London -
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Event
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28 September 2017
Grayson Perry donates a work to Battersea Arts Centre’s Charity Gala auction
A new sculpture by Perry is among the lots to be auctioned on Tuesday 3 October 2017. Battersea Arts Centre, London -
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Channel
28 September 2017
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask trailer
Isaac Julien and Mark Nash’s Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask (1996) is a film portrait of the revolutionary, writer and psychiatrist, whose classic publications The Wretched of the Earth (1961) and Black Skin White Mask (1952) remain the bibles of decolonisation. The new, digitally-remastered 2K version of the film receives its world premiere at the 2017 BFI London Film Festival. -
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Screening
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27 September 2017
Screenings of Isaac Julien’s Looking for Langston to take place at MoMA, New York
MoMA hosts the second of two screenings of Julien's seminal 1989 film Looking for Langston on 15 October 2017. MoMA, New York -
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News story
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26 September 2017
Reuters visits Yayoi Kusama in her studio ahead of the opening of the Yayoi Kusama Museum in Tokyo
'From age five or 10, I’ve been painting, from morning to night. Even now, there isn’t a single day when I‘m not painting.' Elaine Lies, Reuters -
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Review
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26 September 2017
Hyperallergic reviews Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Predecessors at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
'…Crosby establishes painting as a medium with the capacity for new and multi-dimensional life.' Sarah Rose Sharp, Hyperallergic -
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Interview
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25 September 2017
Elmgreen & Dragset talk to ArtReview about the 15th Istanbul Biennial
'It’s very important for art not to just react. It’s also important for art to show that you have a worth, a dignity, an urgency in yourself, and not only in relation to what the media dictates.' ArtReview Nicole O'Rourke -
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Feature
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25 September 2017
Artsy reports on ‘The Long, Collaborative Friendship of Yayoi Kusama and Donald Judd’
Judd's friendship with and support of Kusama is recalled in a new show of Kusama’s paintings at the Judd Foundation’s 101 Spring Street space in New York. Alexxa Gotthardt, Artsy Editorial -
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Exhibition
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25 September 2017
Into the Unknown: A Journey Through Science Fiction, featuring Isaac Julien, tours to Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
Touring from the Barbican Centre, the exhibition (9 October 2017 - 14 January 2018) includes Julien’s 2004 work Encore II (Radioactive). Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens
In Focus
Hernan Bas reflects on his time at Cambridge and shares his source material for his new body of work
Invited as a visiting artist by Jesus College Cambridge during the autumn of 2016, US artist Hernan Bas spent time in the college and city researching the legends, rituals and rites of Cambridge life, past and present, from its legendary drinking societies to its daredevil ‘Night Climbers’. A year in the making, the resulting paintings and works on paper can be seen in Cambridge Living at Victoria Miro Mayfair (6 September – 21 October 2017).
September 6, 2017
