Paula Rego: The Forgotten
The gallery’s first solo exhibition (on view until 12 February 2022) by the artist brings together significant individual works and important series, many rarely shown, drawn principally from the past 20 years.
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The latest from Victoria Miro artists around the world
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News story
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January 10 2022
Come work with us!
Victoria Miro is hiring invigilators for our winter and spring exhibitions. -
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Edition
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November 23 2021
Greek Myths – a print portfolio by Chris Ofili
Now available to purchase, a suite of nine Giclée prints by Chris Ofili, presented in a portfolio case with a special cover hardback edition of Greek Myths: A New Retelling by Charlotte Higgins. -
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Publication
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December 13 2021
Coming soon – Paula Rego: The Forgotten, a new artist’s book
This beautifully designed artist's book celebrates the important presentation of forty works by Paula Rego in her first exhibition at Victoria Miro, London. Victoria Miro -
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Exhibition
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January 13 2022
Coming soon to Fondazione Prada – Elmgreen & Dragset: Useless Bodies?
Just announced: a major exhibition (31 March–22 August 2022) exploring the present condition of the body in the post-industrial age in which it seems that our physical presence is losing its centrality or is even completely superfluous. Fondazione Prada, Milan -
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Interview
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December 17 2021
Paula Rego is interviewed by the FT
Read an exclusive interview with Paula Rego in the FT. Louis Wise, Financial Times -
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Review
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December 5 2021
The Observer gives ★★★★★ for Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s
The new Tate Britain exhibition is positively reviewed by Laura Cumming for The Observer. Laura Cumming, The Observer -
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Review
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December 13 2021
The Brooklyn Rail on Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvellous Entanglement
Osman Can Yerebakan for The Brooklyn Rail reviews Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi — A Marvellous Entanglement. Osman Can Yerebakan, The Brooklyn Rail -
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Review
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December 13 2021
Artforum reviews Milton Avery at The Modern, Fort Worth
Lee Escobedo for Artforum reviews the artist's current exhibition at The Modern, Fort Worth. Lee Escobedo, Artforum -
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Review
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December 8 2021
Milton Avery at The Modern, Fort Worth is reviewed by WSJ
The Wall Street Journal reviews Milton Avery, on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth until 30 January 2022. Alexandra Peers, The Wall Street Journal -
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News story
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December 2 2021
Paula Rego included in the FT’s 25 most influential women of 2021
The Financial Times features Paula Rego as one of the 25 most influential women of 2021. Jan Dalley, Financial Times -
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Interview
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December 8 2021
The Art Newspaper podcast with Isaac Julien
Isaac Julien speaks with Ben Luke in the latest episode of A brush with... The Art Newspaper's official podcast. Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper -
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Exhibition
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November 30 2021
Works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Isaac Julien and Chris Ofili are featured in Life Between Islands at Tate Britain
This landmark group exhibition (1 December 2021–3 April 2022) explores the work of artists from the Caribbean who made their home in Britain, alongside other artists whose work has been influenced and inspired by Caribbean themes and heritage. Tate Britain -
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Exhibition
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November 27 2021
Paula Rego – now open at Kunstmuseum Den Haag
Travelling from Tate Britain, the largest retrospective of the artist's work to date is on view 27 November 2021–20 March 2022. Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands -
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Exhibition
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November 26 2021
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami features in Ubuntu, a lucid dream at Palais de Tokyo
The exhibition (on view until 20 February 2022) invites us to enter Ubuntu, an as-yet undiscovered space within our imagination and our bodies of knowledge. Palais de Tokyo -
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Exhibition
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November 7 2021
Milton Avery at The Modern, Fort Worth
This comprehensive exhibition (7 November 2021–30 January 2022) brings together a selection of approximately 70 paintings from the 1910s to the mid-1960s that are among his most celebrated. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas -
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Exhibition
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November 15 2021
Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective at Tel Aviv Museum of Art
The artist's first major exhibition in Israel (15 November 2021–23 April 2022) brings together artworks produced over an eighty-year period. This extensive survey traces Kusama's work in Japan, the United States, and Europe, from her early paintings and sculptures to her immersive installations Tel Aviv Museum of Art -
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Review
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November 18 2021
Paula Rego: The Forgotten reviewed by the Evening Standard
★★★★ 'This show reflects how Rego employs drawing, using different tools and media, to create hugely varied tones, moods and effects.' – Ben Luke Ben Luke, Evening Standard -
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Exhibition
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November 13 2021
Howardena Pindell: A New Language at Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
The artist's first solo exhibition in a public organisation in the UK (13 November 2021–2 May 2022) is organised by the Fruitmarket, Edinburgh in collaboration with Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge and Spike Island, Bristol. Fruitmarket, Edinburgh -
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Exhibition
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November 18 2021
John Kørner: Intercontinental Super Fruits at Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
The exhibition (18 November 2021–9 January 2022) presents work that engages artist Kørner’s visual explorations of the allure of product advertisement and globalization in the rapidly expanding commodities trade industry. MOCA Detroit -
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News story
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November 16 2021
Alice Neel: People Come First is named Apollo’s exhibition of the year
‘Encompassing seven decades of art-making, and giving space for lesser-known periodical work, ‘People Come First’ was capacious but never exhausting.Æ Apollo -
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Exhibition
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October 30 2021
Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement opens at The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art
The first US museum presentation of Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement, Isaac Julien’s nine-screen film installation, which is tribute to the visionary Italian-Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi. On view 30 October 2021–27 February 2022. The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Charlotte, North Carolina -
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Exhibition
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October 19 2021
Doug Aitken: New Era at MCA Sydney
This survey exhibition (20 October 2021–06 February 2022) features installations, objects, photographs, and vast immersive multi-screen environments that envelop visitors within a kaleidoscope of moving imagery and sound. MCA Sydney -
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Commission
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September 30 2021
Conrad Shawcross: Beacons launches in Ramsgate
Commissioned by local children in Ramsgate, the interactive sculptures are made from galvanised steel, painted to reference the nautical flags used in maritime signaling. Ramsgate, Kent -
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Interview
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October 29 2021
Doron Langberg speaks with The Art Newspaper
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Ben Luke for The Art Newspaper on the occasion of his first solo exhibition at Victoria Miro, London. Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper -
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Exhibition
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October 7 2021
Group exhibition MOTHER! now open at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
Travelling from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark, this group exhibition includes work by Chantal Joffe and Alice Neel. On view until 6 February 2022. Kunsthalle Mannheim -
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Exhibition
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September 17 2021
Works by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami on display across Saint- Denis, Paris
Bringing contemporary African art to the streets of Saint-Denis, Paris, the Neuf 3 initiative has installed work on shop fronts, in the niches of historic buildings, in the streets, and in public squares, making it accessible to local residents and passersby in this culturally rich community. Paris -
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News story
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September 10 2021
The Art Newspaper podcast with Doron Langberg
Doron Langberg features in the latest episode of The Week in Art podcast by The Art Newspaper. The Art Newspaper -
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Feature
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September 2 2021
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami talks to Ben Luke for the Evening Standard’s Painting in Britain feature
'As an artist, you have to allow yourself to experience what it is you’re doing, which is, for me, putting paint on the surface, or using colour – the basic elements and forms…' Ben Luke, The Evening Standard -
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Exhibition
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July 29 2021
The UK and European premiere of Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour
This ten-screen film installation (on view at Modern One from 29 July–10 October 2021) offers a poetic meditation on the life and times of Frederick Douglass, the visionary African American writer, abolitionist, and a freed slave, who spent two years in Edinburgh in the 1840s campaigning across Scotland, England, and Ireland for freedom and social justice. Modern One, Edinburgh -
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Exhibition
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July 23 2021
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami collaborates with poet Belinda Zhawi for sonsbeek 20→24 force times distance
Artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami has collaborated with poet Belinda Zhawi to create an installation consisting of sound, paintings and film. On view at Showroom Arnhem, The Netherlands, until 29 August 2021. Showroom Arnhem, The Netherlands -
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Exhibition
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July 28 2021
On view at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE – Do Ho Suh: Proposal for Sach'ŏnwang-sa.
Inspired by the resonance between the Roman Temple of Mithras and an ancient Korean Temple, the new commission (on view 28 July 2021–22 January 2022) examines memory, psychic space and modes of survival. London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE -
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News story
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April 28 2021
Doug Aitken: i am in you opens at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa
Doug Aitken's solo exhibition i am in you goes on view at 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (29 April–23 November 2021). Kanazawa, Japan -
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News story
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March 31 2021
A brush with... Ali Banisadr – the Art Newspaper Podcast
'This idea that everything is as important as everything else—a rock, a plant, a human being, the air, that everything is part of the same thing—I always think about that in my paintings. That's why I don't have a central figure in my work, because I feel like everything is important. Every corner, every part of the painting is as important as the rest.' –Ali Banisadr The Art Newspaper -
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Talk
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April 17 2021
Watch: a studio visit with Sarah Sze, presented by MOCA
MOCA's Virtual Studio Visits series presents conversations between MOCA Director Klaus Biesenbach and artists around the world. In this episode, Sarah Sze joins Biesenbach from her New York studio. MOCA, Los Angeles -
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Interview
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November 27 2021
Howardena Pindell talks to the Guardian
‘I could have died – that’s when I decided to express my opinion in my work’ Skye Sherwin, The Guardian -
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Exhibition
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November 23 2021
Grayson Perry: We Shall Catch it on the Beaches, now open at Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Opening on 27 November 2021 the exhibition features works from the collection along with new works by the artist. Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht -
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Interview
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November 5 2021
The Great Women Artists Podcast – Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
In this new episode, Katy Hessel talks to the painter whose work was recently featured in a solo exhibition at Victoria Miro, and can be seen in Mixing It Up: Painting Today at the Hayward Gallery (until 12 December 2021). -
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Review
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November 4 2021
Doron Langberg: Give Me Love is reviewed by The Brooklyn Rail
'The stroke of paint on linen is indelibly linked to the experience of lockdown – the craving for skin against skin and the longing for home.' – Claire Phillips Claire Phillips, The Brooklyn Rail -
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Exhibition
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October 19 2021
Conrad Shawcross features in To the Edge of Time at Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven
The exhibition (22 October 2021–16 January 2022) showcases the kinetic light sculpture Slow Arc Inside a Cube XI, and ties into the artist’s fascination with and exploration of the principles of physics and mathematics. Leuven, Belgium -
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News
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October 13 2021
María Berrío is announced as a 2021 Joan Mitchell Fellow
The artist is an inaugural recipient of the new Joan Mitchell Fellowship, awarded by the Joan Mitchell Foundation. -
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Art fair
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October 12 2021
Victoria Miro at Frieze London
The gallery’s presentation draws inspiration from depictions of trees and flowers and the multiple meanings and associations of botanical motifs. -
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News story
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October 6 2021
Elmgreen & Dragset are awarded the 14th Robert Jacobsen Prize
Elmgreen & Dragset have been awarded the 14th Robert Jacobsen Prize from Stiftung Würth. The jury praised the 'social relevance and extreme poignancy' of the duo's oeuvre. A selection of the artists' sculptures is now on view at Museum Würth 2 in Künzelsau, Germany until 6 February 2022. Künzelsau, Germany -
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Exhibition
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October 2 2021
Stephen Willats features in Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951 at Sainsbury Centre
Drawn from the Sainsbury Centre collection, the exhibition (2 October 2021–30 January 2022) celebrates the abstract and constructed art made and exhibited in Britain since 1951 and comprises around 120 objects across sculpture, reliefs, mobiles, painting, drawing and printmaking. University of East Anglia, Norwich -
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Interview
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October 1 2021
The Great Women Artists Podcast – Nick Willing on Paula Rego
In this new episode, Katy Hessel visits the studio of Paula Rego to speak with the artist's son, Nick Willing, about his mother's life and work. -
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Exhibition
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September 30 2021
On view at Frick Madison Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, featuring Doron Langberg
On view from 30 September 2021 until January 2022, Living Histories presents paintings created in response to specific works, with particular emphasis on issues of gender and queer identity typically excluded from narratives of early modern European art. Frick Madison -
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Interview
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September 29 2021
The Art Newspaper podcast with Sarah Sze
Ahead of her forthcoming exhibition at Victoria Miro (opening 12 October 2021), Sarah Sze talks to Ben Luke for the latest episode of A brush with..., The Art Newspaper's official podcast. Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper -
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Exhibition
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September 22 2021
The RA Summer Exhibition 2021 featuring work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, Grayson Perry, Howardena Pindell and Conrad Shawcross
Opening on 22 September 2021–2 January 2022, this year's exhibition includes work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, Grayson Perry, Howardena Pindell and Conrad Shawcross. Royal Academy of Arts -
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Exhibition
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September 19 2021
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years at Sainsbury Centre
The touring exhibition (19 September 2021–30 January 2022) developed by the Holburne Museum in Bath, is the first to celebrate Grayson Perry’s earliest forays into the art world and re-introduces the works he made between 1982 and 1994. University of East Anglia, Norwich -
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Film
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September 17 2021
A Screening of Doug Aitken: Flags and Debris
Doug Aitken's Flags and Debris will screen on Saturday 18 September at Palazzo Grassi, Venice. Palazzo Grassi -
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Exhibition
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September 17 2021
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale
This new exhibition at Yale University Art Gallery celebrates the vital contributions of generations of Yale artist-alumni, including Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Wangechi Mutu, Howardena Pindell, Sarah Sze and many more. Yale University Art Gallery -
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Exhibition
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September 17 2021
Milton Avery: American Colourist coming to the RA in 2022
The Royal Academy of Arts announces its 2022 exhibition programme, featuring Milton Avery — considered one of North America's greatest 20th-century colourists. Royal Academy of Arts -
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Exhibition
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September 17 2021
Alice Neel: People Come First at Guggenheim Bilbao
This ambitious survey, which was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in 2021, travels to the Guggenheim Bilbao (17 September 2021–6 February 2022). Guggenheim Bilbao -
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News story
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September 14 2021
Doron Langberg is interviewed by Studio International
Joe Lloyd from Studio International interviews Doron Langberg on the occasion of the artist's first solo exhibition at Victoria Miro. Joe Lloyd, Studio International -
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Exhibition
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September 9 2021
Mixing It Up: Painting Today, featuring Kudzanai-Violet Hwami
The exhibition (9 September–12 December 2021) features 31 artists whose works entrance, transfix and challenge us. Hayward Gallery, London -
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Art fair
Posted
September 9 2021
Victoria Miro at the Armory Show
Victoria Miro is delighted to participate in The Armory Show (Booth 308) with a three-person presentation of new paintings by Hernan Bas, Kudzanai-Violet Hwami and Doron Langberg. Booth 308, Javits Center, 429 11th Ave, New York -
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Exhibition
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September 8 2021
The Independent reviews Mixing It Up: Painting Today at the Hayward Gallery
Mark Hudson reviews Mixing It Up: Painting Today at the Hayward Gallery, featuring work by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami. Hayward Gallery -
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Channel
September 8 2021
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami: When You Need Letters for Your Skin
Filmed on the occasion of the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, featuring new paintings combining visual fragments from a myriad of sources, such as online and archival images, and personal photographs, which collapse past and present. -
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Channel
September 3 2021
Doron Langberg: Give Me Love
For his first solo exhibition with the gallery, Langberg shows paintings depicting a range of subjects, from queer love to wildflowers and sweeping landscapes. -
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Exhibition
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September 2 2021
Christan Holstad's Consider Yourself as a Guest (Cornucopia) installed on Procida
Installed on Procida, an island off the coast of Naples, Christan Holstad's Consider Yourself as a Guest (Cornucopia) is made entirely from plastic waste. The work, 'is a reflection of... Procida -
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Exhibition
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September 1 2021
The Royal Academy of Arts announces its 2022 programme, featuring the major exhibition Milton Avery: American Colourist
The first comprehensive survey of Avery’s work in Europe, the exhibition (15 July–16 October 2022) brings together a selection of around 70 paintings from the 1930s–1960s that are among his most celebrated. These works typically feature scenes of daily life, including portraits of loved ones and serene landscapes from his visits to Maine and Cape Cod. Royal Academy of Arts, London
