John Kørner: Life in a Box
Exhibition: 16 Wharf Road, London N1 7RW, 1 February–23 March 2019
Now open in Venice: Christian Holstad, Grayson Perry, Tal R, Betty Woodman
Exhibition: 26 January–18 April 2019
Asger Jorn, Per Kirkeby, Tal R at Victoria Miro Mayfair
Left to right: Tal R, Rosa road, 2018, © Tal R, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice; Tal R, House red, 2018, © Tal R, courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London/Venice; Per Kirkeby, Untitled, 2004, © Per Kirkeby, courtesy Galleri Bo Bjerggaard
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Art fair
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18 March 2019
Victoria Miro at Art Dubai
Victoria Miro participates in Art Dubai (Booth B9, 20–23 March 2019) with works by Doug Aitken, Stan Douglas, Alex Hartley, Idris Khan, Yayoi Kusama, Conrad Shawcross and Do Ho Suh. Dubai -
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News story
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8 March 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Stan Douglas are included in La Biennale di Venezia, 58th International Art Exhibition, May You Live In Interesting Times
The 58th International Art Exhibition is curated by Ralph Rugoff and will be open to the public from 11 May to 24 November 2019. Venice, Italy -
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Exhibition
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16 March 2019
Now open: Childhood Now, featuring Chantal Joffe, at Compton Verney
The exhibition (16 March–16 June 2019) features the work of three contemporary painters and partners Compton Verney's survey show Painting Childhood: From Holbein to Freud, which spans some 500 years of paintings, drawings and sculptures of children. Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park, Warwickshire -
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Exhibition
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3 March 2019
Now open at Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, the world premiere of Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass
Lessons of the Hour (3 March–12 May 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. Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York -
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Exhibition
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16 January 2019
Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen travels to Rose Art Museum
This major exhibition (1 February–19 May 2019) spans the New York–based artist’s five-decade career, featuring early figurative paintings, pure abstraction, and conceptual works, as well as personal and political art that emerged in the aftermath of a life-threatening car accident in 1979. The exhibition traces themes and visual experiments that run throughout Pindell’s work up to the present. Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts -
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Exhibition
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11 March 2019
MK Gallery reopens with The Lie of the Land, featuring Stephen Willats
Following a major expansion, the gallery reopens on 16 March 2019 with an exhibtion that aims to capture a visionary spirit of grand designs tempered by the realities of political expediency (on view until 26 May 2019). MK Gallery, Milton Keynes -
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Exhibition
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18 March 2019
Opening soon: Doug Aitken at Faurschou Foundation, Beijing
The artist's first solo exhibition in mainland China takes place between 23 March and 4 August 2019. Faurschou Foundation, Beijing -
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News story
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26 February 2019
Just announced: Wangechi Mutu will feature in the 2019 Whitney Biennial
The Whitney Museum has announced the 75 artists and collectives who will show as part of the Biennial from May 2019. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York -
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Exhibition
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8 February 2019
Celia Paul at The Huntington
Travelling from the Yale Center for British Art, the exhibition (9 February–8 July 2019) is curated by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Hilton Als and features work selected by Als in collaboration with the artist as a testament to their transatlantic friendship. The Huntington, San Marino, California -
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News story
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25 February 2019
Victoria Miro announces its spring programme
Exhibitions in London and Venice feature Njideka Akunyili Crosby, NS Harsha and Chantal Joffe. -
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Exhibition
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16 January 2019
Black Refractions: Highlights from the Studio Museum in Harlem at the Museum of the African Diaspora
This major traveling exhibition (16 January–14 April 2019) features works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Isaac Julien, Wangechi Mutu, Chris Ofili and Howardena Pindell. Museum of the African Diaspora, San Francisco, California -
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Exhibition
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20 February 2019
Chantal Joffe, Alex Hartley, Idris Khan and Grayson Perry donate works to the Drawing Room’s Drawing Biennial 2019
Works on paper by the artists have been donated to the Drawing Room's fundraising exhibition and online auction (exhibition: 20 February–26 March 2019; auction: 11–26 March 2019). Drawing Room, London -
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Exhibition
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1 February 2019
Stephen Willats features in Objects of Wonder, British Sculpture 1950s – Present at the PalaisPopulaire, Berlin
Featuring some 75 works from the Tate collection, the exhibition (1 February–27 May 2019) demonstrates how British artists revolutionised contemporary sculpture after World War II. PalaisPopulaire, Berlin -
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Exhibition
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17 January 2019
Jonathan Meese, Daniel Richter, Tal R: The Men Who Fell from Earth at Espoo Museum of Modern Art
The exhibition (30 January–7 July 2019) features installations co-created by the three artist friends and colleagues, a video piece, as well as an overview of each artist’s recent work. EMMA, Espoo, Finland -
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Exhibition
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15 January 2019
Ilse D’Hollander features in Salon de Peinture at M HKA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
The exhibition (17 January–17 February 2019) features works by some 50 Belgian (or Belgium-based) artists, including Ilse D'Hollander, Raoul De Keyser, Luc Tuymans and Walter Swennen. Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp -
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Exhibition
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31 January 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby features in a new exhibition of works from the Hammer Contemporary Collection
This group show (24 January–19 May 2019) highlights recent acquisitions and works from the Hammer Contemporary Collection that have never before been on view. This lively mix of painting, sculpture, drawings, and multimedia installations features the work of more than 30 international established and emerging artists. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles -
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Interview
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4 January 2019
HENI Talks – Maths, Alchemy, Art: The Sculptural Practice of Conrad Shawcross
In this HENI Talk, Conrad Shawcross discusses his work including his recent inspiration: moiré. This dazzling mathematical phenomenon, also known as an interference pattern, is something that many creators – from filmmakers to engineers – seek to avoid. Yet Shawcross has harnessed and honed this beguiling phenomenon – at once still and shifting – into sculptures which make us doubt our visual experience. Indeed, Shawcross’s art questions what we may take for granted, encouraging us to see beyond the everyday. HENI Talks -
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Talk
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19 March 2019
Grayson Perry to deliver a Sarabande Foundation Inspiration Series talk
A talk by the artist (16 April 2019, 7–9pm) at Sarabande Foundation, the Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, a non-profit organisation championing young creatives. Sarabande Foundation, London -
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Exhibition
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19 March 2019
Soul of a Nation, featuring Howardena Pindell, travels to The Broad
Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power (23 March–1 September 2019) shines light on a broad spectrum of Black artistic practice from 1963 to 1983, one of the most politically, socially, and aesthetically revolutionary periods in American history. The exhibition will tour to The Broad, Los Angeles, in March 2019. The Broad, Los Angeles -
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Talk
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18 March 2019
Stan Douglas to deliver a UCLA Department of Art Lecture
This free public lecture takes place at 7.30pm on 25 April 2019. -
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News story
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18 March 2019
Chantal Joffe, Idris Khan and Conrad Shawcross donate works to Migrate Art’s Multicolour project
The artists have donated works to this exhibition (from 19 March 2019) and auction (11 April 2019) fundraising to support those affected by the global refugee crisis. -
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Exhibition
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3 March 2019
Collezione Maramotti opens its rehung galleries, featuring displays by Jules de Balincourt and Chantal Joffe
For the first time since the opening of Collezione Maramotti in October 2007, ten rooms on the second floor of the permanent display have been rehung to present some of the projects shown during the first ten years of activity: including Jules de Balincourt (2012) and Chantal Joffe (2014). Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia -
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Talk
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26 February 2019
Politics of Portraiture: The work of Njideka Akunyili Crosby
A talk (13 March 2019) by Ekow Eshun, Lucy Dahlsen and Michael McMillan exploring themes and ideas around Njideka Akunyili Crosby's mural for Art on the Underground at Brixton station. Royal College of Art, Battersea -
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Exhibition
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26 February 2019
Isaac Julien: Looking for Langston at the Linda Pace Foundation – Ruby City
Central to the exhibition (28 February–11August 2019) is Julien’s seminal 1989 documentary-drama Looking for Langston. Also on display are two recently acquired photographic works from the Looking for Langston series, which illuminate the multilayered narratives present throughout Julien’s oeuvre. Ruby City, San Antonio, Texas -
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Publications
18 February 2019
JOHN KØRNER
JOHN KØRNER is most comprehensive publication on the artist to date, featuring conversations with Marie Nipper, curator of Kørner's retrospective exhibition Forever Problems at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in 2017, in addition to essays by Max Andrews (frieze) and art critic Oliver Basciano (ArtReview). Roulette Russe, 2018JOHN KØRNER£ 50.00 -
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News
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12 February 2019
Frieze writes about Francesca Woodman in its 200th issue
'These are photographs in which moments – and lives – are constantly moving from then to now, bodies finding echoes in the world around them.' Caroline Marciniak, Frieze -
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News
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5 February 2019
Isaac Julien’s The Attendant at the Berlinale Film Festival
Julien's 1993 film is screened twice during The Berlinale (7–17 February 2019). In addition, the artist takes part in the Queer Academy Summit 2019 on 13 February. Berlin -
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Interview
Posted
5 February 2019
John Kørner talks to Wallpaper* about his exhibition Life in a Box
'There are lighthearted notes to the exhibition, but, as is common in Kørner’s complex practice, it’s also dense with metaphor, symbol, and serious commentary.' Elly Parsons, Wallpaper* -
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Review
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4 February 2019
Artforum, Dezeen, Designboom and The Spaces feature Doug Aitken’s Mirage Gstaad
Mirage Gstaad, a new outdoor site specific sculpture by Aitken, will remain on view in the Swiss Alps over the course of two years, reflecting and interacting with the mountain landscape over the changing seasons. Gstaad, Switzerland -
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Exhibition
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4 February 2019
Chantal Joffe to feature in Cut and Paste: 400 Years of Collage, opening this summer 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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Preview
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2 February 2019
Skye Sherwin writes about Tal R’s House Red in The Guardian
'The Danish painter evokes a sense of loss with a colourful palette and sharp geometric lines.' The Guardian Skye Sherwin -
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Exhibition
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1 February 2019
Elevation 1049: Frequencies, featuring Doug Aitken’s Mirage Gstaad
Elevation 1049: Frequencies features Mirage Gstaad, a new outdoor, site-specific sculpture by Doug Aitken that will remain on view in Gstaad over the course of two years, reflecting and interacting with the mountain landscape over the changing seasons. Gstaad, Switzerland -
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Event
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29 January 2019
Elmgreen & Dragset give an artist talk at the Art Institute of Chicago
The duo discuss their work in a free talk on 5 February 2019. The Art Institute of Chicago, Rubloff Auditorium -
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Event
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28 January 2019
Howardena Pindell in conversation with Naomi Beckwith and Valerie Cassel Oliver
To mark the opening of Howardena Pindell: What Remains To Be Seen at Rose Art Museum, the artist discusses her work (1 February 2019) with the exhibition curators. Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts -
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Exhibition
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23 January 2019
Isaac Julien: The Leopard at Block Museum of Art
A presentation (26 January–14 April 2019) of Julien’s groundbreaking 2007 video installation The Leopard (Western Union: Small Boats) – a lyrical and visceral meditation on histories of African migration. Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Chicago -
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News story
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18 January 2019
As reported in Artforum and Art News, Howardena Pindell is awarded the College Art Association’s 2019 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement
The College Art Association has revealed the winners of its 2019 awards for distinction, with Howardena Pindell receiving the 2019 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement. Alex Greenberger, Art News -
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News story
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18 January 2019
Culture Type reports on Victoria Miro’s representation of Howardena Pindell
'The UK-based gallery is working with the multidiscplinary artist in collaboration with Garth Greenan Gallery, her rep in New York. Pindell’s first exhibition with Victoria Miro is planned for June 2019 in London.' Victoria L Valentine, Culture Type -
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Exhibition
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18 January 2019
Stan Douglas: Hors-champs goes on view at Western Front, Vancouver
In Douglas’ Hors-champs, 1992 (on view 18 January–23 February 2019), a quartet of musicians—Kent Carter, Douglas Ewart, Oliver Johnson, and George Lewis—perform Albert Ayler’s Spirits Rejoice. Projected simultaneously on opposite sides of the same screen, Douglas’ installation considers the Black musical traditions (blues, gospel, etc) embedded into Ayler’s composition. Western Front, Vancouver -
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News story
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16 January 2019
Victoria Miro announces representation of Howardena Pindell
The first solo exhibition of works by the artist in the UK will be held at Victoria Miro Mayfair in June 2019. -
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Commission
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16 January 2019
Sarah Sze discusses her forthcoming commission for Storm King Art Center
Opening in spring 2020, Fallen Sky is comprised of a deliberately incomplete and increasingly delicate 36-foot-diameter spherical cavity, sheathed in mirrored stainless steel. Storm King Art Center -
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Commission
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10 January 2019
Conrad Shawcross, Chantal Joffe and Yayoi Kusama create window installations for Selfridges in celebration of their forthcoming Crossrail commissions
As a foretaste of their Crossrail commissions for the new Elizabeth Line, participating artists have been invited to create windows for Selfridges in Oxford Street, on view until 29 March 2019. Selfridges, London -
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Exhibition
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8 January 2019
Interiorities, featuring Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Adriana Varejão, opens at Haus der Kunst, Munich, in November 2019
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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Publications
8 January 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: I Refuse to be Invisible
This is the first publication on Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s work featuring essays by Cheryl Brutvan and Taiye Selasi, and an interview with the artist. Norton Museum of Art and Victoria Miro, 2018Njideka Akunyili Crosby: I Refuse to be Invisible£ 30.00 -
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News story
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3 January 2019
Works by Idris Khan feature in The New York Times Magazine
Two new works by Khan appear alongside an essay by novelist Rachel Cusk in this week's New York Times Magazine. The New York Times -
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Interview
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3 January 2019
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: The Modern Art Notes Podcast
In this edition of the weekly arts podcast Akunyili Crosby discusses her work and influences. The Modern Art Notes Podcast -
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Review
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30 December 2018
Laura Cumming selects Surface Work for her best art of 2018
'A century of abstract painting by women: rare and revelatory.' The Observer Laura Cumming -
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Exhibition
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14 December 2018
The major exhibition Stephen Willats: Languages of Dissent opens at Migros Museum, Zürich, in May 2019
This exhibition (25 May–18 August 2019) is themed around two aspects of Willats' practice: cybernetics, the regulation and control of dynamic systems, which enables him to frame structures of communication and relationships in society, and also enables him to influence the fabric of actual social realities, serving him as both method, aesthetic vocabulary, and formal model; and his specific interest in subcultures, where nonconformism and self-determination manifest themselves. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich -
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Review
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14 December 2018
This is tomorrow reviews Ilse D’Hollander
'A fragile moment takes shape, like a sharp intake of breath, as these forms meet: the tangible land of the living and a softer, internal landscape of the soul.' Claire Phillips, This is tomorrow -
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Review
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12 December 2018
Wallpaper* features Conrad Shawcross: Psychogeometries
'What strikes you immediately when reading it: Shawcross’ practice is remarkably complex. Hang from every word as he jumps from reference to reference, from the philosophy of science, to childrens’ toys, Greek mythology, Renaissance architecture and Buckminster Fuller.' Elly Parsons, Wallpaper* -
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Review
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10 December 2018
Frieze reviews Ilse D’Hollander
'D’Hollander’s edges always blur and lines wobble in a way that feels very human.' Skye Sherwin, Frieze -
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Event
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5 December 2018
Do Ho Suh: Spotlight Talk at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
In this Spotlight Talk, (25 January 2019) Suh discusses his sculptural practice, with special focus on the work Some/One, installed in the museum’s Contemporary Art Gallery. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas -
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Exhibition
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1 December 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Counterparts at The Modern, Fort Worth
For this exhibition (1 December 2018–13 January 2019), the artist has created a series of visually and conceptually mirrored pairs of paintings. One juxtaposes a Nigerian interior with Akunyili Crosby’s Los Angeles home. In another, a Nigerian table setting is matched with an American example. The Modern, Fort Worth, Texas -
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Channel
27 November 2018
Ilse D’Hollander
In this film of the exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair (on view until 21 December 2018) David Anfam, writer, critic and Senior Consulting Curator at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver, reflects on the poetic and historical resonances in Ilse D'Hollander's work. Anfam's essay, Silent Songs, features in a new book on the artist, published by Victoria Miro. -
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Exhibition
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22 November 2018
Michael Jackson: On the Wall, featuring Isaac Julien and Grayson Perry, travels to the Grand Palais, Paris
Travelling from the National Portrait Gallery, London, the exhibition (23 November 2018–14 February 2019) explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary art. Grand Palais, Paris -
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Exhibition
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18 November 2018
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta
The major touring exhibition travels to Atlanta (18 November 2018–17 February 2019). The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA -
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Review
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18 November 2018
Read Laura Cumming’s review of Ilse D’Hollander in The Observer
★★★★★ 'Small, calm and balanced, these landscapes are exceptionally beautiful.' Laura Cumming, The Observer -
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Exhibition
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17 November 2018
Njideka Akunyili Crosby: “The Beautyful Ones” at the National Portrait Gallery
This display (17 November 2018–3 February 2019) brings together new and existing works from the ongoing series "The Beautyful Ones", some of which are being exhibited for the first time. National Portrait Gallery, London -
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Publications
13 November 2018
Ilse D’Hollander
Published on the occasion of the first exhibition of the late Belgian artist in the UK, this book focuses on the rich dialogue between abstraction and representation in D’Hollander’s paintings, with an illuminating essay by David Anfam, writer, critic and Senior Consulting Curator at the Clyfford Still Museum, Denver. Victoria Miro, 2018Ilse D’Hollander£ 40.00 -
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Publications
13 November 2018
Conrad Shawcross: Psychogeometries
Psychogeometries is the first substantial book to consider the conceptual, thematic and material development of Conrad Shawcross’s art. It follows his career, from the extraordinary machines that marked his emergence in the early 2000s to his most recent projects, which extend the possibilities of art in the public realm, examining the geometries and topologies with which he has experimented, and exploring his ongoing interest in the tension between the rational and the irrational. Elephant and Victoria Miro, 2018Conrad Shawcross: Psychogeometries£ 35.00 -
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News story
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11 November 2018
The Art Newspaper reports that Do Ho Suh’s Bridging Home, London will remain on view until March 2020
'Korean artist Do Ho Suh’s replica of a Korean house and surrounding bamboo garden (Bridging Home, London), installed on a footbridge at Wormwood Street in central London, will remain in situ for another 16 months.' Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper
In Focus
John Kørner: Life in a Box in Ten Problems
Life in a Box, John Kørner’s new exhibition at Victoria Miro, considers the things – physical, emotional, conceptual – that constrain us and the ways in which we attempt to outrun or overcome them. The show features paintings, along with an installation of participatory sculptures, as well as the artist’s signature Problems – egg-shaped forms that appear in his paintings and as sculptures, which allude not to specific problems per se but to the nature of problems as they emerge and are comprehended in the world. He discusses the problems on his mind around the show and possibilities that arise from them.
Box problems
‘We all live in a box, more or less: in modern homes, in our heads. For me, it’s interesting to see how this idea might relate to painting. Works such as Cardboard box began very simply, taking the form of a box as a starting point. But, it’s also interesting to create the contents of a box, or to think of it as an environment in itself. The opening up of the box is a whole new way of painting for me. It’s a different viewpoint on the world.’
The opening up of the box is a whole new way of painting for me. It’s a different viewpoint on the world.
