Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote
This major presentation of new works features a dynamic installation of paintings from Kusama’s iconic My Eternal Soul series, bronze pumpkins and painted soft sculptures.
Chantal Joffe: Story
Accompanied by an artist’s book with a new text by Olivia Laing, Story (4 June–31 July 2021) features paintings of the artist’s mother and considers issues of aging, motherhood and visibility, focusing particularly on the complex relationship between mother and child over time.
In Venice – Conrad Shawcross: The Measures of Change
The exhibition features a number of the artist’s celebrated Fracture sculptures, the debut of a new series of Perimeter Studies sculptures, and prints from a new body of work, Studies for The Patterns of Absence.
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June 9 2021
The Financial Times reviews Chantal Joffe: Story
’Joffe's mother peers out from her hallway… it is a painting about seeing, painting – focusing, framing an image – and the extent to which we allow a slice of ourselves to be known.’ Jackie Wullschläger, The Financial Times -
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June 6 2021
Hettie Judah reviews Yayoi Kusama in iNews
In a review covering exhibitions at Tate Modern and Victoria Miro, Hettie Judah writes, ’There is great pleasure to be had from both these shows. If you happened upon them knowing nothing about Kusama, they’d be intriguing and delightful things.‘ Hettie Judah, iNews -
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June 16 2021
Cultured Magazine speaks with Wangechi Mutu
Cultured Magazine talks to the artist about her current exhibition I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? at San Francisco's Legion of Honour, on view until 7 November 2021. Storm Ascher, Cultured Magazine -
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June 21 2021
Tal R opens this week at Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen
Ordrupgaard's upcoming special exhibition Tal R - Alone at Home shows brand new works by the artist, on view from 25 June–19 September 2021. Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen -
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June 8 2021
Just unveiled in Stockholm: Life Rings by Elmgreen & Dragset
Life Rings is a new permanent outdoor sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragset. The tower of lifebuoys stretches up eight metres high by the waterside at Royal Djurgården. Stockholm, Sweden -
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June 7 2021
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami will feature in the Hayward Gallery’s major contemporary painting survey this autumn
Titled Mixing It Up: Painting Today, the exhibition (9 September–12 December 2021) features 31 artists whose works entrance, transfix and challenge us. Hayward Gallery, London -
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May 19 2021
Now re-opened – Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective at Gropius Bau, Berlin
Titled A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe, the artist's first large-scale retrospective in Germany takes place 23 April–1 August 2021. Gropius Bau, Berlin -
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May 28 2021
Ali Banisadr features in the V&A’s major new exhibition Epic Iran
The exhibition (opening 29 May, booking to 12 September 2021) explores five thousand years of art, design and culture and shines a light on one of the greatest historic civilisations. V&A, London -
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May 13 2021
Edinburgh Art Festival in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland announces 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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May 18 2021
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirror Rooms at Tate Modern
The focused exhibition (18 May 2021–12 June 2022) is a rare chance to experience two of the artist’s immersive mirror room installations juxtaposed with photos and footage of early performance works and studio happenings. Tate Modern, London -
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May 7 2021
Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco
Mutu's powerful exhibition (7 May–7 November 2021) at the Legion of Honor, a museum built for the showcase of European art from antiquity through Impressionism and presided over by Auguste Rodin's The Thinker, aims to spur, 'a purposeful examination of art histories, mythologies, and the techniques of archiving and remembering.' Legion of Honor, San Francisco -
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News story
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April 15 2021
Yayoi Kusama to exhibit new paintings from her iconic My Eternal Soul series in London, Tokyo, and New York this summer
Victoria Miro, Ota Fine Arts, and David Zwirner are pleased to announce that they will jointly present new My Eternal Soul paintings by Yayoi Kusama in London, Tokyo, and New York this summer. -
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May 19 2021
Grayson’s Art Club now open at Manchester Art Gallery
An exhibition of works selected by Grayson Perry during Grayson’s Art Club, the popular Channel 4 TV series. On view at Manchester Art Gallery from 19 May–31 October 2021. Manchester Art Gallery -
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May 18 2021
Portable Sculpture featuring Do Ho Suh, now open at Henry Moore Institute
This major exhibition (18 May–29 August 2021) brings together fifteen artists, with work from 1934 to the present day on display and explores sculptures that are deliberately designed to fold up, or pack down, or that have been made while on the move. Henry Moore Institute, Leeds -
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May 5 2021
CBS Sunday Morning reports on Sarah Sze at LaGuardia Airport
CBS Sunday Morning takes a closer look at Sarah Sze's sculpture Shorter Than the Day installed at LaGuardia Airport, New York. CBS News -
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May 28 2021
Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years, now open at York Art Gallery
The touring exhibition (28 May–5 September 2021) 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. York Art Gallery -
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May 22 2021
Marine: Ian Hamilton Finlay, now open at City Art Centre, Edinburgh
This major exhibition (22 May–3 October 2021) focuses on the maritime theme in Finlay’s work. It was a central element of his art, and one to which he returned throughout his life. City Art Centre, Edinburgh -
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Review
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May 11 2021
The Financial Times: Paula Rego’s dazzling and radical visions
The artist’s religiously inspired works, on show at the Cascais museum devoted to her, hand power to women. Marina Watson Pelaez, The Financial Times -
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May 21 2021
Opening this summer in Manchester – Maria Nepomuceno: Refloresta!
On view beneath the Portico Library's Regency-period glass dome (1 July–11 October 2021) works by the artist will be shown alongside natural history books and archive materials from the Library's nineteenth-century collection illustrating Manchester's international and colonial connections during the city's formative years. The Portico Library Manchester -
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Review
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April 19 2021
Read Hilton Als – Alice Neel’s Portraits of Difference in The New Yorker
'A commonplace observation about great portraitists is that they are always, in some way, painting themselves. Neel’s genius was to make us understand not just her interest in her subjects but why we are interested in one another.' Hilton Als, The New Yorker -
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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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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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April 21 2021
Elmgreen & Dragset – Short Story at Copenhagen Contemporary
With their installation Short Story (21 April–24 October 2021), the Danish-Norwegian artist duo Emgreen & Dragset have transformed Copenhagen Contemporary’s Hall 2 into the setting of a tennis court. Copenhagen, Denmark -
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News story
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April 12 2021
KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature reviewed in The New York Times
The New York Times dives into KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature, now on view at New York Botanical Gardens. Will Heinrich, The New York Times -
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Review
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April 1 2021
‘It’s Time to Put Alice Neel in Her Rightful Place in the Pantheon’ – Roberta Smith reviews Alice Neel: People Come First at the Met
'Neel’s greatness lies in the different levels of realism she combines in her art. They include social and economic inequities; the body’s deterioration through time; and the complex interior lives of her subjects.' Roberta Smith, The New York Times -
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June 4 2021
Coming to Tate Britain in July: a major Paula Rego retrospective
The exhibition (7 July–24 October 2021) will tell the story of this artist’s extraordinary life, highlighting the personal nature of much of her work and the socio-political context in which it is rooted. It will also reveal the artist’s broad range of references, from comic strips to history painting. Tate Britain, London -
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April 10 2021
KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature at New York Botanical Garden
In this major exhibition (10 April–31 October 2021) Kusama will reveal her lifelong fascination with the natural world, beginning with her childhood spent in the greenhouses and fields of her family’s seed nursery. Spectacular installations across the 250-acre landscape will include Hymn of Life – Tulips and Narcissus Garden, as well as the debut of new monumental sculptures. New York Botanical Garden -
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News
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April 12 2021
Doron Langberg and Salman Toor talk about their friendship in T Magazine’s 2021 Culture issue
A celebration of friendship in all its many forms, T Magazine's 2021 Culture issue honours the relationships that helped us through the past year. Toor and Langberg discuss their friendship, each other's work, and their shared passion for Dutch masters and contemporary queer portraiture. Coco Romack, T Magazine -
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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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March 22 2021
Alice Neel: People Come First
This ambitious survey (on view 22 March–1 August 2021) positions Neel as one of the century’s most radical painters, a champion of social justice whose longstanding commitment to humanist principles inspired her life as well as her art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York -
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March 3 2021
Now live: The Artist’s Mother: Lucie and Daryll, featuring Lucian Freud and Chantal Joffe
IMMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, presents a virtual exhibition (3 March–8 August 2021) available to view on Vortic and at imma.ie, followed by a gallery display of the pastels, which will be available to visit in the Freud Centre when current Covid-19 restrictions are lifted. -
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Review
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April 1 2021
Artforum on Ali Banisadr at the Benaki Museum
'Banisadr’s imagery is mutable, the shapes materializing, shifting, and dissolving under the gaze and the alchemy of myriad cultural references and contexts.' – Cathryn Drake Cathryn Drake, Artforum -
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Interview
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March 5 2021
María Berrío features in W Magazine’s major feature on contemporary figurative art, with text by Siddhartha Mitter
'I want to project women,' Berrío says. 'I want to project the courage and the strength, and also the vulnerability.' Siddhartha Mitter, W Magazine -
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News story
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February 3 2021
House & Garden take a look inside Idris Khan’s London studio
Emily Tobin visits Idris Khan in his London studio ahead of his forthcoming exhibition at Victoria Miro. Emily Tobin, House & Garden -
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November 3 2020
Ali Banisadr: Ultramarinus – Beyond the Sea at Benaki Museum
The title of the exhibition (3 November 2020–31 January 2021) refers to Ultramarine, the blue colour pigment used as early as the Middle Ages, which was originally extracted from the gemstone lapis lazuli and is believed to encapsulate all shades of water and skies. Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece -
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January 27 2021
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain and Sarah Sze present augmented reality app Night Vision 20/20
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain presents Night Vision 20/20, a work created by Sarah Sze — her first foray into augmented reality — and developed by the digital agency Cher Ami as an app. -
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Interview
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January 20 2021
A Brush with… Tal R – the Art Newspaper Podcast
‘I'm not at all interested in the idea of learning outside of making a great painting. I'm not interested in the psychology, I'm not interested in being philosophical about it. I'm just interested in creating great new work. And whatever takes me there, I'll do it.’ Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper -
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News story
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December 9 2020
Kudzanai-Violet Hwami is interviewed by Wallpaper*
The artist is interviewed by Amah-Rose Abrams for Wallpaper*, ahead of the announcement that she has joined Victoria Miro's roster. Amah-Rose Abrams, Wallpaper* -
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Interview
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December 7 2020
Wangechi Mutu and Carrie Mae Weems discuss creation myths and real-world strategies in Interview Magazine
’I do believe that the most grounded, clear, and compassionate artists are always trying to find a way to communicate that same thing, to say, “Yes, this is a scary world, but we will get through the night like we have for tens of thousands of years”.‘ – Wangechi Mutu Interview -
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News story
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November 23 2020
Howardena Pindell’s major exhibition Rope/Fire/Water reviewed by Hyperallergic
Alexandra M. Thomas reports on Howardena Pindell's current exhibiton on view at The Shed, New York. Alexandra M. Thomas, Hyperallergic -
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October 26 2020
Sarah Sze speaks with The Guardian about her major exhibition Night into Day
Sarah Sze speaks with Andrew Dickson from The Guardian about exhibition Night into Day, now on view at the Fondation Cartier until 7 March 2021. Andrew Dickson, The Guardian -
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News
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September 20 2020
Paula Rego and Josefa de Óbidos: arte religiosa no feminino at Casa das Historías
Now extended, this exhibition featuring works by Paula Rego and Josefa de Óbidos (until 19 September 2021). Cascais, Portugal -
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Interview
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October 16 2020
Howardena Pindell talks to The New York Times
At 77, Howardena Pindell Exorcises a Chilling Memory From Childhood. Jillian Steinhauer, The New York Times -
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Interview
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October 16 2020
‘I put myself – the Black body – in the work,’ – Howardena Pindell talks to Time about her new exhibition at The Shed
In 1979, Howardena Pindell quit her job in the curatorial department of The Museum of Modern Art to start teaching at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Months into her new profession, she was a passenger in a car accident that left her with a hip injury and a dent in her head, causing memory loss. The near-death situation inspired an epiphany for Pindell, already an artist outside of her working hours: she needed to voice her opinion, she needed to do it now, and her art was the perfect way to do it. Anna Purna Kambhampaty, Time -
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September 30 2020
Howardena Pindell is interviewed by Whitehot Magazine
Howardena Pindell speaks to Whitehot Magazine ahead of her upcoming exhibition Rope/Fire/Water at The Shed later this month. Chase Szakmary, Whitehot Magazine -
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Exhibition
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February 8 2021
Now extended until May 2021 – Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance at IMMA, Dublin
This major exhibition (18 September 2020–3 May 2021) spans Rego’s entire career from the 1960s, comprising more than 80 works, including paintings never seen before and works on paper from the artist’s family and close friends. IMMA, Dublin -
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September 25 2020
Doug Aitken I Only Have Eyes for You on view at Kiasma, Finland
I Only Have Eyes for You is the acclaimed artist’s first solo exhibition in Finland and is on view until 10 January 2021. Kiasma, Finland -
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September 19 2020
‘Electric, Like Time Travel’: The New York Review of Books interviews Chantal Joffe
Chantal Joffe speaks with The New York Review of Books. Imogen Greenhalgh, The New York Review of Books -
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News story
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September 3 2020
WSJ on Sarah Sze at LaGuardia Airport
WSJ magazine cover Sarah Sze's installation Shorter than the Day on view at LaGuardia airport. Cody Delistraty, WSJ Magazine -
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Exhibition
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June 9 2021
Ian Hamilton Finlay’s Little Sparta public opening 2021
Set in the Pentland Hills near Edinburgh, Little Sparta is Ian Hamilton Finlay’s unique garden and life's work. This year's annual public opening takes place between June and September 2019 for pre-booked visits. Stonypath, Dunsyre -
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Interview
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June 8 2021
Apollo: In the studio with… Chantal Joffe
‘I love everything about it – but most of all that it looks on to the canal.’ Apollo -
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Channel
June 4 2021
Chantal Joffe: Story
Accompanied by an artist’s book with a new text by Olivia Laing, Chantal Joffe’s exhibition Story features a number of paintings of the artist’s mother and considers issues of aging, motherhood and visibility, focusing particularly on the complex relationship between mother and child over time. The exhibition is the third in a trilogy that began with a year of self-portraits, shown at Victoria Miro in 2019, followed by For Esme – with Love and Squalor, which captured the changing faces across the years of Joffe and her daughter, Esme, on view at Arnolfini, Bristol, in 2020. -
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June 4 2021
Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote
A film of Yayoi Kusama's major presentation of new works at the gallery, featuring a dynamic installation of paintings from the artist's iconic My Eternal Soul series. Narrated by Akira Tatehata, author of the forthcoming exhibition publication. -
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Publications
June 4 2021
Chantal Joffe: Story
Published on the occasion of a new exhibition at Victoria Miro, this 80-page artist’s book features Looking for Mother, a new text by writer and critic Olivia Laing, and a selection of works from the past 30 years in addition to the paintings on view. Victoria Miro, 2021Chantal Joffe: Story£ 15.00 -
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June 2 2021
Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote
Available from 10 July, this special publication documents the ambitious presentation of works created by Yayoi Kusama for her new exhibition at the gallery. Victoria Miro, 2021Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote£ 45.00 -
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May 25 2021
Conrad Shawcross: The Measures of Change
Coinciding with the opening of La Biennale di Venezia: The 17th International Architecture Exhibition, The Measures of Change (on view at Victoria Miro Venice, 19 May–10 July 2021) features a number of the artist’s celebrated Fracture sculptures, the debut of a new series of Perimeter Studies sculptures, and prints from a new body of work, Studies for The Patterns of Absence. -
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Review
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May 24 2021
Frieze reviews Idris Khan’s recent exhibition The Seasons Turn
’The artist uses abstractions to expose our fragile yet resilient nature in relation to the pandemic’ Natalie Nzeyimana, Frieze -
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News story
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May 20 2021
Doron Langberg creates a new work in aid of the Middle East Children’s Alliance
Doron Langberg has created this new work on paper in aid of the Middle East Children's Alliance, a nonprofit working to protect the rights and improve the lives of children and refugees in Palestine, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon through medical aid, food, empowerment, and education. -
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Exhibition
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May 18 2021
On view until 30 May – Sarah Sze: Night into Day at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Final weeks to visit Sarah Sze: Night into Day. For her second solo show at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, internationally renowned artist Sarah Sze presents a fully immersive installation that transforms the visitor’s experience of Jean Nouvel’s glass building. Fondation Cartier, Paris -
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Publications
May 18 2021
Idris Khan: The Seasons Turn
This beautifully designed artist's book, with a cloth-bound double cover, concertinas to reveal Idris Khan's work The Seasons Turn, with spring and summer on one side, and autumn and winter on the other. With E. E. Cummings's poem "1(a" and a short accompanying text. Victoria Miro, 2021Idris Khan: The Seasons Turn£ 20.00
In Focus – Chantal Joffe: Story
Accompanied by an artist’s book with a new text by Olivia Laing, Chantal Joffe’s exhibition Story features a number of paintings of the artist’s mother and considers issues of aging, motherhood and visibility, focusing particularly on the complex relationship between mother and child over time.
The exhibition is the third in a trilogy that began with a year of self-portraits, shown at Victoria Miro in 2019, followed by For Esme – with Love and Squalor, which captured the changing faces across the years of Joffe and her daughter, Esme, on view at Arnolfini, Bristol, in 2020.
