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Read our online publication for Conrad Shawcross: Optic Labyrinth (Arrangement I)
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Institutional Exhibition
Stephen Willats in FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art
July 14 2018 Titled An American City: Eleven Cultural Exercises, the inaugural edition of the Cleveland Triennial (14 July–30 September 2018) comprises artist... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
NS Harsha at Glynn Vivian, Swansea
July 7 2018 NS Harsha 's largest solo UK exhibition to date (7 July–9 September 2018) takes place in several spaces across the... Read More
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Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors at The Cleveland Museum of Art
July 7 2018 Focusing on the evolution of her immersive Infinity Mirror Rooms, the most significant North American tour of Kusama’s work in... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Rockaway! 2018: Narcissus Garden by Yayoi Kusama
July 1 2018 MoMA PS1 presents Yayoi Kusama’s site-specific installation of Narcissus Garden (1966–present) as the third iteration of Rockaway! (1 July–3 September... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Doug Aitken’s Song 1 inaugurates the new Copenhagen Contemporary
June 29 2018 The opening programme (29 June–30 December 2018) includes Song 1, 2012/2015, a major installation by Doug Aitken Presented on a... Read More
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Review
Time Out reviews Sarah Sze: Afterimage
June 28 2018 ★★★★ Afterimages are the ghostly pictures that float in front of a person’s eyes after they’ve stopped looking at the... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Work by Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Isaac Julien and Grayson Perry features in Michael Jackson: On the Wall
June 22 2018 The exhibition (28 June–21 October 2018) explores the influence of Michael Jackson on some of the leading names in contemporary... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Conrad Shawcross: MATRIX 179 at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
June 21 2018 The exhibition (21 June–21 October 2018) celebrates the premiere of Shawcross’ sculpture Monolith (Optic), 2016, on Main Street in front... Read More -
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Work by Christian Holstad features in SI Onsite at the new Swiss Institute building, New York
June 21 2018 On the occasion of the opening of Swiss Institute’s new home at 38 St Marks Place, SI has commissioned and... Read More -
Interview
Wangechi Mutu talks to T Magazine as part of its series The Story of a Thing
June 20 2018 In this series for T, Emily Spivack, the author of “Worn Stories,” interviews creative types about their most prized possessions.... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Wangechi Mutu and Barnaby Furnas feature in Chaos and Awe: Painting for the 21st Century, at the Frist Art Museum
June 19 2018 The exhibition (22 June – 16 September 2018) features works that induce feelings of disturbance, mystery, and expansiveness through the... Read More -
Interview
The Observer interviews Sarah Sze
June 17 2018 The New York artist on her new London show, her friendship with Zadie Smith and avoiding social media. Interview by... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Stephen Willats and Grayson Perry feature in Do I Have to Draw You a Picture? at Heong Gallery, Cambridge
June 16 2018 The exhibition (16 June-7 October 2018) engages with themes of communication, breakdown of communication, and isolation. It brings together a... Read More
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Review
Nick Compton writes about Sarah Sze: Afterimage in Wallpaper*
June 14 2018 The American sculptor Sarah Sze creates fractured things, exploding or imploding or perhaps both. Her works, built of everyday debris... Read More -
Gallery Event
Artist talk: Alex Hartley
June 12 2018 Join Alex Hartley on Saturday 30 June at 1pm for an informal tour of his exhibition, The Houses , at... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2018, coordinated by Grayson Perry
June 12 2018 In addition to works by Perry, the exhibition (12 June–19 August 2018) also features Chantal Joffe, Isaac Julien, Idris Khan,... Read More
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Doug Aitken’s migration (empire) goes on display at Weatherspoon Art Museum
June 6 2018 Aitken's video serves as the catalyst for a concurrent exhibition (9 June–30 September 2018) of artworks drawn from the museum’s... Read More -
Interview
Grayson Perry talks to the Observer about coordinating the 250th Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
June 3 2018 A walk round the Royal Academy’s 250th Summer Exhibition with the artist, who is coordinating this year’s landmark show. By... Read More -
Preview
Louise Benson writes about Chantal Joffe’s Herb at Sixteen as part of Elephant’s Contemporary Classics series
June 3 2018 The inevitable self-consciousness of tender teenage years is conjured in Herb at Sixteen, a portrait of a friend's son, as... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Do Ho Suh: Passage/s at Towada Art Center
June 2 2018 An exhibition (2 June – 14 October 2018) featuring an installation Suh's Hub works, along with the video My Home/s,... Read More -
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Stan Douglas in Resist! The 1960s protests, photography and visual legacy at BOZAR, Brussels
May 30 2018 RESIST! The 1960s protests, photography and visual legacy presents some of the most iconic images of the 1960s movements that... Read More -
Preview
Wallpaper* writes about Do Ho Suh in Venice
May 30 2018 The South Korean artist Do Ho Suh, is a perfect complement to ‘Freespace’, the theme of the 2018 Venice Architecture... Read More
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Review
Rachel Spence reviews Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling Is The Main Thing in the Financial Times
May 29 2018 A sumptuous show at the Lowry in Salford pairs works by two artists depicting female experience. Long before #MeToo,... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Alice Neel in Animals & Us at Turner Contemporary
May 25 2018 The exhibition (25 May–30 September 2018) explores artists’ reflections on the relationship between humans and other animals. At a time... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Ian Hamilton Finlay in Machines à Penser at Fondazione Prada, Venice
May 24 2018 Curated by Dieter Roelstraete, the exhibition (26 May–25 November 2018) explores the correlation between conditions of exile, escape and retreat... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Isaac Julien in Höhenrausch 2018
May 24 2018 Water is the theme of Höhenrausch 2018 (24 May–14 October 2018), which features work by more than 40 international artists,... Read More -
Interview
Sue Hubbard writes about Chantal Joffe in The London Magazine
May 23 2018 I have long been interested in the work of Chantal Joffe and have written about her on several occasions. Her... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Dancing Goddesses, featuring David Harrison, at Dio Horia, Mykonos
May 21 2018 May 27 - July 20 Participating artists: Carlos Betancourt | Katherine Bradford | Sam Friedman | Hulda Guzman | David... Read More
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News Story
Do Ho Suh in Venice
May 21 2018 Exhibitions and projects during the 16th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia: a new film by, commissioned by the... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Chantal Joffe: Personal Feeling is the Main Thing at The Lowry
May 19 2018 An exhibition (19 May–2 September 2018) of works from across Joffe's career addressing themes of portraiture, motherhood, passing time and... Read More -
Interview
Chantal Joffe talks to Hettie Judah in the i
May 18 2018 “I think portraiture or the painting of people is always an act of trying to do the impossible – imagining... Read More
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Gallery Event
Surface Work Tours
May 15 2018 Led by curators and featured artists, these informal tours are free to attend and will last around 30 minutes. No... Read More -
‘Painting is a high-wire act’: Olivia Laing on sitting for Chantal Joffe
May 13 2018 While being painted, author Olivia Laing pens her own portrait of Chantal Joffe and hears why painting is like hairdressing... Read More -
Picture story
Anatomy of an Artwork: Elizabeth Murray’s Maybe True
May 12 2018 The American painter mixes comic-book symbolism and domestic imagery in her striking, crazily shaped canvases. By Skye Sherwin Mixing it... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Yayoi Kusama: Life is the Heart of a Rainbow at Museum MACAN, Jakarta
May 12 2018 The first large-scale exhibition (12 May – 9 September 2018) of Yayoi Kusama’s work in Indonesia includes more than 130... Read More -
Interview
Do Ho Suh talks to the FT about his new film, commissioned by the V&A
May 11 2018 Do Ho Suh in Venice: the lives of others. By Rachel Spence 'The house we were born in is... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Tal R: this is not Detroit at MOCA Detroit
May 11 2018 The intricate, multipart installation (11 May – 29 July 2018) manifests the artist’s fantasy of Detroit. Seven large-scale paintings, rendered... Read More
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Do Ho Suh: The Spaces in Between at Cantor Arts Center
May 10 2018 For this exhibition (10 May 2018–25 Feb 2019) Do Ho Suh has created a chandelier, wallpaper, and a decorative screen... Read More -
News Story
Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Stan Douglas, Isaac Julien, Wangechi Mutu and Chris Ofili donate works to Creating Space: Artists for the Studio Museum in Harlem
May 10 2018 Sotheby's New York hosts the viewing (4 – 16 May 2018) and auction (16, 17 May 2018) of works to... Read More -
Preview
Vogue writes about Tal R: this is not Detroit at MOCA Detroit
May 10 2018 At the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Tal R Paints the Michigan Of His Dreams. Julia Felsenthal Detroit has always... Read More
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As part of its Contemporary Classics series, Elephant writes about Black Hands, Chris Ofili’s clock commission for PEER
May 6 2018 By Holly Black Last year, while taking a familiar shortcut through Hoxton Street in London on a particularly beautiful evening,... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Grayson Perry – Julie Cope’s Grand Tour: The Story of a Life at Shipley Art Gallery
May 5 2018 A Crafts Council touring exhibition (5 May – 28 July 2018) of two large-scale tapestries which represent, in Perry's words,... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Stan Douglas in Shape of Light: 100 Years of Photography and Abstract Art at Tate Modern
May 2 2018 This major exhibition (2 May – 14 October 2018) tells the intertwined stories of photography and abstract art. The birth... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Works by Maria Nepomuceno feature in the opening displays of the Norval Foundation, Cape Town
April 26 2018 The Norval Foundation (opening 28 April 2018) is a new centre for the research and exhibition of 20th and 21st-century... Read More -
Event
Do Ho Suh to take part in the Words/Works/Walls conference, Oxford
April 25 2018 Words/Works/Walls: Conceptual Architectures in Visual Cultures (11 May 2018) is a day conference in consideration of walls as barriers, as... Read More -
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby in conversation with Naomi Beckwith
April 25 2018 An in-conversation event (26 July 2018) as part of Anderson Ranch's Summer Series. Njideka Akunyili Crosby will discuss her practice... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Stephen Willats: Control at Tate Liverpool
April 25 2018 A project and events programme (25 April – 16 May 2018) devoted to Control Magazine. Founded in 1965 by Stephen... Read More -
Interview
The May issue of Apollo features a cover story interview with Chantal Joffe
April 25 2018 As she prepares for exhibitions at Victoria Miro Venice (14 April – 19 May 2018) and The Lowry (19 May – 2 September 2018), the artist discusses her most recent body of work with Harriet Baker. Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Varda Caivano in The Divine Joke, curated by Barry Schwabsky
April 25 2018 An exhibition at Anita Rogers Gallery, New York (25 April – 2 June 2018) curated by the critic and poet... Read More
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Review
Surface Work is Time Out’s Show of the Week
April 24 2018 ★★★★ By Eddy Frankel The history of art is full of old dead white blokes. We’ve had centuries of western... Read More -
Event
Sarah Sze gives the Bobbie and Mike Wilsey Distinguished Lecture for 2018
April 23 2018 The artist discusses her work in a free public talk (6-7.30pm, 10 May 2018) held at Stanford University. No registration... Read More -
Preview
Elephant features Adriana Varejão’s Parede con Incisão a la Fontana 3 in its Contemporary Classics column
April 22 2018 Adriana Varejão’s slashes after Lucio Fontana have a more gruesome story to tell than her predecessor’s punctures, making it a... Read More
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News Story
Victoria Miro announces representation of The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander
April 21 2018 Victoria Miro is delighted to announce representation of The Estate of Ilse D’Hollander. The first London exhibition of works by... Read More -
Review
Louisa Buck reviews Surface Work in The Telegraph
April 20 2018 Move over, Malevich! Shift up, Mondrian! Roll over, Rothko! The central role of women in the development of abstract art... Read More -
News Story
The Financial Times announces Victoria Miro’s representation of the Ilse D’Hollander Estate
April 20 2018 D’Hollander’s soft, small-scale but highly charged works often draw on the Flemish countryside and are increasingly finding their audience with recent institutional shows in Europe. Read More
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Review
Laura Cumming reviews Surface Work in The Observer
April 15 2018 ★★★★★ This magnificent, century-spanning survey of abstract painting, all of it by women, many of whom are unknown, is as... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
Secundino Hernández at Taidehalli, Helskini
April 14 2018 An exhibition (14 April – 13 May 2018) of new paintings in addition to a selection of works from the... Read More -
Review
Caroline Douglas, Director of the Contemporary Art Society, writes about Surface Work in her Friday Dispatch
April 13 2018 The openings were crowded in Mayfair and Old Street on Tuesday evening for this dense, two-site exhibition. Including work by... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Grayson Perry: Folk Wisdom at Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
April 13 2018 The exhibition (13 April – 2 September 2018) is produced in collaboration with La Monnaie de Paris museum, where it... Read More -
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Njideka Akunyili Crosby’s Hayward Gallery Billboard is unveiled
April 13 2018 Dwell: Aso Ebi, 2017, is on view until mid-February 2019. The work is installed on the façade of the Queen... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
David Harrison curates The Lore of the Land at Churchgate Gallery, Porlock
April 12 2018 The exhibition (30 April – 30 May 2018) brings together artists including Anne Ryan, Abigail Lane, Peter Doig, Ross Taylor... Read More
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Event
A Wayne McGregor triple bill, featuring Kairos with set design by Idris Khan, at Nationaltheater, Munich
April 11 2018 Performances by Munich's Bayerisches Staatsballett (14, 15, 18, 28 April, 11, 18 May, 12, 23 June, 10 July 2018 and... Read More -
Review
Matthew Collings reviews Surface Work the Evening Standard
April 10 2018 You get used to enjoying paintings not for what they picture but for how they attack the problem of creating... Read More -
Feature
Skin, Or Surface: Simone White writes about Njideka Akunyili Crosby in Frieze
April 6 2018 Marble dust is one of many materials Njideka Akunyili Crosby ‘layers’ in her paintings. ‘Layers’ is a word that appears... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Stephen Willats is featured in Fashioned from Nature at the V&A
April 6 2018 Willats’ Variable Sheets/Optical Shift, 1965, is included in the exhibition (21 April 2018 – 27 January 2019), which invites visitors... Read More -
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Celia Paul, curated by Hilton Als, at the Yale Center for British Art
April 3 2018 3 April–12 August 2018 The Center will present an exhibition of work by the contemporary British artist Celia Paul (b.... Read More -
Preview
Francesca Gavin writes about Surface Work in the Financial Times
April 3 2018 The current trend dominating the art market is the rediscovery and repositioning of female artists as central to the canon... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves at The Whitworth
March 30 2018 Ten Thousand Waves (on display 30 March–28 August 2018) is the most recent in a series of major moving image... Read More -
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John Kørner: Running Problems at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens
March 25 2018 For his first museum exhibition in Belgium (25 March – 17 June 2018) Kørner creates an integrated environment of painting... Read More -
Institutional Exhibition
David Harrison in Sawdust and Sequins: The Art of the Circus
March 24 2018 The exhibition (24 March – 3 June 2018) at the Royal West of England Academy also features work by Sir... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Grayson Perry in Things of Growing Beauty: British Studio Pottery at the Fitzwilliam Museum
March 20 2018 A collaboration with Yale Center for British Art, where it was first displayed, the exhibition (20 March – 17 June... Read More -
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Inka Essenhigh: A Fine Line at Virginia MOCA
March 17 2018 A survey (17 March–19 August 2018) of some 30 paintings from across the artist's career. Through her painting, Inka Essenhigh... Read More -
Profile
Celia Paul writes in the FT about painting from life – and loss
March 16 2018 Soon after my father died in 1983 I did a painting of my four sisters with my mother in the... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Do Ho Suh: Almost Home at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
March 16 2018 16 March – 5 August 2018 Do Ho Suh’s immersive, dreamlike work explores the nature and meaning of home, fastening... Read More -
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The 21st Biennale of Sydney, featuring NS Harsha
March 16 2018 Titled Superposition, the 21st Biennale of Sydney (16 March – 11 June 2018) borrows a term from quantum mechanics to... Read More -
Review
Ann Hackett contemplates the relationship between humankind and nature in María Berrío’s collages
March 13 2018 Living with the Land: Maria Berrio in Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp Girls replace their arms with... Read More
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Institutional Exhibition
Art Capital: Art for the Elizabeth line, featuring Chantal Joffe, Conrad Shawcross and Yayoi Kusama
March 13 2018 The exhibition (13 March – 6 May 2018) brings together unseen material by Joffe, Shawcross, Kusama and all the artists... Read More -
News Story
Conrad Shawcross to create a major new public artwork for the Elizabeth line at Liverpool Street
March 13 2018 'Manifold' by British artist Conrad Shawcross will be a bronze sculpture positioned outside the Moorgate entrance of the Elizabeth line... Read More
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