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  Isaac Julien: Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement opens at The Bechtler Museum of Modern Art

  October 30 2021 The first US museum presentation of Lina Bo Bardi - A Marvellous Entanglement, Isaac Julien’s nine-screen film installation, which is... Read More
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  Conrad Shawcross features in To the Edge of Time at Universiteitsbibliotheek Leuven

  October 19 2021 The exhibition (22 October 2021–16 January 2022) showcases the kinetic light sculpture Slow Arc Inside a Cube XI, and ties... Read More
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  Doug Aitken: New Era at MCA Sydney

  October 19 2021 This survey exhibition (20 October 2021–06 February 2022) features installations, objects, photographs, and vast immersive multi-screen environments that envelop visitors... Read More

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  Group exhibition MOTHER! now open at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany

  October 7 2021 Whether loving or distant, near or far, alive or dead, mothers are the source and existential beginning of human life.... Read More
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  Stephen Willats features in Rhythm and Geometry: Constructivist art in Britain since 1951 at Sainsbury Centre

  October 2 2021 Drawn from the Sainsbury Centre collection, the exhibition (2 October 2021–30 January 2022) celebrates the abstract and constructed art made... Read More
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  On view at Frick Madison Living Histories: Queer Views and Old Masters, featuring Doron Langberg

  September 30 2021 Inspired by Frick Madison, which has prompted new perspectives on the Frick's collection, Living Histories presents four paintings created in... Read More

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  Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years at Sainsbury Centre

  September 19 2021 The touring exhibition (19 September 2021–30 January 2022) developed by the Holburne Museum in Bath, is the first to celebrate... Read More
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  Alice Neel: People Come First at Guggenheim Bilbao

  September 17 2021 The ambitious survey Alice Neel: People Come First, which was on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,... Read More
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  Works by Kudzanai-Violet Hwami on display across Saint- Denis, Paris

  September 17 2021 Bringing contemporary African art to the streets of Saint-Denis, Paris, the Neuf 3 initiative has installed work on shop fronts,... Read More

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  Mixing It Up: Painting Today, featuring Kudzanai-Violet Hwami

  September 9 2021 Titled Mixing It Up: Painting Today, the exhibition (9 September–12 December 2021) features 31 artists whose works entrance, transfix and... Read More
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  The Independent reviews Mixing It Up: Painting Today at the Hayward Gallery

  September 8 2021 'Mixing It Up has great pace and energy and an unstoppably upbeat vibe.' Mark Hudson reviews Mixing It Up: Painting... Read More
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  Christan Holstad’s Consider Yourself as a Guest (Cornucopia) installed on Procida

  September 2 2021 Installed on Procida, an island off the coast of Naples, Christan Holstad' s Consider Yourself as a Guest (Cornucopia) is... Read More

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  The Royal Academy of Arts announces its 2022 programme, featuring the major exhibition Milton Avery: American Colourist

  September 1 2021 The first comprehensive survey of Avery’s work in Europe, the exhibition (which will now take place 16 July–16 October 2022)... Read More
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  Vortic launches Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote online

  August 20 2021 Didn't catch Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the Words I Wrote at Victoria Miro? The exhibition... Read More
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  The UK and European premiere of Isaac Julien’s Lessons of the Hour

  July 29 2021 Edinburgh Art Festival in partnership with National Galleries of Scotland announces the UK and European premiere of Isaac Julien’s Lessons... Read More

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  Do Ho Suh: Proposal for Sach'ŏnwang-sa. at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE

  July 28 2021 Inspired by the resonance between the Roman Temple of Mithras and an ancient Korean Temple, the new commission (on view... Read More
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  Kudzanai-Violet Hwami collaborates with poet Belinda Zhawi for sonsbeek 20→24 force times distance

  July 23 2021 Artist Kudzanai-Violet Hwami has collaborated with poet Belinda Zhawi to create an installation consisting of sound, paintings and film. It... Read More
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  Isaac Julien features in the Royal Academy’s Piccadilly Art Takeover

  July 21 2021 From 21 July–31 August 2021, The Royal Academy of Arts, in partnership with Art of London, is welcoming people back... Read More

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  Paula Rego at Hogarth’s House

  July 20 2021 The exhibition (20 July–26 November 2021) features prints from throughout the artist’s career and explores how her admiration for William... Read More
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  Any distance between us, featuring Doron Langberg, at RISD Museum

  July 13 2021 The exhibition (17 July 2021–13 March 2022) explores the power and significance of intimate relationships in works of contemporary art,... Read More
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  Paula Rego at Tate Britain

  July 7 2021 Since the 1950s, Paula Rego has played a key role in redefining figurative art in the UK and internationally. An... Read More

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  Maria Nepomuceno: Refloresta!

  July 1 2021 On view beneath the Portico Library's Regency-period glass dome (1 July–11 October 2021) works by the artist will be shown... Read More
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  Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, featuring Isaac Julien, tours to LUMA, Arles

  June 25 2021 This major exhibition (4 July–26 September 2021), which originated at The Barbican, considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and... Read More
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  Tal R opens at Ordrupgaard, Copenhagen

  June 21 2021 Ordrupgaard's upcoming special exhibition Tal R - Home Alone shows brand new works by the artist. The exhibition falls into... Read More

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  Just unveiled in Stockholm: Life Rings by Elmgreen & Dragset

  June 8 2021 Life Rings is a new permanent outdoor sculpture by Elmgreen & Dragset. The tower of lifebuoys stretches up eight metres... Read More
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  Ali Banisadr features in the V&A’s major new exhibition Epic Iran

  May 29 2021 The exhibition (opening 29 May, booking to 12 September 2021) explores five thousand years of art, design and culture and... Read More
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  Grayson Perry: The Pre-Therapy Years at York Art Gallery

  May 28 2021 The touring exhibition (28 May–5 September 2021) developed by the Holburne Museum in Bath, is the first to celebrate Grayson... Read More

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  Marine: Ian Hamilton Finlay at City Art Centre, Edinburgh

  May 22 2021 This major exhibition (22 May–3 October 2021) focuses on the maritime theme in Finlay’s work. It was a central element... Read More
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  Grayson’s Art Club now open at Manchester Art Gallery

  May 19 2021 An exhibition of works selected by Grayson Perry during Grayson’s Art Club, the popular Channel 4 TV series. On view... Read More
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  Yayoi Kusama: A Retrospective at Gropius Bau, Berlin

  May 19 2021 Titled A Bouquet of Love I Saw in the Universe, the artist's first large-scale retrospective in Germany takes place 23... Read More

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  Portable Sculpture featuring Do Ho Suh at Henry Moore Institute

  May 18 2021 This major exhibition (18 May–29 August 2021) brings together fifteen artists, with work from 1934 to the present day on... Read More
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  On view until 30 May – Sarah Sze: Night into Day at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

  May 18 2021 For her second solo show at the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, internationally renowned artist Sarah Sze presents a fully... Read More
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  Milton Avery: The Connecticut Years at the Wadsworth Atheneum

  May 14 2021 The exhibition (14 May–17 October 2021) presents an intimate look at the formative years of the modernist master. Beginning in... Read More

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  Wangechi Mutu: I Am Speaking, Are You Listening? at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

  May 7 2021 Mutu's powerful exhibition (7 May–7 November 2021) at the Legion of Honor, a museum built for the showcase of European... Read More
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  Elmgreen & Dragset – Short Story at Copenhagen Contemporary

  April 21 2021 With their installation Short Story (21 April–24 October 2021), the Danish-Norwegian artist duo Emgreen & Dragset have transformed Copenhagen Contemporary’s... Read More
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  KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature at New York Botanical Garden

  April 10 2021 In this major exhibition (10 April–31 October 2021) Kusama will reveal her lifelong fascination with the natural world, beginning with... Read More

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  Alice Neel: People Come First

  March 22 2021 The Met’s exhibition Alice Neel: People Come First, (on view 22 March–1 August 2021) is the first museum retrospective in... Read More
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  Jules de Balincourt – After the Gold Rush at CAC Málaga

  March 12 2021 The exhibition (12 March–30 May 2021) features more than forty paintings created over the past decade. Recent paintings by the... Read More
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  Now live: The Artist’s Mother: Lucie and Daryll, featuring Lucian Freud and Chantal Joffe

  March 3 2021 IMMA, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, presents a virtual exhibition (3 March-8 August 2021) available to view on Vortic... Read More

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  Hernan Bas: Choose Your Own Adventure at Space K, Seoul

  February 25 2021 The artist's first solo museum exhibition in Korea (25 February–27 May 2021) features works from 2007 to the present, including... Read More
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  Now extended until May 2021 – Paula Rego: Obedience and Defiance at IMMA, Dublin

  February 8 2021 This major exhibition (18 September 2020–3 May 2021) spans Rego’s entire career from the 1960s, comprising more than 80 works,... Read More
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  Elmgreen & Dragset: 2020 at EMMA – Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Finland is extended until 21 March 2021

  February 5 2021 Elmgreen & Dragset's major exhibition 2020 is now on view until 21 March 2021. Elmgreen & Dragset often transform the... Read More

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  Ali Banisadr features in A Boundless Drop to a Boundless Ocean at Orlando Museum of Art

  January 19 2021 A collaboration between the Orlando Museum of Art and the American University in Cairo, the exhibition (29 January–2 May 2021)... Read More
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  Installations by Stan Douglas and Elmgreen & Dragset open at Penn Station

  January 5 2021 On view from 1 January 2021 at Penn Station's new Moynihan Train Hall, three ambitious site-specific permanent installations by artists... Read More
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  María Berrío: Esperando mientras la noche florece (Waiting for the Night to Bloom) at the Norton Museum of Art

  January 2 2021 The first survey (2 January–9 May 2021) of María Berrío’s art includes two new pieces. Berrío’s large-scale, brilliantly coloured collages... Read More

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  Ali Banisadr: Ultramarinus – Beyond the Sea at Benaki Museum

  November 3 2020 The Benaki Museum is hosting Ali Banisadr’s first solo exhibition in Greece entitled Ultramarinus – Beyond the Sea, at the... Read More
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  Ali Banisadr at Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art

  October 22 2020 A major exhibition of paintings by the artist (22 October 2020–14 February 2021). In addition, Banisadr has cruated a small... Read More
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  Sarah Sze: Night into Day opens at Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

  October 16 2020 For her second solo show at the Fondation Cartier, Sarah Sze will create an immersive exhibition (24 October 2020–7 March... Read More

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  Chantal Joffe: For Esme – with Love and Squalor, now open at Arnolfini, Bristol

  August 25 2020 The exhibition (3 September–22 November 2020) explores the intimate act of painting and portraiture. Taking its name from J.D. Salinger’s... Read More
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  Grayson Perry’s The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman goes on display at the British Museum

  August 25 2020 The Tomb of the Unknown Craftsman, an elaborate, richly decorated cast-iron coffin-ship, will be displayed alongside the striking 2,400-year-old Nereid... Read More
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  Carnegie Museum of Art’s online exhibition series continues with Doug Aitken’s migration

  August 19 2020 The Open Museum, 19 August–15 Nov 2020: The Carnegie Museum of Art launches its free online exhibition screening of 'migration'... Read More

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  A new exhibition opens at the Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo

  July 30 2020 THE VISION OF FANTASY THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN IS THIS SPLENDOR (30 July 2020–29 March 2021) features works created... Read More
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  Tate Modern reopens, featuring Sarah Sze’s installation Seamless

  July 27 2020 Seamless, 1999, (on display until 22 November 2020) incorporates functional, human-scale items, for example a ladder. Other handmade elements, such... Read More
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  Escalations, an exhibition by Conrad Shawcross at Château La Coste, is extended until 6 September 2020

  July 26 2020 Opening on Saturday 29 February, Château La Coste presents an expansive exhibition of works by Conrad Shawcross. The exhibition (extended... Read More

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  Works by Njideka Akunyili Crosby feature in Inner Spaces at Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens

  July 26 2020 The seventh edition of the Biennial of Painting (26 July–18 October 2020) features works that depict a wide range of... Read More
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  Reopen and extended – Isaac Julien features in Masculinities: Liberation through Photography at the Barbican

  July 13 2020 This major exhibition (now extended to 23 August 2020) considers how masculinity has been coded, performed, and socially constructed from... Read More
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  Paula Rego – The Scream of Imagination at MACNA

  July 9 2020 The exhibition (9 July–18 October 2020) has as its starting point a number of important works by Paula Rego in... Read More

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  Now reopen at the Foundling Museum – Portraying Pregnancy, featuring Chantal Joffe

  July 8 2020 This major exhibition (now extended until 23 August 2020) explores representations of pregnancy through portraits from the past 500 years.... Read More
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  Doron Langberg participates in Art on the Grid

  June 29 2020 Work by Doron Langberg installed across New York City as part of Art on the Grid. Public Art Fund invites... Read More
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  New permanent commission Schism by Conrad Shawcross, opening at Château La Coste

  June 27 2020 On the grounds of the estate, Shawcross has created a new permanent and monumental commission for Château La Coste. Schism,... Read More

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  Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden (1966–2020) at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

  June 26 2020 Narcissus Garden dates back to 1966, when Kusama first participated in the 33rd Venice Biennale. It has now been installed... Read More
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  Tal R: Animals and People at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

  June 18 2020 The centrepiece of the exhibition (18 June 2020–17 January 2021) is a series of new bronze sculptures, which Tal R... Read More
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  Work by Conrad Shawcross goes on view at Salisbury Cathedral – take a virtual tour of the exhibition and read a digital copy of the catalogue

  May 2 2020 In celebration of the 800th anniversary of the laying of its foundation stones, Salisbury Cathedral presents the exhibition Celebrating 800... Read More

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  A new exhibition, ZERO IS INFINITY, ZERO and Yayoi Kusama, opens at the Yayoi Kusama Museum

  March 4 2020 The first group exhibition at the Yayoi Kusama Museum, Tokyo (5 March–31 May 2020) focuses on Kusama's activity in Europe... Read More
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  Conrad Shawcross features in Under the Stars at the Art Gallery of New South Wales

  March 1 2020 The exhibition (21 March–20 September 2020) presents examples of stargazing and mapping by Indigenous and non-Indigenous artists, highlighting the commonalities... Read More
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  María Berrío is featured in Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020 at NMSU Art Museum

  February 25 2020 The inaugural exhibition (28 February–28 May 2020) of the new University Art Museum (UAM) at New Mexico State University (NMSU)... Read More

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  Wangechi Mutu is featured in the Centre Pompidou’s exhibition Neurones/Les Intelligences Simulées

  February 24 2020 The exhibition (26 February–20 April 2020) highlights the continuity of research by artists, architects, designers and musicians alongside that developed... Read More
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  Grayson Perry and Wangechi Mutu feature in Bodyscapes at The Israel Museum

  February 17 2020 Examining the relationship between nature and culture through the prism of the body, this exhibition (21 February–3 October 2020) brings... Read More
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  Isaac Julien and Do Ho Suh feature in When Home Won’t Let You Stay: Migration through Contemporary Art opening at Minneapolis Institute of Art

  February 16 2020 The exhibition (23 February–24 May 2020) considers how contemporary artists are responding to the migration, immigration, and displacement of peoples... Read More

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  Idris Khan creates a unique work for Fine Cell Work’s Human Touch exhibition and sale

  February 7 2020 This exhibition (Sotheby's, London, 26 February-3 March 2020; bidding from 12 February 2020) and sale of works a ground-breaking collaboration... Read More
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  As reported in The New York Times, Seattle Asian Art Museum reopens, featuring an installation by Do Ho Suh

  February 6 2020 Reopening on 8 February 2020, the newly renovated and expanded Asian Art Museum offers a thematic exploration of art from... Read More
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  Coming soon – Time Present: Photography from the Deutsche Bank Collection, featuring Idris Khan

  February 5 2020 The exhibition (21 March 2020–8 February 2021) presents a broad spectrum of international photography collected by Deutsche Bank over the... Read More

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  Sarah Sze: Images in Debris at MOCA Toronto

  February 4 2020 Constellatory, monumental, intimate and immersive, Images in Debris (on view 6 February–10 May 2020) is one in a series of... Read More
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  Stan Douglas’ Doppelgänger features in The Imagination of Time at Tokyo Photographic Art Museum

  February 3 2020 The exhibition, held as part of Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions (7–23 February 2020) considers notions of... Read More
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  Grayson Perry features in Utopias at Whitworth Art Gallery

  January 31 2020 The exhibition (31 January–27 September 2020) crosses genres, media and timeframes to provide a playful and provocative framework for probing... Read More

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  Varda Caivano features in the Hayward Gallery Touring exhibition Slow Painting, curated by Martin Herbert

  January 24 2020 Currently at The Levinsky Gallery in Plymouth (24 Jan–28 Mar 2020), Slow Painting features 19 artists whose work spans a... Read More
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  Now open – An Exhibition of Works by… featuring Adriana Varejão at Witte de With, Rotterdam

  January 19 2020 Taking blue and white ceramics as a starting point, this exhibition (19 January–19 July 2020) of international artists explores the... Read More
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  Stan Douglas to represent Canada at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022

  January 15 2020 As announced by The National Gallery of Canada, Stan Douglas has been selected to represent Canada at the 59th Venice... Read More

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  Wangechi Mutu is featured in Indian Ocean Current: Six Artistic Narratives at McMullen Museum of Art

  January 15 2020 The exhibition (27 January–31 May 2020) explores the contemporary legacy of the long movement of people, things, and ideas across... Read More
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  Isaac Julien’s Western Union: Small Boats at Neuberger Museum of Art

  January 12 2020 The Neuberger Museum of Art features one of artist Isaac Julien’s most important works, Western Union: Small Boats, (on view... Read More