ART REVIEW — Vaughn Spann: The Heat Lets us Know We’re Alive
Vaughn Spann presents twelve vivid and distinct pieces that appear as standalone works, but that are also inextricably linked through the theme of ‘heat’
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BLAIN SOUTHERN TO CLOSE DOWN ITS GALLERIES
In a statement today from Harry Blain, the Founding Director of Blain Southern announces that the gallery is closing down its three locations in Berlin, London and New York.
Read MoreSONIA BOYCE, THE FIRST BLACK WOMAN TO REPRESENT GREAT BRITAIN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE 2021
Sonia Boyce will represent Great Britain at the 59th Venice Biennale the British Council announced today. The biennial will run from May to November 2021. Boyce will make history as the first black woman to receive the commission.
Read MoreJames Turrell — at PACE Gallery
On view until 27 March
Read MoreDATES AND VENUES OF THE 11TH EDITION OF BERLIN BIENNALE ANNOUNCED
The Berlin Biennale announces its program of exhibitions, performances, residencies, lectures, workshops, and presentations to be hosted at ExRotaprint, an artist-led project space, as well as daadgalerie, Gropius Bau and the KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
Read MoreMassimo Bartolini: Credits — at Frith Street Gallery
Credits is an exhibition about Landscape; its meaning, form and significance. For Bartolini landscape is nature viewed from a safe distance, it is always a projection of those that inhabit it.
On view until 9 April
Read MoreART BASEL HONG KONG CANCELS ITS 2020 EDITION IN RESPONSE TO THE CORONAVIRUS
As China struggles to contain the deadly coronavirus, and World Health Organization (WHO) declares a global public health emergency, Art Basel cancels this years edition of its Hong Kong fair.
Read MoreLIFE CAPTURED STILL, HARUN FAROCKI, HITO STEYERL — at GALERIE THADDAEUS ROPAC
This exhibition brings together formative video installations by the artists Harun Farocki and Hito Steyerl, curated by Antje Ehmann and Carles Guerra, with exhibition architecture by Luis Feduchi.
On view until 4 April
Read MoreLi Qing: BLOW-UP — at Almine Rech
Overrun with mysteries, fake news, innuendos and double meanings, Blow-Up is a visual wandering in which Li Qing, a leading figure of the new generation of Chinese artists born in the ’80s, confronts us with different ways of understanding, reading, decoding and interpreting the appearances of reality
On view until 7 March
Read MoreSam Anderson: I Never Loved Your Mind — at Tanya Leighton Gallery
Foraging through iconography of the past and present, selecting and rigorously assembling, Anderson examines how perception influences desire and vice versa.
On view until 7 March
Read MoreStan Douglas: Doppelgänger — at Victoria Miro
Doppelgänger is set in an alternative present. Displayed on two square-format, translucent screens, each of which can be viewed from both sides, the looped narrative unfolds in side-by-side vignettes that depict events on worlds that are light years apart.
On view until 14 March
Read MoreNigel Cooke: New Paintings — at Pace Gallery
“… What I end up with is not strictly a figure but a matrix of lines that come in and out of a description of human forms, but that also slips into animal, plant, and landscape intonations…”
— Nigel Cooke, 2020
On view until February 29
Read MoreDON VAN VLIET: Parapliers the Willow Dipped, Paintings 1967-1997 — at Michael Werner Gallery
Chosen by artist Spencer Sweeney, the works comprising Parapliers the Willow Dipped explore the range of Van Vliet’s output over three decades and present an artist fully in tune with the legacies of European and American painting.
On view until March
Read MoreTAYLOR ANTON WHITE: FREE_HOTDOG.PDF — at Monica King Contemporary
The exhibition features works consisting of what White describes as “contradictory elements that should be discordant but somehow come together to exist in a state of tenuous balance.”
On view until March 14
Read MoreJohn Miller: The Collapse of Neoliberalism — at Metro Pictures
Mannequins are an iconic theme in this show. Miller characterizes them as simple anthropomorphized clothing racks that can nonetheless prompt unnerving degrees of identification.
On view until March 14
Read MoreTyler Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good — at International Center of Photography
Tyler Mitchell, a 24-year-old photographer and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, aims to revitalize and elevate the Black body in his work by representing people in his own community as joyful and proud.
On view until May 18
Read MoreOscar Muñoz: El Coleccionista — at carlier | gebauer
Muñoz’s work stages scenarios in which we witness the accumulation, dissolution, deterioration, or disintegration of the image. Manipulating evanescent elements like water, dust, heat, sun, and time, he has poetically reflected upon the fleeting nature of the human condition through unconventional formats such as mirrored portraits activated by breath or a vanishing self-portrait made with water on hot cement.
On view until 7 March
Read MoreDoug Wheeler — at David Zwirner
On view at the gallery will be an installation by the artist that further expands on his earliest investigations of the possibilities of luminous space.
On view until March 21
Read MoreOut of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection — at Brooklyn Museum
Out of Place: A Feminist Look at the Collection presents artworks that defy conventional museum display and collecting frameworks.
On view until September 13
Read MoreOLIVER WESTERBARKEY: DIE LANDSCHAFT FÄNGT AN, WO DER MENSCH AUFHÖRT — at 68projects
Throughout history humankind has attempted to control nature, much as depicted in the Baroque gardens of the late-16th century, who’s geometric treatment of gardens depicted the power of man over nature. Oliver Westerbarkey, instead, communicates within his work that nature can exist without humankind, and it is in fact humans who cannot exist without a relation to their surroundings.
On view until 18 April
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