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Walton Ford – Barbary
Kasmin is pleased to present Barbary, a new body of large-scale watercolors by Walton Ford that will inaugurate the gallery’s flagship space in Chelsea, New York. The series is a result of over eighteen years of research by Ford into...
Katherine Bradford – Friends and Strangers
CANADA is pleased to announce Friends and Strangers by Katherine Bradford, the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. This show finds the artist channeling an environment of febrile political and social change through paintings of individuals and groups negotiating...
Rita Ackermann – Turning Air Blue
Hauser & Wirth Somerset is pleased to present ‘Turning Air Blue’, an exhibition of new works by Hungarian born, New York-based artist Rita Ackermann.
Arngrimur Sigurdsson, Brendan Sullivan, Sarah Szabo, Shiqing Deng – MFA Thesis Exhibition
The New York Academy of Art is pleased to announce its annual MFA Thesis Exhibition, showcasing work from the 44 members of the graduating class of 2018. The show features drawing, painting and sculpture created in the Academy’s tradition of...
How Well Do You Know Warhol? 11 Facts About The Leading Figure Of Pop Art
Andy Warhol was an American artist who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. The release of...
Palais de Tokyo Dismisses Donor for Call to “Shoot Down” Activist Greta Thunberg
Bernard Chenebault, president of Amis du Palais de Tokyo (Friends of Palais de Tokyo) in Paris, called Thunberg a “madwoman” who “we must shoot down” in a Facebook post on Sunday. He was dismissed from his position the following day....
The Shows to See in London During Frieze Week
A guide to the best shows around town https://frieze.com/article/shows-see-london-during-frieze-week Lynette Yiadom-Boakye: ‘A Mind for Moonlight’ Corvi-Mora 6 September – 26 October Ahead of her first solo survey exhibition at Tate Britain in May 2020, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye’s work is currently on...
“THE BEST ART IN THE WORLD”
Robert C. Morgan on Infinite Labyrinth: New Works by Wu Jian-An https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/new-works-by-wu-jian/4394 Two weeks ago, I became aware of a young Chinese artist, Wu Jian-An, on the occasion of a two-gallery exhibition at Chambers Fine Art in West Chelsea and...
Alissa McKendrick’s Paintings Offer Weird Combinations of the Frilly and the Fierce
Alissa McKendrick’s debut solo show, “Resentment,” featured five untitled paintings of varying sizes (all 2018 or 2019) depicting loosely sketched female figures against brushy fields of color. The spindly figures appear to hover atop these nearly monochrome backgrounds, anchored ever...
Nostalgia, Painting, and the End of The World
Svetlana Boym’s seminal cultural study, The Future of Nostalgia, identifies two distinct strains of erstwhile yearning in contemporary culture; the “restorative” kind, which places “emphasis on nostos (returning home) and proposes to rebuild,” and the “reflective” kind, which “dwells in...
The Artwork That Changed My Life: Magritte’s “Golconda”
For a long time, I understood art history entirely in relation to Belgian painter Rene Magritte. The Dadaists existed to lay the framework for Surrealism, the movement Magritte was a part of. Hieronymus Bosch was the early Netherlandish artist whose...
Christie’s Kicks Off Frieze Week With the $28 Million Sale ofJeremy Lancaster’s Collection
Philip Guston made a rare auction appearance—and the top lot of the sale. https://news.artnet.com/market/christies-lancaster-sale-1666876 Christie’s kicked off a busy series of Frieze Week contemporary art sales in London this evening with the collection of Jeremy Lancaster, a British businessman who...
“Philip Pearlstein at 95” at the Galerie Templon, Paris
This year marks the 95th birthday of the renowned figurative painter Philip Pearlstein. To celebrate the occasion, the Galerie Templon in Paris is holding an exhibition of the American artist’s work, on show until July 20. The 14 oil paintings...
Frida Kahlo on the Dangers of Censorship
Not all of the letters that Frida Kahlo wrote were fiery. When sent to lovers, they were saccharine. When mailed to gallerists or collectors, they were purely logistical. But one particular note, sent in 1948 to the president of Mexico,...
Roots and Branches
For his first solo exhibition with Lisson New York, Ai Weiwei populates the gallery with felled, cast-iron tree trunks, nearly sixteen feet in length, and a series of iron root sculptures set against the backdrop of a new wallpaper installation. Situated among...
A Failed Play
A Failed Play is Anna-Sophie Berger’s first solo exhibition in London. The new installation includes wall mounted prints drawn from archival material documenting the production of the artist’s 2013 project ‘fashion is fast’ (a 36 piece fashion collection) as well...
Roots and Branches
For his first solo exhibition with Lisson New York, Ai Weiwei populates the gallery with felled, cast-iron tree trunks, nearly sixteen feet in length, and a series of iron root sculptures set against the backdrop of a new wallpaper installation. Situated among...
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