courtesy Mazzoleni, London-Torino
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Lévy Gorvy announces the launch of ĹGTV, a series of online broadcasts
April 17, 2020
A forum to offer insights and discussion on topics of concern to collectors and the global arts community at large, the first session of ĹGTV, "On the Market", took place on Wednesday 8 April, in the form of a conversation between Brett Gorvy, co-founder of Lévy Gorvy, and Danqing Li, Senior Director of Lévy Gorvy Hong Kong.
ĹGTV’s broadcasts will be available via Zoom and YouTube Live. Follow the gallery on social media to find out about the next webinar.


Whitechapel Gallery launches the first-ever online edition of First Thursdays
April 16, 2020
While the physical side of First Thursdays, in which over 150 galleries in east London come together and run free events, exhibitions, talks and private views, has been postponed until further notice, Whitechapel Gallery has partnered with Velorose Gallery, PEER and Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix to present an assembly of video content, digital openings and virtual tours this April. Find out more on the gallery's blog.

Capitain Petzel launches RHIZOME, a series of 7 online exhibitions
April 15, 2020
Inspired by the concept of Rhizome, originally a botanical term appropriated by the French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, each week the gallery will present 7 works by 7 artists. The online shows will be launched via Mailchimp & Instagram, and are available to view on the gallery's website.


Almine Rech presents #7questions with…
Starting with Polish painter Ewa Juszkiewicz, who the gallery has been representing since late 2019, #7questions with... is a new weekly series of Instagram stories in which an artist shares personal inspirations (books, films, exhibitions...) and studio images.

Laure Genillard Gallery’s videos From The Archive
April 14, 2020
This week's selection is a look back at the Langham Research Centre performing "I am sitting in a room" (1969) by Alvin Lucier, as part of Forms of Address, an exhibition presented by the gallery in 2019.


Massimo De Carlo launches Virtual Space with The John Armleder and Rob Pruitt Show
Opening online on 14 April 2020 at 5pm CET (Milan) / 4pm GMT (London) / 11pm HKT (Hong Kong) / 8am PST (Los Angeles) / 11am EST (New York), VSpace is a new walkable and flexible immersive experience for the art world you can enjoy from home.

Sean Kelly Gallery Announces Digital Programming
April 12, 2020
Each day’s program in this ongoing weekly series will focus on one of the gallery's artists, their art and practice, collective histories, and plans for the future. Follow the gallery on Instagram to explore.
Tuesday is #InTheStudio, Wednesday - #InDetail, Thursday takes us #InTheArchive, Friday’s are #FilmFridays and Saturday is #StaffPicksSaturday.


Annka Kultys Gallery presents [The art happens here]
April 10, 2020
[The art happens here] is an online platform dedicated to the showcasing of digital art. The creation of [The art happens here] provides a natural extension to the gallery’s offline programme which has as one of its strengths the presentation of “digital natives” or artists making art that engages with technology and the internet.

Serpentine Launches Online Exhibitions, New Podcast Series & Live Broadcasts
April 5, 2020
While the Gallery buildings are closed and live programmes suspended, the Serpentine’s work continues. Audiences can join the programme online through digital commissions, special broadcasts, podcasts and more.


Simon Lee Gallery launches new Online Viewing Room
April 3, 2020
Simon Lee Gallery presents Puzzled Daydreams, a solo exhibition by Hong Kong-based artist Chris Huen Sin Kan. Bringing together new paintings and works on paper, this exhibition launches Simon Lee Gallery’s new Online Viewing Room, and is available to view exclusively online from Friday 3 April.

Di Donna Galleries, in collaboration with Jeanne Bucher Jaeger, Paris and Waddington Custot, London, launches Maria Helena Vieira da Silva online viewing room
April 2, 2020
While the physical exhibition at Di Donna in New York has been postponed due to the current health crisis, the gallery's inaugural online viewing room celebrates the dynamic range of the Portuguese-born modernist painter's body of work.


Hauser & Wirth presents DRAWINGS FOR DISTANCED FIGURES, an online exhibition by George Condo
April 1, 2020
The exhibition features a new group of drawings by George Condo which are related to his most recent painting series ‘Distanced Figures.’ Made during the last three weeks, in the artist’s home studio in New York state, these portrait drawings are evocative of the experience of isolation during this unsettling period of social distance.
Hauser & Wirth will donate 10 percent of profits from online exhibitions, including 'George Condo. Drawings for Distanced Figures', to the COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund for WHO. This is part of a new philanthropic initiative #artforbetter, through which Hauser & Wirth will provide charitable support to both global and local causes.

Lisson Gallery launches Spotlight Screenings, a programme of film and video works
March 30, 2020
Starting on Monday 30 March, Lisson Gallery will be showing exclusive and full-length single-channel films including video, documentary, digital and archival works. For each of these six-week, rolling programmes – themed and curated individually – one work will be streamed online weekly, available to view on the gallery's website.


Tabish Khan for the Londonist
March 27, 2020
Tabish Khan’s article “How To See London's Top Exhibitions From Your Sofa” for The Londonist as London’s galleries shut down due to coronavirus, says of GalleriesNow:
“Every armchair art enthusiast should be checking out the GalleriesNow website, as it has a vast repository of virtual reality (VR) viewings of exhibitions. My pick of the London ones is this rather lovely fishy show at Mayfair gallery and photography specialists Hamiltons. Standing in among these dazzling Siamese fighting fish really does create the feeling of being in a fishbowl. Don't worry if you don't have a VR headset, it's very easy to view the show on your phone, tablet or desktop as well.”
view the exhibition here
and browse all the VR tours here

Gianfranco Zappettini – Luigi Mazzoleni – Jose Graci
March 4, 2020

Con-Centro no 28, 2019
courtesy Mazzoleni, London-Torino
Gianfranco Zappettini: The Golden Age is at Mazzoleni, London until 11 April 2020 - and you can take a virtual tour of the exhibition here


David Zink Yi talks to GalleriesNow
about art and inspiration
February 19, 2020

photo © David Zink Yi. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
© David Zink Yi. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth

GalleriesNow event at Richard Saltoun, London
November 4, 2019
Silvia Giambrone, 'TRAUM' (2019) (photo: Tom Dale)
As part of the exhibition “Feminism in Italian Contemporary Art”, curated by Paola Ugolini at Richard Saltoun Gallery, GalleriesNow organised - in association with Outset Contemporary Art Fund - a special evening performance and talk at the gallery in London for selected guests.

Silvia Giambrone and Hettie Judah
photo: Tom Dale
Gallery artist Silvia Giambrone gave a performance of her work “TRAUM”, a visceral investigation of the role of violence in relationships, which was followed by an in conversation about her work with journalist Hettie Judah.
“Feminism in Italian Contemporary Art” forms part of Richard Saltoun Gallery’s 12-month programme dedicated to supporting the work of female artists. Titled 100% Women, the programme aims to remedy the gender inequality that persists in the art world and encourage wider industry action through debate, dialogue and collaboration. 100% Women will pursue its mission through a combination of gallery exhibitions, art fair presentations, artist talks, a film and lecture series, external collaborations and digital exhibitions hosted on the gallery’s new online platform.
With thanks to Silvia Giambrone, Hettie Judah, and all at Richard Saltoun Gallery.


London Gallery Map Autumn/Winter 2019
September 26, 2019
The Autumn/Winter London Gallery Map is available now!
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Amy Sherald talks to
Hauser & Wirth’s Marc Payot
August 27, 2019
Amy Sherald in her studio, 2019 (photo: Melanie Dunea)
Marc Payot has been at Hauser & Wirth for almost 20 years, where he is a Partner alongside co-founders Iwan and Manuela Wirth. Over the course of the last decade, Payot has spearheaded the gallery’s major expansion in the US, which has included taking on a number of significant contemporary American artists. One new addition to the program is Amy Sherald, who speaks with Payot here ahead of her first show with the gallery opening at its 22nd Space in New York on September 10.
“Artists of color are using portraiture to author a narrative of people that art history was written without. It speaks to the human condition and holds up a mirror to life. It now employs colorful reflections and representations of everyday people on the walls of museums where there were once misrepresentations. Showing life as it is.”

Sometimes the king is a woman, 2019
photo: Timothy Doyon
Marc Payot: One thing I love about your work is how you have taken the traditional and time-old genre of the portrait and made it feel radical and entirely new. How do you approach portraiture?
Amy Sherald: Portraiture as a genre has come to have a new face. The tradition of portraiture has become a way to reclaim time and space within an art historical narrative that is mostly starkly European. It no longer belongs to the social elite. Artists of color are using portraiture to author a narrative of people that art history was written without. It speaks to the human condition and holds up a mirror to life. It now employs colorful reflections and representations of everyday people on the walls of museums where there were once misrepresentations. Showing life as it is. I like to say it’s the soul food of all the different genres.
Marc: Your work starts with a snapshot of someone you find on the street, and the eventual paintings remain photographic in essence. It’s clear you have an interest in photography as a compositional and documentary tool. What does photography mean to you? And how does an interest in photography extend to your work? Do you have an intent?
Amy: My first interaction with photography was through my own family photographs. As a very young girl on rainy days, I would sift through boxes and boxes of pictures that my mother kept in our family room cabinet. I was always drawn to a black and white photograph of my Grandmother Jewel whom I never got to meet. She died during childbirth in Alabama after being turned away from a whites-only hospital, not receiving the medical attention she needed. That beautiful black and white photographed portrait of my grandmother was the only means I had of getting to know her. She was wearing a black beret and a houndstooth coat. She looked proud and self-assured. Looking back, it was far different from the representation I had encountered of myself within the art canon.
Marc: So would you say photography for you is about capturing the “essence” of your sitter, about creating a fixed moment to use as a staring point? Can you talk about how you choose your subjects?

Handsome, 2019
photo: Joseph Hyde
Amy: Sure. Living in Baltimore, Maryland it was very easy to find the extraordinary living among the ordinary. The people I find seem to possess a kind of presence that feels nostalgic. They are how we saw ourselves in our future, long ago when life was unsure, and freedom came at a cost.
There have been a couple of instances where I painted the sitter just as I encountered them, but for the most part they are dressed in clothes that I find in second-hand shops. It’s not always easy to approach people you don’t know and ask them to give something of themselves, something that you can’t explain with words. The joy of finding the right people at the right time is exhilarating.
If possible, I always try to shoot the sitter outside in natural light. Normally late morning is the perfect time for me. It usually takes a little bit of time for them to forget about the camera. I have to stand fairly close and this can sometimes be intimidating. I usually get the right shot when we are mid-chat about something other than what we are doing. People often ask if I get to know my models. I say that it’s honestly difficult for me to see them as themselves once the painting commences. They become a symbolic tool shifting our own perceptions of who we are, resurfacing the walls of museums and art history. American art history to be more specific. All that being said the contribution of their presence is inimitable.
Once complete I decide my background color based on the outfit, or vice versa. The drawing is done directly on the canvas primarily in charcoal, which offers me the flexibility of erasure while in the process of solidifying the drawing. Once the drawing is complete, that painting begins. The details of the image can sometimes deviate from the original photograph sketch, but for the most part it stays true to the image that I start with.
Marc: So the sitters you find are your ultimate inspiration, and your use of photography clearly has personal roots in your own experience of photography as a “memorializing” tool. How does an interest in photography extend to your work?
Amy: Yes, most of my inspiration comes from photography. I have been captivated by its capacity to narrate a truer history that counters a salient dominant historical narrative. It was the first medium I saw that made what was absent, visible. It gave people who once had no control over the proliferation of their own image the ability to become authors of their own narratives.
In regard to historical painters, Alice Neel is one of my true inspirations. She was a pioneer among women artists. Although minimally rendered, her paintings feel to me more alive than the most detailed paintings. I also find inspiration among my contemporaries. Women like Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye are redefining and changing the face of painting and addressing the history of representation.
Marc: Your work feels inherently “American.” Where do you see your work in relation to the larger American painting tradition?
Amy: I really see myself working within the tradition of American Realism. I look at America’s heart—people, landscapes, and cityscapes—and I see it as an opportunity to add to an American art narrative that was written by painters who were mostly white and male. The stories of American Realism recognize how America found its identity in its art. I paint because I am looking for myself in art history and in the world.
Amy Sherald: the heart of the matter… opens at Hauser & Wirth West 22nd Street, NYC on September 10


London Degree Shows 2019
May 24, 2019
The GalleriesNow rundown of this year’s degree shows
Central Saint Martins
Show One: Art
22-26 May
Kingston School of Art
Degree Show 2019
1-9 June
Slade School of Fine Art
MA/MFA/PHD
6-16 June
The Courtauld Institute of Art
MA Curating the Art Museum: GENERATIONS: Connecting Across Time and Place
8 June-4 July
Wimbledon College of Arts
Undergraduate & MFA Fine Art Summer Show 2019
13-22 June
Middlesex University
Arts & Creative Industries Degree Show 2019
14-17 June
Chelsea College of Arts
Undergraduate Summer Show 2019
14-22 June
Camberwell College of Arts
Undergraduate & MA Conservation Summer Show 2019
15-22 June
Central Saint Martins
Show Two: Design
19-23 June
Goldsmiths
BA Fine Art & History of Art
21-24 June
City & Guilds of London Art School
Degree Show 2019
26-30 June
Royal College of Art
Show 2019
29 June-7 July
Chelsea College of Arts
MA Curating and Collections Show 2019
3-26 July
MA Fine Art Summer Show 2019
5-11 July
Camberwell College of Arts
MA Visual Arts Summer Show 2019
11-17 July
Goldsmiths
MFA Fine Art
18-23 July