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Timothy Taylor shares #QuarantineDistractions
April 23, 2020
In this series, Timothy Taylor is reaching out to find out the four essentials that are keeping the gallery's artists and staff sane during this stress and anxiety-producing time, providing reading, watching and listening and cooking recommendations.


Laure Genillard Gallery launches LG Notations
The new series of curated online broadcasts of audio material from a selection of artists, curators and friends of the gallery kicked off with a recording of David Cunningham's performance 22 November 2002, presented for the opening of On Kawara's 2002 exhibition Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills. at the Ikon Gallery.

Galerie Lelong & Co. presents #THEARTISTSPEAKS
April 22, 2020
For this new series, the gallery invites artists from its roster to focus on one of their artworks, revealing the process and ideas behind it. Follow the gallery on Instagram to find out more.


Roberts Projects presents RPLA, a new series featuring online exhibitions, studio visits, profiles, interviews, publications and videos
Issue No. 2 of the new digital platform launches with the opening of Lenz Geerk: Wuthering Heights, which focuses on the artist’s metaphorical depiction of the body facing an interior impasse. Also on view, Projections Part IV: A Festival of Rare and Hard to See Films organized by artist, filmmaker and writer Aaron Rose.
The new video room of special artist films and interviews includes Kehinde Wiley's latest film The Yellow Wallpaper (2020), an interview with Evan Trine about his practice and upcoming exhibition at Roberts Projects and Jeffrey Gibson's film I Was Here (2018).

Acute Art launches free AR app with KAWS
April 20, 2020
Acute Art has teamed up with the artist KAWS to create a new way of discovering, experiencing, and collecting augmented reality (AR) sculptures and interactive drawings by the world-renowned artist. Download the app here.


Galleria Continua presents the first edition of XXL Online, featuring Antony Gormley’s LOST HORIZON II (2017)
XXL Online is a new initiative that celebrates Galleria Continua artists' largest works and installations that have been conceived for big spaces or special events.
For this first edition of XXL Online, Antony Gormley presents 'LOST HORIZON II” (2017), an installation that was the principle feature of the exhibition “CO-ORDINATE” at Galleria Continua / San Gimignano, Italy in 2017.

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac presents Tea with Julia
April 18, 2020
The new series of weekly conversations launched on Saturday 18 April at 11am BST on Instagram Live, and featured Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director of the Serpentine Galleries, London.
Join Julia Peyton-Jones, Senior Global Director: Special Projects at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, every Saturday morning at 11am on the gallery's Instagram account, where Peyton-Jones will host a conversation via Instagram Live catching up with her friends and colleagues in the art world. Broadcast live from their homes, these discussions will touch on their quarantine experiences, as well as what they are currently working on, and the books, poetry or music they are drawn to.


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.