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The Week in Art23-30 Apr 2024 |
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Openings, events, auctions
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Berlin
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| Thursday 25 |
Galerie Max Hetzler, Potsdamer Straße:
Mark Grotjahn: Kitchens
large-scale butterfly drawings in Grotjahn’s first solo exhibition with the gallery |
opening reception
+ talk |
| Friday 26 |
Galerie Barbara Thumm:
María Magdalena Campos-Pons: I Heard the Spirits’ Voices / Escuché la Voz de Los Espíritus
new paintings, video pieces, and a porcelain vessel installation looking at identity, race, gender, diaspora, and spirituality - drawing on the renowned interdisciplinary artist’s transcultural Nigerian, Chinese, and Spanish heritage |
opening reception |
Galerie Bastian:
Andy Warhol - Late Works
the first exhibition at the gallery dedicated exclusively to Warhol’s late work |
opening reception |
Galerie Buchholz:
Wolfgang Tillmans
“while rooted in the material world, Tillmans’s works are the result of an interplay of optical translations of matter, which the artist transforms through the technological use of the camera” |
opening reception |
Capitain Petzel:
Xie Nanxing: f o r a d e c a s a
“Xie Nanxing’s paintings cannot be cast in the camps of either aestheticized objecthood or conceptual dematerialization - they hover firmly in between” - Ruth Noack |
opening reception |
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Brussels
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| Wednesday 24 |
Almine Rech:
Chloe Wise: Torn Clean
“with a flamboyant passion, Chloe Wise forces us to see things stripped bare. After welcoming us into her flawless world, she gradually introduces a latent, crushing fear” - Boris Bergmann |
opening reception |
Templon:
Abdoulaye Konaté: The Soul of Signs
one of Africa’s leading visual artists, Konaté combines traditional textiles with symmetrical, even and hierarchical compositions |
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Bruton
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| Sunday 28 |
Hauser & Wirth Somerset:
Spotlight Talks: Present Tense
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Helsinki
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| Thursday 25 |
Galerie Forsblom:
Kim Simonsson: Grower
“like stepping into a sculpture gallery of yesteryear”, the internationally noted artist turns to the golden age of ceramic art |
opening reception |
Galerie Forsblom:
Henry Wuorila-Stenberg
“meditation has played a very important role in the artist’s life for over forty years, and so it is only natural that his creative process flows from a similar all-encompassing, meditative state of emptying one’s mind” |
opening reception |
Galerie Forsblom:
Saimi Suikkanen: Soft Light
“Suikkanen turns our gaze on fleeting, intimate moments in the midst of monotonous day-to-day routines” |
opening reception |
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London
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| Tuesday 23 |
Galerie Max Hetzler:
Instinctive Gestures
a group exhibition centred on a late Hans Hartung painting shown along with recent works by Ida Ekblad, Jeff Elrod, Katharina Grosse and Mark Grotjahn |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s London:
A Love Letter to Beirut: Arts and Culture, 1960s - 2020s
auction: Tue 23
(viewing: Fri 19 - Mon 22 April) |
auction |
Sotheby’s London:
Orientalist Art
auction: Tue 23 |
auction |
Thaddaeus Ropac:
Robert Rauschenberg: ROCI
the first exhibition dedicated to the history of the Rauschenberg Overseas Culture Interchange (ROCI), since the project’s conclusion in 1991 |
opening reception |
Tiwani Contemporary:
Gareth Nyandoro: Pfumvudza
exhibiting Nyandoro’s personal engagement with “pfumvudza”, meaning to bloom or thrive, as well as the name of a Zimbabwean government-sanctioned scheme advocating self-sufficiency |
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| Wednesday 24 |
Addis Fine Art:
Amel Bashier: ورد الجوري ‘Ward el Juri’
new paintings and recent works on paper in an exhibition named for Bashier’s daughter, translating as “damask rose” |
opening reception |
Cristea Roberts Gallery:
Vicken Parsons: Time
new paintings marking a development in Parson’s painting practice, investigating the possibilities of the two-dimensional plane |
private view |
DES BAINS:
Shaan Bevan: Inundation
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JGM Gallery:
Mafalda von Hessen: Looking In
von Hessen’s London debut celebrates the poetics of the everyday, in a series of intimate paintings of interiors |
opening reception |
John Martin Gallery:
Polly Townsend: Antarctic Paintings
drawings and paintings inspired by Townsend’s five-week journey to Antarctica as artist in residence aboard HMS Protector |
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October Gallery:
LR Vandy: Twist
a new series of Vandy’s signature rope sculptures, alongside a collection of photographic prints, in an exhibition exploring the histories of dance, trade and colonialism |
private view |
Sotheby’s London:
Arts of the Islamic World and India
auction: Wed 24
(viewing: Fri 19 - Tue 23 April) |
auction |
Unit London:
Casey Reas: Wet and Saturated Process
“Reas explores the impact of technology on our perception and understanding of the world. At once both organic and synthetic, his artworks speak to the nuances of machine-led creativity” |
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Unit London:
Louise Reynolds: Red Sky at Morning
an exhibition examining current affairs and the fleeting nature of news and information dissemination |
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| Thursday 25 |
Ab-Anbar:
Rushdi Anwar in conversation with Alessio Antoniolli
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talk |
Alma Pearl:
Nai-Jen Yang & Xinran Liu: Pacing the Void
an exhibition pairing recent work by the Taiwanese and Chinese artists and their “unique painterly vocabulary rooted in Asian philosophical and religious traditions” |
private view |
Camden Art Centre:
Matthew Krishanu: The Bough Breaks
a major exhibition of paintings and works on paper - atmospheric, pared-back scenes from Krishanu’s life, including his childhood in Bangladesh with Christian missionary parents |
private view |
Camden Art Centre:
Andrew Omoding
newly commissioned music, sound, performance and video in a major solo exhibition of Omoding’s largely autobiographical work which references his childhood in Uganda and his life as an artist with learning-disabilities |
private view |
Gillian Jason Gallery:
Jenya Datsko: Crossroads
“through a series of 17 evocative works, Datsko intricately weaves together the threads of travels, experiences, and memories, offering viewers a profound opportunity for self-examination and contemplation” |
opening reception |
IONE & MANN:
Jana Emburey: all things are full of gods.
“Jana’s work builds on a timeless iconography of symbols that trace patterns, concepts and concerns that reside deeply within the human psyche” |
opening reception |
LAMB:
André Ricardo & Rubem Valentim: Dialogues
an exhibition which invites viewers “to explore realms of spirituality, history, and artistic expression in Brazil, as Valentim's foundational vision influences Ricardo's contemporary exploration of identity and narrative” |
opening reception |
Lévy Gorvy Dayan:
N. Dash
inaugurating the gallery’s new location in Mayfair, an exhibition of new multi-panel paintings by the New York-based artist exploring ecologies of resonance among disparate materials |
opening reception |
National Portrait Gallery:
Women’s representation and the female gaze
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talk |
NISO:
Guy Haddon Grant: chimaera
Haddon Grant’s first solo exhibition with the gallery features sculptures which look at duality and hybridization, inspired by the ancient Greek mythological creature |
private view |
Pi Artworks:
Jeremy Hutchison: Dead White Man: Effigies
video, sculpture, and live performance, presenting a new chapter in Hutchison’s work exploring the global trade in secondhand clothes |
private view |
Pilar Corrias, Savile Row:
Peppi Bottrop: Where the Future Grows
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opening reception |
Pippy Houldsworth Gallery:
Shaqúelle Whyte: Yute, you’re gonna be fine
“loosely rendered, energetic brushwork and an expansive approach to composition” in Whyte’s first solo exhibition |
private view |
Rodeo:
Hélène Fauquet: Phenomena
“Fauquet’s constellations play on the contextual ambiguity of her chosen images, and our capacity, or not, to read them coherently according to a certain given frame” - Ryan Siegan-Smith |
opening reception |
Timothy Taylor:
Hayal Pozanti: Tender Mountain
new paintings in the artist’s first solo exhibition in the UK - lush, surreal canvases of the natural world - “my paintings are love letters to the Earth”- Pozanti |
opening reception |
| Friday 26 |
Gathering:
Emanuel de Carvalho: code new state
monumental paintings and sculptural installations from the London-based Portuguese-Canadian artist |
opening reception |
Unit London:
Casey Reas: Wet and Saturated Process
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private view |
Unit London:
Louise Reynolds: Red Sky at Morning
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private view |
| Saturday 27 |
Fiumano Clase:
Andreana Dobreva: Public Grapes - Anonymous Meat
new paintings by the Bulgarian artist which examine the everlasting complexities facing migrant populations |
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October Gallery:
LR Vandy in conversation with Elisabeth Lalouschek
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| Monday 29 |
Waddington Custot:
Beyond Surrealism
works by Jean Arp, Giorgio De Chirico, Max Ernst and Joan Miró - key names of the first wave of Surrealism - alongside artists whose work shares Surrealist strategies and concerns, including Clive Barker, Patrick Caulfield, George Condo and others |
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| Tuesday 30 |
Shtager&Shch:
The Middle Voice
works by Caroline Achaintre, Anna Higgins, Niamh O’Malley, Aimée Parrott, and Stephen Polatch in an exhibition curated by Maria Hinel |
private view |
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Los Angeles
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| Friday 26 |
Marian Goodman Gallery:
Tony Cragg
bronze, wood, stone, and steel sculptures in the gallery’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of the distinguished British sculptor |
opening reception |
Michael Kohn Gallery:
Siji Krishnan: Liminal Spaces
in Krishnan’s US debut, and first solo exhibition with the gallery, new large-scale paintings and works on rice paper drawing on her experience growing up in the countryside of southern India |
opening reception |
| Saturday 27 |
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
Karla Diaz: Mujer Valiente y Los Diablitos (Brave Woman and the Little Devils)
“Diaz’s surreal paintings chronicle a collective unconscious of cultural iconography, pop references, current events, and familial dynamics and traditions that shape the worldview of the artist and her communities” |
opening reception |
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles:
John Valadez: Chaos Anime
the first solo exhibition with the gallery of the 1970s and 80s pioneer of the early Chicano Arts Movement features new paintings including a mural-scaled work which examines the binaries and clichés of “haves and have-nots” |
opening reception |
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Naples
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| Tuesday 23 |
Thomas Dane Gallery:
Akram Zaatari: Father and Son
Zaatari’s first major solo exhibition in Italy exposes the critical role he has played in developing Beirut's contemporary art scene |
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New York
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| Wednesday 24 |
David Richard Gallery:
Robert C. Morgan: Lonestar is Given to Love
intimate paintings in Morgan's first solo exhibition with the gallery |
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| Thursday 25 |
Anders Wahlstedt Fine Art:
Liv Mette Larsen: Milori Blue
twenty-six egg tempera paintings from three series alongside watercolors from a fourth - “monochromatic structures alluding to silhouettes of buildings dynamically tower over the viewer” |
opening reception |
Acquavella Galleries:
Wayne Thiebaud: Summer Days
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private view |
Barbara Mathes Gallery:
Americans in Paris
exploring the influence of Paris on 20th century US artists, with Louise Bourgeois, John Chamberlain, Alexander Calder, Etel Adnan, Beauford Delaney, Ed Clark, Ellsworth Kelly, Joan Mitchell, Irene Rice-Pereira, Ad Reinhardt, Edda Renouf, Yvonne Thomas |
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David Richard Gallery:
Robert C. Morgan: Lonestar is Given to Love
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opening reception |
D’Lan Contemporary:
Daniel Walbidi | Yurlupirti - Forever Without End (eternal)
“even though people see my art as contemporary, the subject matter always remains - it is Country and water” - Walbidi |
opening reception
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Gagosian 976 Madison Avenue:
Anselm Kiefer: Punctum
the first exhibition in the US which centers exclusively on Kiefer’s photography |
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Jack Shainman Gallery:
diedrick brackens: blood compass
new weavings set at dusk, twilight, and deep night, whose silhouetted inhabitants are “needles through which I slip the threads of biography and myth, and pass through a mesh of history and context” - Brackens |
opening reception |
Luhring Augustine Chelsea:
Tiptoeing Through the Kitchen, Recent Photography
organized by Lauren Wittels and Sasha Helinski, new and recent work by William Eric Brown, Sophia Chai, Kevin Landers, Brittany Nelson, Shaun Pierson, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez, and Sheida Soleimani |
opening reception |
Susan Sheehan Gallery:
Sequence
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| Friday 26 |
Gagosian West 24th St:
Francesca Woodman. With Lissa McClure and Katarina Jerinic
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| Saturday 27 |
Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Chris Watts in conversation with Corinne Erni
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talk |
| Monday 29 |
Public Art Fund at Brooklyn Bridge Park:
Huma Bhabha: Before The End
four new large-scale bronze sculptures, set against the green backdrop of Brooklyn Bridge Park, examine art, science fiction, horror, and mythology |
opening reception |
| Tuesday 30 |
David Lewis:
Everyone Loves Picabia
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Findlay Galleries:
Activating Additions: An Exhibition of Collage
an exhibition of the method “transcending traditional boundaries of any single medium” with works from movements including the Bay Area Figurative Movement, the School of Paris, and Taiwan’s Fifth Moon Group |
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Gagosian West 21st St:
Maurizio Cattelan: Sunday | Curated by Francesco Bonami
Cattelan’s first solo gallery exhibition in more than two decades “confronts the contradictions of American society and culture, and also touch[es] on a sensitive issue confronting the world at large” |
opening reception |
Marlborough:
Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud: Conversations
an overview exhibition of the two long-term close friends’ graphic output and differing approaches to printmaking |
opening reception |
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Paris
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| Tuesday 23 |
Bigaignon:
Chris McCaw: Marking Time
unique photographs of landscapes and seascapes, somewhere between literalism and abstraction, in the renowned American artist’s first solo exhibition in France |
opening reception |
Christie’s Paris:
Empire of Taste, un appartement madrilène par Billy Baldwin
auction: Tue 23
(viewing: Thu 18 - Tue 23 April) |
auction |
Sotheby’s Paris:
Asian Arts / 5000 Years
auction: Tue 23 - Tue 30 Apr
(viewing: Fri 26 - Tue 30 April) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s Paris:
Art Moderne et Contemporain Evening Auction
auction: Tue 23
(viewing: Wed 17 - Tue 23 April) |
auction |
| Wednesday 24 |
Tornabuoni Art:
An alphabet of order and disorder
curator Marc Donnadieu assembles the gallery’s post-war masterpieces in an exhibition commemorating the 30th anniversary of Alighiero Boetti’s death, with 25 works by 22 artists in a trilingual alphabet, each letter starting an different iconoclastic verb |
opening reception
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| Thursday 25 |
Gagosian, rue de Ponthieu:
Setsuko: Into Nature
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book signing |
| Friday 26 |
Almine Rech, Turenne:
Allen Jones: From the Gods
“luring us into the void, confronting us with the complexities of our own infinitely varied fantasy lives, Jones leaves us delightfully suspended” - Marco Livingstone |
opening reception |
Almine Rech, Matignon:
Minjung Kim: Regeneration
Kim's first solo exhibition with the gallery - “there is a deep knowing in all of Kim’s practice. She mirrors centuries-old histories of art-making and philosophy with the contemporary landscape … to introduce original forms” - Maria Vogel |
opening reception |
| Saturday 27 |
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois:
Lucie Picandet: Charnières
“the extraordinary meticulousness of her paintings is a poetic incitement to … enter fully into a nature that is also profoundly our own, to carve out its future with the strength of renewed wonder” - Marguerite Pilven |
opening reception |
Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois:
Pilar Albarracín: Alta tensión
“a melting pot of different worlds, traditions, eras and dominations. Pilar Albarracín goes back in time and history, revisiting established narratives, codes and clichés that forge cultures and identities, assigning and fixing people and ideas” |
opening reception |
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Seoul
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| Tuesday 23 |
Gallery Chosun:
Noh Seokmee
“Noh Seok-mi … captures the green of rice fields, and mountains that can be seen around her with simple strokes and vivid colors” |
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Shanghai
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| Saturday 27 |
Lisson Gallery:
Laure Prouvost: Pulled Towards You
new paintings, tapestry, and sculptures - alongside a multi-sensory experience with film installation and hidden VR adventure (in a hanging basket) - in Prouvost’s inaugural exhibition with the gallery in Shanghai |
opening reception |
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Stockholm
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| Saturday 27 |
Galleri Magnus Karlsson:
Mette Björnberg: For My Girls
sculptures and reliefs in wood, textiles, iron and bronze - all made in the last two years |
opening reception |
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Zürich
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| Thursday 25 |
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Rämistrasse:
Bruno Jakob: Again and Again and Again
Jakob “has remained consistently true to his unmistakable artistic approach for over forty years, establishing himself as one of the most important Swiss artists today” |
opening reception |
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Baku
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| Sunday 28 |
Gazelli Art House:
Her Art in Action |
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Berlin
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| Sunday 28 |
Galerie Max Hetzler, Goethestraße 2/3:
Tal R: Rosa See |
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Boissy-le-Châtel
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| Sunday 28 |
Galleria Continua Les Moulins:
Michelangelo Pistoletto: 60 ans d’identités et d’altérités |
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Galleria Continua Les Moulins:
Julio Le Parc: Aurora |
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Galleria Continua Les Moulins:
De fil en aiguille |
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Galleria Continua Les Moulins:
The Ability to Dream |
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Bruton
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| Sunday 28 |
Hauser & Wirth Somerset:
Present Tense |
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Hamburg
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| Saturday 27 |
Galerie Vera Munro:
Laura Carralero: Veil |
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London
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| Friday 26 |
Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Michèle Lamy & Loree Rodkin x Rick Owens: HUNROD GOLD |
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Colnaghi:
Picturing the Artist |
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Ordovas:
Gauguin and the Contemporary Landscape |
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| Saturday 27 |
Alison Jacques:
Betty Parsons |
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Arusha Gallery:
Cho! Cho le! |
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Carpenters Workshop Gallery:
Wendell Castle: Suspended Disbelief |
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Shapero Modern:
Abstract Expressionism |
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ZÉRUÌ:
Trespassing Threshold |
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| Sunday 28 |
Bartha Contemporary:
Nick Terry - London |
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| Tuesday 30 |
David Gill:
Group show |
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Luxembourg + Co.:
“…With Things as Things” |
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Los Angeles
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| Thursday 25 |
Rele:
Mapping Structures: Across Worlds |
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| Saturday 27 |
Roberts Projects:
Marilyn Nance: The Women of FESTAC'77 |
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Roberts Projects:
Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe: Hall of Fame |
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Roberts Projects:
Betye Saar: New Work |
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Monaco
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| Saturday 27 |
Hauser & Wirth Monaco:
Mark Bradford. Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen |
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New York
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| Saturday 27 |
Almine Rech, Tribeca:
Oliver Beer: Resonance Paintings - Cat Orchestra |
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Bortolami:
Philip Pearlstein: Figures, props, objects and other things |
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Fleiss-Vallois:
Ceija Stojka: We Lived in Secrecy (A Roma Memory) |
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Fleiss-Vallois:
Pivotal: Drawings and Works on Paper from Artists of the XXth Century Avant-Garde |
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Gagosian 980 Madison Avenue:
Rudolf Stingel |
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Gagosian West 24th St:
Francesca Woodman |
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Hauser & Wirth 69th Street:
Verena Loewensberg. Kind of Blue |
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HB381:
Shozo Michikawa: THE INBETWEEN |
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James Cohan, 52 Walker St:
Si Lewen |
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Templon:
Claude Viallat: Made in Nîmes |
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The Upstairs at Bortolami:
Piero Dorazio and Mary Obering |
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| Monday 29 |
Leila Heller Gallery:
World Builders: Artist as Architect |
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Paris
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| Saturday 27 |
Galerie Marian Goodman:
Robby Müller: Polaroïds |
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Semiose:
Ernest T.: Peintures d'histoire |
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Semiose:
Amy Bravo: I’m Going There With You |
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Skarstedt:
Juan Muñoz: Coming Towards |
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Templon:
Atul Dodiya: I know you. I do. O’ stranger |
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Templon:
Daniel Dezeuze: Mesoamerica, Cités Perdues et Derniers Refuges |
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| Tuesday 30 |
Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Richard Serra: Casablanca |
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Galerie Lelong & Co.:
Louise Bourgeois: I do, I undo, I redo |
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Galerie Lelong & Co. Matignon:
Jan Voss: Duo sur scène |
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Seoul
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| Saturday 27 |
Perrotin Seoul:
Imagine |
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Tokyo
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| Saturday 27 |
Perrotin Tokyo:
Nick Doyle: American Blues |
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Taka Ishii Gallery:
Fukei-Ga (Landscape Painting) |
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Vienna
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| Saturday 27 |
Lukas Feichtner Galerie:
EGG SI BI SCHEN |
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