“Tessa Perutz: Homme Allongé”Through July 5 at Ballon Rouge Collective, Brussels What the gallery says: “Tessa’s fragmented and often Fauvist landscapes depict colors dancing in form as if in a hallucination. Recently she has started to portray the body itself as a landscape, depicting human curvature in mirroring peaks, fields, and valleys. In this […] More
This weekend, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland had planned to open a show that could not be more timely: an exhibition of drawings by the artist Shaun Leonardo depicting scenes of police officers killing African American and Latino men. But the exhibition was quietly cancelled back in March—and now, against the backdrop of historic protests sparked by […] More
“Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi: Gymnasium”Through June 27 at Stevenson Gallery, Johannesburg What the gallery says: “The paintings in range from fluidly composed figurations of gymnasts and judges to unoccupied spaces verging on architectural abstraction. Nkosi’s figures are decidedly not painted in peak moments of athleticism. Rather, the artist depicts the moments preceding and following the execution of […] More
For curators Pirkko Siitari and Taru Tappola, the summer of 2020 was supposed to mark a huge milestone with the debut of Finland’s Helsinki Biennial. Now, those plans, like so many others in the art world and beyond, have been completely recast. They chose to push the inaugural biennial, titled “The Same Sea,” back by exactly […] More
Back in 2010, the 1st edition of this festival took place involving top artists like Sixe, Mark Jenkins or Evan Roth, among others. Six editions later, after having names like Ron English, El Mac, Escif, C215, Faith XVII, Vhils or Franco Fasoli being involved with the event, Avant Garde Tudela has won its place as a […] More
Shepard Fairey, the street artist who made his name in the 1990s with his “Obey Giant” murals and stickers, became known worldwide 12 years ago when he designed the “Hope” poster for Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign. (Eight years later, he designed a memorable series of feminist images, titled “We the People,” protesting Donald Trump’s election.) Since […] More
