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The Canadian singer and musician Grimes is also an artist, it turns out, and she’s unveiling more than a decade’s worth of her visual work in a joint online presentation with Maccarone Los Angeles and GalleryPlatform.LA, a collaborative new online initiative from sixty Los Angeles galleries. “I made art 10, 12 years before I ever touched a keyboard,” […] More
“Thomas Schütte” Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin What the gallery says: “The Konrad Fischer Gallery is pleased to present works by Thomas Schütte. In the courtyard of the gallery, the two bronze sculptures, and , both over four meters high, both 2018, await the visitor. In addition to sculptures in bronze, steel, and glass, the exhibition […] More
What’s life in lockdown like for children? A new virtual show of artworks by kids from around the world is offering a glimpse. The exhibition, titled “Born Artists,” is organized by Qinghua Chen, a graduate student in early childhood education at the University of Buffalo who first became interested in children’s art when she saw how […] More
“Stephan Melzl: Helden, Grundanstrich”Nicolas Krupp Gallery, Basel What the gallery says: “Melzl’s paintings had their genesis in a particular situation in the history of art. By the mid-1990s, the traditional idea of painting as an authentic artistic form was finally outdated. People had become mistrustful of the medium that had been considered the authoritative genre for centuries […] More
As authorities in cities around the world begin to ease lockdown restrictions, the prospect of going out and looking at art is once again becoming a real possibility—even if, depending on where you are, you still can’t actually an art gallery. So galleries and museums have been getting creative. In the early days of New […] More
“Anonymous Society for Magick”Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong What the gallery says: “Artists take viewers into a realm of fantasy that is both factual and fictitious. Sometimes it even borders on the supernatural as it stimulates sensations and affects that evade our normal perception and awareness. As such, artists inspire us to reflect and think beyond our […] More
“Richard Kennedy: Street Prophecy”Through June 12 at Peres Projects, Berlin What the gallery says: “The group of new soft sculptures, paintings, and busts in this show depict an opera deconstructed into its various parts. The term ‘opera,’ borrowed from the Italian word for ‘work,’ implies a Gesamtkunstwerk (total artwork) incorporating diverse media, collaboration, virtuosity, and drama. Kennedy […] More
Jenny Holzer, Carrie Mae Weems, and Duke Riley are among the 35 artists and designers making works in support of essential workers that will appear on digital screens across New York, Boston, and Chicago. The project, titled “Messages for the City,” is now in its second phase, and has already included contributions from designers including Milton […] More
