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The Week in Art 20-27 Feb 2024 |
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Openings, events, auctions |
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Berlin
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Friday 23 |
Galerie Max Hetzler, Potsdamer Straße: The Code Factory. Works From The Eighties And Nineties |
opening reception |
Boston
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Wednesday 21 |
Public Art Fund in Boston: Clifford Prince King: Let me know when you get home King’s tender autobiographical photo series is displayed on 330 JCDecaux bus shelters and newsstands across New York, Chicago, and Boston |
opens |
Chicago
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Wednesday 21 |
Public Art Fund in Chicago: Clifford Prince King: Let me know when you get home King’s tender autobiographical photo series is displayed on 330 JCDecaux bus shelters and newsstands across New York, Chicago, and Boston |
opens |
Gstaad
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Friday 23 |
Patricia Low Contemporary: Something Woman This Way Comes female and non-binary viewpoints from Europe and the US, featuring Anouk Lamm Anouk, Xenia Hausner, Amy Bessone, Marta Kucsora, Candida Höfer, Gretchen Scherer, Jemima Murphy, Liliane Tomasko, W. K. Lyhne, Zoë Williams, Maria Kreyn and Sylvie Fleury |
opens |
Helsinki
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Thursday 22 |
Galerie Forsblom: Jenny Carlsson Grip: Day breaks “nature’s presence is simultaneously dirty, fragile and beautiful in her paintings” |
opening reception |
Galerie Forsblom: Tapani Kokko: Fortuna Kokko’s exuberant wooden sculptures draw inspiration from the playfulness and ornateness of Rococo art |
opening reception |
Galerie Forsblom: Peter Frie: The View Belongs to Everyone the renowned Swedish artist presents small-scale imagined landscapes, alongside mystical dark-hued sculptures |
opening reception |
Hong Kong
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Wednesday 21 |
Christie’s Hong Kong: Dawn of Spring: Chinese Paintings Online auction: Wed 21 Feb – Wed 6 Mar (viewing: Wed 21 February – Wed 6 March) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s Hong Kong: Contemporary Discoveries auction: Wed 21 – Wed 28 Feb |
auction starts |
London
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Tuesday 20 |
Waddington Custot: Peter Blake: Sculpture and Other Matters the first exhibition in twenty years dedicated to Blake’s sculpture transforms the gallery into an interactive and theatrical space to reflect the imaginative potential of the sculpture on show |
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Wednesday 21 |
The Artist Room: Justin Rui Han: Shatter Zones “densely composed, Han’s paintings are likewise comprised of shards of ungoverned material… populated by figures whose business is unknown and whose motivations we can only guess” – Zach Ngin |
private view |
Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert: Patrick Caulfield and Howard Hodgkin: Painter-Colleagues |
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JGM Gallery: Yoi works from the Munupi Arts & Crafts Association, located along Melville Island’s north-western coastline |
opens |
Thursday 22 |
Amanda Wilkinson: Paolo Gioli: Finestra Davanti a un Albero (Window in front of a Tree) |
opening reception |
Cob Gallery: Construct an exhibition of materiality and assemblage, featuring Emma Adler, Rafael D’Aló, Bobby Dowler, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Ali Glover, Anne Tallentire and Charlotte Thrane |
private view |
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill: Screening: Douglas Gordon. Film as Raw Material |
special event |
John Martin Gallery: Mark Adlington: Night Dances Adlington celebrates London’s nocturnal wildlife in an exhibition comprising paintings and works on paper |
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lbf contemporary: Min Woo Nam: Nothing New Under the Sun Min Woo’s meticulous attention to geometry and colour reflects on his immersion in the UK coastal town of Margate |
private view |
Lisson Gallery: Accordion Fields a multigenerational group exhibition across both of the gallery’s London spaces, featuring Varda Caivano, Sarah Cunningham, Dexter Dalwood, Pam Evelyn, Andrew Pierre Hart, Elinor Stanley, Tim Stoner and Joseph Yaeger |
opening reception |
Lisson Gallery: Accordion Fields a multigenerational group exhibition across both of the gallery’s London spaces, featuring Varda Caivano, Sarah Cunningham, Dexter Dalwood, Pam Evelyn, Andrew Pierre Hart, Elinor Stanley, Tim Stoner and Joseph Yaeger |
opening reception |
Maureen Paley: Kaye Donachie: I kept the memory for myself “Donachie’s paintings might be described as evocations, in which any particularity is lost, or to be more precise, subsumed and obscured” – Simon Martin |
private view |
Maureen Paley Studio M: Kaye Donachie: I kept the memory for myself “Donachie’s paintings might be described as evocations, in which any particularity is lost, or to be more precise, subsumed and obscured” – Simon Martin |
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Maximillian William: INDEX: Sheena Patel / Michelle Williams Gamaker. FANDOMS AND FICTIONS |
special event |
Michael Werner Gallery: Francis Picabia, Women: Works on Paper 1902 – 1950 an exhibition of works featuring women, spanning five decades of the iconoclastic French artist’s career |
private view |
National Portrait Gallery: The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure curated by Ekow Eshun, a major study of the Black figure and its representation in contemporary art |
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rosenfeld: Robert Muntean: Future Days figures “emerge out of abstract forms, free formations and spontaneous settings of paint, as if they have absorbed all their surroundings” – Robert Muntean |
private view |
Sim Smith: Tom Schneider: Sea Monsters & Highballs Schneider’s UK debut is also his first solo exhibition in 25 years, and explores a decades-long complex and magical body of work |
opening reception + talk |
Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.: Thea Djordjadze: framing yours making mine “Djordjadze’s temporary sculptural environments draw on the language of architecture, allude to modernist design and echo the culture of her native Georgia” |
opening reception |
Sprüth Magers, Grafton St.: David Maljkovic: Overpaint with Shadows new paintings and architectural interventions by Maljkovic taking the process of overpainting as both subject and source |
opening reception |
Staffordshire St: Folk Club | Imbolc, Brigid’s Cross, and breaking bread. Hosted by Elizabeth Bailey & Ellie Dempsey |
special event |
Tiwani Contemporary: As Feeling Births Idea featuring Virginia Chihota, Rita Alaoui, Ranti Bam, Euridice Zaituna Kala, Paula Do Prado, and Wura-Natasha Ogunji |
private view |
Friday 23 |
National Portrait Gallery: In conversation with Hassan Hajjaj and Rose Issa |
talk |
Saturday 24 |
National Portrait Gallery: Past and presence: the histories and legacies of London’s Black lesbian community. Paula Akpan in conversation with Valerie Mason-John |
talk |
Tiwani Contemporary: As Feeling Births Idea |
talk |
Tuesday 27 |
Christie’s London: First Open: Post-War and Contemporary Art Online auction: Tue 27 Feb – Tue 12 Mar |
auction starts |
Galerie Max Hetzler: Adam Pendleton: These Gestures Towards You “abstraction is not to replicate the known, but rather to give opportunity for the unknown, for the unimagined, for the unrealised” – Adam Pendleton |
opening reception |
Los Angeles
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Friday 23 |
Hauser & Wirth Downtown: Drawing from Film with Catherine Goodman |
special event |
Saturday 24 |
Babst Gallery: By The Hand historical works by Hans Joerdaens II, Anthony Van Dyck, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi and Uemura Shoen, alongside contemporary female artists Marcelle Hanselaar, Sylvia Maier and Susana Wald |
opening reception |
HOSTLER | BURROWS: Astrid Krogh: Arabesque the Danish artist’s large-scale textiles and light-based public installations delve into the microscopic structures of biological life |
opening reception |
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles: Yrneh Gabon: Spirit Leads Me painting, sculpture and performance art from the first artist-in-residence at The Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, Senegal |
opening reception |
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles: June Edmonds: Meditations on African Resilience Edmonds’ practice synthesizes abstraction, spirituality and meditations with contemplations on her African American roots and Black history in America |
opening reception |
Gallery Luisotti: Hollywood: Robert Cumming and John Divola curated by Divola, an exhibition of two artists who work with the artificiality of film studio sets and continuity stills |
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parrasch heijnen: Alteronce Gumby | Charles Ross Gumby presents a new body of cosmic work, created in direct response to Ross’ monumental New Mexico earthwork, Star Tunnel |
opening reception |
Roberts Projects: Marilyn Nance: The Women of FESTAC’77 a curated selection from Nance’s vast photography catalogue, featuring the Second World Black and African Festival of Arts and Culture (FESTAC’77) from the perspective of female artists |
opening reception |
Roberts Projects: Betye Saar: New Work the pioneer of Assemblage art and Black American cultural icon presents new mixed-media compositions, steeped in historic narrative |
opening reception |
Tuesday 27 |
Christie’s Los Angeles: Andy Warhol Screen Tests |
opens |
Hauser & Wirth Downtown: Catherine Goodman. New Works all-new and predominantly abstract works in the London-based artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth Downtown: Jason Rhoades. DRIVE Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles dedicates an entire gallery at its Downtown Arts District location to a yearlong exploration of Rhoades’ art via the subject of cars and car culture |
opening reception |
Hauser & Wirth Downtown: RETROaction (part two) curated by Homi K. Bhabha, Kate Fowle, Charles Gaines and Ellen Tani, a 30th anniversary exhibition looking back at Gaines’ seminal “Theater of Refusal” and continuing the investigation of its resonances today |
opening reception |
Rele: Mapping Structures: Across Worlds |
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Sotheby’s Los Angeles: Iovine and Young Center for High School Education Benefit Auction | Hosted by Sotheby’s auction: Tue 27 |
auction |
Milan
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Tuesday 20 |
Cardi Gallery: Mario Ceroli: La Meraviglia iconic works in unfinished wood by the celebrated Italian sculptor |
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Monaco
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Saturday 24 |
Hauser & Wirth Monaco: Screening: ‘Amazing Grace’ |
special event |
Munich
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Thursday 22 |
Walter Storms Galerie: Viola Bittl: Return “Bittl is known for her insistent and multi-layered works that explore the boundaries of painting and create a dialogical space between form and abstraction” |
opening reception |
New York
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Wednesday 21 |
Christie’s New York: The Collection of Sir Elton John: Opening Night auction: Wed 21 (viewing: Fri 9 – Wed 21 February) |
auction |
Hauser & Wirth 69th Street: Verena Loewensberg. Kind of Blue the first exhibition in New York dedicated to the only female member of the Zürich school, curated by Henriette Coray Loewensberg |
opening reception + talk |
Petzel: Simon Denny: Dungeon new sculptures and paintings responding to the fantasy idiom of the dungeon in the contemporary imagination |
opening reception |
Petzel: Multi-User Dungeon (MUD) a group exhibition in conversation with Simon Denny’s Dungeon, featuring works which navigate the uses of virtual worlds |
opening reception |
Timothy Taylor: In Conversation: Molly Warnock with Sarah Crowner and David Reed |
talk |
Public Art Fund: Clifford Prince King: Let me know when you get home King’s tender autobiographical photo series is displayed on 330 JCDecaux bus shelters and newsstands across New York, Chicago, and Boston |
opens |
Thursday 22 |
Christie’s New York: The Collection of Sir Elton John: The Day Sale auction: Thu 22 – Fri 23 Feb (viewing: Fri 9 – Wed 21 February) |
auction starts |
Lévy Gorvy Dayan: Tu Hongtao: Beyond Babel Tu uses abstraction as a means to engage with memory, landscape and society, with a series of new paintings focusing on contemporary reliance on technology |
opening reception |
Yancey Richardson Gallery: Hellen van Meene: The Dissolve intimate photographs inspired by traditions of classical painting, many of which are on view in New York for the first time |
opening reception |
Yancey Richardson Gallery: Carolyn Drake: Glorify Yourself Drake’s newest photographic series experiments with self-portraiture and exposes the artist’s “universe of desires and delusions” |
opening reception |
Friday 23 |
GRIMM: Eric White: Local Programming White’s paintings explore the intersection of the romanticized American dream and the psychological paranoia imbued in this fantasy |
opening reception |
Sotheby’s New York: Selections from The Museum of Modern Art: c. 1890-1960 auction: Fri 23 Feb – Tue 5 Mar (viewing: Sat 24 – Thu 29 February) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s New York: Art House: The Collection of Chara Schreyer auction: Fri 23 – Thu 29 Feb (viewing: Fri 23 – Thu 29 February) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s New York: Modern Discoveries auction: Fri 23 Feb – Tue 5 Mar (viewing: Sat 24 – Thu 29 February) |
auction starts |
Sotheby’s New York: Contemporary Discoveries auction: Fri 23 Feb – Mon 4 Mar (viewing: Sat 24 – Thu 29 February) |
auction starts |
Saturday 24 |
Perrotin New York: GaHee Park: Fun and Games new paintings showcasing Park’s hyper-stylized romantic and occasionally sinister work |
opening reception |
Perrotin New York: Jason Boyd Kinsella: EMOTIONAL MOONSCAPES in Boyd Kinsella’s inaugural exhibition in the US, painting, sculpture, and video are presented in two immersive environments |
opening reception |
Tuesday 27 |
Public Art Fund: Clifford Prince King and Lyle Ashton Harris |
talk |
Palm Beach
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Wednesday 21 |
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach: Henrik Simonsen: Recent Works new and recent works by the Danish contemporary artist, continuing his exploration of time, memory, and the human experience |
opens |
Saturday 24 |
GAVLAK: Rob Wynne: The Underside of a Leaf new and historical works by the New York-based artist, including iconic poured glass pieces, archival photograms and text-based works |
opens |
Paris
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Wednesday 21 |
Ab-Anbar at L’Atlas: Baktash Sarang: Eternal Inner Construction a solo exhibition of drawings, installation and video works inspired by the political and philosophical theories of Deleuze and Foucault |
opening reception |
Saturday 24 |
Almine Rech, Turenne: Matthias Bitzer: Caligothek Bitzer combines drawing, painting and sculpture in multi-layered, experiential works focusing on the construction of memory |
opening reception |
Shanghai
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Saturday 24 |
Lisson Gallery: Allora & Calzadilla: Gǎnyìng the Puerto Rico-based artists’ debut solo exhibition in China explores “sympathetic resonance”, a concept in ancient Chinese cosmology also used in contemporary language for the everyday entanglement of forces and beings |
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Taipei
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Saturday 24 |
Each Modern: Egan Frantz: American Painting Frantz’s first solo exhibition in the Chinese region – “not only do I seek out combinatorial surprise with each new work, I’ve done it for long enough that no one expects any less of me. In that sense I am consistent and in that I am free” |
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Don’t miss: exhibitions closing |
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Addis Ababa
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Saturday 24 |
Addis Fine Art: Melaku Ayele: In the Presence of Light |
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Baku
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Saturday 24 |
Gazelli Art House: Kalliopi Lemos and Nancy Atakan: A State Of Acceptance |
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Berlin
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Saturday 24 |
Capitain Petzel: Non-Specific Objects |
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Galerie Barbara Thumm: FAMILY OF PRIME (Zipp/Kabul): Astro Dark & Blinding Nice. Afghanistan 1998 |
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Galerie Barbara Thumm: Sarah Entwistle: What was I aiming for? In my next life to be a great singer, and the life after to be a writer, and so on and so on… |
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Galerie Max Hetzler, Bleibtreustraße 45: Günther Förg: Häuser und Fenster |
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Brussels
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Saturday 24 |
Almine Rech: The Wall: Eliot Greenwald |
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Almine Rech: Todd Bienvenu: Kill Your Idols |
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Templon: Léonard Martin: Suite Zabriskie |
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London
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Thursday 22 |
DES BAINS: Nour El Saleh – Benjamin Orlow: A thousand good mornings |
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Yamamoto Keiko Rochaix: Byzantia Harlow: Aetheric |
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Friday 23 |
Jack Bell Gallery: Manel Ndoye: Vivre Ensemble |
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Saturday 24 |
A.I.: The Sun was Eaten |
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Ab-Anbar: Majid Fathizadeh: Ideologues of the Game and Other Seekers of the End |
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Addis Fine Art: Engdaye Lemma: Floating Souls |
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Addis Fine Art: The grounds from which we grow – Natasha Burton and Femi Themen |
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Alice Amati: The 7th Wall |
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Annka Kultys Gallery: Jonas Lund |
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Gazelli Art House: Pauline Boty: A Portrait |
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GRIMM: Tjebbe Beekman: Drift |
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Parafin: Tania Kovats: as above so below |
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Pilar Corrias, Savile Row: Conversation Galante |
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Pipeline: Matilda Sutton: Bristling |
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Skarstedt: Still Life |
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Stephen Friedman Gallery: Jeffrey Gibson: DREAMING OF HOW IT’S MEANT TO BE |
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Workplace: and in and out of weeks |
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Sunday 25 |
National Portrait Gallery: Taylor Wessing Photo Portrait Prize 2023 |
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Saatchi Yates: Neil Stokoe |
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Los Angeles
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Saturday 24 |
Rele: What’s In a Name |
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Melbourne
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Saturday 24 |
Tolarno Galleries: Flying Out (Firecracker) |
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Naples
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Saturday 24 |
Alfonso Artiaco: Michael Venezia: Venezia a Napoli |
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Alfonso Artiaco: Sol LeWitt |
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New York
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Friday 23 |
Graham Shay 1857: Mid-Century Abstraction: Paintings and Drawings, Stuart Davis to Robert Motherwell, 1930-1980 & Open Space Densities: Abstract Sculpture 1950-1985 by Ibram Lassaw |
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Schoelkopf: Small but Sublime: Albert Bierstadt Cabinet Paintings and Oil Studies |
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Saturday 24 |
Almine Rech: Tursic & Mille: Sweet Nothings |
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Anita Shapolsky Gallery: Eye Of The Beholder |
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HB381: Donna Green: At Last, No More |
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kurimanzutto: Daniel Guzmán – The Man Who Should Be Dead |
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Lincoln Glenn: Aaron Bohrod: A Cabinet of Curiosities |
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Marian Goodman Gallery: Dara Birnbaum: Four Works: Accountability |
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Marian Goodman Gallery: Amar Kanwar: The Peacock’s Graveyard |
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Marian Goodman Gallery: Daniel Boyd: Dreamland |
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Nicola Vassell Gallery: Elizabeth Schwaiger: Now & Now & Now |
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Petzel: Raphaela Vogel: In the Expanded Penalty Box: Did You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Fox? |
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Palm Beach
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Tuesday 20 |
Findlay Galleries Palm Beach: Belynda Henry |
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Paris
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Thursday 22 |
Perrotin Marais: PERROTIN EDITIONS – Tous Collectionneurs! |
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Friday 23 |
A&R Fleury: Concepts & Cinetisme |
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Saturday 24 |
Adrian Sutton Gallery: Agathe de Bailliencourt: Making things go |
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Almine Rech, Matignon: Tia-Thuy Nguyen: Sparkle in the vastness |
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Almine Rech, Turenne: Eric Croes: Comme un vieux tatouage |
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Almine Rech, Turenne: Seyni Awa Camara & John McAllister: Sculpting Earth, Painting Sensations |
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Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: Pierre Seinturier: Cher Monsieur Peinturier |
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Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois: Richard Jackson: Wretched Excess |
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Galerie Maria Wettergren: Into the Woods |
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Galerie Marian Goodman: Robert Smithson: Mundus Subterraneus – Early Works |
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Templon: Alioune Diagne: Seede |
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Templon: Jean-Michel Alberola: Les rois de rien et les années 1965-1966-1967 |
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Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais: Tom Sachs: “Painting” |
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Thaddaeus Ropac, Marais: Richard Deacon: New Works |
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Seoul
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Sunday 25 |
Everyday Mooonday: Sally Kindberg: Lounge |
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Tokyo
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Saturday 24 |
Perrotin Tokyo: Laurent Grasso: Orchid Island |
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Torre Pellice (Turin)
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Sunday 25 |
Tucci Russo – Studio per l’Arte Contemporanea: Robin Rhode: The Abandoned Garden |
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Turin
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Saturday 24 |
Tucci Russo Chambres d’Art: Marisa Merz |
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