Thomas Dane Gallery, Kate MacGarry, Lisson Gallery, Sadie Coles HQ launch The Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC)

October 23, 2020

The Gallery Climate Coalition (GCC) is a non-profit organisation founded by a group of gallerists and professionals working in the arts as an attempt to develop a meaningful and industry-specific response to the growing climate crisis. The GCC is actively recruiting galleries, art workers and artists to join the coalition and work towards its core goal of collectively reducing carbon emissions by 50% over the next ten years (in line with the Paris Agreement), as well as promoting near zero-waste practices.

Alison Jacques Gallery announces representation of Nicola L. (1932 – 2018)

October 22, 2020

As the only gallery working with Nicola L., the partnership between Alison Jacques and the Nicola L. Collection and Archive provides an invaluable opportunity to further enhance the profile of the L.’s pioneering work and foreground underexposed aspects of the artist’s prolific practice. Born in 1932 in Mazagan, Morocco, L. relocated to Paris in 1954 to study abstract painting at the prestigious École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts. By the time she rose to prominence in the mid-1960s, she had developed an ambitious interdisciplinary practice that spanned performance, film and collage, as well as the better-known interactive sculptures. But in spite of her technical dexterity, Nicola L. maintained an unwavering commitment to the global feminist movement and the political potential of the collective. The first project will be an exhibition of Nicola L.’s work from the 1960s and 1970s including many previously unseen series, scheduled to open in 2021.

Lévy Gorvy opens a new space in Paris

October 20, 2020

Located in the heart of the Marais district, at 4 Passage Sainte-Avoye in the 3rd arrondissement, Lévy Gorvy Paris will open on 22 October with Günther Uecker: Lichtbogen, the artist's first solo exhibition in Paris since 1968. Lichtbogen constitutes a dramatic development in the master’s seven-decade practice with a monumental new body of works, the first of their kind.

South London Gallery named as a winner of Art Fund Museum of the Year 2020

October 13, 2020

In a unique edition of the prize and in recognition of the unprecedented challenges that all museums face this year, five winning museums have been named. They will equally share the £200,000 award, a 40% rise over previous years, receiving £40,000 each.

The winning museums are: Aberdeen Art Gallery (Aberdeen, Scotland); Gairloch Museum (Gairloch, Scotland); Science Museum (London, England); South London Gallery (London, England); and Towner Eastbourne (Eastbourne, England).

Artist Frank Bowling joins Hauser & Wirth and is awarded Knighthood in Queen’s Birthday Honours

During his six-decades long career, Bowling’s relentless pursuit of excellence in painting underpins a lifetime of service to British art. At age 86, he still is an active painter with an irrepressible work ethic, working in his South London studio almost every day. Now represented by Hauser & Wirth, his first solo exhibition with the gallery is set to open in London in May 2021.

The Birthday Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom.

Cristea Roberts Gallery announces representation of Paula Rego’s prints

October 1, 2020

Over the past sixty years Dame Paula Rego RA (b. 1935) has established herself as one of the most important figurative artists of her generation. Rego explores themes of power, rebellion, sexuality and gender, grief and poverty, often through female paragons. Her work ranges from painting, pastel, and prints to sculptural installations. Cristea Roberts Gallery will include the artist’s important body of prints in a solo exhibition in Autumn 2021 as well as its ongoing programme of art fairs and catalogue publications, bringing this vital element of her practice to a wider international audience.

Pitzhanger launches Artists for Pitzhanger, a sale of limited edition artworks

Featuring works by Emily Allchurch, Anish Kapoor, Karen Knorr, Miyu Kurihara, John Riddy and Othello De’Souza-Hartley, the initiative will raise vital funds to help Pitzhanger’s recovery at this time of need, supporting its recent reopening, and future learning and outreach programmes.

ICP Museum in New York reopens on 1 October

September 22, 2020

The International Center of Photography (ICP) Museum at Essex Crossing will reopen by timed entry on Thursday 1 October with four exhibitions that address this tumultuous time, marked by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, economic and political crises, and the rise of antiracist and antiauthoritarian movements around the world: #ICPConcerned: Global Images for Global Crisis, COVID New York: Five ICP Alumni, George Georgiou: Americans Parade, and Tyler Mitchell: I Can Make You Feel Good.

Lisson Gallery to open on Cork Street, Mayfair for six months

September 21, 2020

Launching during Frieze Week 2020, the new space at 22 Cork Street will be at the heart of London's Frieze activity, alongside the fair's planned off-site projects, performances and events. Supplementing the gallery's historic locations on Bell and Lisson Streets, Lisson's new Mayfair outpost will present a variety of solo and group exhibitions, opening with Horizon on 6 October with work by artists including Ai Weiwei, John Akomfrah, Allora & Calzadilla, Mary Corse, Ryan Gander, Hugh Hayden, Anish Kapoor, Lee Ufan and Stanley Whitney.

Fergus McCaffrey announces the death of luminary Mono-ha artist Noriyuki Haraguchi (1946–2020)

September 17, 2020

The Japanese artist rose to prominence in the late 1960s through the development of painting and sculpture that engaged with cultural and environmental issues through a post-minimalist vocabulary. Born in 1946, the artist spent most of his life in the town of Yokosuka, Japan, the home port of the US Navy’s 7th Fleet. Located south of the massively industrialized city of Kawasaki, the environment indelibly shaped Haraguchi’s aesthetic and instinct for pure construction. A special tribute to the artist is now available on the gallery's new digital platform.

Gagosian launches new season of Artist Spotlight with Ed Ruscha

Working in diverse media with humor and wit, Ed Ruscha oscillates between sign and substance, locating the sublime in landscapes both natural and artificial. the artist’s formal experimentations and clever use of the American vernacular have evolved in form and meaning as technology alters the essence of human communication. Artist Spotlight: Ed Ruscha features five recent works on paper by the artist. The works will be unveiled on Friday, September 18, at 6am EDT, and a surprise offering by the artist will be revealed on Sunday, September 20.

FIAC announces the cancellation of its 2020 edition

September 15, 2020

Initially scheduled to take place at the Grand Palais from 22 to 25 October, the fair announced the decision on Monday, following discussions between the organizers and exhibitors, collectors, visitors and partners over the past weeks. The 47th edition of FIAC will now take place from 21 to 24 October at the Grand Palais Éphémère on the Champ-de-Mars.

Hauser & Wirth launches ‘Artists for New York’, a major initiative to raise funds for key visual arts organizations in New York City

Beginning 1 October 2020, works by more than 100 artists will be sold online to benefit 16 non-profit institutions and charitable partners that have been profoundly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, including Artists Space, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Dia Art Foundation, The Drawing Center, El Museo del Barrio, High Line Art, MoMA PS1, New Museum, Public Art Fund, Queens Museum, SculptureCenter, The Studio Museum in Harlem, Swiss Institute, and White Columns.

Pitzhanger re-opens on 10 September with the postponed Hogarth: London Voices, London Lives exhibition

As part of the reopening, visitors will be able to see William Hogarth’s celebrated series of paintings A Rake’s Progress on display at Pitzhanger for the first time in 200 years, on loan from Sir John Soane’s Museum. Hogarth’s paintings are the centrepiece of Hogarth: London Voices, London Lives, an exhibition that reflects voices and issues of living in London today and features contemporary photography, film and sound. Click here for more details, including booking information.

Lehmann Maupin announces a new space in London

September 3, 2020

Opening on Monday 5 October at 1 Cromwell Place, Lehmann Maupin London will function as a dynamic multi-purpose space, offering an alternative to the traditional gallery model. Conceived in response to the shifting needs of its artists and the broader arts community, the gallery will forego a fixed exhibition program and instead engage site-specific activations, installations, and performances. Alongside galleries located in New York, Hong Kong, and Seoul, this will be Lehmann Maupin’s first location in London.

Jane Lombard Gallery hosts a Zoom Q&A with artist Christine Gedeon

August 13, 2020

Led by Jane Lombard, the discussion, taking place on Thursday 13 August at 11 AM EST, will center around the release of Gedeon's new book Aleppo: Deconstruction | Reconstruction, which brings together a series of fifteen works on paper, exploring places in pre-civil war Syria that belong to the artist’s personal history supplemented by family photographs and an essay on Syria by Nasser Rabbat, Aga Khan Professor and the Director of the Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture at MIT.

Gagosian announces three new programming and funding initiatives in support of Titus Kaphar’s organization NXTHXN

August 12, 2020

Based in New Haven, Connecticut, NXTHVN is a new national arts model established by Titus Kaphar with cofounder and chairman of the board Jason Price and cofounder Jonathan Brand, which empowers artists and curators of color through education and access, mentorship and collaboration. In addition to endowing the paid NXTHVN Apprenticeship Program for students from local high schools, Gagosian will launch a professional development program for NXTHVN Fellows, adding to the organization’s existing education projects through discussions and studio visits with Gagosian staff, and offer sales support to Pleading Freedom, an exhibition at the NXTHVN Gallery to raise funds for work toward racial justice.

Acquavella Galleries, Gagosian, and Pace Gallery present a joint exhibition of works on paper from the esteemed Donald B. Marron Collection

On view from August 12 - 20 at Pace’s recently opened gallery in East Hampton, New York, the exhibition will feature almost forty works on paper, from early modern masterpieces by Henri Matisse and Fernand Léger; to nature studies by Ellsworth Kelly and an exemplary acrylic from Paul Thek’s final series; to contemporary pieces by Mamma Andersson, Leonardo Drew, Damien Hirst, Jasper Johns, and Brice Marden, among others.  In a continuation of the three galleries’ partnership with the Marron family to handle the sale of the private collection of the late Donald B. Marron, this intimate presentation offers a glimpse into the coveted Marron estate of over 300 masterworks acquired over the course of six decades.