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.

Leila Heller Gallery presents the 11th edition of Spotlight Artist Series, focusing on Kezban Arca Batibeki

August 9, 2020

Kezban Arca Batibeki is a Turkish painter, photographer, and filmmaker, best known for her works exploring female empowerment. Drawing on pop imagery, bright colors, and digital tools, Batibeki creates scenes in which women subjects are portrayed as dominant and powerful forces. Batibeki references pulp fiction, detective stories, and murder mysteries in these works, which are consequently infused with dark undertones, her characters brandishing weapons or chasing one another.

Galerie Chantal Crousel announces Tarek Atoui as the winner of the 2022 Suzanne Deal Booth / FLAG Art Foundation Prize

August 8, 2020

Tarek Atoui is an artist and composer based in Paris, France who explores the medium of sound through dynamic installations and live performances. Drawing from methods of ethnomusicology, the artist grounds his work in multidisciplinary and collaborative research—historical, social, material, perceptual, and environmental—creating unexpected, evocative, and open-ended projects. In addition to receiving a $200,000 cash award, Atoui will present a solo exhibition premiering in Austin in spring 2022 at The Contemporary’s downtown venue, the Jones Center on Congress Avenue.

Serpentine Galleries release Standing with the Forest, a new podcast as part of the Back to Earth project

August 7, 2020

Featuring perspectives from self-organised Indigenous organisations at the front line of extraction and climate change, as well as artists researching our more-than-human entanglements, Standing with the Forest was released on the occasion of the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People, supporting campaigns at the intersection of Indigenous activism and ecology.

Jane Lombard Gallery hosts a Zoom Q&A with Barbara Pollack and Lu Yang

August 6, 2020

Join the gallery on Thursday 6 August at 11am EST for a conversation with award winning journalist, art critic, curator and one of the world's leading authorities on contemporary Chinese art, Barbara Pollack, in dialogue with Shanghai-based artist Lu Yang. The discussion will explore the role of art in times of crisis, and investigate Yang's visual commentaries on society within a surveillance state.

ICP presents JR’s One Thousand Stories: The Making of a Mural, a short film by Tasha Van Zandt

July 31, 2020

Follow artist JR (Faces Places) in the creation of his first video mural project, The Chronicles of San Francisco. Directed by Tasha Van Zandt (Time Magazine’s Emmy Nominated Guns in America), the film, along with Elliott Erwitt: Silence Sounds Good by ICP alum Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu, is available to stream until 31 July.

Heather Phillipson’s THE END is unveiled as the 13th Fourth Plinth commission in London

July 30, 2020

The new artwork by artist Heather Phillipson was unveiled on Thursday 30 July, on the Fourth Plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. Heather Phillipson’s vast physical and digital sculpture tops the Fourth Plinth with a giant swirl of whipped cream, a cherry, a fly and a drone that transmits a live feed of Trafalgar Square. Entitled THE END, it suggests both exuberance and unease, responding to Trafalgar Square as a site of celebration and protest, that is shared with other forms of life. The live feed of Trafalgar Square picked up by the drone’s camera is visible on a dedicated website giving a sculpture’s eye perspective.

Christina and Emmanuel Di Donna, founders of Di Donna Galleries, launch Sélavy, a new gallery concept in Southampton, New York

July 29, 2020

Functioning as a rotating exhibition space viewable from multiple angles through large corner windows, Sélavy presents curated vignettes that combine fine art and design spanning mediums, time periods, and cultures. The inaugural presentation includes bronze sculptures by Jean Arp, paintings by Robert Motherwell and Kenneth Noland, furniture and sculptures by Francois-Xavier and Claude Lalanne, a petite sculpture by Yves Klein, and a tapestry and chess set by Max Ernst, among other works.

Alison Jacques Gallery hosts The Life and Work of Gordon Parks, a conversation between Mark Sealy and Paul Roth

Coinciding with the gallery‘s current exhibition Gordon Parks: Part One (1 July - 1 August 2020), Mark Sealy and Paul Roth will discuss the life and work of Gordon Parks in a virtual talk on Wednesday 29 July at 6pm BST.

Mark Sealy has been Director of London-based photographic arts institution Autograph ABP since 1991. He is interested in the relationships between photography and social change, identity politics, race, and human rights.

Paul Roth is Director of the Ryerson Image Centre in Toronto, Canada. He previously served as Senior Curator of Photography and Media Arts at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. and as Executive Director of The Richard Avedon Foundation.

Galerie Eva Presenhuber presents Positions on Photography, an online-only exhibition benefiting Food Bank for New York City

July 23, 2020

Online until 19 September, Positions on Photography examines myriad approaches to the medium both within our gallery program and beyond, and features Doug Aitken, Walead Beshty, Lucas Blalock, Martin Boyce, Shannon Ebner, Hadi Fallahpisheh, Sam Falls, Peter Fischli David Weiss, Wyatt Kahn, Karen Kilimnik, Diane Severin Nguyen, Torbjørn Rødland, Ugo Rondinone, and Steven Shearer. 10% of gross profits from sales of all works will go to Food Bank for New York City, an independent, non-profit organization.

Annka Kultys Gallery presents Dissimulation, an online exhibition by Bill Posters as part of [The art happens here]

July 21, 2020

Dissimulation is an online exhibition of two ‘deep-fake’ new media works (available to stream until 10 August) that critically interrogate humankind’s relationships with new technologies of power, hierarchies of knowledge and the wider systemic tensions that exist concerning dataism (the ideology related to the primacy of data mining created by the emergence of Big Data), privacy, surveillance capitalism and democracy.