The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) reopened its galleries

LACMA, Los Angeles, CA After more than a year of mandated closure as a result of COVID-19, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) reopened its galleries to the public on April 1, 2021, following the guidelines provided by L.A. County for museums. . To provide a safe environment…

François Morellet: In-Coherent

26 January – 7 April 2021 Hauser & Wirth, New York. François Morellet (1926 – 2016), a prolific self-taught painter, sculptor, and installation artist, developed a radical approach to geometric abstraction during a career spanning more than six decades. The artist’s inaugural exhibition with Hauser & Wirth, ‘François Morellet. In-Coherent,’…

Tracey Emin / Edvard Munch The Loneliness of the Soul

7 December 2020 - 28 February 2021 Royal Academy of Arts, London Tracey Emin has long had a fascination with the Norwegian expressionist and painter of The Scream, Edvard Munch: in her words, “I’ve been in love with this man since I was eighteen”. In 1998 she even created a…

‘OVR: Miami Beach’ Highlights

2-6 December 2020 Online event The December edition of Art Basel's Online Viewing Rooms will feature an international lineup of 255 leading galleries from 30 countries and territories across North and South America, as well as Europe, Asia, and Africa. The presentations will be accompanied by a program of online…

Architecture into Art: a dialogue

10 October 2020—14 March 2021 Centro Botín, Santander, Spain. This exhibition brings together a selection of works by artists who once directed a Fundación Botín visual arts workshop and exhibited their work in Santander, as well as some by former recipients of the foundation’s visual art grants. It explores the …

YICCA 2020 Winners have been announced

In a democratic context like YICCA, where artworks arrive from all over the world, covering numerous cultural backgrounds, challenges and questions and there is not a theme to guide the jury to chose the artworks in the competition, it is not always easy to navigate. We were extremely lucky to…

An Art of Changes: Jasper Johns Prints, 1960–2018

16 February - 20 September 2020 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. When Jasper Johns’s paintings of flags and targets debuted in 1958, they brought him instant acclaim and established him as a critical link between Abstract Expressionism and Pop art. In the ensuing 60 years, Johns (US, b. 1930) has continued…

John Baldessari dies aged 88

John Baldessari, the Californian artist and teacher known as the godfather of conceptual art, has died aged 88. His death on Thursday at his Los Angeles home was confirmed last night by his long-time dealer Marian Goodman who described him as “intelligent, loving and incomparable”. At 6 ft 7 inches…

Maurizio Cattelan’s $120,000 Banana Was Ejected From Art Basel

Maurizio Cattelan’s banana sculpture at Art Basel Miami Beach has taken on a life of its own. On Saturday, amid a crush of fairgoers, a performance artist successfully managed to nab, peel, and eat the conceptual fruit duct-taped to the wall of the booth of Perrotin Gallery. The New York-based…