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Article date: Thursday, February 6, 2020

Lubaina Himid: Naming the Money in Bourdeaux

Winner of the Turner Prize 2017, Lubaina Himid is taking over CAPC’s large nave space with her iconic installation “Naming the Money“, which extends the experience of slavery to all “migrants” and calls to mind the initial purpose of the building that houses the CAPC, a former warehouse for colonial goods.

Article date: Tuesday, February 4, 2020

Explore the Tropical Landscape of Guatemala through Vivian Suter's Paintings

Navigate your way through the maze of colourful hanging paintings, which form Vivian Suter’s (b. 1949) large-scale installation Nisyros (Vivian’s Bed) 2016-17. Suter’s work is inspired by the tropical landscape of Panajachel in Guatemala, where she lives and works. The environment plays an important role in the making and development of her work.

Article date: Monday, February 3, 2020

Death Cult at Torrance Art Museum

The obsession with Death has always been a fundamental pivot for much of art throughout history and across geographical boundaries. The awareness of our own mortality can be explored through this exhibition which focuses on the ubiquitous skull and its relationship to the very American Dream idea of the open road, via motorcycle iconography. A death wish or the instinctive aligning of danger and excitement in a world that many see as too bland and safe?

Article date: Sunday, February 2, 2020

The Greek Artist Takis at the MACBA, Barcelona

The Greek artist Takis (Panagiotis Vassilakis; 25.10.1925-9.08.2019) pioneered new art forms using magnetism, light and sound. Takis was born in Athens in 1925, where he died on August 9, 2019. Much of his artistic career and activity was focused in Paris, London and New York, between 1950 and 1970, and then he has been living in Athens. This exhibition is the first solo presentation of his work in Barcelona.

Article date: Thursday, January 30, 2020

MOCA has Reinstalled the Monumental Wall Work by Los Angeles–Based Artist Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Questions)

MOCA has reinstalled the monumental wall work by Los Angeles–based artist Barbara Kruger (b. New York 1945), Untitled (Questions) (1990/2018). The emblematic red, white, and blue artwork was originally commissioned by MOCA in 1989 for the exhibition A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, and was last installed in 1990 on the south wall of MOCA’s building (now The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA). The work holds an iconic place in the collective memory of Los Angeles’s art community and is considered one of the museum’s curatorial highlights over its forty-year history.

Article date: Tuesday, January 28, 2020

FOAM Shows 'Adorned – The Fashionable Show'

The exhibition Adorned – The Fashionable Show presents intriguing and challenging fashion related photography projects created by a new generation of visual artists. They all work with fashion, but most of them are not straightforward fashion photographers. For them, fashion and style are primarily tools to construct or question identities, to empower people and to play with cultures, gender, race and ages.

Article date: Monday, January 27, 2020

Festival of Visual Culture Hors Pistes - Out of Line Opened its 15th Edition at the Centre Pompidou

For it’s fifteenth exhibition, Hors Pistes (who can be translate as "Out of line") festival will focus on exploring, confronting and questionning the metamorphose of artistic experimentation and the individual use of the contemporary image, in all it diversity (from movies to series, from video to computer graphic…). What are those pictures that we contanstly and abundantly see ?

Article date: Sunday, January 26, 2020

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London

This exhibition will present the kimono as a dynamic and constantly evolving icon of fashion, revealing the sartorial, aesthetic and social significance of the garment from the 1660s to the present day, both in Japan and the rest of the world.

Article date: Sunday, January 19, 2020

Unique 300 Year Old Scientific Drawings at Risk of Leaving the UK

An export bar has been placed on a group of 18th century albums containing what experts claim are amongst the finest examples of botanical drawing in existence. The works, ‘The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands’ and ‘A Commonplace Book’ are valued at £2,500,000 and were completed in the mid 1700s. They are at risk of being lost abroad unless a UK buyer can be found.

Article date: Thursday, January 16, 2020

Discover the Complete Painted Works and Unique Miniatures of Jan Van Eyck Online

Thanks to the VERONA project (Van Eyck Research in OpeN Access) of the Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage (KIK-IRPA), the complete painted works, plus the unique miniatures of Jan Van Eyck, can now be admired online in ultra-high resolution. During the presentation of the European Heritage Awards / Europa Nostra Awards 2019 for Research to the VERONA project, photos and scientific images of several of Jan Van Eyck's top works, plus miniatures from the manuscript Turin-Milan Hours, were added to the website Closer to Van Eyck.

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