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Artist Peggy Kuiper’s impactful figurative works explore her memories and emotional landscape with striking visual intensity
Peggy Kuiper presents ‘The Conversation That Never Took Place’ at Reflex in Amsterdam, featuring over 25 new works (until 13 July)
By Simon Chilvers Published
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Es Devlin and BMW reveal hydrogen-fuelled collaboration at Art Basel 2024
Es Devlin and BMW celebrate the potential of hydrogen power in installations unveiled at Art Basel 2024, including a take on the BMW iX5 Hydrogen
By Hannah Silver Published
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Smiles all round as Alayo Akinkugbe curates show of Black portraiture in London
Alayo Akinkugbe, behind Instagram’s @ablackhistoryofart, on her first solo-curated exhibition, ‘The Whole World Smiles With You’, at London’s Opera Gallery (until 26 June)
By Lauren Cochrane Published
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How the west won: Ivan McClellan is amplifying the intrepid beauty of Black cowboy culture
In his new book, 'Eight Seconds: Black Cowboy Culture', Ivan McClellan draws us into the world of Black rodeo. Wallpaper* meets the photographer ahead of his Juneteenth Rodeo
By Tracy Kawalik Published
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What to see at Art Basel 2024, as the fair arrives at its hometown
Art Basel 2024, the fair of all fairs, runs 13-16 June, with 285 international exhibitors and a long list of side shows and projects
By Osman Can Yerebakan Published
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Zanele Muholi celebrates South Africa’s Black LGBTI communities in LA and London
Zanele Muholi's portraits and sculptures are currently on show at Southern Guild Los Angeles and the Tate Modern, London
By Hannah Silver Published
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‘I try to capture rawness and beauty at the same time’: Gabriel Moses on his career
Photographer Gabriel Moses’ new book ‘Regina’ is a paen to kindred spirits
By Craig McLean Published
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Nan Goldin takes over London’s Welsh Chapel with a provocative new film
Nan Goldin’s ‘Sisters, Saints, Sibyls’ – at The Welsh Chapel, London until 23 June 2024 as part of Gagosian Open – is not an easy watch
By Katie Tobin Published
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David Lynch's mysterious new project reignites a long-standing collaboration
David Lynch and Chrystabell are releasing a new album – listen to the first song, out today
By Charlotte Gunn Published
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Casa Bosques’ queer-themed book curation comes to New York’s East Village
In Pride Month 2024, Casa Bosques’ pop-up bookstore in The Standard hotel, East Village, offers a stylish haven for literary mavens
By Hannah Silver Published
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Textile artists: the pioneers of a new material world
These contemporary textile artists are weaving together the rich tapestry of fibre art in new ways
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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‘Humanity is always the centre of my practice': Alex Prager's new work blurs the line between reality and fiction
Alex Prager speaks to Wallpaper* about her new body of work, 'Western Mechanics', which opened at Lehmann Maupin in Seoul
By Gameli Hamelo Published
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Ibiza is the new hotspot for contemporary art
Gathering Ibiza opens, a Balearic outpost of the London gallery, as founder Alex Flick hails the island’s emerging contemporary art scene
By Emily Steer Published
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Looking at people looking at art: inside the mind of a gallery attendant
Visitor experience workers at London’s Tate Modern, Serpentine, Barbican and V&A share what it’s like to watch people looking at art during a time of changing attention spans and rising vandalism
By Kyle MacNeill Published
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Hidden cocoons and piñata-like hearts: Nnena Kalu's sculptures at Arcadia Missa
Nnena Kalu showcases her new work in London creating a sculptural world of rhythmic mixed media and bold colours
By Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou Published
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Gilbert & George: ‘When people see us, that becomes part of the idea of two human beings as one artwork’
As their ‘London Pictures’ exhibition marks The Gilbert & George Centre’s first anniversary, the artists talk to Wallpaper* of their early practice, daily routine, and what next
By Margo Fortuny Published
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Everything to see at London Gallery Weekend 2024
London Gallery Weekend 2024 highlights, from Nan Goldin to John Akomfrah, as 130-plus galleries and 70 live events take over the capital (31 May – 2 June)
By Amah-Rose Abrams Published
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The Roth Bar at Hauser & Wirth Somerset serves up a cocktail of salvaged materials
Art and entertaining meet in Oddur Roth’s bar sculpture at Hauser & Wirth Somerset, a site-specific installation and social hub
By Hannah Silver Published
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Cannes Film Festival 2024 highlights: our verdict is in
What to watch or not to watch – cut to the Cannes Film Festival 2024 highlights
By Sophie Monks Kaufman Published
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Wanås Konst sculpture park merges art and nature in Sweden
Wanås Konst’s latest exhibition, 'The Ocean in the Forest', unites land and sea with watery-inspired art in the park’s woodland setting
By Alice Godwin Published
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Alicja Kwade and Agnes Martin in Los Angeles: time, temporality and perception
Artists Alicja Kwade and Agnes Martin are in dialogue at Pace Gallery, Los Angeles
By Emily McDermott Published
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A snapshot of the bohemian downtown: Peter Hujar’s early photography on show in New York
‘Peter Hujar: Rialto’ is currently being exhibited at The Ukrainian Museum, New York
By Hannah Silver Published
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Artist Abdur Rahman Muhammad reframes the ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag to consider migration
Abdur Rahman Muhammad casts the ‘Ghana Must Go’ bag in oils as a potent symbol of migration in ‘The Allegory of a Seeker’, on view at ADA gallery in Accra
By Gameli Hamelo Published
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‘Judy Chicago: Revelations’ brings the feminist trailblazer’s unseen works to London
Judy Chicago presents a major retrospective at Serpentine North, including unseen works from a boat-rocking career that spearheaded the feminist art movement (until 1 September 2024)
By Tianna Williams Published
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Don’t miss: Hayv Kahraman intertwines colonialism and botany in London
Artist Hayv Kahraman draws parallels between colonial botany and her experiences as an Iraqi refugee transplanted into Europe, at Pilar Corrias in London
By Hannah Silver Published
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‘Beyond the Bassline’: 500 years of Black music in Britain
Music is the touchpaper for this superb social-history exhibition at the British Library, London
By Caragh McKay Published
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Elton John and David Furnish’s photography collection is on show in London
‘Fragile Beauty: Photographs from the Sir Elton John and David Furnish Collection’ is a chance to see more than 300 rare prints at the V&A in London
By Hannah Silver Published