Installations
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The beasts within: artists tap into their wild sides for a roaring show
By Elly Parsons Last updated
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Bruges Triennial 2018: floating pavilions and a concrete gateway to the afterlife
By Giovanna Dunmall Last updated
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Artist Doug Aitken's 'Altered Earth' exhibition in Arles, France
By Ellen Himelfarb Last updated
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Oscar Wilde meets Wes Anderson in the fantasy world of Alex Da Corte
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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In memoriam: Christo (1935-2020)
We pay homage to the artist who wrapped the world
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Artist Nari Ward's recipe for ackee and saltfish patties
Nari Ward’s staple Jamaican dish offers more than it says on the tin. As featured in our monthly Artist’s Palate series, where we interpret recipes in homage to our favourite contemporary art
By TF Chan Last updated
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Sarabande reframes femininity for International Women's Day
At the London art foundation, three artists-in-residence slash taboos and rethink the significance of inhabiting a female body
By Oyin Akande Last updated
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Uncanny valley: artistic visions of our AI future
As algorithms and data-sets increasingly shape our lives, artists are exploring our collective concerns around artificial intelligence
By Fiona Mahon Last updated
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Breath is Invisible’s powerful second installation lights up west London
Public art project Breath is Invisible has just unveiled its second outdoor installation in Notting Hill, a multisensory digital experience responding to the Black Lives Matter movement
By Sophia Acquistapace Last updated
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Chains, cages and feminist desires: Monica Bonvicini in Vienna
Monica Bonvicini’s show ‘Stagecage’ at Vienna’s Galerie Krinzinger is sinister and sublime
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Anri Sala's subterranean installation is out of this world
Albanian artist Anri Sala's hypnotic film and sound installation, Time No Longer, in Houston's Buffalo Bayou Park Cistern, pays homage to African American astronaut and saxophonist Ronald McNair
By Amah-Rose Abrams Last updated
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Isa Genzken stages a flight of fantasy at Hauser & Wirth
At Hauser & Wirth, the alpha female of German sculpture steers us through notions of travel, social architecture and the human condition
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Dover Street Market London celebrates Futura's graffiti art
A Comme des Garçons SHIRT installation celebrates the spray painted style of the New York-born artist
By Laura Hawkins Last updated
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A Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing show explores the evolution of play
The three-part group exhibition connects human, animal and artificial intelligence through the act of ‘play’, curated by the 2019 Hyundai Blue Prize winners
By Dominic Bradbury Last updated
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Nari Ward and Robin Rhode are wall-to-wall at Lehmann Maupin Hong Kong
For their first dual exhibition, two very distinctive artists explore the symbolic and communal potential of ‘the wall’
By Diane Theunissen Last updated
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Enough of Trump billboard campaign gains traction ahead of US election
American artists including Carrie Mae Weems, Ed Ruscha and Hank Willis Thomas have joined voices for an ambitious billboard initiative with a direct message
By Pei-Ru Keh Last updated
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Exhibit Columbus to explore middle America and beyond
The 2020-2021 Exhibit Columbus theme and its J. Irwin and Xenia S. Miller Prize recipients line-up have just been revealed, placing the focus on the ‘middle city' during the upcoming annual Indiana architecture event
By Ellie Stathaki Last updated
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Sanford Biggers is weaving new narratives into American history
At The Bronx Museum, the first survey of quilt-based works by New York-based artist Sanford Biggers sources codes in American history through pre-1900 antique quilts
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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‘We Are History’ confronts the climate emergency through a global art lens
A Somerset House group show curated by Ekow Eshun interrogates the origins of climate change through a global lens, and coincides with the 1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
By Oyin Akande Last updated
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Petrit Halilaj reflects on trauma and hope at Tate St Ives
On view until 16 January at Tate St Ives, Petrit Halilaj's exhibition ‘Very volcanic over this green feather’ combines childhood drawings, made in a refugee camp during the Kosovo war, landscapes and birds with scenes of wartime devastation
By TF Chan Last updated
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A Marrakech exhibition takes a radical view of identity and social unrest
Following an international descent of visitors for 1-54 art fair, a group exhibition at MACAAL surveys the politics of identity through 12 global voices
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated
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Life lessons from Elmgreen & Dragset’s tennis court
A new exhibition at Berlin’s König Galerie has the artist duo meditating on empty triumphs, power mechanisms and social divisions
By TF Chan Last updated
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How Berlin's art galleries navigate reopening post lockdown
After being given the green light earlier in May, Berlin's physical art spaces are tentatively welcoming visitors back. Through three galleries, we explore the different approaches to cautiously negotiating the transition
By Emily McDermott Last updated
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Dreamachine: the much-anticipated immersive art experience launches in London
Launching in London at Woolwich Public Market on 10 May, Dreamachine is the new immersive experience created by Collective Act that brings together artists Assemble and composer Jon Hopkins. It’s designed as the first artwork to be experienced with closed eyes
By Nick Compton Last updated
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Shilpa Gupta at the Barbican: social injustice, censorship and poetry
In the multipart show ‘Sun at Night’ at London’s Barbican, Mumbai-based artist Shilpa Gupta highlights the fragility of free expression and gives a voice to those silenced
By Cleo Roberts-Komireddi Last updated
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How Joël Andrianomearisoa is putting Madagascar on the contemporary art map
Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa is the creative mind behind Hakanto Contemporary, a new multifunctional arts centre in Madagascar’s capital, Antananarivo. A new group show of 26 artists showcases the breadth and scope of work being made in and around the city
By Charlotte Jansen Last updated
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Fondazione Merz’s new Palermo space is an art powerhouse
Occupying a former factory building in Palermo, Sicily, Fondazione Merz’s second location opens with a radical group show ‘L'altro, lo stesso’
By Harriet Lloyd-Smith Last updated