On 20 November 2020, Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, is set to open a long-term exhibition of work by Mario Merz, a central figure in the Arte Povera movement that emerged in Italy in the late 1960s. Using recycled organic and industrial materials, the artist developed an imaginative iconography and recast familiar forms like the igloo and the…
Presented by White Cube, Ibrahim Mahama’s Letters From the Void, on view online until 17 November 2020, showcases a series of new and recent works by the Ghanaian artist. In his latest series of jute sack paintings, Mahama continues his interrogation of the principle that by engaging with the failures of the past it is…
Tate Modern is set to present the first major UK survey of South African visual activist Zanele Muholi, who came to prominence in the early 2000s with photographs that told the stories of Black lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer and intersex lives in South Africa. For the upcoming Tate show, 260 photographs will be brought…
Opening at the Kunstmuseum Bern on 24 November 2020, and running until 21 March 2021, the exhibition Tools for Utopia takes its starting point from a selection of works created between the early 50s and late 70s by artists from Brazil, Venezuela, Uruguay and Argentina. Conceived in times when many of these Latin American countries…
For over five decades, activist and scholar Angela Davis has been deeply involved in pioneering movements for social justice around the world. Her work as an educator, both at the university level and in the larger public sphere, has emphasised the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice. She is…
Evelyn’s Table has announced that chef Luke Selby alongside his brothers, Nat and Theo Selby, will be heading up the restaurant from 27 October 2020. Located in the original beer cellar of The Blue Posts, on London’s Rupert Street, Evelyn’s Table is an intimate 10-seat chef’s counter, which will serve a prix fixe menu focused on British ingredients…
Kitchens stand for community and gatherings, comfort and lively discussions, in a way nowhere else can. Not least, in countries with limited freedom of opinion, the kitchen is a refuge for free speech. During the coronavirus pandemic, it has come to mean even more – it is not just a place for coming together, but…
In 2018, New York’s New Museum invited influential Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor to organise the exhibition Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America. Around that time, Enwezor was also developing a series of public talks for the Alain LeRoy Locke Lectures at Harvard University focused on the intersection of Black mourning and white nationalism…