For visual artist Diedrick Brackens, whose textile narratives are shaped by his evolving encyclopedia of allegorical symbols, the lake near his birthplace of Mexia, Texas has become the absorbing protagonist of his newest series of tapestries. Lake Mexia is a thousand-acre span of abundance, celebration, nostalgia, and grief. When viewed from above, it appears as…
Face to Face is a new public exhibition of social documentary and portrait photography curated by British writer, broadcaster, curator and former director of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Ekow Eshun, in partnership with the Fund for Global Human Rights. The exhibition will take place from 7 October to 1 November 2020 at Kings Cross…
NEW INC was cofounded by Lisa Phillips and Karen Wong in 2014 and is the first museum-led cultural incubator dedicated to supporting innovation, collaboration, and entrepreneurship across art, design, and technology. Under the directorship of Stephanie Pereira, the New Museum’s cultural incubator welcomes its seventh annual class this month. 64 members working at the intersection…
The Artist Self Publishers’ Fair (ASP Fair) will return for its 6th edition on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 September 2020 with over 100 international and UK artist self-publishers. ASP Fair seeks to highlight the practice of self-publishing and provides a platform for artists wishing to present work that circumvents the market mechanisms and constraints…
This autumn, from 7 October 2020, Barbican Art Gallery stages the first ever major exhibition on the groundbreaking dancer and choreographer Michael Clark. Exploring his unique combination of classical and contemporary culture, Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer unfolds as a constellation of striking portraits of Clark through the eyes of eminent collaborators and world-renowned artists including Charles Atlas, BodyMap,…
Founded as an independent project by galleries VI, VII, based in Oslo, and Copenhagen’s Christian Andersen, June Art Fair was conceived as a platform to promote the work of emerging artists and to encourage rediscovery of more established but under-recognised figures. Debuted during Basel Art Week in 2019, the first edition of June Art Fair…
This month, the Rainforest Foundation introduces a new non-profit organisation, UNITY, bringing together artists from around the world with the mission of raising funds to help protect the Amazon Rainforest and the indigenous communities and organisations who serve and defend this vital land. The charity explains, “The Rainforest Foundation works on-the-ground to secure land rights…
Michael Armitage’s paintings weave multiple narratives that are drawn from historical and current news media, internet gossip, and his own ongoing recollections of Kenya. The figurative painter was born in Kenya to a Yorkshireman father and Kikuyu mother and spent his childhood in East Africa, before training as an artist in Britain, at London’s Slade…