The New Museum has announced that Margot Norton and Jamillah James will be curating the museum’s fifth Triennial in 2021. This bicoastal pair—Norton is Curator at the New Museum, New York, while James is Curator at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles—is charged with heading one of the New Museum’s key initiatives, unique in…
Acute Art has announced that Daniel Birnbaum will be joining its team, taking up the newly created position of Director next year. As a philosopher, critic and curator with a museum background and a reputation of experimental curation, Birnbaum is expected to strengthen Acute Art’s mission of realising its creative vision through digital mediums. Founded…
Opening on 11 July, with a preview tonight, a new major group exhibition Memory Palace launches across White Cube’s two London galleries. Indicative of the ethos at the White Cube, this significant group exhibition will include more than ninety works by over forty artists. Curated by the White Cube exhibitions team around the theme of…
One of London’s largest contemporary art festivals, Art Night, helmed by Ksenia Zemtsova and Philippine Nguyen, returns with its third edition for one busy night this Saturday July 7th, from 6pm-6am. Each year since its inception in 2016, Art Night has partnered with a cultural institution to curate a contemporary arts festival based on the…
Having premiered at Sundance Film Festival this January, Studio 54, directed by Matt Tyrnauer, is a documentary that follows the journeys of club owners Ian Schrager and Steve Rubell along their domination of New York City’s nightlife scene in the 1970s. While the nightclub, whose regulars included Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, Mick Jagger, Grace Jones,…
Frieze Sculpture, opening in Regent’s Park on 4 July, will return for three months this summer, featuring works by 25 contemporary and modern artists presented by leading international galleries. Selected and placed by Clare Lilley (Director of Programme, Yorkshire Sculpture Park), the project will create a unique cultural attraction at the heart of the city….
Standing inside this year’s Serpentine Pavilion, which is open to the public from 15 June, visitors are canopied by a curved mirrored roof, where warped reflections of the space’s walls and blurred glimpses of the lush surrounding park appear. Hailing from Mexico City, Frida Escobedo is the 18th and youngest architect to design a temporary…
50m, a new experimental concept store dedicated to supporting and showcasing emerging designers, will open in west London on 28 June. Created by London-based artists Something & Son to help tackle high shop rents in London and support new design talent, the concept store will offer exciting new designers a place to showcase their work…