Presented by Sadie Coles HQ and running through June, the view from there is a pop-up exhibition of twenty-seven films from around the world shown in a former retail space on London’s Regent Street. The exhibition can be viewed from the street on a 24-hour basis, as well as inside the space during normal gallery…
The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards, established in 1985 by Andor Kraszna-Krausz, the founder of Focal Press, have announced the winners of the 2021 edition of the esteemed prize. The books shortlisted for this year’s Photography Book Award and Moving Image Book Award address diverse global issues relating to race, justice and identity. Ranging from illuminating artist…
Over the past ten years, Hong Kong-based artist Wong Ping has developed a highly personal, self-taught style of animation to craft tales of individual desire, societal pressure, and political upheaval. Before his colourful and sometimes disturbing stories of life in Hong Kong received mainstream attention from the art world, the artist worked in television broadcasting…
For their first solo exhibition in the UK, Pakui Hardware, made up of artists Neringa Cerniauskaite and Ugnius Gelguda, will present a newly devised commission created especially for the BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, exploring the subject of robotic and virtual care at a particularly significant moment when we find ourselves more concerned than ever…
Opening on 18 May and running until 29 August 2021, Edinburgh’s Talbot Rice Gallery presents The Normal, a group exhibition developed in response to the “wake-up call” of Covid-19. Exploring the profound re-orientation in relation to planetary health, ideas about progress, communities and new ways of working precipitated by the pandemic, it affirms the urgent…
Following numerous months of international lockdowns leaving typically bustling city streets nearly deserted, Barbican Cinema’s new programme, Return to the City, commencing this summer, hails the optimistic revival of these dynamic spaces and communities. With a diverse collection of storytellers, the films in this programme re-discover some of the world’s great cities including Paris, Cairo,…
On a balmy summer’s day in 1936 a woman dressed in a bridal gown paraded around Trafalgar Square, London, her face entirely covered with red roses, in tribute to Salvador Dalí’s painting, Woman with the Head of Roses, 1935. The mystery woman, who puzzled passers-by and made newspaper headlines, was later revealed to be artist Sheila Legge,…
This summer, Barbican Art Gallery presents Claudia Andujar: The Yanomami Struggle, an exhibition dedicated to the work and activism of Brazilian artist Claudia Andujar. For over five decades starting in the 1970s, she devoted her life to photographing and defending the Yanomami, one of Brazil’s largest indigenous communities. Andujar explains, “I started working with the…