Presented by gallery Thaddaeus Ropac and running until 17 April 2021, You don’t do it for the man, men never notice. You do it for yourself, you’re the fucking coldest is Alvaro Barrington’s first solo exhibition in France. Shown across all four floors of Ropac’s Paris Marais gallery, Barrington’s new paintings reflect the cross-pollination of…
Curated by Azu Nwagbogu, Director of the African Artists’ Foundation, Amsterdam’s Galerie Ron Mandos presents (Re)Pose, an exhibition exploring the figurative paintings of South African artist WonderBuhle and Nigerian artist Eniwaye Oluwaseyi, running from 6 March–3 April 2021. Both painters unpack familial histories through portraiture, protesting forms of oppression and the misrepresentation of Black bodies…
SOUTH SOUTH is a recently launched online community, sales platform, archive and resource for artists, galleries, curators and collectors invested in the Global South. “The platform offers a repository and a space for new, shared value systems centred on community, collaboration and exchange,” its founders explain. It endeavours to be a central portal to experience…
Leading non-profit arts organisation Studio Voltaire has announced that its permanent home in Clapham, south London, will reopen to the public in October 2021, following the completion of a transformative renovation project designed by architects Matheson Whiteley, whose past work includes Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany, as well as artists’ studios for…
Co-produced by the Barbican and independent publisher and curator Sarah Shin, literary festival New Suns returns from 5-7 March 2021, taking place entirely online for the first time this year. With a weekend of talks, workshops and a film centred around feminist storytelling, the programme will feature acclaimed writers, activists, artists, and academics offering diverse…
Open to explore online from tomorrow, 29 January 2021, Hauser & Wirth present Los Angeles-based artist Charles Gaines’ first solo exhibition in the UK, featuring a host of new works presented across the gallery’s London spaces. Born in 1944 in Charleston, South Carolina, Gaines began his career as a painter, earning his MFA from the…
Conceived by independent curator, writer, and co-director of Paris Internationale, Clément Delépine, Galleries Curate was born during the early stages of the first lockdown last year. The platform’s organisers explain, “In the first days of the Covid-19 pandemic, an informal group of contemporary galleries from around the world came together to discuss how to navigate…
Los Angeles-based visual artist Henry Taylor’s distinct impact on the American cultural landscape stems from his rejection of tradition. While people figure prominently in Taylor’s work, he evades the title of portraitist. Taylor’s chosen subjects are only one piece of the larger cultural narrative that they represent: his paintings reveal the forces at play, both…