Earlier this month, images circulated widely on social media of a large plume of smoke rising behind the columns of the Jupiter Temple in Baalbek after an Israeli air strike hit less than a mile away.
The series title translates from Zulu to “Hail the Dark Lioness,” an introduction and a command of respect that’s cemented in a gaze; in the Tate exhibition these high-contrast gelatin silver prints on paper accentuate Muholi’s digitally darkened skin and piercing whites of their eyes, which bore into the viewer with intensity.
Charrière explores our rapidly changing relationship with nature by conducting field research in remote locations such as glaciers, volcanoes, and radioactive sites, which informed his interdisciplinary film, photography, and sculpture practice.
The British artist David Shrigley has returned to his Midlands secondary school almost 40 years after graduating to unveil an animatronic sculpture of a giant praying mantis, in the hope that it will spark a nationwide conversation about the “vital importance” of arts subjects.
As the fair aims to strengthen its footing as an international art market destination, this edition features a special focus on Spanish and Latin American galleries, with several exhibitors from Argentina, Brazil and—primarily—Spain.
Visitors are greeted at the top of the escalators by an installation by the Toronto-based Chinese artist Sami Tsang (presented by the local gallery Cooper Cole)—a phantasmagorical piece that resembles a giant monster baby emerging from traditional pottery—and an accompanying large-scale painting depicting the same.
She identifies the high end of the market, "which was so pivotal in driving sales out of contraction in 2020", as thinning out considerably, "creating a drag on growth despite more positive performance in some other lower-priced segments."
He began his fine-arts career shooting in black-and-white, in the style of the Swedish master Christer Strömholm, but later switched to color, drawing inspiration from vivid, large-format scenes of everyday life by American photographers such as Stephen Shore and William Eggleston.
Since the Mosaic Rooms opened in 2008 it has been a consistent platform in the UK for major artists from the wider Arab region, such as Heba Y Amin, Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, and Mohammed Omar Khalil.
The National Medal of Arts was first established by Congress in 1984. past recipients include the artists Georgia O'Keeffe, Willem de Kooning, Isamu Noguchi, James Turrell, Maya Lin, Robert Rauschenberg, Jack Whitten, Roy Lichtenstein, Ellsworth Kelly and Judith Baca.
A leak in one of the main storage rooms meant that gallery staff recently had to move part of the collection of works on paper before a storm to avoid damage, according to Ingibjörg Jóhannsdóttir, the museum’s director.
That includes, but is not limited to, bags, bubble wrap, disposable flatware and cutlery, six-pack can holders, prescription-medicine bottles, toy lightsabres, those little table things that keep your pizza from getting smushed, and plastic lawn flamingos.
