The inaugural Art Week Riyadh (6–13 April) will include presentations from more than 45 local, regional and international galleries, as well as exhibitions organised by private and institutional Saudi collections, and a public programme of talks, films, workshops and studio visits.
Among the many sources and narratives running through this multi-stranded show are James Lovelock’s Gaia theory, which posits that Earth and its biological systems behave as a huge single entity, and Charles Elton’s 1958 study The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants.
Dmitry and his family are also in London, and the company cut its last ties with Russia in October 2022, shutting its offices and relocating hundreds of staff as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.
You’re with her throughout the process: when she finds a postcard from another woman addressed to her husband, when he initiates a divorce, when they go to couples counselling (because there’s a big part of Smith that wants to fix the relationship), when she has a difficult conversation with her kids about the situation, and when she finally decides to prioritize her happiness.
There’s videos and site-specific installations exploring the fragile nature of morality and humanity’s brutality by Hong Kong artist Tsang Kin-Wah at Galerie du Monde, and a show bridging traditional folk crafts with contemporary art—and foregrounding women’s unseen labor—at Centre for Heritage Arts & Textile, to name a couple.
Inside was “a few theses’ worth of stuff,” Gentry noted, picking up a sheaf of paper in a musty parlor room—sheet music for the 1917 song “Joan of Arc, They Are Calling You.” There were books on Catholicism (“Signed Ones in Plastic,” a label read); scholarly works on O’Connor; and, hanging in Louise’s closet, three chiffon evening gowns.
In the 1941 interview in which Matisse recalled the bicycle anecdote he also revealed that, on the wall of his bedroom, he had two reproductions of paintings: Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and a work by his fellow Fauve, Georges Rouault.
This challenge was one of the subjects covered in a lively panel discussion held in Manhattan on 29 January, as part of Downtown Dealers—a conversation series for New York gallerists established by the collector and adviser Bill Cournoyer.
This decision undermines access to the arts, disproportionately harming marginalised groups and stifling diverse expression,” Julie Trébault, the executive director of Artists at Risk Connection, said in a statement.
The Guggenheim Museum in New York in late February began dismissing 20 employees across the institution, or 7 percent of its workforce, citing the continued challenge of returning to fiscal stability in the post-pandemic years.
Tate Modern this week opened a vast exhibition exploring the life and work of the maverick Australian-born performance artist, fashion designer and self-styled “club monster”, Leigh Bowery, as well as the variety of cultural figures in his orbit in London.
Accelerationism has been popularized in the past decade by the British philosopher Nick Land, who is part of the so-called neo-reactionary or Dark Enlightenment movement populated by figures including Curtis Yarvin, a former programmer and blogger whose proposals for an American monarchy have enjoyed renewed relevance during Trump 2.0.
