“Wait once again for better people” reads a leaflet under a bouquet in William Kentridge‘s “Hyacinths (Wait Once Again for Better People)” (2020). It sums up how many activists feel right now — frustrated with bad people clinging to their power. The work is one of many thought provoking prints on view right now at Marian Goodman gallery in William Kentridge: Making Prints: Selected Editions 1998-2021.
Read MoreHope is a word that we have all become more familiar with—or perhaps forgotten—in the last year or so. The world has experienced innumerable complications due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota sought to create a space that would remind and inspire us to believe again.
Read MoreFor a while now, artist Shilpa Gupta has been interested in our comprehension of the ideas of distance—physical, geographical or even imaginary. Her new work, titled a Lockdown Series, was created during the past year, for AD. These photographs look at the ideas of distance, mobility and confinement through a sequence of images of an empty PPE suit sitting, standing and lounging alone in the house as if it were a person captive in their own domestic setting during the pandemic.
Read MoreGermany’s greatest living painter donates 100 works, including his Birkenau series, to capital’s new museum
Fans of the German painter Gerhard Richter are expected to flock to Berlin to view 100 works that he has in effect donated in a long-term loan to a new museum of modern art. The works include a series of paintings addressing the Holocaust that he has vowed never to sell.
Read MoreLast August, Shirin Neshat stood surrounded by portraits madly rotating with the gusts of an unforgiving desert wind. On location in a remote part of New Mexico, the artist suddenly became the subject of her own art: Neshat was circled with faces she had photographed for her latest project, Land of Dreams, encompassing a vast series of photographic portraits and a two-channel video, currently on view at Gladstone Gallery, as well as a feature film—the artist’s third—set to premiere later this year. When the Iranian-American actress Sheila Vand, who plays the lead in the film and the video, saw her director engulfed in a vortex of her images, it felt like “an act of God” in service of art.
Read MoreGerhard Richter has agreed to loan more than 100 works, including a four-piece work addressing the Holocaust that he has pledged never to sell, to a new museum of 20th-century art under construction in Berlin. The museum is to be built by the Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, next to Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Neue Nationalgalerie. It is intended to house the city’s vast store of 20th-century art, which has dramatically outgrown the Neue Nationalgalerie.
Read MoreA towering expanse of red thread, a new installation by Chiharu Shiota (previously) suspends 10,000 letters within the nave of Berlin’s König Galerie, a Brutalist-style space located in the former St. Agnes church. The immersive construction runs floor to ceiling and is awash with notes from people around the world who share their dreams following a particularly devastating year. Aptly named “I hope…,” the large-scale project hangs two wire boats that appear to float upward at its center, evoking travel into an unknown future.
Read MoreRichter never saw the show. A few days before it came down, Wagstaff stood alone with “Birkenau”: paintings about the possibility of perceiving history that, now, no one could perceive at all. “It was a kind of haunting experience,” she said. “They became almost anthropomorphic. They’re sitting there on the walls, and there’s nothing, there’s no one to witness them. The paintings are witnessing something, and that witnessing cannot be conveyed any further.”
Read MoreThe digital gathering on May 14, 2021 presents a roundtable with protagonists who are leaders in their field: art historian and curator, Patrick Flores, anthropologist, Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, and artists, Shilpa Gupta, Ho Tzu Nyen and Lantian Xie, followed by a working group for deeper dialogical engagement with raised propositions.
Read MoreAs a joint presentation between Vadehra Art Gallery and Chemould Prescott Road, artist Shilpa Gupta has created an intervention with recently developed works, which delve into distance, mobility and confinement that surfaced through the last year. “Shilpa Gupta’s 6,10.3,2 evokes an understanding of experiential distance and presence while focusing on how qualitative interruptions and subjective internality interact with the otherwise external and durational nature of time; ‘6’ refers to the minimum social distance to be maintained in feet, ‘10.3’ refers to the same distance as measured by Gupta’s palm, and ‘2’ is its conversion into metres,” states the gallery note.
Read MoreJohn Lennon‘s debut solo studio album ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’ is set to be reissued next month for a new ‘Ultimate Collection’ box set. Originally released in December 1970, ‘John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band’ was recorded shortly after the demise of The Beatles. The record, which was co-produced by Phil Spector and once described by Lennon as “the best thing I’ve ever done”, featured Ringo Starr on drums and Klaus Voormann on bass and included the songs ‘Working Class Hero’, ‘Isolation’ and ‘God’.
Read MoreMost tragically (There has been so much “tragically” in the last twelve months, hasn’t there?), the works were part of what was to be a landmark exhibition at The Met titled Gerhard Richter: Painting After All. It opened March 4, 2020, and closed eight days later. But the Gagosian gallery in Beverly Hills is now showing six of the Cage Paintings, and have thrillingly added a new series of drawings he created during the summer of Covid.
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