Lévy Gorvy Dayan
At just 34 years old, Yves Klein’s untimely death in 1962 halted a deeply prolific career phase. A new exhibition at Lévy Gorvy Dayan, Yves Klein and the Tangible World, will feature many works never-before exhibited in New York, focusing on Klein’s simultaneous explorations of figuration and abstraction (and sensuality and physicality) in the years leading up to his death. (11 April - 25 May 2024)
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Lévy Gorvy Dayan is pleased to present Tu Hongtao: Beyond Babel, which marks Tu Hongtao (b. 1976)'s first New York solo exhibition, following two presentations of Tu's work by Lévy Gorvy in London (2020) and Hong Kong (2019). The new exhibition draws primarily on the theme of the Tower of Babel, and on George Steiner's well-known 1975 text After Babel, to explore ideas of communication and mistranslation across cultures. (22 February - 30 March 2024)
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A major Pierre Soulages retrospective at Lévy Gorvy Dayan—featuring paintings on loan from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and more—will honor the late artist (1919 - 2022) with an in-depth academic revisitation of his life and legacy, including the 1950s-60s New York art zeitgeist that fostered his early institutional rise and the revelatory Outrenoir (“beyond black”) series that would boldly define his oeuvre from 1979 until his death last year at age 102. (14 September - 4 November 2023)
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In tandem with a major retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, a tightly curated survey of works by Gego — who was born Gertrud Goldschimdt in 1912-Hamburg and received a degree in engineering and architecture before fleeing Nazi Germany to Venezuela in 1939 — will go on view at LGDR, featuring 40 works created between 1955 and 1990. Gego: Lines in Space marks the first ground-floor single-artist presentation of LGDR’s new global flagship townhouse at 19 East 64 Street, which opened April 2023. (7 June - 7 July 2023)
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LGDR is pleased to announce its 2023 presentation for Art Basel: a vibrant exhibition that highlights the harmonious intersections of the gallery partners’ distinct perspectives and in-depth artist focuses. The presentation includes institutionally exhibited masterworks as well as rare, fresh-to-market pieces of exceptional provenance. (Booth E10; June 2023)
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LGDR is pleased to present Swallow Whole, a solo exhibition of new paintings by Zhang Zipiao (b. 1993, Beijing, China; BFA 2015, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), whose lush canvases imbue recognizable imagery—a shell; an apple; a spider—with a painterly quality intended to “at once evoke meat, bodily fluids, ripe fruit, and the petals or pistils of flowers.” The new work furthers Zipiao’s exploration of the human body and organic matter, but represents a thematic and technical departure brought on by her experience during the prolonged pandemic lockdown in Beijing. (8 June - 28 July 2023)
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Marianne Boesky Gallery
Inner Visions, an exhibition of all-new work by the Haas Brothers (b. 1984, Austin; based in Los Angeles), will feature the debut of the twins' first-ever paintings alongside new bronze sculptures. The exhibition coincides with a major museum solo at the Nasher Museum and Sculpture Center in the brothers' home state of Texas. (2 May - 8 June 2024)
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Marianne Boesky is pleased to present Quiet Storm, an exhibition of all-new paintings by Danielle Mckinney (b. 1981, Montgomery, AL), whose paintings cinematically depict Black female protagonists in moments of leisure. Set in dream-like domestic interiors, Mckinney’s figures sprawl across unmade beds, lounge in overstuffed armchairs, and splay on the floor in various states of undress. They smoke, read, nap; immersed in their own worlds, ensconced in their own space, these women are consumed with rest, pleasure, leisure, and simply being. (4 April - 27 April 2024)
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Coinciding with her inclusion in the 2024 Whitney Biennial and concurrent solo exhibition at SFMOMA, Mary Lovelace O'Neal (b. 1942 in Jackson, Mississippi; BFA Howard, 1964; MFA Columbia, 1969) will present her first-ever New York solo exhibition of all-new work, made in the past three years in her Merida, Mexico studio. For the new exhibition, HECHO EN MEXICO—a mano (MADE IN MEXICO—by hand), the largest paintings on view will be twenty-foot-wide quadriptychs. A unique and dynamic force in American art since the 1960s, Lovelace O’Neal has developed a singular visual vocabulary that is at once acutely personal and profoundly political. Drawing on a broad range of influences—from Minimalism to Abstract Expressionism—Lovelace O’Neal parses themes of race and gender while remaining immersed in conceptual investigations of joy, exuberance, nature, and the sublime. (15 March - 4 May 2024)
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For Art Basel Hong Kong 2024, Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present new work by three painters: Jammie Holmes, Celeste Rapone, and Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Continuing the gallery’s long-standing commitment to championing artists throughout their careers, the Art Basel Hong Kong presentation reveals evocative points of connection and dialogue among these three artist’s formally inventive and politically nuanced practices. (Booth 3D20; March 2024)
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Echoing the political concerns of her generation alongside the pop-cultural references that unfold alongside global turmoil, the French-Russian artist Apollinaria Broche (b. 1995, Moscow) will be the subject of her first New York solo exhibition, presented by Marianne Boesky Gallery. The exhibition, In the distance there was a glimpse (which takes its title from Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 children’s novel The Secret Garden) conjures a parallel universe of surreal, dreamlike lands populated by fantastical flowers and shape-shifting mythical creatures. Broche's sculptures balance the fragility of ceramics with solid bronze and other hard materials sourced from her studio locale of Pietrasanta, Italy, a region known since Renaissance times for its foundries and marble quarries. (24 January - 24 February 2024)
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For FOG Design+Art 2024, Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to announce a solo presentation of new work by Michaela Yearwood-Dan – the artist's first-ever dedicated ceramics presentation, following several examples of individual ceramic works augmenting bodies of work that focused on her painting practice. (Booth 117, January 2024)
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Marianne Boesky Gallery’s presentation for Art Basel Miami Beach 2023 will feature fresh-from-studio works by Ghada Amer, Sanford Biggers, Gina Beavers, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Svenja Deininger, Allison Janae Hamilton, The Haas Brothers, Jammie Holmes, Dashiell Manley, Sarah Meyohas, Donald Moffett, and Michaela Yearwood-Dan. (Booth D19, December 2023)
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Informed by literature and medieval religious imagery (and inspired by a recent medieval wall painting pilgrimage around England), a new body of otherworldly psychological landscapes by Martyn Cross (b. 1975 in Yate, England) will debut at Marianne Boesky Gallery for the artist’s largest New York solo exhibition. ‘All Shall Be Well’ derives its title from fourteenth-century writings by Julian of Norwich, a woman who lived in self-imposed religious isolation within a small cell connected to a church similar to those which the artist visited during his recent medieval wall painting tour. (26 October - 22 December 2023)
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Rethinking a textile appliqué tradition long associated with male tentmakers in Egypt, a new exhibition by Ghada Amer masterfully pulls at the threads of cultural dualities—feminine and masculine, craft and art, abstraction and figuration, East and West—with sensitivity and specificity. (26 October - 22 December 2023)
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Set in the artist’s studio, Barnaby Furnas's newest paintings reflect the introspective turn in the artist's ongoing examination of form, material, and the experiential nature of artistic production. (26 October - 22 December 2023)
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For Frieze London 2023, Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present a solo booth of new paintings by Danielle Mckinney (the artist’s first U.K. solo presentation) and, in the Frieze Sculpture section, a new large-scale work by Sanford Biggers co-presented with MASSIMODECARLO. Mckinney’s paintings cinematically depict solitary female protagonists in moments of leisure and respite, while Biggers’ suspended lightbox sculpture juxtaposes the disembodied 'Cheshire Cat' grin with racist caricatures of circa-1860s minstrel shows. (Booth G16, October 2023).
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David Nolan Gallery
Associated with late Dada, Surrealism, and the neo-avant-garde, the nuclear-war-obsessed Enrico Baj (1924 - 2003) will be celebrated in a centennial exhibition at David Nolan Gallery, which places a tight survey of the artist's oeuvre in dialogue with artists who influenced him -- Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Francis Picabia, Indigenous American folk artists -- as well as artists from younger generations whom David Nolan imagines him in conversation with today, such as Nicole Eisenman, Martin Kippenberger, and Jonathan Meese. (18 April - 31 May 2024)
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Following recent acquisitions by the Baltimore Museum of Art, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Shah Garg Foundation, and others -- and ahead of a 2025 traveling museum solo stopping at the Speed Museum and more -- the Iraqi-American painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad; based in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009) will be presenting a new body of work with David Nolan Gallery at Independent New York.
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Mel Kendrick (b. 1949, Boston; permanent collections include the Met, MoMA, and the Whitney) will present Cutting Corners, a solo exhibition of all-new sculptures, following a five-decade career retrospective that culminated at the Parrish Museum in 2023. (7 March - 13 April 2024)
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Reexamining the mainstream art-historical merit of 150-year-old ‘ledger drawings’ by Indigenous artists (including 30 works created at a prisoner-of-war facility in Florida), a new exhibition chronicles and preserves memories of pre-colonial Indigenous culture—and bears witness to specific aspects of the U.S. government’s institutionalized efforts to erase it. (25 January - 2 March 2024)
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For Art Basel Miami Beach 2023, David Nolan Gallery celebrates its 25th year exhibiting at Art Basel internationally. The gallery will exhibit a group presentation reflecting the spectrum of its diverse program, with artists’ global origins ranging from the Plains Indian tribal regions to Baghdad. (Booth A51; December 2023)
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In honor of what would have been Richard Artschwager’s 100th birthday, David Nolan Gallery, which has represented Artschwager since 1991, is pleased to present a survey exhibition of the late artist’s longtime explorations of faux-utilitarianism and the conceptual possibilities of boxes. Spanning 1969 to 2013, the exhibition includes over two-dozen artworks – many of which have been institutionally exhibited – including painting, sculpture, and drawing. (15 December 2023 - 20 January 2024)
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Following recent acquisitions by the Baltimore Museum of Art and others, the Iraqi-American painter Vian Sora (b. 1976, Baghdad; based in Louisville, Kentucky since 2009) will be subject of her first New York solo exhibition, presented by David Nolan Gallery. Vian Sora: End of Hostilities consists of new work that furthers her practice’s abstract, gestural distillation of her experience coming of age in Baghdad under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. Central to the work are themes of war, political upheaval, migration, and subsequent geographic and cultural displacement. (26 October - 9 December 2023)
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Steve DiBenedetto (b. 1958, Bronx; permanent collections include the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art) will be the subject of a solo exhibition of all-new work that furthers his painting practice’s decades-long exploration of psychedelics and altered consciousness via proxy symbols such as the octopus, helicopter, and ferris wheel. (26 October - 9 December 2023)
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A staple of the 1980s East Village art scene perhaps best known for her pioneering use of recycled rubber tires as a raw material for making often-monumental abstract sculpture, Chakaia Booker (b. 1953) will debut her first-ever textile art at The Art Show (ADAA) 2023, inspired by an evolution of her paper collage practice. To further convey the artist’s unique process, the exhibition will also feature distinct veins of media that Booker has adopted in her practice over time—paper collages and rubber-tire sculptures—the latter of which the artist has developed over four decades, and the former of which informs the new textile work. (Booth C1, November 2023)
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David Nolan Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of 19 recent drawings by Jim Nutt (b. 1938, Pittsfield, Massachusetts; BFA 1967, School of the Art Institute of Chicago), marking the artist’s first show of new work in over a decade. Organized in close collaboration with Nutt, the exhibition showcases the four-decade stylistic culmination of his richly referential, subtly sinister ‘imaginary women’ portraits. (6 September - 14 October 2023)
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David Nolan Gallery is pleased to announce its 25th year exhibiting at Art Basel in Switzerland, having first participated in the fair 1996. Showcasing the gallery roster’s marriage of contemporary artists exploring layered social themes through innovative material approaches (such as Chakaia Booker’s rubber-tire sculptures) and historically important artists who pushed material boundaries to explore shape and form (Richard Artschwager’s “rubberized hair”), the presentation also includes Dorothea Rockburne, Mel Kendrick, Barry Le Va, Robert Smithson, Jorinde Voigt, Enrico Baj, Paulo Pasta, Jim Nutt, and Jonathan Meese. (Hall 2, Booth A10; June 2023)
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The Emily Mason | Alice Trumbull Mason Foundation and the Wolf Kahn Foundation
Emily Mason (1932 – 2019; Cooper Union, 1955) will be the subject of a new solo exhibition, The Thunder Hurried Slow: Emily Mason Paintings, 1968 – 1979. The exhibition explores a distinct phase in the career of an artist whose circle of influence spans three generations of art history—from being nurtured into the American Abstraction movement by way of her artist-mother Alice Trumbull Mason’s close circle of friends including Josef Albers; Ad Reinhardt; and Piet Mondrian, to serving as a professor and lifelong mentor to contemporary artists including Nari Ward. Rather than a career survey, the new exhibition and its literary accompaniment deliberately stop short of Emily Mason’s 1979 career delineation that occurred when she moved her New York art practice to a sprawling art studio of her own. Instead, The Thunder Hurried Slow conveys honest insight into a deeply inventive early period of Mason’s career – a time in which the 1970s cultural climate melded with a pressure cooker of personal circumstances to yield a foundational body of work that fascinatingly speaks to the larger oeuvre that Mason would round out in the four decades that followed. (14 December 2023 – 3 February 2024)
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Following the $8.1M single-seller Christie’s sale of highlights from their collection in May 2021, the two foundations devoted to the respective legacies of the late, 62-years-married artists Emily Mason and Wolf Kahn are pleased to announce their first joint giving initiative: $800,000 in grants to six arts organizations in New York City and Vermont, the two locales in which the couple built their lives and art practices. 2022 recipients include Brattleboro Museum & Art Center; The New York Botanical Garden; The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop); Hunter College (Advanced Curatorial Certificate Program); International Print Center New York; and Vermont Studio Center. (Summer 2022)
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Nearly 50 years after her Whitney Museum retrospective, the work of American Abstraction pioneer Alice Trumbull Mason is contextualized anew in Shutter Paintings, a tightly focused exhibition of 16 late-career paintings that follows the Rizzoli publishing of a trove of documents that cement Alice Trumbull Mason’s status as a leading, avant-garde force within the “boys club” of Abstraction in the 1930s-1960s New York art world. (Shutter Paintings, 4 November 2021 - 8 January 2022)
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The first posthumously organized exhibition of works by seminal colorist Emily Mason (1932 - 2019; BFA Cooper Union, 1955). Featuring work primarily created between 1978 and 1989, Chelsea Paintings explores a distinct and transformational phase in the career of an artist whose circle of influence spans three generations of art history—from being nurtured into the American Abstraction movement by way of her pioneering mother’s close circle of friends including Josef Albers; Ad Reinhardt; and Piet Mondrian, to serving as a professor and lifelong mentor to contemporary artists including Nari Ward. (Chelsea Paintings, 7 January - 13 February 2021)
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Fotografiska & NeueHouse
A new exhibition showcasing 1970-80s portraiture of 24 stars – including Cher, Faye Dunaway, Mick Jagger, Fran Lebowitz, Grace Jones, Stevie Wonder, Kevin Costner, and more – highlights the fascinating process behind the iconic mixed-media covers of Andy Warhol’s Interview Magazine. In total, 189 cover portraits were created by the artist Richard Bernstein between 1972 to 1989; a selection of the original portraits will be presented by NeueHouse in New York. Richard Bernstein, who resided and maintained an art studio in the Chelsea Hotel’s grand ballroom from 1968 until his 2002 death, stylishly lived first-hand on the pulse of the cultural zeitgeist his portraits documented. Bernstein was central to the New York social scene that revolved around the Warhol Factory and Studio 54, and his portraits helped amplify the celebrity culture and aesthetic that characterized this dynamic period in New York’s history. (26 March – 30 June 2024)
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For Freedoms and Fotografiska New York are proud to present Listen Until You Hear, a six-artist exhibition of intersectional identity explorations including trans survivalism and Indigenous Futurism. Listen Until You Hear is For Freedoms’ first curated art exhibition in New York City, and its curation—which goes beyond Fotografiska’s primary focus of photography by prominently including sculpture and textile—furthers the museum’s practice of contextualizing film-based work in the overall visual arts landscape. Accompanying the exhibition’s artworks is a “Banned Book Reading Room,” featuring a rotating selection of books that since 2021 have been banned in American school districts – including multiple works by Toni Morrison; an Amnesty International picture book on human rights; and many books perceived as ‘radical’ or ‘dangerous’ but often simply speak to the everyday experiences of LGBTQ+ individuals and people of color. (5 May - 22 October 2023)
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A major Terry O’Neill retrospective—the late artist’s largest-ever U.S. exhibition and first New York museum solo show—will feature 110 works created between 1963 and 2013. Capturing the faces that defined 50 years of global pop culture, from electrifying editorial portraiture to rare and intimate ‘off-duty’ photos that show the human side of fame, Stars vibrantly highlights the unparalleled and historically important trove of visual culture that O’Neill left to posterity upon his death from cancer in 2019. (2 June - 16 September 2023)
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A new exhibition of over 200 photographs, dated 1972 to 2022, traces the rise and proliferation of hip-hop through five decades of work from the trailblazing image-makers who helped codify hip-hop as the most influential pop culture movement of its generation. The works on view traverse intersecting themes such as the role of women in hip-hop; hip-hop’s regional and stylistic diversification and rivalries; a humanistic lens into the 1970s-Bronx street gangs whose members contributed to the birth of hip-hop; and the mainstream breakthrough that saw a grassroots movement become a global phenomenon. (26 January – 21 May 2023)
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A major new exhibition from David LaChapelle—the artist’s largest-ever U.S. exhibition; first New York museum solo show; and most comprehensive exhibition to date—will feature more than 150 works created between 1984 and 2022. Starting in 1980s-NYC with existential religious explorations LaChapelle made as the AIDS crisis ravaged his close circle, the exhibition spans the thematic and technical breadth of the artist’s diverse, 40-year career of narrative social commentary, with a “full circle” effect in his newer work’s matured revisitation of his early practice’s religious themes. (9 September 2022 – 8 January 2023)
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BLACK VENUS: From colonial-era fetishizations to contemporary works by Kara Walker; Carrie Mae Weems; Zanele Muholi; and more, a new exhibition examines the historical representation of Black women through over 30 contemporary artworks, created between 1975 and today, and a selection of archival imagery dated 1793 to 1930. With artists of numerous nationalities (and birth years spanning 1942 to 1997), the show presents a global, cross-generational investigation into Black women’s reclamation of agency amid the historical fetishization of the Black female body. (13 May – 28 August 2022)
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Conceived and organized in collaboration with the Moholy-Nagy Foundation and the Estate of László Moholy-Nagy, the first U.S. museum exhibition devoted to the photography and film practice of pioneering multidisciplinary artist László Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946) will debut at Fotografiska New York before traveling internationally. From formal experimentation to personal documentation, the 68 film-based works in the show (all from negatives created between 1922 and 1945) collectively illuminate a novel side of an artist whose institutional spotlight has historically centered on painting, sculpture, and design. (18 March – 5 June 2022)
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Following group shows at the Whitney; the Brooklyn Museum; the Studio Museum; LACMA; and more, the interdisciplinary artist Kia LaBeija (b. 1990) is pleased to add greater context to her practice by way of her first solo museum exhibition (and first New York solo show), an autobiographical exhibition about “love, loss, and growing up HIV-positive in New York City.” Offering an intimate window into the artist’s life and upbringing through personal archival material interwoven with her contemporary artwork, Kia describes the show’s key themes as “grief, love, beauty, stigma, identity, being a queer woman of color, and balancing distinct cultural legacies of being a Black woman and an Asian woman.” (24 February – 8 May 2022)
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With 20 nationalities represented among its artists, NUDE—a diverse survey of contemporary photography of nude subjects—addresses the historical fascination with the naked body through varying aesthetic lenses, from bubblegum commercialized beauty standards to the macabre and disorienting. While the creative perspective of the show is limited to female-identifying photographers (in an effort to subvert the overwhelmingly male-artist attribution of art historical nudity), the subject matter is not limited by gender identity; the subjects include nonbinary individuals, men, and women. (11 February – 1 May 2022)
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Fotografiska is pleased to announce its expansion to three new locales: Berlin (opening Q3 2022), Shanghai (opening Q3 2022), and Miami (opening Q2 2023). Upon completion of the expansion, Fotografiska will become the world’s largest privately owned art museum by multiple measures, including number of locations; number of exhibitions produced per year; and total indoor size.
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Andy Warhol: Photo Factory, a comprehensive new survey of Andy Warhol's film-based work, will feature rare and never-exhibited pieces as well as some iconic favorites. The 124-work exhibition offers a particularly intimate look into Warhol's life and practice, including rare photo studies integral to the creative development process behind some of his most famous silkscreen paintings. (10 September 2021 – 30 January 2022)
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Sotheby’s
Launching Sotheby’s new Social Impact program will be Sotheby’s first-ever gala (the 2022 Sotheby’s Impact Gala, co-chaired by Annie Leibovitz and with a performance by Anitta) and a major curated selling exhibition of works by the artist and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado (b. 1944, Brazil; permanent collections include Centre Pompidou, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Museum of Modern Art). Featuring 50 photographs spanning 1978 to present, the show will highlight bodies of work that amplify recognition of 12 indigenous communities and bring crucial visibility to the global climate crisis. 100% of proceeds from the gala and exhibition will benefit the acclaimed Brazilian reforestation nonprofit Instituto Terra. (26 September - 12 October 2022)
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Rema Hort Mann Foundation
The Rema Hort Mann Foundation is pleased to announce the landmark 25th-annual class of its acclaimed Emerging Artist Grant program, an insider-watched barometer of “artists who go on to become some of the most important names in the cultural conversation” (said the Whitney Museum of American Art’s director of the collection, Jane Panetta). The eight 2022 Emerging Artist Grant recipients enter the RHMF’s lifelong support network, starting with an unrestricted $10,000 cash grant. They join a community of over 100 alumni – many now far from the “Emerging Artist” qualifier – including Sarah Sze (1997), Kehinde Wiley (2002), Mickalene Thomas (2007), and Njideka Akunyili Crosby (2012). The RHMF was established in the 1990s to honor the legacy of Susan and Michael Hort’s arts-engaged daughter Rema, who died from stomach cancer at age 30.
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On November 1, 2022 the RHMF will fête its monumental achievements—and ensure the longevity of its continued impact in the emerging art and cancer quality-of-life spaces—with a 500-seat 25th Anniversary gala in Manhattan, which aims to raise over $2,000,000. The evening’s four honorees include breast cancer survivor Marianne Boesky, and among the 15 gallery sponsors are James Cohan, David Zwirner, Anton Kern, Hauser & Wirth, Gladstone, LGDR, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, and Jack Shainman. A direct-from-artist auction of around 120 artworks will feature works by Marlene Dumas, Nicole Eisenman, Marilyn Minter, Dana Schutz, Sarah Sze, Kehinde Wiley, and many more looking to return the support offered to them by the Horts and the RHMF over the years.
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The Baer Faxt
Following MoMA board member Glenn Fuhrman’s and LionTree’s late-2020 investments in The Baer Faxt “to allow it to expand into new channels and pursue other growth opportunities that will further broaden its reach,” The Baer Faxt is pleased to announce the inaugural offering from its expanded product portfolio: The Baer Faxt Auction Database, a new essential resource for the art market, containing an index of buyer and underbidder identities for nearly 10,000 unique works of art sold between 1996 and present.
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The Baer Faxt is pleased to announce The Baer Faxt Art Advisory: a first-of-its-kind membership program that provides highly personalized, on-demand services for art collecting, including real-time acquisition advice from a consortium of world-class art advisors from three continents, as well as educational programming and events.
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The Andy Warhol Museum
Billy Porter and KAWS host The Warhol Dinner, an NYC fundraiser in support of Pittsburgh’s Andy Warhol Museum.
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CulturalDC
Alluding to the DIY-aesthetic chicken coops and vernacular architecture he grew up seeing across 1980s-Trinidad, Nyugen E. Smith’s latest nonprofit exhibition, Bundlehouse: Ancient Future Memory, features a new series of found-object works that amalgamate discarded items Smith collected from the street in Congo-Kinshasa with items he has accumulated over the years in the U.S. and Caribbean. The work thematically explores the notion of attempting to rebuild after trauma, whether in a fundamental sense of historical displacement (the transatlantic slave trade) or in contemporary contexts like climate change, natural and manmade disasters, famine, war, pandemics, and genocide. (12 January - 28 March 2023)
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Set within an immersive art installation inspired by a prison day room, FOGA (“Felon Yoga”) is a virtually accessible conceptual artwork of guided exercise class videos from the Dallas-based interdisciplinary artist David-Jeremiah (b. 1985, Dallas; permanent collections include the Dallas Museum of Art). A non-exhaustive list of themes explored in FOGA includes empathy, radical nonviolence, redemption, Black male mental health, and expectations and manifestations of Black masculinity. (Debuts July 2022)
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1980s-to-present transgressive art icon Andres Serrano debuts his first-ever film, Insurrection, a 75-minute feature. “I don’t want to brag, but I think this is one of the most violent and controversial films ever made,” said Serrano. Set to the instrumental interludes and title card framework of The Birth of a Nation (1915), Insurrection principally touches on the American wartime cultural ethos and the jarring ubiquity of Americans’ persistent marriage of Christianity and war. The overarching narrative is 150 years of lead-up to the January 6 Capitol riots. The timeline slows down as January 6 itself comes into focus, with footage culled from hundreds of first-person videos uploaded to sites like Parler. (Debuts January 2022)
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In his first nonprofit solo exhibition, Umar Rashid (Frohawk Two Feathers) is pleased to present an exhibition of new work developed during a transformational residency in DC this summer. Imbued with Afro-Futuristic folklore and anachronistic pop culture references such as Hennessy and basketball, Rashid's new installment of his fictional, Colonial Era universe depicts a fête of global dignitaries whose arrival feast is interrupted by an uprising. The exhibition culminates Rashid’s term as the inaugural artist of CulturalDC’s Capital Artist Residency, a new annual program dedicated to elevating impactful discourse from artists of color. (24 September – 21 November 2021)
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Charles Moffett Gallery
Met-collected photographer Sean Donnola presents a body of Polaroids conceptually unified solely by the fact that all works were captured in the one square mile area around his home. In a remarkable manner given the nature of the Polaroid medium, the 18 works collectively present a jarring variety of moods, aesthetics, art-historical references, and eras to which associated nostalgia is anchored.
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Charles Moffett is pleased to present Strange Strangers, a solo presentation of 13 large, figurative oil paintings by Maggie Ellis (b. 1991, Atlanta, Georgia; MFA Hunter College 2017) that grotesquely capture candid scenes from New York City, such as a prewar apartment building façade punctuated by a man watching porn with his window open, and a group of Upper East Side 'Peloton moms' hosting an outdoor pizza party as a man picks his genitals behind them and a passerby dusts them with a cotton candy vape cloud. Through her playful, outsider vision of NYC, Ellis aims to capture the preposterous, bizarre, and camp. (16 October - 20 November 2021)
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Building upon Kenny Rivero (b. 1981, New York; MFA Yale, 2012)’s institutional representation in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Pérez Art Museum—and coinciding with his solo exhibition currently on view at the Momentary at Crystal Bridges—Charles Moffett is pleased to bring Kenny Rivero’s debut museum solo show (March-June 2021 at the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center) to The Armory Show 2021. (Booth S9, 9 - 12 September 2021)
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Charles Moffett is pleased to present The Study, a solo presentation of new works (11 oil paintings and 5 sculptures) that comprise the latest installment of Alec Egan (b. 1984, Los Angeles)’s ongoing construction of a fictional house—and psychological exploration of its absent homeowner. As Egan’s first immersive exhibition, The Study will bring his psych-thriller interiors scenes to life by adorning the gallery in over-the-top wallpaper and flooring that matches that within the paintings. (7 September - 10 October 2021)
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Charles Moffett is pleased to present a new exhibition of works by the Florida Highwaymen: a Jim Crow-era cohort of 26 self-taught Black landscape painters who—in light of discrimination-based gallery rejection—established a booming market by selling original, still-wet paintings out of their trunks along the Florida coast. (Highwaymen, 13 July - 13 August 2021)
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Charles Moffett is pleased to present Towards Sentimentality, a solo presentation of 18 never-exhibited works by the painter Keiran Brennan Hinton (b. 1992, Toronto; Yale MFA 2016), The exhibition is an intimate, diaristic record of Brennan Hinton’s pandemic lockdown, most of which he spent at a 103-year-old schoolhouse in rural Ontario. (8 June - 8 July 2021)
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Charles Moffett is pleased to announce a dual-site exhibition from mixed media artist Alteronce Gumby (b. 1985, Pennsylvania; MFA Yale, 2016). The show employs scale variance in new ways while pushing Gumby’s longtime thematic considerations of how light, physics, natural energies, and color can be contextualized into a larger societal conversation about race and identity perception. (18 March - 25 April 2021)
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Charles Moffett is pleased to announce I Still Hoop, a solo presentation of 14 new works by New York-based visual artist and musician Kenny Rivero (b. 1981, New York; MFA Yale, 2012). Through the lens of intergenerational Dominican-American identity, the autobiographical paintings poetically explore Rivero’s “fear of death as a person of color in America.” (I Still Hoop, 29 October - 27 December 2020)
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Charles Moffett is pleased to announce a solo presentation of 22 new works by Los Angeles-based painter Lily Stockman, created during the pandemic lockdown. (Seed, Stone, Mirror, Match, 4 September - 18 October 2020)
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Charles Moffett is pleased to present Overcome by Joy, a solo presentation of eight never-exhibited works by London-based visual artist Gianna Dispenza (b. 1990, Washington State) that principally explore the emotional complexity of safe spaces, as well as how emotive readings of figurative subject matter can be contextually altered. (5 May - 5 June 2021)
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Charles Moffett, the Canal Street gallery founded in 2018 by Sotheby’s alum Charles Moffett, is pleased to announce its representation of six artists.
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The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center
The Brattleboro Museum & Art Center (BMAC) is pleased to present the first museum solo show of New York-trained, Chicago-based visual artist Delano Dunn (b. 1978, Los Angeles). The exhibition, Novelties, features two mixed-media series, one of which reconfigures racist Uncle Remus cartoons into new storybook arrangements, and the other of which addresses the trauma of appropriation through the narrative device of Dunn protecting his family gumbo recipe. (19 June - 11 October 2021)
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Examining complex histories of positive cultural representation of African Americans, New York-based printmaker Jennifer Mack-Watkins (b. 1979, South Carolina; MFA Pratt, 2009), will mount her first solo museum show, comprising a new body of work inspired by the W.E.B. Du Bois-edited Brownie’s Book: A Monthly Magazine for Children of the Sun. The 1920-1921 periodical was the pioneering effort to bring positive, contemporary content to Black kids at the time, who were inundated with media and toys that depicted their culture as less-than. (18 March - 13 June 2021)
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Building upon Kenny Rivero (b. 1981, New York; MFA Yale, 2012)’s institutional representation in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Studio Museum in Harlem; and the Pérez Art Museum Miami, the Brattleboro Museum & Art Center is pleased to present Rivero’s first solo museum show. The works on view feature heavily personal narrative drawings atop paper-based memorabilia that Rivero intercepted from the trash, mostly while working as a doorman for eight years in a luxury, prewar residential building he describes as “epitomizing the wealthy subculture of ‘Old New York.’” (18 March - 13 June 2021)
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Taking the form of a designer sneaker showroom—and reflecting on the aftermath of an incident in which 61,820 Nike Air Jordan 5 sneakers spilled into the Pacific Ocean—Andy Yoder (b. 1957, Ohio)’s Overboard addresses the environmental impact of consumerism through the lens of sneaker culture. (24 October 2020 - 6 March 2021)
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Hair Portraits, a solo show from Rachel Portesi (b. 1971, Boston), features a series of tintype photographs of female and femme-identifying models of varied ages and ethnicities who consider hair to be a large part of their identity. The exhibition addresses fertility, sexuality, aging and mortality, vulnerability, and intergenerational trauma— as well as harmony and discord with nature. (24 October 2020 - 14 February 2021)
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Lucien Smith
At the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, the Montauk-based painter Lucien Smith (b. 1989) exhibits the ten final works of his iconic Rain Paintings series. (Lucien Smith: Southampton Suite, 7 August 2020 - 31 January 2021)
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The Armory Show
The 2020 edition of The Armory Show, New York’s essential art fair, will take place from March 5 - 8 with 183 exhibitors from 32 countries.
For Freedoms
For Freedoms, the nonpartisan collective for creative civic engagement cofounded by artists Hank Willis Thomas and Eric Gottesman, will this February present the inaugural For Freedoms Congress in Los Angeles. Cultural partners include MOCA, the Hammer Museum, and the Sundance Institute (28 February - 1 March 2020)
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The Contemporary Arts Center
At the Zaha Hadid-designed Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati, a solo exhibitor fills 3,300 cubic feet of ‘unintended’ exhibition space with site-specific sculptures (Lauren Henkin: Props, 22 November 2019 - March 2020)
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Swoon takes over the Zaha Hadid-designed Contemporary Arts Center for her most comprehensive exhibition to date (The Canyon, 22 September 2017 - 25 February 2018)
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The Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection (Spalter Digital)
The Anne and Michael Spalter Digital Art Collection (Spalter Digital) is one of the world's largest private collections of early computer art, comprising over 750 historically important works from the second half of the twentieth century.
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Anne Spalter
Fresh off a MASS MoCA residency in which she explored art-focused AI processes, academic pioneer Anne Spalter (creator of Brown’s and RISD’s original digital fine arts programs in the 1990s, and author of a seminal textbook on computer art) is exhibiting a presentation of oil paintings designed in collaboration with artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms at SPRING/BREAK Art Show (4 - 9 March 2020)
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A counterpart to her SPRING/BREAK Art Show New York installation, Spalter is presenting an AI-based mixed media installation in a DTLA warehouse for SPRING/BREAK Art Show Los Angeles (14 - 16 February 2020)
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Playboy
Marilyn Minter and Jerry Saltz host an intimate dinner party during Miami Art Week 2019
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The Playhouse: Jerry Saltz moderates ‘The Art of Sexuality,’ a panel discussion with Marilyn Minter, Xaviera Simmons, and Natalie White (23 June 2019)
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Equal Means Equal
Jerry Hall, Paris Hilton, Lizzy Jagger, Georgia May Jagger, Theodora Richards, Swoon, Mashonda Tifrere, Natalie White, and more launch the #EqualMeansEqual Campaign for Equal Rights in support of the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment; art donors include Tracey Emin, Will Cotton, Marc Quinn, and Hank Willis Thomas (May 2019 - onward)
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Donna Karan x ArtLeadHer
Women-in-the-arts advocacy nonprofit ArtLeadHer collaborates with fashion icon and philanthropist Donna Karan for an art exhibition and month of cultural programming in celebration of the 32nd-annual Women’s History Month. Curated by ArtLeadHer founder Mashonda Tifrere, King Woman presents the work of 15 emerging and mid-career artists who explore themes of personal identity and femininity. (March 8 - April 7, 2019)
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