Art + Culture Brooklyn Academy of Music opens its first gallery for visual art Nov. 13, 2019 The exhibition space, named after trustee and art collector Beth Rudin DeWoody, launches during annual New Wave Festival with works by Glenn Kaino »
Art + Culture MARIPOL REVIVES DOWNTOWN 81, HER LOVE LETTER TO BASQUIAT AND HIS NEW YORK CITY Nov. 13, 2019 Maripol told me, choking back tears. “It’s like grabbing a little diamond.” Downtown 81 is a fairytale homage to the New York that was, and never again will be—but more importantly, to the friendships that blossom amidst the concrete. »
Art + Culture Studio Drift reduces plastic bags into blocks for Materialism installation Oct. 22, 2019 Amsterdam-based Studio Drift has created an installation of 3,000 blue blocks, which each represent the plastic used to make an individual supermarket bag, at the Van Abbemuseum for Dutch Design Week. »
Art + Culture A Look Inside the Homes of Dries Van Noten, Rick Owens and More Oct. 18, 2019 The photographer François Halard’s new book documents the private spaces of some of the world’s most influential creative forces. »
Art + Culture Marco Brambilla Transforms Iconic Duchamp Painting for a Public Installation in Paris Oct. 18, 2019
Art + Culture Wes Lang Is “Taking off for Other Dimensions” in New Copenhagen Exhibition Oct. 7, 2019 Acclaimed LA-based visual artist Wes Lang is currently displaying a new body of work at Copenhagen’s Eighteen Gallery. Spearheading a collagist approach, Lang unveils character-packed paintings for his fifth solo show with the Danish dealer titled “Taking Off For Other Dimensions.” »
Art + Culture Jonah Freeman & Justin Lowe Present Alternate Environments in Immersive London Installation Oct. 7, 2019
Art + Culture Frieze London: Jonah Freeman + Justin Lowe’s Colony Sound Exhibition Oct. 7, 2019 Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe have created an 11-room immersive installation (on now through 19 October) that takes up both floors of the gallery. The invite promised a multi-sensory experience of COLONY SOUND, with Ghetto Gastro responsible for “finesse.” »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley Subverts Confederate Monuments with First Public Sculpture in Times Square Oct. 7, 2019 An equestrian statue portraying a young Black man wearing Nikes. »
Art + Culture When A Pot Finds Its Purpose Oct. 7, 2019 Glenn Kaino’s work, When A Pot Finds Its Purpose is a meditation on hope, aspiration, and the nature of human progress—and a cautionary tale of the risk of stagnation and the assumptions of infinite expansion. »
Art + Culture Kehinde Wiley’s Times Square Monument: That’s No Robert E. Lee Oct. 1, 2019 Artist Kehinde Wiley’s new 30-foot-tall sculpture ”Rumors of War” was unveiled in New York City’s Times Square. »
Art + Culture KEHINDE WILEY’S FIRST MONUMENTAL SCULPTURE UNVEILED FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 27 Sep. 26, 2019 Kehinde Wiley’s Rumors of War, will be on display this fall on the Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th Streets. »
Art + Culture This Artist Lived Like a Victorian During the 1980s. Sep. 25, 2019 Ahead of the release of his memoir, Peter McGough looks back on 40 years as half of the time-traveling artist duo McDermott & McGough. »
Art + Culture Paris Museum Sets Schiaparelli, Iris Van Herpen Exhibitions Olivier Gabet, director of the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, unveiled its preliminary schedule for the next six years. Sep. 19, 2019 The Musée des Arts Décoratifs will showcase two groundbreaking female designers born almost a century apart, with retrospectives on Schiaparelli and Iris Van Herpen slated to open in 2021. »
Art + Culture Robert Polidori : Fra Angelico/Opus Operantis Sep. 18, 2019 Flowers Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Robert Polidori’s photographs of the frescos of Fra Angelico in the Dominican priory of San Marco in Florence, on view for the first time in the UK. »
