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Spanning over eight decades of artmaking, the works in “Inner Cosmos, Outer Universe”, Pace Gallery, Geneva (15 March–4 May 2024), encompass a broad range of artistic responses to the celestial imagination over the past century, both literally and metaphorically. Recalling the polished chrome and sleek surfaces of space-age design, the exhibition will include sculptures by Alexander Calder, Jeff Koons, Alicja Kwade, and Leo Villareal. Chromatic eruptions course through works by Latifa Echakhch, Sonia Gomes, Hermann Nitsch, Richard Pousette-Dart, and Lucas Samaras, suggesting nebulae that refract spectrums of speckled colour. Other, more oblique references to the cosmos recur in works by Torkwase Dyson, Adolph Gottlieb, Matthew Day Jackson, Robert Longo, Robert Rauschenberg, Arlene Shechet, Kiki Smith, and Mika Tajima, which will also be featured in the show.
Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to “Daytime Revolution,” a documentary about the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted “The Mike Douglas Show” in early 1972. Directed by Erik Nelson, with creative consultation from Ono and her son, Sean Ono Lennon, the doc uses archival footage from each of the five 70-minute shows as well as interviews with six surviving guests, including Ralph Nader, to tell the behind-the-scenes story of theses shows.
UNICEF celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child with a concert, featuring performers from around the world, at the UN General Assembly on Thursday. Yoko Ono, Hugh Jackman, Steve Harvey and a slew of other celebrities were on hand for the musical celebration and to help launch the organization's new #IMAGINE campaign. [...] "All children everywhere have the same rights -- no matter where they or what they believe," Jackman remarked before bringing Yoko Ono on stage. Ono, who gave UNICEF the rights to use Lennon's song, seemed thrilled with the collaboration. Saying that the future was now, she urged everyone to "seek peace, act peace and spread peace."
The exhibition, William Kentridge, is now open and will be on till September 1, 2024 at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. The exhibition is a collaboration between the Taipei Fine Arts Museum and the Royal Academy of Arts (RA) in London and it is also William Kentridge’s first time showing in Taiwan. In this episode you’ll hear from the curator of the exhibition, Adrian Locke, of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Back in 1973, John Lennon and Yoko Ono founded an imaginary country, Nutopia. Launched to great fanfare at a press conference held at the New York City Bar Association in Midtown Manhattan, it was a reaction to Lennon's ongoing problems with the US immigration service, who were threatening to deport the former Beatles man back to the UK. […] "Anybody could be a citizen of this country," says Yoko Ono today. "Anybody could be a citizen of this country. Citizens were automatically the country’s ambassadors. The country’s body was the airfield of our joint thoughts. Its constitution was our love, and its spirit our dreams. We produced a white handkerchief from our pockets and said, “This is a flag to Surrender to Peace.” Not 'Fight for Peace’, but 'Surrender to Peace’ was the important bit." Well, now anyone can become a citizen of Nutopia. Last month the country was launched as a website, citizenofnutopia.com.
Red ropes and larger-than-life dresses float in the tunnel of a former Nazi death camp in Ebensee, Austria, as the exhibition by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota "Where are we now?" opens to the public. More than 8,000 prisoners died at the Ebensee camp between 1943 and 1945, mostly of hunger and malnutrition as they were forced to work on the construction of a huge tunnel network. Opening her exhibition at the site, Shiota says the theme of her work is "absence in the existence".
From May 14 to 20, 2024, La Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain invites to Paris William Kentridge and Bronwyn Lane's Center for the less good idea, the art center which, in the sprawling and chaotic South African city of Johannesburg, welcomes, incubates and brings to life South African youth. Musicians, dancers, playwrights, choreographers, directors and composers, all working together to create something new, without limits of color, age, sex, gender or social status. And what if, on this side of the world, from the least good idea sometimes arose the best?
This week, a sculpture by Gerhard Richter, STRIP-TOWER, opened to the public. The installation is sited on the plinth at Serpentine South in Kensington Gardens. STRIP-TOWER represents Richter’s second installation at Serpentine (and will be on view through October 27).[...] Richter completed STRIP-TOWER specifically for Kensington Gardens. The structure is cruciform-shaped, indirectly recalling structures by Ludwig Hilberseimer from the 1920s, and other high-modern edifices.