THE DANCERS of Cape Town City Ballet may still be separated from the theatre, but in a stunning innovation of the socially-distanced era, they have made a sculpture gallery their new stage.
The local ballet company teamed up with the Norval Foundation to create a dance film combining the artistry of its dancers with the sculptures of internationally-renowned artist William Kentridge.
Read MoreThe exhibition will also present the views of contemporary artists and how they inspired further generations and artists in their works, such as visual artists Lamia Ziadé, Shirin Neshat with images from the Looking for Oulm Khaltoum (2017) film.
Read MoreIn the mobile art installation, “Untitled” (2008-09), a metal gate swings back and forth, hitting the wall it is suspended upon. Eventually, with the impact, the wall cracks and starts breaking. The artwork is about the persistence of movement and the impossibility of containing aspirations.
Read MoreAmongst other artists such as Virgil Abloh, Mark Grotjahn, Alex Israel, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Hank Willis Thomas, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Yoko Ono is participating to MOCA’s limited production collection of face masks. The artwork A Piece of Sky was previously engaged by Ono in Art 19 Box One collection benefitting Amnesty International.
Read MoreFor the first time, the space that usually advertises current exhibitions will be turned over to the Japanese-born conceptual artist Yoko Ono. The artist created two 24-by-26-foot banners, one that reads “DREAM” and one that reads “TOGETHER,” during lockdown as a way to address the longing for connectivity felt by so many.
Read MoreThis novel collaboration, called “Studio Berlin,” will launch on September 9 in the midst of the annual Berlin Art Week and on the eve of the city’s Gallery Weekend. The works of 80 contemporary artists, including major names like Olafur Eliasson, Cyprien Gaillard, Wolfgang Tillmans, Rosemarie Trockel, and Isa Genzken, will be on view at the club. The exhibition will sprawl over Berghain’s three main dance floors and will maintain a focus on artists who live and work in Berlin—at least some of the time.
Read MoreJust like other museums and galleries across the world, Gana Art Center in Pyeongchang-dong and Gana Art Nineone in Hannam-dong, both located in the heart of Seoul, were hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic.
The two galleries saw a major drop in the number of visitors, down to about 20 a day on average, in the weeks following the outbreak.
But the two art spots are seeing a surge of visitors after they began displaying pieces by Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota from July 18.
The man is the renowned South African artist William Kentridge; his waltzing artwork is a meditation on the months he has spent confined to his studio because of the coronavirus lockdown. The work, “Chair Waltz,” is one segment of a video series on display at Kunsthaus Bregenz, a venue in western Austria. Its exhibition “Unprecedented Times,” running through Aug. 30, is most likely the first (and possibly only) show in a European museum made up of work produced by artists as the virus spread and they sheltered in place this year.
Read MoreThe artist talks to the Broad curator about dreams and politics, parallels between contemporary America and her native Iran, and how the Corona virus epidemic is creating a universal human experience
Read MoreGerman collector Thomas Olbricht has been doing some housekeeping. After announcing the closure of his Berlin museum earlier this summer, the Essen-based scientist and doctor has announced plans to unload some 500 works of art this fall, including many pieces from his eccentric cabinet of curiosities.
Reflecting Olbricht’s eclectic taste, the sale titled “From a Universal Collector – The Olbricht Collection” will include contemporary works by Cindy Sherman and George Condo but also a rare Rhinoceros bone Chinese cup, and precious taxidermy birds and other fauna.
Read MoreLOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — The Museum of Contemporary Art is selling a face masks designed by different artists to help raise funds for the museum.
The MOCA Mask Collection includes 10 facemasks designed by artists such as Yoko Ono, Virgil Abloh, Mark Grotjahn, Alex Israel, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Pipilotti Rist, Hank Willis Thomas, and The Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.
Read MoreWhile this wide-ranging show is not a retrospective, Gerhard Richter has said that it is likely to be his last major museum exhibition and, at 88, he was not well enough to travel to its opening in early March. It was intended as the Met Breuer’s final big show before the Frick takes over the building, the culmination of an ambitious programme exploring the practice of contemporary artists. I saw it on 10 March, with the complete lockdown of New York only days away, and it was hard to shake off the sense of some greater closing down, the finality to which a last exhibition must speak.
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