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Joseph Kosuth in conversation with Sean Kelly. Wednesday, October 21, 12pm EST. Details below Don’t miss the last week to see Joseph Kosuth solo exhibition ‘Existential Time’, closing Saturday, October 24, 2020. Joseph Kosuth, one of the pioneers of Conceptual art and installation art, has initiated language-based works and appropriation strategies since the 1960s. His work has consistently explored the production and role of language and meaning within art. For this exhibition Joseph Kosuth has developed a series of installations that address the problem of time and existence, emphasizing the lack, limitations, and abundance of meaning that surrounds the experience of being in time,…

First presented at Metro Pictures in 2019, Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass is a ten-screen film installation by Julien that explores the life of the visionary African American writer, abolitionist, statesman, and freed slave Frederick Douglass. The exhibition also includes Julien’s tintype portraits and mise en scènes photographs of the film’s subjects as well as a complementary grouping of works from the McEvoy Family Collection. For more information, please visit mcevoyarts.org.

A surrealist masterpiece by Salvador Dalí, Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages (1937), leads Bonhams’ Impressionist & Modern Art Sale in London this week on Thursday 15 October. This is the sale that was to have taken place on March 26, but which was rescheduled due to lockdown. The work, which has never before been offered at auction, comes from the collection of the Italian Modernist composer Giacinto Scelsi. It has an estimate of £7,000,000 – 10,000,000. Dalí created Couple aux têtes pleines de nuages (1937) during the Spanish Civil War and at the height of his surrealist period (1929-1939). The work depicts Dalí and his wife Gala formed only by the outlines of…

Pace On Screen: Sixty Years: Five Film Screenings for Fall Season PresentedOnline October to December Pace Gallery is pleased to announce its inaugural online film series, Pace On Screen: Sixty Years. The series, curated by Pace Curatorial Director Mark Beasley, presents five film screenings focused on Pace artists that reflect the legacy, innovative thinking, and radical lineage of Pace Gallery from its founding in 1960 to today. Pace On Screen: Sixty Years contextualizes the practices of the following five artists within the worlds in which they were working: Jean Dubuffet, Lynda Benglis, Louise Nevelson, Vito Acconci, and Christo and Jeanne-Claude.…

Artist Frank Bowling OBE RA has been given the honour of Knight Bachelor conferred upon him in the Birthday 2020 Honours List by Her Majesty The Queen. The Birthday Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of extraordinary people across the United Kingdom. During his six-decades long career, Bowling’s relentless pursuit of excellence in painting underpins a lifetime of service to British art. At age 86, he still is an active painter with an irrepressible work ethic, working in his studio almost every day. Sir Frank says: “I’ve set out on a quest to explore the possibilities of…

Sean Kelly Gallery is delighted to announce Janaina Tschäpe’s solo exhibition at the Musée de l’Orangerie, the museum’s fifth “Contemporary counterpoint” to Claude Monet’s Les Nymphéas (waterlilies). Contemporary counterpoint is a program, initiated in 2018, in which the museum invites contemporary artists to create an exhibition in response to the work of renowned painter, Claude Monet. Janaina Tschäpe’s concept for her exhibition resonates with Monet’s declaration: “My only desire is a more intimate fusion with nature, and the only fate I wish for is, in accordance with Goethe’s precepts, to have worked and lived in harmony with its laws.” Tschäpe’s…

BOSCO SODI Vers l’Espagne Bringing together five large-scale paintings with freestanding clay sculptures, Vers l’Espagne is Bosco Sodi’s second solo exhibition at the gallery. Its title translates as “To Spain,” paying homage to the lineage of artists who influenced his early development as a painter, from Eduardo Chillida to Joan Miró. Visitors can book an appointment to view the exhibition in the gallery here, or browse the accompanying viewing room at the link below. To watch the artist lead a tour of the exhibition on Instagram, click here. In addition, Pioneer Works presents Bosco Sodi: Perfect Bodies, opening to the…

What happens when the past – or, more specifically, a piece of cultural heritage – is fabricated? From 50 replica Eiffel Towers located around the world to Saddam Hussein’s reconstructions of ancient cities, examples of forged heritage are widespread. Some are easy to dismiss as blatant frauds (the Piltdown Man), while others adhere to honest copying or respectful homage (the Parthenon in Nashville, Tennessee). This compelling book examines copies of historic buildings, faux archaeological sites, and other false artifacts, using them to explore the ethics and consequences of reconstructing the past; it also tackles the issues involved with faithful, ‘above-board’…

Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to present Works on Paper at our East Hampton gallery, located at 50 Newtown Lane. On view will be works on paper by Hurvin Anderson, Milton Avery, Georg Baselitz, Joe Bradley, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, Enrico David, Peter Doig, Jörg Immendorff, Per Kirkeby, Florian Krewer, Eugène Leroy, Markus Lüpertz, Walter de Maria, Roberto Matta, Henri Michaux, A.R. Penck, Elizabeth Peyton, Francis Picabia, Sigmar Polke, Peter Saul, Raphaela Simon, and Don Van Vliet. Works on Paper will be on view beginning Wednesday, 7 October. Our East Hampton gallery is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11am to 6pm. The safety…

Frieze London (Online)October 7—16, 2020www.frieze.comFor a preview of the presentation, click here. Digital Event: Virtual In-conversation Gallery as Practice hosted by Gallery Director Nichole Caruso with panelists Michelle Grabner (The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI), Davida Nemeroff (Night Gallery, Los Angeles), Eric Veit (Bodega, New York), and Rachel Vorsanger (Collection and Research Manager, Betty Parsons Foundation, New York).Friday, October 9, 2020, 3 PM — 4 PM ESTRegister for the event here. Alexander Gray Associates presents a selection of recent and historic paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by nine Gallery artists, including Frank Bowling, Teresa Burga, Harmony Hammond, Lorraine O’Grady, Betty Parsons, Joan Semmel,Hassan Sharif, Valeska Soares, and Hugh Steers. Ranging from the abstract to the figurative, the…

October 1, 2020 – Pace Gallery is pleased to announce plans for a new seasonal exhibition space in Palm Beach, opening early November and running through spring 2021. The gallery will launch in Palm Beach with a presentation dedicated to three unique aperture wall installations by California-based artist James Turrell, whose work draws attention to the presence of light and its transformation of our perception of space. The exhibition will be on view November 9 to December 5, 2020 and will be followed by a series of solo and group presentations by artists from across the gallery’s program of leading…

The diabolically wicked reimagining of the classic tale comes exclusively to HBO Max in the U.S. on October 22 and hits theatres around the world beginning October 28 BURBANK, CA – October 2, 2020 – Audiences across the world can celebrate Halloween starting October 22 with the release of Warner Bros. Pictures and Robert Zemeckis’s reimagined “The Witches,” premiering exclusively on HBO Max in the U.S.? Zemeckis, the Oscar-winning director and master storyteller who gave us “Forrest Gump,” the Christmas classic “The Polar Express,” and the “Back to the Future” trilogy, brings a fresh sense of humor along with warmth and the unexpected to what…