The UK’s New Tax Rules Have Art Dealers Worried About the Consequences
The wealthy appear to be forsaking the UK in droves, and newly initiated tax rules don’t appear to be helping.
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CDK Company Makes Moves Through a Contemporary Art Museum to Billie Eilish’s ‘Bittersuite’
Set among paintings and installations in Museum Voorlinden, three dozen performers lead us on a vibrant, emotive journey.
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Nigeria Works to Reclaim Benin Bronzes, With a Change of Custodian
Nigeria’s long-running effort to repatriate the Benin Bronzes—some of the most prized artifacts in African history—has taken a turn.
Orlando Museum of Art and Family of Ex-Director Agree to Drop Lawsuits
Litigation had been pending even after ex-director Aaron De Groft’s death due to Florida law.
Loosely Woven Burlap Mimics Digital Pixels in Jennifer J. Lee’s Photorealistic Paintings
Lee’s paintings challenge the speed at which we consume images on screens.
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Stonehenge: A Guide to England’s Most Famous Ancient Monument
The ancient monument remains shrouded in mystery, although decades of archaeological research has gleaned some important findings.
Many Rooms with “No Room for Emptiness” for Diane Dal-Pra in Milan
MASSIMODECARLO is delighted to present No Room for Emptiness, the first Italian solo exhibition by French artist Diane Dal-Pra. A title like this might hint at an overwhelming fullness, an attempt to keep emptiness at bay – but Dal-Pra subverts this expectation entirely. She courts emptiness, plays with it, stretches it until it becomes tangible. Her paintings exist in a state of beautiful instability: bodies flicker in and out of form, textiles morph into landscapes, and spaces fold in on themselves like fabric.
Erin Milez “Chimera” @ Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC
For her second solo exhibition at Monya Rowe Gallery, Erin Milez continues to examine the impact of motherhood and the complex changes – psychologically and physically – that accompany it. Milez says: “I see my feeling of metamorphosis reflected in various places: in Lucy Jones’ explanation of matrescence and becoming chimeras, “never being singular again”, even on a genetic level; in Tetsuya Ishida’s work, though his embodies a more hopeless and dehumanized transformation in laboring tasks; in Nightbitch where Amy Adams is transformed into a dog because of the primal and physical demands of creation and mothering.”
New Strangeness Bloom: Heather Benjamin @ Olympia, NYC
Olympia is pleased to present New Strangeness Bloom, Heather Benjamin’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. Benjamin’s paintings investigate the hyper-vulnerable experiences of existing in a female body. Building on her formal printmaking background and a prolific, two-decade-long zinemaking practice, her autodidactic paintings emerge as self-portraits.