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Lights On: Art at the Noor Riyadh Festival May 12, 2021 Share The rapidly growing state-supported arts infrastructure in Saudi Arabia tends to overshadow the lesser-known history of independent artist-led initiatives. The pioneering modernist Mohammed Alsaleem, for example, is known for establishing Dar Al Funoon Al Sa’udiyyah (The Saudi Art House) in Riyadh in 1979, the first space where artists could gather, work, mentor each other, and stage exhibitions at a time when there were no a...

A Kaleidoscopic Journey Manchester-based artist Liz West, who was shortlisted for the Aesthetica Art Prize in 2016, creates site-specific artworks that use vivid colour, light and space to ignite remarkable sensory experiences. Her latest piece, Hundreds and Thousands, transforms The Tide walkway in Greenwich Peninsula, London, into a kaleidoscopic installation. Here she tells us about the work’s origins and why she’s fascinated by the science of colour perception. A: How did you dev...

Julie Mehretu Until 8 August at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, Manhattan Julie Mehretu’s massive mid-career survey—which has travelled from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art—includes more than 70 paintings and works on paper that date from 1996 to today. It offers a chance for viewers to track the progression of Mehretu’s style from early pieces that focus more heavily on mapping and drawing to her sprawling abstractions with innumerable layers of visual in...

MAIA ACTIVE Flagship Store Finds Rhythm in Beijing Sò Studio crafted the retail space with a lightweight, feminine flair that emphasizes comfort Words by: Will Speros • Photos by Objective Visions News: Sò Studio crafted the retail space with a lightweight, feminine flair that emphasizes comfort Words by: Will Speros • Photos by Objective Visions Shanghai-based Sò Studio has crafted a new flagship store for female activewear brand MAIA ACTIVE at the Taikoo Li Sanlitun shopping center i...

Dawoud Bey: An American Project Until 3 October at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort St, Manhattan The US photographer Dawoud Bey has been preoccupied with conveying and documenting the history of the African American experience for more than four decades. This travelling retrospective begins with the artist’s first series of street photography in Harlem in 1975 and ends with his 2017 nocturnal landscapes called Night Coming Tenderly Black, where he set out to visualise the p...

The Value of Didactic Art This week, executive editor Lloyd Wise looks back at April 1967’s “The Value of Didactic Art,” one of the many benchmark essays written for  Artforum in its early years by the critic, curator, and art historian Barbara Rose (1936–2020). Rose is celebrated and remembered by her friend and colleague Margit Rowell in our April issue. To read Barbara Rose is to partake in her “immense excitement and pleasure,” writes Rowell. Nowhere is th...

Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Once upon a time, you could stand on the roof of 548 West 22nd Street, up among the water towers of Manhattan, with views out over the Hudson to New Jersey, and watch the city shimmer and reflect on the surfaces of one of Dan Graham’s glass pavilions. It was a New York moment. You could go downstairs, following the blue and green glow of a Dan Flavin light sculpture lining the stairwell, and see shows by leaders in contemporary European and American art re...

Re-emerging as a force in Chelsea after a two-year, $20m renovation, the Dia Art Foundation’s space there will reopen on Friday (16 April) with a renewed purpose: to champion under-recognised artists and to serve as an information hub for all 11 of Dia’s long-term art sites. The foundation’s Chelsea renovation unites its three contiguous buildings on West 22nd Street and underlines its gritty history of inventively revitalising existing structures. The 32,500 sq. ft project, which ...

Save this story for later. If you want to see “Blindness,” a new show created by Donmar Warehouse and up at the Daryl Roth Theatre— up not on some Web site but in the antediluvian sense: at a place other than your home, scheduled for a non-negotiable time—you’ll have to submit to the weird rigors of COVID screening. If you’ve eaten at a restaurant or gone to the dentist lately, you can probably rattle off the questionnaire by heart: Have you coughed? Are you hot? ...