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White Cube announces exclusive global representation of Isamu Noguchi Isamu Noguchi, Body Space Devices. Photo: Nicholas Knight © INFGM-ARS. LONDON .-White Cube announced representation of Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) in a collaboration with The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum in New York. One of the most significant artists of the 20th century, Noguchi was a future-focused idealist whose timeless work blended the ancient and the modern. An itinerant cultural synthesizer, he consisten...

British gallery will work in collaboration with the Noguchi Museum in New York

Exhibitions in West London Ready to extract carbon from the air. Image copyright Science Museum group SAVING OUR PLANET: Were all trying to do our bit to reduce our carbon footprint, but how do we capture the carbon thats already out there? This free display brings together information and objects on how both forestry and technology can capture carbon — including a mechanical tree that does a fantastic job of it, even though it looks nothing like a tree. Theres a fun interactive (and contact...

Ladies and gentleman, the weekend. I’m Carolina A. Miranda, arts and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news — and art historical dog paintings. You down with NFT? A single living artist. A major auction house. A sale that represented “a bold challenge to an entrenched system of representation by prominent art dealers.” I’m not talking about last months’s auction at Christie’s, in which the artist known as Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) sol...

In his role as musical director for the hotelier André Balazs, Arman Nafeei moved among the great and good in some of the world’s most glamorous hotels. Spending his evenings at the Chateau Marmont, he often found himself chatting with the West Hollywood hotel’s illustrious guests at the piano, in the lush, palm-laden gardens, or poolside, beneath the neon sign that’s become an icon of Sunset Strip. Inspired to recreate these intimate conversations, his podcast Are We On Air has now lau...

SAF and The Africa Institute to co-host the Middle East premiere of ‘White Cube’ Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute will co-host the Middle East premiere of White Cube (2020), a feature-length film that documents the successful attempt by Congolese workers on a former Unilever palm oil plantation to co-opt the ‘white cube’ as a way to buy back their land from international corporations and secure it for future generations. The premiere will take place on 17 April 2021 at ...

The Blobification of the Art Industry: How Lockdown Has Accelerated the Blurred Lines Between Galleries and Auction Houses As they compete for art market dominance, auction houses and galleries are increasingly adopting one anothers sales strategies. April 13, 2021 Sotheby’s exhibition of Prints & Multiples is now open in London, England, ahead of the auction on 19th March at Sothebys on March 13, 2020 in London, England. Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sothebys. In February last ye...

Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute to Co-host Global Museum Launch Middle Ea… Sharjah Art Foundation and The Africa Institute to Co-host Global Museum Launch Middle East Premiere of White Cube (2020) Published April 13th, 2021 - 07:36 GMT Renzo Marten, White Cube (still), 2020. Digital video, colour, sound. 79 minutes. Image courtesy of Renzo Marten. Copyright © Human Activities, 2020 Highlights Taking place online on 17 April 2021, the Middle East premie...

/ She’s been a major figure in contemporary art for over 25 years; Now In an extensive interview with BBC’s Newsnight, Tracey Emin, 57, has spoken candidly about her three-month all clear cancer milestone. I’m not painting because I’m using my willpower to stay alive – TE The YBA artist, best known for her Turner Prize-nominated’ Unmade Bed’, revealed that she had bladder cancer last summer. A cancerous tumour was found after undergoing severe pain in her abdomen. Emin underwent ...

Full disclosure: four years after watching Renzo Martens’s documentary Episode III: Enjoy Poverty (2008), which served as shock therapy for the art-world in its time, I am still traumatized by it. The point the Dutch artist wanted to convey with this film was that the overexploited residents of remote areas of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) would do well to enjoy their supposedly most valuable resource: poverty. In the film, Martens sets up a workshop and encourages some impoveri...