Exhibition of large-scale works on paper by Derrick Adams on view at Rhona Hoffman Gallery
Installation view.
CHICAGO, IL
.-Rhona Hoffman Gallery is presenting The Last Resort, the gallerys fourth solo exhibition with Brooklyn-based artist Derrick Adams (b. 1970, Baltimore, MD). Culminating the artists series Floaters, which began in 2015, the collection of large-scale works on paper present the final chapter in Adams feeling investigation into depictions of Black leisure. Each completed in 2020, six of the paintings on view renew Adams signature use of exuberant color blocking figuration to introduce the idle time of Black bodies in compositions that are joyous, abundant, and radical in their refusal of tragedy. Alongside these works, a number of intimate watercolorswhose treatment is loose, delicate, and softfeature bathers resting upon fantastical inflatables of swans, unicorns, and rainbows.
Smithsonian partners with Iraqi authorities and international heritage consortium to rehabilitate Mosul Museum
Saad Ahmed, the Mosul Cultural Museums head of conservation (left), and Zaid Ghazi Saadullah, the museums director, examine a wood cenotaph in the Mosul Cultural Museums Islamic Hall in February 2019.
WASHINGTON, DC
.- The building and collection of Iraqs Mosul Cultural Museum suffered tremendous damage at the hands of the Islamic State group. Now, the museum is gradually being brought back to life through a unique international partnership between the Smithsonian Institution, the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage (SBAH), the Musée du Louvre, the World Monuments Fund (WMF) and the International Alliance for the Protection of Heritage in Conflict Areas (ALIPH). Since 2018, the founding members of this consortium have been stabilizing the building and collection in preparation for the full-scale rehabilitation. The goal is to return this museum to the
Galerie Max Hetzler opens a solo exhibition of sculptures by Karel Appel
Karel Appel, Singing Donkeys, 1992. Photo: def image.
BERLIN
.-Galerie Max Hetzler opened a solo exhibition of sculptures by Karel Appel at Goethestraße 2/3, in Berlin. To visit the exhibition, an informal registration by e-mail or phone is kindly requested.
In important literature on the artist, Karel Appel (1921-2006), who would have celebrated his centennial this year, is consistently referred to as a painter and founding member of CoBrA. The fact that the avant-garde group lasted only three years, and that this period thus actually grasps a relatively brief episode at the beginning of Appel s long career, is usually overlooked. Likewise, few are aware that Appel expressed himself not only in a painterly manner, but also in three dimensions. It is true that he was frst and foremost a painter, and his forays into objecthood are mostly based on a painterly rather than sculptural approach, but this is p
Emma Talbot s c.20:21 commission celebrates International Women s Day on Piccadilly Lights
CIRCA x Emma Talbot Photo: Daniel Adhami Courtesy of CIRCA.
LONDON
.- Emma Talbot, the London-based artist of sensuous visual poems becomes the next CIRCA artist, presenting a new body of four animated films in collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, Collezione Maramotti and the Max Mara Art Prize for Women. Following a woman at the gateway between the old world and a new world to be made, Talbots Four Visions for a Hopeful Future tells the story of a protagonist in search of answers to guide both her own journey and the development of society to a spiritual and political rebirth, on the iconic Piccadilly Lights screen.
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