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This week, more than 230,000 people signed a PEN America petition opposing President Trump’s plan to defund the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). So far, twelve Art21 artists including Kiki Smith, Cindy Sherman, and Richard Serra have signed.

Also this week:

• Artists Adam Pendleton, Rashid Johnson, Ellen Gallagher and Julie Mehretu teamed up to purchase singer and civil rights activist Nina Simone’s childhood home. While no concrete plans are in place, the artists hope to both preserve and reactivate the legendary space.
• On Thursday, the Asia Society will honor Kimsooja and Hiroshi Sugimoto at its annual gala celebrating the Asia Arts Game Changers.
• The Prado Museum announced it will be commissioning Cai Guo-Qiang to create new works at the museum beginning in September, that will respond to its famed collection of Old Master paintings.

Events & exhibitions

Chicago

• March 23-25, 7:30pm—Charles Atlas will be performing alongside artists Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener in another series of Tesseract performances at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Potomac, MD

• A survey of Roni Horn’s work opened this month at Glenstone. The exhibition continues through January 2018. [Read a review in the Washington Post.]

Fayetteville, AR

• March 24, 7-8pm—Marina Abramović is kicking off the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art’s 2017 Distinguished Speaker Series, intended to “inspire new ways of thinking.” Get tickets.

Phoenix, AZ

• Yeohlee/Serra, a new exhibition pairing gowns by fashion designer Yeohlee Teng with large-scale prints by Richard Serra opened on Friday at the Phoenix Art Museum where it will remain on view through May 29.

Akron, OH

• March 23, 6pm—LaToya Ruby Frazier will present the Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell Lecture at the Akron Art Museum. The event is free and open to the public.

San Francisco / Bay Area

• Beginning this Saturday, Leonardo Drew will be exhibiting a site-specific installation in the de Young Museum’s Wilsey Court. On view through October 29, viewers around the world can watch a livestream of the work’s installation online.
• Trevor Paglen’s new exhibition opened Wednesday at the Cantor Arts Center. On view through July 31 and entitled The Eye and the Sky, the seventeen featured works place Paglen’s Time Study (Predator; Indian Springs, NV) alongside nineteenth and twentieth century photographs in the museum’s collection.

Naples, Italy

• Voyages Without a Destination, an exhibition of work by Louise Bourgeois is opening this Friday at Studio Trisorio and will be on view through June 17.

Tel Aviv

• This is the last week to see Tommy Hartung’s exhibition at Braverman Gallery. Lilith closes tomorrow, March 21.

Reykjavik, Iceland

• March 16-April 9—Artists Matthew Barney, Ragnar Kjartansson, and Gabríela Friðriksdóttir have collaborated with the Iceland Dance Company to create Sacrifice, a series of performances celebrating modern rituals. [Learn more in the Iceland Monitor.]

It’s impossible to include all the incredible exhibitions and art events happening this week in a single post. If there’s something you feel should have been included in today’s roundup, leave a comment below!

Rendering of one piece in the multi-site Public Art Fund project Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors. Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio.

This morning, the New York Times announced Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, a series of Ai Weiwei installations coming to various sites around New York City in October 2017. More than one-hundred of Ai Weiwei’s works will be installed in public spaces as part of the Public Art Fund project, which attempts to highlight the city’s historical role as a gateway to the U.S. for millions of immigrants.

“I was an immigrant in New York in the 1980s for ten years and the issue with the migration crisis has been a longtime focus of my practice,” says the artist. “What’s important to remember is that while barriers have been used to divide us, as humans we are all the same. Some are more privileged than others, but with that privilege comes a responsibility to do more.”

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• This is the last week to see Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection. The exhibition closes at the Frick this Sunday, April 2.
• Thursday, March 30, 7pm—In conjunction with the exhibition, Raymond Pettibon: A Pen of All Work, the New Museum is hosting a conversation between the artist and museum director Massimiliano Gioni.

Washington D.C.

• Wednesday, March 29, 7pm—Ann Hamilton will be speaking with designer, builder and educator Emily Pilloton at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, to facilitate a discussion on the question “How can makers change the world?”

Dallas

• Friday, March 31, 2pm—As part of the Nasher Prize Dialogues series, the Nasher Sculpture Center is hosting a conversation between National Gallery of Art Senior Curator Lynne Cooke and 2017 Nasher Prize Laureate Pierre Huyghe, about his artistic philosophy and practice.

Los Angeles

• The Mistake Room is opening Diana Thater’s newly commissioned project A Runaway World, this Saturday, April 1. The exhibition is comprised of two works the artist produced in Kenya in 2016 and 2017, and will remain on view through June 3.
• Power: Work By African American Women From The Nineteenth Century To Now is opening Wednesday at Sprüth Magers. Featuring work by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ellen Gallagher, Simone Leigh, Julie Mehretu, Lorraine O’Grady, Mickalene Thomas, Kara Walker, and Carrie Mae Weems among others, Power is on view through June 10.

Milan

• Sincerely, Tony, a new exhibition by New York Close Up artist Jamian Juliano-Villani is opening Thursday at Massimo de Carlo Milan (on view through April 29).

Hong Kong

• An installation of Do Ho Suh’s Passage/s opened last week at Lehmann Maupin, where it will remain on view through May 13.
• An exhibition of new work by Theaster Gates entitled Tarry Skies and Psalms for Now is on view at White Cube through May 20.

It’s impossible to include all the incredible exhibitions and art events happening this week in a single post. If there’s something you feel should have been included in today’s roundup, leave a comment below!

Jeff Koons. Seated Ballerina, 2017. Installation view at Rockefeller Center. Photo courtesy of Street Art News.

New York City opened a new public art installation last week, co-presented by the Art Production Fund and Kiehl’s. Jeff Koons’ large-scale inflatable ballerina, a 45-foot work titled Seated Ballerina, was unveiled Friday at Rockefeller Center, where it will be on view through June 2.

Also this week, James Turrell will be presented with the 2017 SMFA Medal Award by the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• Sunday, May 21, 7pm—New York Close Up’s newest artist Raúl de Nieves will be performing K8 Hardy’s Beautiful Radiating Energy at Participant Inc. The piece first debuted at Reena Spaulings Fine Art in 2004, and features a “part-cheerleader, part-militant” character who screams “Ready!” over and over again.

Chicago

• Monday, May 15, 7pm—Kerry James Marshall is delivering the Rosenberger Medal Lecture at the University of Chicago. Entitled “As Luck Would Have It…” the event is free and open to the public. Get tickets.
• Wednesday, May 17, 6pm—Pedro Reyes is giving a talk titled “Art + Engineering” at the Block Museum of Art. Get tickets.
• Thursday, May 18, 4pm—Pedro Reyes is also presenting the seminar “What is the Use of Art?” at Northwestern University.

San Francisco

• Thursday, May 18, 6:30-7:30pm—Leonardo Drew is giving an artist talk at the de Young Museum titled “On and Beyond Number 197,” in conjunction with his large-scale installation on view in the museum’s atrium.

London

• A sound installation by Bruce Nauman opens at Tate Modern today. Raw Materials premiered over 10 years ago in Turbine Hall, and is composed of 22 speech fragments recorded over 40 years and transmitted from 22 speakers. It will be on view through August 20.

Norwich, England

• Friday, May 19, 8pm—Laurie Anderson will be performing at the Norfolk & Norwich Festival, in a rare collaborative performance with Philip Glass.

Porto, Portugal

• A solo exhibition by artist Julie Mehretu is opening this week at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art. A Universal History of Everything and Nothing opens this Friday, May 19 and will be on view through September 3.

Shanghai

• This is the last week to see the Long Museum’s retrospective on the work of James Turrell. James Turrell: Immersive Light closes this Sunday, May 21. [Read a review in the South China Morning Post.]

It’s impossible to include all the incredible exhibitions and art events happening this week in a single post. If there’s something you feel should have been included in today’s roundup, leave a comment below!

Tania Bruguera. The Francis Effect (2014). Courtesy of Studio Bruguera. Photography by Gaetano Olmo Stuppia.

An unprecedented survey of Tania Bruguera’s 30-year career, Talking to Power / Hablándole al Poder, opened Friday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) in San Francisco. On view through October, the new exhibition includes free lectures and workshops, many taught by the artist herself, as part of a fully functioning school inside YBCA’s galleries entitled Escuela de Arte Útil​ (School of Useful Art​) (2017).

“The threat of the Trump presidency puts basic assumptions about the identity of this country at risk, and has made the political role of art even more urgent,” says the artist. “This is more relevant than ever, as art allows us to say and do what cannot be said or done under systems of repression and violence.”

Also this week:

• Theaster Gates’ new 70-seat theater is slated to begin construction this summer, and the artist also revealed plans to rent and renovate Chicago’s oldest “L” station, transforming it into a showcase for the neighborhood’s history, and scheduled to open next year.
• On Flag Day last Wednesday, Creative Time unfurled the first in a series of 16 flags designed by artists for a project titled Pledges of Allegiance. With each flag flying atop Creative Time’s headquarters in Manhattan for a month, forthcoming flags were designed by artists Tania Bruguera, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Ann Hamilton, Trevor Paglen, and Pedro Reyes.
• Julie Mehretu and Mary Heilmann were recently inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
• And Ai Weiwei’s documentary on the refugee crisis, Human Flow, was just acquired by Amazon and will be released on the streaming service this fall.

Events & exhibitions

Athens

• Tomorrow, June 20 Kara Walker’s Figa—the left hand of her sugar-sphinx monument A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby—is opening in Greece at DESTE Foundation’s Project Space, an ancient slaughterhouse on the island of Hydra. On view through September 30.

Rome

• This Thursday, June 22, Sally Mann’s exhibition Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington is opening at Gagosian’s gallery in Rome, where it will be on view through September 8.

Humlebæk, Denmark

• On Thursday, Marina Abramović opened her first major retrospective in Europe at The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. Featuring reperformances and more than 100 works that spans 50 years, including early concept sketches, paintings and sound works, The Cleaner is on view through October 22.

Münster, Germany

• Pierre Huyghe’s futuristic installation After ALife Ahead, is on view as part of the decennial public sculpture show Skulptur Projekte Münster. Featuring bees, peacocks, and algae, an incubator growing cancer cells, and an augmented reality app, the artist describes the piece as a “haunted living organism” deconstructing the “promise of a digital horizon.” Installed inside an old ice-skating rink, the piece is on view through October 1.

Basel, Switzerland

•  A selection of 16 films and videos made by Richard Serra between 1968 and 1979 comprise a new exhibition at Kunstmuseum Basel, entitled Richard Serra: Films and Videotapes, on view through October 15. [Read a review in The Art Newspaper.]

It’s impossible to include all the incredible exhibitions and art events happening this week in a single post. If there’s something you feel should have been included in today’s roundup, leave a comment below!

Shirah Dedman, Phoebe Dedman, and Luz Myles visiting Shreveport, Louisiana, where in 1912 their relative Thomas Miles, Sr., was lynched (2017). Photo: Rog Walker and Bee Walker for the Equal Justice Initiative.

On Wednesday the Brooklyn Museum is opening a powerful new exhibition on the history of lynchings in the U.S. Entitled The Legacy of Lynching: Confronting Racial Terror in America, the exhibition includes work by Sanford Biggers, Kara Walker and Glenn Ligon alongside an interactive exhibit by the Equal Justice Initiative. Based on research of 4,000 lynchings of African-Americans between 1877 and 1950, the interactive exhibit includes a short film, audio stories, an interactive map, and is also available online.

“Our nation’s history of racial injustice casts a shadow across the American landscape,” said EJI Executive Director Bryan Stevenson. “This shadow cannot be lifted until we shine the light of truth on the destructive violence that shaped our nation, traumatized people of color, and compromised our commitment to the rule of law and equal justice. We all must engage this history more honestly.”

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• Tuesday, July 25, 6-10pm—The Brooklyn Museum is hosting a talk between the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, Bryan Stevenson, and artists Sanford Biggers and Glenn Ligon. Organized in conjunction with the museum’s new exhibition The Legacy of Lynching, the panel discussion will be moderated by poet, essayist, and playwright Elizabeth Alexander.
• Tuesday, July 25, 6:30pm—Trevor Paglen will be in conversation at the Guggenheim Museum with the director of the ACLU’s Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project, Ben Wizner. Addressing surveillance and civil liberties in the age of hacking, the talk will be moderated by the museum’s Curator of Performance and Media, Nat Trotman.
• New York Close Up artist Jaimie Warren has a new solo exhibition opening at The Hole this Wednesday. Titled One Sweet Day, the exhibition’s opening reception will be held Wednesday from 6-9pm, and it will be on view through August 27. [Read a feature on the artist in VICE.]
• Friday, July 28, 6:30–7:30pm—Artists Caroline Woolard, Alexander Rosenberg, Helen Lee, and Lika Volkova, will be discussing their collaborative project, Carried on Both Sides, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s MetFridays. Reflecting on the future of communication, the project was the subject of our most recent New York Close Up film, “Caroline Woolard’s Floating Possibility.” Register here.
• This is the last week to see Unfinished Conversations: New Work from the Collection, closing this Sunday at MoMA. Featuring work by Kara Walker among others, the exhibition “considers the intertwining themes of social protest and the effect of history on the formation of identity.” [Read a review in Hyperallergic.]

Rockland, ME

• Tuesday, July 25, 5:30-7:30pm—William Wegman is presenting a slide talk on his work at the Strand Theatre as part of the Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s Tuesday Talk series. Tickets are $15.

Columbus, OH

• This is the last week to see the exhibition Gray Matters—which explores 37 contemporary women artists’ practice of grisaille—at Wexner Center for the Arts. Featuring work by Vija Celmins, Josephine Halvorson, Roni Horn, Julie Mehretu, Mary Reid Kelley, Arlene Shechet, Erin Shirreff, Avery Singer, and Kara Walker among others, the exhibition closes this Sunday, July 30. [Read reviews in The Columbus Dispatch and Hyperallergic.]

Santa Fe

• Lannan Foundation Gallery’s new exhibition, Something Fierce, includes work by Roni Horn and An-My Lê, and is on view through September 17.

Los Angeles

• Mixografia’s 2017 Summer Group Show opens this Saturday, July 29 and features work by John Baldessari and Lynda Benglis, among others. Baldessari will present his newest completed body of work, and the show will be on view through August 26.

Honolulu

• Shahzia Sikander’s multichannel installation, Parallax, is closing this Sunday at the Honolulu Museum of Art.

London

• A selection of Bruce Nauman’s work is opening today in the Tate Modern’s Artist Rooms gallery. His 2004 sound installation Raw Materials is also on view in the museum’s Turbine Hall.
• Ida Applebroog’s Mercy Hospital, a collection of drawings completed by the artist in 1969 and 1970, is closing this Saturday, July 29 at Hauser & Wirth London.

It’s impossible to include all the incredible exhibitions and art events happening this week in a single post. If there’s something you feel should have been included in today’s roundup, leave a comment below!

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This week Cindy Sherman was in news—from W Magazine to The New York Times—for unlocking her Instagram account, making 593 posts available for public consumption. Artnet first noticed the switch last Wednesday, as the artist changed her handle from @misterfriedas_mom (in honor of her pet macaw) to @_cindysherman_, and began posting selfies using Snapchat-like filters that look a lot like the work she installs on gallery walls.

Also this week:

• The New York Times shared a first look at Julie Mehretu’s large-scale mural commissioned for the new SFMOMA.
• Nearly 80 members of the National Academy of Art have signed a letter defending artist Dana Schutz and her new exhibition at the ICA. The controversy surrounding the inclusion of Schutz’s painting Open Casket in the Whitney Biennial followed the artist to Boston as a group of critics demanded the museum pull the show, accusing the institution of profiting off of the recent controversy. Marina Abramovic, Rackstraw Downes, Ann Hamilton, Catherine Opie, Judy Pfaff, Arlene Shechet, Cindy Sherman, Jessica Stockholder, and Kara Walker were among the artists who signed the letter in support of Schutz.
• The Bass Museum has acquired Allora & Calzadilla’s petrol pump—the first time a major work by the US-Cuban artists has entered the collection of a Miami museum.
• And finally in awards this week, Laurie Anderson was honored at the 24th annual Watermill Center Summer Benefit, and Mark Bradford was named as one of LACMA’s Art + Film Gala honorees.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• This is the last week to see Making Space: Women Artists in Postwar Abstraction featuring work by Elizabeth Murray. The exhibition closes this Sunday at MoMA. [Read a review in The Brooklyn Rail.]

Saratoga Springs, NY

• Skidmore College’s Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery is opening a new exhibition entitled Other Side: Art, Object, Self, examining the ways in which artists “use materials, found objects or even their own bodies to explore questions of national, cultural and self-identity.” Opening this Saturday, August 12 and on view through December 30, the exhibition features work by Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA), Tim Hawkinson, Sally Mann, Shahzia Sikander, Do Ho Suh, and Fred Wilson among others.

Chicago

• This is the last week to see Jessica Stockholder’s solo exhibition at the Smart Museum. Rose’s Inclination closes this Sunday, August 13.

Stillwater, OK

• The Oklahoma State University Museum of Art is opening an exhibition on Kiki Smith tomorrow, August 8. Featuring a selection of the artist’s drawings and prints alongside a number of sculptures, Kiki Smith and Paper: The Body, the Muse, and the Spirit will be on view through December 2.

Stanford, CA

• An exhibition of Nick Cave’s Soundsuits is closing next Monday, August 14 at Stanford University’s Anderson Collection.

Buenos Aires

• This is the last week to see William Kentridge’s exhibition at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Notes Towards a Model Opera and In Mockery of Progress features a video installation by the artist alongside a series of watercolors, and closes Sunday, August 13.

It’s impossible to include all the incredible exhibitions and art events happening this week in a single post. If there’s something you feel should have been included in today’s roundup, leave a comment below!

A rendering of one piece in Ai Weiwei’s multipart Public Art Fund project Good Fences Make Good Neighbors at Washington Square Park. Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio / Frahm & Frahm.

Just in time for the eclipse, and coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Voyager space probe launch, last week Kickstarter announced a new series of campaigns called Projects of Earth—two of which feature new work by Art21 artists. Already launched is Ai Weiwei’s Public Art Fund installation series, Good Fences Make Good Neighbors, which will bring fence-inspired sculptural works to multiple sites around New York City in October.

Launching soon is a project by Trevor Paglen in collaboration with the Nevada Museum of Art. Paglen is currently working with aerospace engineers to develop and launch Orbital Reflector, a reflective sculpture that will be visible in the night sky—the first satellite to exist purely as an artistic gesture.

Also this week:

• Walton Ford and writer Zoë Lescaze released a new book on the history of paleoart (artwork depicting prehistoric times), as a way to understand dinosaurs through an art historical lens.
• SFMOMA’s largest painting ever, by Julie Mehretu, arrived Wednesday for installation.
• Finally in awards this week, James Turrell’s immersive installation at MASS MoCA has been given an Award of Merit, and tonight Kerry James Marshall is being honored by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs at the 4th annual Fifth Star Honors, a local award show and concert in Millennium Park.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• This is the last week to see Mika Rottenberg’s 2015 video piece NoNoseKnows at the Met Breuer. The work is included in the exhibition The Body Politic, which closes this Sunday, September 3. [Read a review in Hyperallergic.]

Austin

• A new temporary exhibition at the Blanton Museum of Art features Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler’s three-channel film installation Giant (2014). The final piece in a trilogy of films exploring “the social character of the cinematic experience,” Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler: Giant is on view through October 1. [Read a review in The Austin Chronicle.]

London

• Whitechapel Gallery’s current group exhibition features the work of 30 artists and photographers including Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, and Jeff Wall. Entitled A Handful of Dust, the show closes Sunday, September 3.

Lille, France

• This is also the last week to see Capital Africa, a group exhibition featuring work by El Anatsui at the cultural center, Gare of Lille-Saint-Sauveur. Presented by lille3000, the show closes on Sunday.

Venice

• Ai Weiwei’s new film on the refugee crisis, Human Flow, is premiering this week at the 74th Venice Film Festival. It’s screening twice on Friday, September 1.

Tuscany, Italy

• Art of the Treasure Hunt, an exhibition installed in multiple locations in the Chianti region, includes work by Marina Abramović and Kiki Smith and will be on view through October 30.

Mumbai

• Louise Despont’s solo exhibition at Galerie Isa, Greenhouse, closes this Friday, September 1. [Read reviews in The Indian Express and The Hindu.]

Installation view: House of Trees. Word on the Street, 2017. Courtesy of Maria Baranova for Times Square Arts.

A new public art commission is bringing political banners by female artists and writers to street poles and trash receptacles in Times Square. Times Square Arts’ Word on the Street presents designs by poet Anne Carson and artists Carrie Mae Weems, Amy Khoshbin, and Wangechi Mutu through February 2018. The phrases featured, like “Action Comes From the Backbone, Not the Wishbone” and “I Was Born for Love Not Hatred,” were originally created for the post-inaugural Women’s March.

Also this week:

• Katharina Grosse has been commissioned by Sydney’s Carriageworks to create the third Schwartz Carriageworks visual arts project. A new monumental site-specific installation by the artist will be unveiled on January 6, 2018 as part of the 2018 Sydney Festival.
• At last week’s Fifth Star Honors awards in Chicago, honoree Kerry James Marshall suggested adding to complicated historical monuments rather than tearing them down. He’s previously suggested “augmentations,” like adding statues of abolitionists to monuments like the Jefferson Memorial to reflect the fact that they honor slave owners. “There’s no way of erasing that history,” said the artist. “They are objects of independence… but they are also monuments to slave owners.”

Events & exhibitions

New York City

This Thursday and Friday there are a flurry of solo exhibitions opening in New York galleries:

• On Thursday, September 7, Jordan Casteel’s inaugural exhibition at Casey Kaplan, Nights in Harlem, is opening (on view through October 28); as is Kara Walker’s new solo exhibition at Sikkema Jenkins and Co. (through October 14).
• On Friday, September 8, Trevor Paglen’s A Study of Invisible Images opens at Metro Pictures (through October 21); as does Maya Lin’s Ebb and Flow at Pace Gallery (through October 7); as well as Robert Adams’ solo exhibition Trees at Matthew Marks (on view through October 21).

Buffalo, NY

• This Thursday, both locations of the University at Buffalo Art Galleries will be opening the new exhibition Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017. On view through December 31, the 50-year survey “considers the themes of action and exploration outside of the studio,” and features work by Janine Antoni, John Baldessari, Mary Mattingly, and Gabriel Orozco among others.

Savannah, GA

• Also opening Thursday is the SCAD Museum of Art’s Lines of Influence, a group exhibition commemorating the hundredth birthday of African American painter Jacob Lawrence. On view through February 4 and including both historical and contemporary artists, the exhibition features work by Josef Albers, José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, Hank Willis Thomas, Jack Whitten, and Kara Walker among others.

Detroit

• On Friday, September 8, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit is opening Sonic Rebellion: Music As Resistance. Featuring work by Rashid Johnson, Titus Kaphar, Glenn Ligon, and Pedro Reyes among others, the exhibition will be on view through January 7.

Minneapolis

• The Walker Art Center’s new exhibition I am you, you are you too opens on Thursday and explores the themes of “citizenship and belonging, borders and barriers.” Featuring work by John Baldessari, Mark Bradford, Stan Douglas, Ellen Gallagher, Kerry James Marshall, Paul McCarthy, Julie Mehretu, Bruce Nauman, and Gabriel Orozco among others, the exhibition will be on view through October 2019.

Los Angeles

• As part of Pacific Standard Time: Los Angeles / Latin America, a new fall initiative emphasizing the significance of Latin American art in Los Angeles, Abraham Cruzvillegas and Gabriel Kuri have co-curated a group exhibition opening at Regen Projects this Saturday.
• LA’s new free museum is staging its grand opening weekend this Saturday and Sunday. The ICA LA will open its Project Room for the first time with an installation by Abigail DeVille.

London

• On Friday the David Roberts Arts Foundation is opening the final exhibition in its Camden gallery space: (X) A Fantasy, which collectively questions the boundaries between public and private spheres. Including work by Theaster Gates and Tala Madani among others, the exhibition closes October 7.

Healesville, Australia

• Cao Fei was selected as one of five artists featured in the third iteration of the TarraWarra International at the TarraWarra Museum of Art. On view through November 12 and titled All that is solid …, all the work presented was created through “non-solid” processes like tearing, melting, chewing, and piercing.

Last week we released a special Extended Play film on Julie Mehretu’s monumental commission for the new SFMOMA. Art21 was granted exclusive access to film the artist and her team at work over the course of a year to create this ten-minute short.

While we’ve been busy releasing films online, Art21 films have been screening in museums all over the world: the British Museum, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow, and SFMOMA to name a few. To screen an Art21 film at your organization, reach out to us. We have many more new films in the works, all set to premiere throughout the coming year.

Next summer we’ll open registration for the Art21 Screening Society, which offers organizations the unique opportunity to screen an episode of our upcoming biennial broadcast series Art in the Twenty-First Century, free of charge. To receive an email when registration opens, sign up for the Art21 Screening Society email list, or follow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram to be the first in the know about fall film releases and all things Season 9.

New Video Featuring Julie Mehretu

Julie Mehretu: Politicized Landscapes

Premiered September 13, as part of the Art21 digital series Extended Play

Shown working on two site-specific paintings for the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Julie Mehretu recontextualizes the history of American landscape painting by merging its sublime imagery with the harsh realities not depicted.

“What does it mean to paint a landscape and be an artist in this political moment?” she asks from the decommissioned Harlem church used as her studio for the project.

Watch the film.

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Site-Specific

Site-specific works are created in dialogue with their surroundings–the location of their installation is a part of the work itself. Remove a site-specific artwork from its intended place, and the work loses some, or even all, of its meaning. As Richard Serra famously said about his 1981 installation Tilted Arc, “To remove the work is to destroy the work.”

These artists use place as a jumping off point, creating works informed by the environment in which viewers encounter them.

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Highlights from the Art21 Magazine

Cai Guo-Qiang. Fireflies, 2017. Photo: Jeff Fusco. Courtesy Association for Public Art.

From the September / October “Invention” issue:

• NEW INC director Julia Kaganskiy joins the magazine as guest editor, and introduces the issue by drawing an important distinction between invention and innovation.
• Philadelphia writer Heather Holmes offers her thoughts on Cai Guo-Qiang’s Fireflies project and the power of public space.

Read the issue.

Featured Video from the Art21 Library

Julie Mehretu: Workday

From the Art21 digital series Extended Play

Filmed in her Berlin studio, Julie Mehretu discusses the ups and downs of her daily studio practice.

“Sometimes it can take days to know what to do next,” says the artist. “I think that’s part of the work, just being in here, just looking at the work for a long time, and really realizing the painting.”

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Barbara Kruger. Art Against the Immigration ban poster, 2017. Courtesy of the Guggenheim.

Last month the Guggenheim published a blog post about a recent delivery the museum had received: a set of posters denouncing Trump’s most recent travel ban, printed as high-quality archival prints. Nine artists, including Joan Jonas, Barbara Kruger, and Julie Mehretu, created the works as the collective “Artists Against the Immigration Ban,” and the printed posters were mailed unsolicited to 30 leading contemporary art institutions.

Each package came with an introductory letter asking museums to make their own judgements about what to do with the posters. “Artists don’t normally send stuff to museums out of the blue,” a representative for the project told artnet News. “If these get accepted into collections, it means that there’s a record of this time that’s very different from a protest or an exhibition.”

Also this week:

• Laurie Simmons co-designed a T-shirt with fashion designer Michelle Smith, and all the profits are being donated to Planned Parenthood.
• Tomorrow, William Wegman is releasing a new book entitled William Wegman: Being Human. Cowritten with photography curator William A. Ewing, the book includes more than 300 images from the artist’s personal archive.

Events & exhibitions

Corning, NY

• Thursday, October 5 from 7-9pm—LaToya Ruby Frazier will be giving a keynote address entitled “Art & Empathy: Storytelling for Social Change” at the Rockwell Museum. The talk will be followed by a Q&A and reception for the artist.

Providence

• A new exhibition at the RISD Museum is opening on Friday. Entitled Lines of Thought: Drawing from Michelangelo to Now From the British Museum, the exhibition features work by William Kentridge and Julie Mehretu, and will be on view through January 7, 2018.

Boston

• A major survey exhibition of Mark Dion’s work is opening Wednesday at the Institute of Contemporary Art. Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist examines three decades of the artist’s career and will be on view through the end of the year. The museum is also hosting a conversation this Thursday at 7pm between the artist and writer Andrea Barrett.
• Seeking Stillness, a new group exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, features work by Martin Puryear and Hiroshi Sugimoto among others, and will be on view through July 1, 2018.

Chicago

• Tuesday, October 3 from 6:30-8pm—Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle will be in conversation with art historian Hannah B Higgins at the Chicago Cultural Center as part of the Chicago Architecture Biennial.

Evanston, IL

• A new exhibition at Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art celebrates the work of Carrie Mae Weems. Entitled Carrie Mae Weems: Ritual and Revolution, the exhibition is on view through December 10. [Read a review in the Chicago Reader.]

Detroit

• Thursday, October 5 from 6:30-9pm—As part of this year’s Culture Lab Detroit, Edgar Arceneaux will be participating in a panel on “Alternative Facts,” along with Christopher and Dominic Leong, the founders of architect and design studio Leong Leong, and conceptual entrepreneur Martine Syms. The panel will be moderated by the president of the Wright Museum of African American History, Juanita Moore.
• Friday, October 6 from 6:30-9pm—Mel Chin is also participating in a Culture Lab Detroit panel, alongside critic Hilton Als, and artist and writer Coco Fusco. The panel will be moderated by United States Artists president Deana Haggag and tackle the topic “The Lie that Tells the Truth.” Both panels are free to attend but require advance registration via Eventbrite.

Billings, MT

• Tuesday, October 3 at 6:30pm—Andrea Zittel will be giving a lecture at Rocky Mountain College. Entitled “How to Live,” the talk is free and open to the public.

Boulder, CO

• Boulder Creative Collective’s fall exhibition Art for Social Change features a new work by Mary Mattingly. Currently participating in The Boulder Office of Arts and Culture’s “Experiments in Public Art Program,” Mattingly is presenting her new project Everything At Once, and the exhibition will be on view through October 27.

Santa Fe

• SITE Santa Fe is hosting its grand reopening this weekend! On Saturday, the new space will open with the group exhibition Future Shock, featuring work by Andrea Zittel and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko. Future Shock will be on view through May 1, 2018.

San Francisco

• On Saturday, the For-Site Foundation is opening a new exhibition entitled Sanctuary. Featuring 36 wool prayer rugs handmade by master weavers in Lahore, Pakistan, each of the rug’s designs were commissioned from 36 artists from 22 countries, including Ai Weiwei, Diana Al-Hadid and Alfredo Jaar. On view through March 11, 2018 at Fort Mason Chapel.

Carmel, CA

• Saturday, October 7 at 7:30pm—This year’s Philip Glass Days and Nights Festival includes “An Evening with Laurie Anderson,” in which the artist will perform at the Golden Bough Theatre.

Los Angeles

• Monday, October 2 at 7:30 pm—Tonight Laurie Simmons is giving a talk at LACMA about her friend and artist Sarah Charlesworth, in conjunction with the exhibition Sarah Charlesworth: Doubleworld.

London

• Richard Saltoun Gallery recently opened Eleanor Antin’s first solo exhibition in London. Entitled Romans & Kings, the exhibition features highlights from Antin’s seminal series The King of Solana Beach and Helen’s Odyssey, and will be on view through October 26.
• Damián Ortega has a new solo exhibition open at White Cube entitled Play Time, on view through November 12.
• Sarah Sze’s Hammock (for A. Albers) (2017) will be on view in Regent’s Park October 2-8 as part of Frieze Sculpture 2017.
• On Tuesday, Catherine Opie’s debut show at Thomas Dane Gallery is opening. Entitled Portraits and Landscapes, the exhibition will be on view through November 18.
• This Thursday Lisson Gallery is opening the group exhibition Everything at Once. Featuring work by Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, and Allora & Calzadilla among others, the exhibition celebrates the gallery’s 50th birthday and will be on view through December 10.

Madrid

• Doris Salcedo’s latest work is opening on Saturday at the Palacio de Cristal. The new water-based installation piece, entitled Palimpsesto, is a memorial honoring drowned migrants. The Reina Sofía is also hosting a conversation between the artist and historian Estrella de Diego as part of the opening on Friday. Palimpsesto will be on view through April 1, 2018.

Düsseldorf

• Konrad Fischer Galerie is celebrating its 50th anniversary with the exhibition 50 Years of Konrad Fischer Galerie 1967 – 2017, which features work by artists Wolfgang Laib, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman, and Robert Ryman among others. On view through November 24.

Høvikodden, Norway

• On Friday, Henie Onstad is opening a new retrospective of Catherine Opie’s work entitled Keeping an Eye on the World; on view through January 7, 2018.

Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog in an augmented reality collaboration with Snapchat.

Last week Snapchat released an augmented reality collaboration with artist Jeff Koons, virtually “placing” his iconic sculptures in ten locations around the world. If you’re in one of those locations, you can see and capture the digital work using the Jeff Koons Lens in the Snapchat app. It wasn’t long before the virtual sculpture was virtually vandalized by graffiti artist Sebastien Errazuriz, who created a mockup of a graffitied Balloon Dog as a means of questioning the power corporations have over our shared digital spaces.

Also this week:

• The Ford Foundation awarded social change grants to 25 artists including Fred Wilson and Jason Moran.
• Marina Abramović designed a macaron for Kreëmart’s “Pastry Portrait” series.
• And today is the public opening of Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Enoura Observatory, an art complex with three outdoor stages in Odawara, Japan.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• A new group exhibition at the Guggenheim features work by Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Cao Fei among others. Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World is open through January 7, 2018.
• Tuesday, October 10 at 7pm—Daniel Gordon is giving an artist talk at the Aperture Foundation about his photography-based practice.
• Ai Weiwei’s Public Art Fund project Good Fences Make Good Neighbors opens Thursday at various locations throughout the city. All works will be on view through February 11, 2018.
• On Thursday, New York Close Up artist Eddie Martinez is opening a solo exhibition at The Drawing Center. Entitled Studio Wall, the show will feature thousands of sketches that will change throughout the exhibition’s run.
• This Saturday is the last day to see Marlborough Gallery’s exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’s prints.

Philadelphia

• Tuesday, October 10 from 6-8pm—LaToya Ruby Frazier is giving a talk at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art, as the school’s second annual Jack Wolgin Visiting Artist Lecture.

Washington D.C.

• Friday, October 13 at 6:30 pm—Theaster Gates is presenting the second installment in his Processions series at the Hirshhorn. Entitled Plantation Lullabies, the performance explores unexpected connections between sacred music, African and African American culture and history, theater, world dance and chant.
• Kara Walker’s print series Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War (Annotated) is opening this Friday at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, where it will be on view through March 11, 2018.
• Also on Friday, the group exhibition Magnetic Fields: Expanding American Abstraction, 1960s to Today is opening at the National Museum of Women in the Arts. The show features work by Abigail DeVille among others, and will be on view through January 21, 2018.

Tampa

• A survey exhibition of Tim Hawkinson’s work opened last week at the University of Tampa’s Scarfone/Hartley Gallery. Entitled Tim Hawkinson: BodyCon, the exhibition is on view through November 3.

Chicago

• Monday, October 9 from 6-7:30pm—The School of the Art Institute of Chicago is hosting a lecture by Do Ho Suh.

Cleveland

• The Museum of Contemporary Art just opened the group exhibition A Poet*hical Wager, which features work that uses abstraction, minimalism, and assemblage to explore complex ideas that can’t be addressed through representation. The exhibition includes work by Abraham Cruzvillegas and Rashid Johnson, and will be on view through January 28, 2018.

Conway, Arkansas

• Thursday, October 12 at 6:30pm—The Los Angeles episode of Season 8 of Art in the Twenty-First Century is screening at the University of Central Arkansas’s Baum Gallery. The screening is free and open to the public.

Dallas

• Kiki Smith’s new exhibition at Dallas Contemporary, Mortal, explores “life as a pilgrimage” and features works from the last decade of the artist’s career. [Read a review in D Magazine.]

Los Angeles

• Friday, October 13 and Saturday, October 14 at 8pm—Stan Douglas’s Helen Lawrence is being performed twice this weekend at the Center for the Art of Performance.

West Bretton, UK

• Alfredo Jaar’s The Garden of Good and Evil opens Saturday at Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The show features a major new commission as well as a selection of the artist’s older work. On view through April 8, 2018. [Read a preview in The Art Newspaper.]

Woodstock, UK

• The Blenheim Art Foundation recently opened SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace. Featuring newly commissioned site-specific installations, the exhibition is on view through the end of the year. [Read a review in VICE.]

Santander, Spain

• On Saturday Fundacion Botin is opening a new solo exhibition of Julie Mehretu’s work entitled A Universal History of Everything and Nothing. Featuring a selection of 30 paintings and 60 drawings, the show will be on view through January 21, 2018.

Basel

• This is the last week to see Richard Serra: Films and Videotapes at Kunstmuseum Basel. A presentation of 16 works made between 1968 and 1979, the exhibition closes this Sunday, October 15.

Lausanne, Switzerland

• Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts recently opened a new solo exhibition by Ai Weiwei. Entitled D’ailleurs c’est toujours les autres, the show is on view through January 28, 2018.

Johannesburg

• William Kentridge’s interdisciplinary incubator space The Centre for the Less Good Idea is hosting its Season 2 October 11-14. The result of collaborations between more than 40 multi-disciplinary artists, the Season is comprised of three core programs repeated over the four evenings.

Our recently released film on Jamian Juliano-Villani seems to have struck a chord. Students identify with Jamian’s anxiety about deadlines, and artists have shared their mutual feelings of self doubt. Above all, it’s the artist’s honesty that stands out–there is no final epiphany moment nor final project. Instead, Jamian tirelessly puts in the work, exemplifying a dedication that inspires us all.

Art21 films like Jamian’s are on view all month here in New York at the Ace Hotel, in a special Art21 exhibition entitled Documenting the Creative Process. We’re also participating in the 2017 Nitehawk Shorts Festival, with a screening event next month featuring New York Close Up artist Meriem Bennani. Please join us!

New Video Featuring Jamian Juliano-Villani

Jamian Juliano-Villani Gets to Work

Premiered October 6, as part of the Art21 digital series New York Close Up

Under near constant deadlines for the last four years, painter Jamian Juliano-Villani grapples with the demands of consistently producing new and better work. Her paintings have received widespread attention, including gallery and museum exhibitions, adding to the stresses of growing as an artist.

“The main pressure is maintaining integrity and making work that you feel good about,” says the artist, “even under pressure, which is really difficult.”

Watch the film.

Art21 Celebrates a Decade of Filming with Julie Mehretu

Last month’s film featuring Julie Mehretu’s SFMOMA-commissioned paintings marked a momentous milestone for our relationship with the artist. We first filmed with the artist nearly ten years ago for the fifth season of our Art in the Twenty-First Century series. Since the premiere of that episode, we have produced five additional films delving into different aspects of the artist’s work.

“Mehretu’s work is a staple of our film and education programming especially as it applies to conversations about contemporary painting,” said our executive director and chief curator Tina Kukielski. “She truly is a visionary artist.”

Watch all of Mehretu’s Art21 films.

Art21 Events: Nitehawk Shorts Festival & Ace Hotel Gallery

Join Art21 this fall for two events in New York City. Through November 1, our films are on view at the Gallery at Ace Hotel, as part of the special Art21 exhibition Documenting the Creative Process.

And on November 8, Art21 is participating in a special public program at the 2017 Nitehawk Shorts Festival. We’ll be screening the New York Close Up film “Meriem Bennani’s Exploded Visions” along with a selection of shorts curated by Bennani, followed by a Q&A with the artist.

Wednesday, November 8 at 7:30pm
Nitehawk Cinema, Williamsburg
Get tickets.

New Playlist by Marela Zacarías

Playing with Tension

New York Close Up artist Marela Zacarías has curated a new Art21 playlist featuring eight films in which artists find balance amongst the contrasting elements in their work.

“In art, like in poetry, there are moments of many opposite forces converging all in one place,” says the artist. “There are no easy answers to these moments of tension. It is in all the contradictions existing at once that artists find an activated space to create.”

Watch the playlist.

Highlights from the Art21 Magazine

Stephanie Syjuco. Installation view of CITIZENS, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and RYAN LEE Gallery, New York. © Stephanie Syjuco.

From the September / October “Invention” issue:

• The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chief digital officer Loic Tallon sits down with NEW INC director Julia Kaganskiy to discuss the future of museums’ digital presence and influence.
• In Stephanie Syjuco’s CITIZENS, textiles and cloth become signifiers of the battles over patriotism and identity.

Read the issue.

Film Festival Screenings at DOC NYC & Around the World

Art21 is proud to share that our first New York Close Up series film to feature artist Jordan Casteel has been accepted to this year’s DOC NYC film festival. The film will be screening as part of the “Shorts: City Lights” event, on Tuesday November 14 at Cinepolis Chelsea.

Art21 films were also accepted to five other festivals so far this year, including the NYC Independent Film Festival, Krafta Doc international in Scotland, and the Sunderland Short Film Festival in England.

Featured Video from the Art21 Library

Abigail DeVille’s Harlem Stories

From the Art21 digital series New York Close Up

Artist Abigail DeVille stalks the streets of Harlem with a trash-laden push cart, creating temporary sculptural interventions along the way. Over Super 8mm film footage of contemporary Harlem, DeVille describes a landscape under the constant pressure of development and gentrification.

“It feels like the earth is shifting,” says the artist. “New groups of people are moving in and old groups of people are being pushed out. So it’s almost like migratory patterns of birds.”

Watch the film.

Join Art21 on a Day Trip

Take a day trip with Art21 on Saturday, November 4 to visit two incomparable artistic sites north of the city: the private collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin and Buckhorn Sculpture Park; and the Glass House.

Saturday, November 4
8:00am – 5:30pm

Tickets $195 per person*; admission is free for Art21 members and Contemporary Council. Registration includes transportation to and from New York City and between sites, admission fee, and a box lunch.

*Join as a member today and use your ticket purchase towards your annual membership at any level! Art21 members enjoy inimitable access to some of today’s greatest artists through special events, studio visits, collection tours, and more, all while supporting the production of Art21’s award-winning films.

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© J. Paul Getty Trust Text © Isabel Quintero Illustrations © Zeke Peña Photographs © Graciela Iturbide. Courtesy of Getty Publications

Tomorrow the Getty is releasing a graphic novel on the life of Graciela Iturbide entitled Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide. A mix of an art book, biography and graphic novel, the new book features the artist’s photographs alongside illustrated versions. “The book is very experimental because we’re trying to be art historical and factual and contextual,” the book’s illustrator Zeke Peña told Remezcla, “but we’re also trying to speak in her language, speak about the experience of her work and her unique process.”

Also this week:

• Collier Schorr scrawled and underlined the word “NO” over a 1966 film still for an Instagram post that called out the systemic abuse by those in power in creative industries. Posted in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, the artist and fashion photographer wrote, “This fantasy is OVER.”
• On Tuesday Ai Weiwei was prevented from boarding a flight from New York to São Paulo after airline staff claimed his Brazilian visa had expired. Ai was allowed to travel the following day after the Brazilian consulate confirmed his visa was valid, but not before the entire ordeal was documented on the artist’s Instagram.
• Tomorrow Glenn Ligon will be presented with the Archives of American Art Medal by fellow artist Byron Kim at the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Annual Benefit.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• A new exhibition of Liz Magor’s work is opening Friday at Andrew Kreps Gallery. Entitled Previously…, the show will be up through December 22.
• This is the last week to see William Wegman’s Dressed and Undressed at Sperone Westwater. The exhibition closes this Saturday, October 28. [Read a review in the Brooklyn Rail.]
• Saturday is also the last day to see RYB: Mary Heilmann Paintings, 1975—78 at Craig F. Starr Gallery.
• Thomas Hirschhorn’s new solo exhibition DE-PIXELATION opens Saturday at Gladstone Gallery where it’ll be on view through December 22.
• Gagosian’s LA Invitational features Los Angeles-based artists, among them Mike Kelley and Jeff Wall. The exhibition opens Thursday and will be on view through December 16.

Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

• Monday, October 23 and Tuesday, October 24 at 5pm—Maya Lin is speaking at Bard College twice this week as part of the school’s Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities. Tonight’s lecture is entitled “An Evening with Maya Lin: at the Intersection of Art and Architecture,” her talk on Tuesday will be “Topologies: Process & Projects.”

Washington D.C.

• Thursday, October 26 at 6:30pm—The artistic director of Creative Time, Nato Thompson, is leading a panel conversation with artists Laurie Jo Reynolds, Pedro Reyes and Paul Ramírez Jonas at the Hirshhorn. Presented in conjunction with the museum’s exhibition Ai Weiwei: Trace at Hirshhorn, the talk is titled “In Conversation: Awareness, Action and Dissent (Part I).”

Gainesville, FL

• Tuesday, October 24 from 6-8pm—LaToya Ruby Frazier giving a visiting artist lecture at the University of Florida’s College of the Arts.

Chicago

• A new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art pairs the work of artists Alexander Calder and Jeff Koons. Entitled Heaven and Earth, the exhibition will be on view through 2019.
• Wednesday, October 25 at 6pm—Abraham Cruzvillegas is giving a talk at Northwestern’s Block Museum of Art in conjunction with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. The artist will be speaking about a new series of work, The Water Trilogy, which focuses on water in urban contexts, specifically dealing with the issues of pollution and water shortage.

San Francisco

• This is the last week to see Shahzia Sikander’s solo exhibition at the Asian Art Museum, A Journey to the Great Unknown, which closes this Sunday.

Los Angeles

• On Thursday a new exhibition by John Baldessari is opening at Sprüth Magers, where it will be on view through December 9.

Ottawa, Ontario

• The 2017 Canadian Biennial opened last week at the National Gallery of Canada and includes work by nine Art21 roster artists: Mark Bradford, Nick Cave, Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, Maya Lin, Julie Mehretu, Mika Rottenberg, Collier Schorr, and Kiki Smith. Comprised of new acquisitions, the biennial exhibition will be on view through  March 18, 2018.

London

• On Thursday the Imperial War Museum is opening Age of Terror: Art since 9/11—the UK’s first major exhibition of artists’ responses to war and conflict since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The exhibition features work by more than 40 artists, including Ai Weiwei, Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaar, Omer Fast, Julie Mehretu, and Trevor Paglen.

Madrid

• Cai Guo-Qiang’s solo exhibition at the Prado, The Spirit of Painting, opens Wednesday. Featuring the artist’s signature burnt gunpowder pieces, the works were created in dialogue with masterworks by Velázquez, Goya and El Greco in the museum’s collection, during the artist’s residency in the Hall of Realms.

Seoul

• This is the last week to see Paul McCarthy’s exhibition of new work, Cut Up and Silicone, Female Idol, WS, at Kukje Gallery. The show closes Sunday, October 29.

Beijing

• A solo new exhibition staged as part of an ongoing series at Faurschou Foundation entitled Virtual Reality Art will feature the work of Paul McCarthy starting Sunday, October 29 through November 24.

Parkes, Australia

• The National Gallery of Australia’s new exhibition Hyper Real features uncanny figures both physical and digital. The show includes work by Cao Fei and Paul McCarthy among others, and is on view through February 18, 2018. [Read a review in the Guardian.]

Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran, in rehearsal for their November 16 Performa commission. Photo: Damien Young. Courtesy of Performa.

On Wednesday the biennial performance art festival Performa is starting here in New York, and will bring a series of installations, performances, and events to the city through November 19. Participating Art21 roster artists include William Kentridge, Barbara Kruger, and a collaborative performance by Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran.

Also this week:

• Trenton Doyle Hancock is designing a series of masks just in time for Halloween tomorrow. “I’m always thinking of layers,” says the artist about the series, “and who gets access to see behind them.”
• And a painting by Jordan Casteel (featured in our first film on the artist) is on the cover of the latest edition of Frieze Magazine.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• This is the last week to see David Brooks’ installation on Governor’s Island. Entitled Rock, Mosquito and Hummingbird, the installation—comprised of rock core extractions and bronze markers around the Island—closes tomorrow.
• Barbara Kruger’s Performa installation opens on Thursday at Coleman Skatepark, where it will remain on view through November 19. Entitled Untitled (Skate), the project is just one of Kruger’s many contributions to this year’s Performa, which also includes the artist’s first live performances, a billboard installation, and a wrapped school bus.
• A solo exhibition by Florian Maier-Aichen is opening Thursday at 303 Gallery, where it will remain on view through December 22.
• Also opening Thursday is a new exhibition of work by Elizabeth Murray entitled Painting in the ’80s, comprised of sixteen paintings created by the artist in the 1980s. The works will be on view at Pace Gallery through January 13, 2018.
• Also opening on Thursday at Pace is an exhibition pairing the work of Agnes Martin and Richard Tuttle. Entitled Crossing Lines, the show will be on view through January 13, 2018.
• The collaborative project documented in our latest New York Close Up film on Caroline Woolard is going on view this Saturday at Lesley Heller Workspace. Carried on Both Sides will be on view through December 16.
• A solo exhibition by Richard Serra is also opening Saturday at David Zwiner. Comprised of two major new works in forged weatherproof steel, the exhibition will also feature recent drawings by the artist. On view through December 18.
• Sunday, November 5 & Monday, November 6 at 7pm—William Kentridge’s second Performa commission, Ursonate, based on Kurt Schwitters’s seminal 1932 sound poem, is being staged at Harlem Parish.

Carlisle, PA

• Wednesday, November 1 from 5-6:30pm—Dickinson College is hosting a screening of short animated films by William Kentridge at the school’s Weiss Center for the Arts.

Richmond, VA

• Saturday, November 4 from 10:15-11am—Shahzia Sikander will be speaking at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts’ Cheek Theater as part of the 7th Biennial Hamad bin Khalifa Symposium on Islamic Art.

Houston

• Wednesday, November 1 from 6:30-8pm—Trenton Doyle Hancock will be giving an artist talk at Art League Houston in conjunction with his 2017 Texas Artist of the Year exhibition, Texas: 1997-2017.

Fayetteville, AR

• Friday, November 3 from 7-8pm—Lynda Benglis is giving a lecture at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art as part of the 2017 Distinguished Speaker Series.

Los Angeles

• Tuesday, October 31, from 6-8pm—Pepón Osorio is giving a lecture on his art practice​ at USC Roski School of Art & Design.
• On Saturday Hauser & Wirth is opening an exhibition of new work by Ellen Gallagher entitled Accidental Records, which will be on view through January 28, 2018.
• A solo exhibition by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is also opening on Saturday at Christopher Grimes Gallery. Entitled The Garden of Delights, the show will be on view through December 29.
• On Thursday, Gagosian’s Beverly Hills gallery is opening an exhibition of new watercolor paintings by Walton Ford. His first show with the gallery, Calafia will be open through December 16.

Rotterdam, Netherlands

• A new site-specific installation by Abraham Cruzvillegas, commissioned as the twelfth edition of Museum Boijmans van Beuningen’s Sensory Spaces series, is now on view through January 14, 2018.

Athens

• Sally Mann’s first exhibition in Athens is opening Thursday at Gagosian. Remembered Light: Cy Twombly in Lexington will be on view through January 20, 2018.

Jenny Holzer. Truisms, 1982. Installation view, Times Square, New York. Photo: Public Art Fund.

Laurie Anderson, Cindy Sherman, Abigail DeVille, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Tania Bruguera, and thousands of other artists, writers, curators and directors have signed an open letter condemning Artforum publisher Knight Landesman, who resigned last month after a lawsuit accused him of sexual harassment. The campaign, titled Not Surprised, pledges to fight against sexism and sexual harassment in the art world, and takes its name from a 1982 Jenny Holzer Truism, “Abuse of power comes as no surprise.”

Also this week:

• Barbara Kruger’s work is filling New York City. The artist has designed limited edition MetroCards that were released last Wednesday, and Kruger-designed merchandise is being sold in SoHo in conjunction with the artist’s Performa installation.
• Mel Chin is collaborating with fashion designer Tracy Reese on a new fashion brand aimed at transforming empty water bottles in Flint, Michigan into clothing. The “Flint Fit” collection will premiere at the Queens Museum with a fashion show and exhibition next April.
• Finally in awards this week, Mark Bradford won Wall Street Journal Magazine’s 2017 Innovator Award, Laurie Anderson was awarded France’s insignia of Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Catherine Opie won Queer/Art/Prize’s Sustained Achievement award, and Tala Madani was honored at MOCA’s Distinguished Women in the Arts luncheon in Los Angeles. Madani is also being honored alongside Jenny Holzer, Katharina Grosse, Mary Heilmann, Susan Rothenberg, Kiki Smith, and Sarah Sze at tonight’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden gala.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• A permanent exhibition at the Whitney Museum, An Incomplete History of Protest, looks at how artists have confronted the political and social issues of their day. The exhibition features the work of Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon, and Julie Mehretu among others.

Nyack, NY

• Beginning Friday, November 10, Carrie Mae Weems will be presenting her series of photographs, Beacon, at the Edward Hopper House. The show is being held as part of the artist winning the Edward Hopper Citation of Merit for Visual Artists, and will be on view through February 25, 2018.

Baltimore

• Saturday, November 11 from noon–3:30pm—Mark Bradford will be speaking at the Baltimore Museum of Art with the museum’s director Christopher Bedford in a discussion entitled “Making a Path.”

Philadelphia

• This is the last week to see the exhibition Andrea Baldeck and Ursula von Rydingsvard: Visionary Women at Moore College of Art & Design. The show closes Saturday.

Washington D.C.

• On Wednesday Mark Bradford is debuting one of his largest works to date at the Hirshhorn Museum. Entitled Pickett’s Charge, the monumental new commission spans nearly 400 feet and will be on view through November 12, 2018.

Sarasota, FL

• Tuesday, November 7 from 6:30-8pm—Our 2014 New York Close Up film on Mary Mattingly is screening at Ringling College of Art & Design as part of the event “Access + Mobility.”

Nashville

• On Friday the Frist Center for the Visual Arts is opening a solo exhibition by Nick Cave. Entitled Nick Cave: Feat., the show will be on view through June 24, 2018.

San Francisco

• Friday, November 10 at 8pm & Saturday November 11 at 2pm & 8pm—William Kentridge’s chamber opera Refuse the Hour will be premiering on the West Coast this weekend at American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.).

Montreal

• Jenny Holzer’s series of large-scale light projections, For Leonard Cohen, are coming to Montreal November 7–11 as part of Musée d’art contemporain’s exhibition Leonard Cohen – Une brèche en toute chose / A Crack in Everything.

Paris

• Last week a new solo exhibition by Hiroshi Sugimoto opened at Marian Goodman Gallery Paris. Entitled Surface Tension, the show is on view through December 22.

Moscow

• This is the last week to see Cai Guo-Qiang’s first exhibition in Russia. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts commissioned a new series of works by the artist for the October Revolution’s centenary, and October closes this Sunday, November 12.

Istanbul

• Sunday is also the last day to see the Istanbul Biennial, which includes work by Fred Wilson, Alejandro Almanza Pereda, Louise Bourgeois, and Mark Dion.

© AP Photo/Tony Dejak.

Materials from the gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot in 2014 by Cleveland police are now on view at Theaster Gates’ Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago. The gazebo’s wood and brackets are stacked alongside memorial objects and ephemera left by the community ahead of the site’s dismantling in 2016. Gates told The Art Newspaper, “This seemingly insignificant piece of architecture allows us to deeply examine the racial, political and economic crises of this country.”

Tamir’s mother, Samaria Rice, prevented the City of Cleveland from demolishing the gazebo, intending to preserve it as a place for care and engagement. Now, the Arts Bank has organized a series of conversations with archivists, historians, scholars, and artists to contextualize the materials through the winter of 2018. There are plans to reinstall the gazebo outdoors on the Stony Island Arts Bank lawn next year.

Also this week:

• Andrea Zittel celebrated the fifteen-year anniversary of her nonprofit High Desert Test Sites—the subject of a 2015 Art21 Extended Play film.
• Hiroshi Sugimoto designed a lobby garden for the Japan Society in New York.
• And Mel Chin announced his first augmented-reality project, Unmoored, coming to Times Square next year.

Events & exhibitions

New York City

• On Wednesday a new solo exhibition by Arturo Herrera is opening at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. Entitled Paintings, the show is the artist’s first comprised entirely of works on canvas, and will be on view through January 20.
• Thursday, November 30 at 7pm—Catherine Opie will be giving the annual Walter Annenberg Lecture at the Whitney, where she’ll speak about her practice and the power of photography.
• Saturday, December 2 and Sunday, December 3—The New Museum is celebrating its 40th anniversary this weekend with a series of artists in dialogue. Entitled “Who’s Afraid of the New Now?,” the two-day event will feature artists Lynda Benglis, Mary Heilmann, Joan Jonas, Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy, Raymond Pettibon, and Doris Salcedo among others.

Chicago

• Friday, December 1 at noon—Cai Guo-Qiang will be giving a lecture at the University of Chicago, followed by the performance of a new gunpowder work as part of the school’s event series “Reactions: New Perspectives on our Nuclear Legacy,” marking the 75th anniversary of the first nuclear reaction.

Miami

• On Friday a new Miami museum is celebrating its grand opening with the exhibition The Everywhere Studio, featuring work by Andrea Zittel. The inaugural exhibition will be open at the new Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami through February 26, 2018.

San Francisco

• A video installation of Edgar Arceneaux’s Until, Until, Until… is opening Friday at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts alongside his work Library of Black Lies—both featured in the artist’s Season 8 segment. On view through March 25, 2018, Until, Until, Until… will be performed live in the gallery space February 22–24.

Los Angeles

• Wednesday, November 29 at 7pm—Chronicle Books is hosting a pop-up exhibition and book signing with William Wegman at Marc Selwyn Fine Art to promote the artist’s newly released book, Being Human.
• November 30 – December 3—Tesseract, a performative collaboration with choreography by Rashaun Mitchell and Silas Riener, mixed and projected live by Charles Atlas, is coming to REDCAT this weekend as part of the Sharon Disney Lund Dance Series.

Mexico City

• kurimanzutto’s latest exhibition Never Free to Rest presents works that use abstraction to question the history of Black representation and systems of control. On view through December 16, the show features work by Mark Bradford, Julie Mehretu, and Kara Walker among others.

Buenos Aires

• A new solo exhibition by Ai Weiwei opened last week at Fundación Proa. Dedicated to the artist’s public work and interventionist pieces, Inoculation is on view through April 3, 2018.

London

• Wednesday, November 29 at 7pm—Katharina Grosse will discuss her practice and her current solo exhibition at South London Gallery with artist Bharti Kher as part of the event series, open—talks.

Paris

• Friday, December 1 at 2pm—Theaster Gates will be performing with his experimental musical ensemble, The Black Monks of Mississippi, in spiritual transmissions from gospel to Blues at Centre Pompidou.

Amsterdam

• The Amsterdam Light Festival kicks off this Thursday, and features a special installation by Ai Weiwei. The artist’s thinline will run like a red thread of light along the entire route of the festival’s water exhibition, which will continue through January 21, 2018.