Wednesday 22 June, 7pm

Amie Siegel will be in conversation with Adrian Searle, art critic at The Guardian, discussing Bloodlines (2022), currently on display at Thomas Dane Gallery, London, and at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh.

Siegel has long been interested in the lives of artworks and objects—how they gain cultural meaning and value. Bloodlines follows the movement of paintings by the English artist George Stubbs (1724-1806), from their aristocratic homes to their exhibition in a public art gallery, and subsequent return, thus rendering visible complex networks of art, pedigree and cultural identification. Filmed in numerous private country estates and public institutions across the UK, Bloodlines offers an intimate look into the world of cultural property, the ownership of heritage and distinctions between private and public realms. One of Siegel’s most ambitious works to date, Bloodlines exemplifies the artist’s understated mastery of form, revealing systems of class and inherited wealth, while subtly suggesting colonialism’s role in establishing and perpetuating these structures.

Institute of Contemporary Arts
The Mall
London SW1Y 5AH

Tomorrow, Tuesday, 14 June, Amie Siegel will be in conversation with Lucy Askew, Chief Curator, Scottish National Museum Gallery of Modern Art, about Siegel’s new film installation, ‘Bloodlines’ (2022).

‘Bloodlines’ recently joined Scotland’s national collection and is currently on display as part of the exhibition, ‘New Arrivals’, at the Scottish National Museum Gallery of Modern Art (Modern One) Until September 4.

To meet demand, SNGMA are also offering an online live stream of the event and ask that visitors attend the event with pre-booked tickets only.

Tuesday 14 June, 6-7pm

Scottish National Gallery 

Hawthornden Lecture Theatre

The Mound

Edinburgh EH2 2EL

Tomorrow, Friday 10 June, Britain’s “reggae maestro” Dennis Bovell will play a DJ set as part of the public programme for Steve McQueen’s current exhibition at Hangar Bicocca, Sunshine State.

The public programme continues on Sunday 12 June with the first Italian screening of Small Axe, McQueen’s award-winning anthology of films inspired by London’s West Indian communities of the 1960s to 1980s.

Friday 10 June 2022, 9pm

Dennis Bovell DJ set

Pirelli HangarBicocca

Via Chiese 2

20126 Milan

Sunday 12, and 18, 19, 25, 26 June

Small Axe (2020)

With an introduction by Steve McQueen and international guests on Sunday 12 June

Fondazione Prada

Largo Isarco, 2

20139 Milan

Sunshine State is curated by Vicente Todolí, and is on view at Pirelli HangarBicocca until 31 July 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery is joining the Gallery Climate Coalition in taking Climate Action by pledging our support for the Sustainable Shipping Campaign: a collective action to accelerate the art sector’s transition to environmentally responsible freight operations. 

After two years of research and data collection in collaboration with representatives of all components from the sector and environmental advisors, the Campaign has been launched this week with four Sector-wide Targets that aim to accelerate the art sector’s transition to environmentally responsible freight operations.

Thomas Dane Gallery closes for the Jubilee bank holiday weekend today at 6pm.

11 Duke Street will open again on Monday 6 June at 6pm for the private view of Catherine Opie, ‘To What We Think We Remember’.

3 Duke Street St James’s reopens on Tuesday 7 June at 11am and is showing Amie Siegel’s ‘Bloodlines’ (2022).

On 11 June, Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples will reopen with Jimmy Robert, ‘Frammenti’.

The closing date for Cecily Brown, ‘The Triumph of Death’ at Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte has been extended until 30 September 2022.

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte
Via Miano 2
Naples
 

On 22 June Steve McQueen will be in conversation with social theorist Paul Gilroy, writer Gary Younge and Tate Director Maria Balshaw, discussing McQueen’s recent publication, Year 3. 

The book documents McQueen’s ambitious project of the same name, which used the medium of the traditional school class photograph to capture tens of thousands of London school children from a single academic year, displayed at Tate Britain and on billboards around London, as a way of exploring a range of ideas around citizenship and representation.

The talk is part of The Guardian Live series. 

22 June 2022, 8-9pm 

Online 

Amie Siegel's Genealogies (2016) is being screened online until 12 May 2022 as part of the artist's contribution to Pompeii Commitment. Archaeological Matters, a contemporary arts programme commissioned by Pompeii Archaeological Park.

Genealogies weaves an associative tissue of links and references by combining novels, films, images, advertising and soundtrack from multiple sources into a baroque invocation of image and artwork provenance, remake and copy. The video traces the sculptural, gendered iconography of architecture and the female body, querying how these are visualised in cinema and harnessed by advertising and music videos.

Extending from Wilhem Jensen's novella Gradiva to Freud, de Chirico, Rossellini, Curzio Malaparte, Resnais, Robbe-Grillet, Godard, Pink Floyd, the Beastie Boys, and images by brands Hugo Boss and Persol, the work maps a broadly layered trajectory of ideas shared and reprised, speculating on homage, influence and originality, ultimately drawing together a genealogical lineage of adaptation, appropriation and recurrence.

Following the two week long online screening, a collection of visual and textual excerpts will populate the Pompeii Commitment portal, including sketches, notes and materials related to the making of Genealogies, images from Siegel's related series of works on paper, Body Scripts (2015), and exhibition images of the corresponding multi-channel video installation The Noon Complex (2016).

Private view: 11 June 5-8pm

Exhibition dates: 14 June - 5 August

Thomas Dane Gallery

Via Francesco Crispi, 69, Napoli

Catherine Opie, To What We Think We Remember

Private view: 6 June, 6-8pm

Exhibition dates: 7 June - 27 August 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery

11 Duke Street, St James's

London, SW1