“A lot of my work is all about the beauty of recording.” - Steve McQueen

Shot on Super 8mm in the 1990s, ‘Exodus’ was filmed at London’s Brick Lane market and follows two men, each carrying a budding palm tree, who weave their way through crowds onto the number 243 bus to Wood Green. McQueen filmed the footage quickly and spontaneously, before leaving it and returning to it three years later. It bears witness to the artist’s decision, at the age of 22, to record the world he was moving through - an approach that was neither strictly reportage nor cinéma vérité.

The work is currently on show at Tate Britain, as part of ‘Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s - Now.’

Exhibition dates: 1 December 2021 - 3 April 2022

Susan Rothenberg

Exhibition dates: 4 February - 9 April 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery

3 Duke Street, St. James's

London, SW1

Glenn Ligon
‘An Open Letter’

Exhibition dates: 4 February - 2 April 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery
11 Duke Street, St. James's
London, SW1

Opening tomorrow: British Art Show 9 features work by Hurvin Anderson, and will go on show in Wolverhampton from 22 January.

The British Art Show is a touring exhibition that celebrates the vitality of recent art made in Britain. Organised every five years by Hayward Gallery Touring, the exhibition brings the work of artists defining new directions in contemporary art to four cities across the UK.

Changing Hands: Objects on the Move is a symposium curated by Akram Zaatari at Centre Pompidou, Paris.

The one day event examines how objects change function, value and status over time, the nature of the museum, and the idea of perpetuity. Participants include Bénédicte Savoy, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Amie Siegel, Rayyane Tabet, Patricia Falguières and Avi Mograbi.

The event features Amie Siegel’s Provenance, (2013), a three part installation focusing on an emblem of mid-century design – the chairs, desks, and furniture designed by Swiss architects Le Corbusier and his cousin Pierre Jeanneret for the controversial modernist, post-colonial city of Chandigarh, India.

After an introduction by Zaatari, Siegel will screen and discuss the elements of her work Provenance.

8 December 2021
10am - 8pm CET

Cinema 1
Centre Pompidou
Place Georges-Pompidou
75004 Paris

Alexandre da Cunha will be in conversation with Head of Art on the Underground Eleanor Pinfield and Director of Gasworks, Alessio Antoniolli

Da Cunha will speak about his recent commission for Art on the Underground, which opened at Battersea Power Station in September this year.

Stretching 100m and 60m in length, the artwork incorporates two friezes that face each other along the length of the ticket hall. Made using an outdated advertising mechanism – the rotating billboard – Alexandre da Cunha has created a moving sculpture. The artwork was inspired by the former control room at Battersea Power Station and its system of vertical bars that regulated the production and output of electricity into the city. Bringing these resonances together with the daily flow of dawn to dusk, ‘Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset’ refers to cycles, routine, the everyday and eternity.

7 December 2021, 7-8pm

Gasworks
155 Vauxhall Street
London
SE11 5RH

A work by Xie Nanxing will be placed in Christie's Hong Kong 20th/21st Century Art Evening Sale: Worlds in A Hand tomorrow, 1 December, as part of ‘Artists for ClientEarth’, a collaborative initiative designed to propel the art world in the fight against climate change.

Gallery Climate Coalition has joined forces with member and patron Christie’s to raise money, awareness and support for the essential environmental work of ClientEarth.

Xie Nanxing’s work, ‘f o r a d a c a s a #3’, 2020, is the third to be offered in this series, raising funds directly in support of ClientEarth.

Caragh Thuring’s ‘Great Things Lie Ahead’, 2020, is a new public artwork at Holborn House in Bloomsbury.

The work is embedded throughout Holborn House and takes inspiration from the building’s 100 year history, from stories of local communities, and from Holborn’s distant past as a forest.

It was commissioned by Holborn Community Association as part of the building’s renovation by 6a architects and is now open to the public.

To read more, please see the link in the bio.

35 Emerald Street, London WC1N 3QW

 'Unmoored from her reflection' is installed at the top of The Courtauld’s historic staircase, which leads to the Great Room, where masterpieces from the Gallery's collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings are displayed. The ambitious work was commissioned as part of The Courtauld's most significant modernisation project in its history, and references works in the Gallery's world-renowned collection.

Caragh Thuring will be part of a panel discussion at the Hayward Gallery tomorrow.

Alongside Director Ralph Rugoff and artists Allison Katz and Vivien Zhang, the panelists will discuss how painters treat the canvas as a landing pad, where references from different territories and time periods come together to create ambiguous, composite images.

Thuring’s work is currently on show as part of the Hayward Gallery’s exhibition ‘Mixing It Up: Painting Today.’

Mixing It Up: Slippery Images Panel Discussion
Thursday 11 November at 7pm
Royal Festival Hall
£7