Abraham Cruzvillegas: 'Auga dulce', The Bass Museum of Art

Extending from Collins Avenue along the central promenade of the park leading up to the museum entrance, Agua dulce, a large-scale sculptural installation, encompasses nearly 14,000 square feet. Commissioned by the museum, the project will bring the artist’s philosophy of autoconstrucción. Utilizing numerous species of flora, fauna and mineral; performers mimicking native birds; and seating that the artist constructed with locally sourced materials, Agua dulce will form a plant environment in front of the museum, free for the public to enjoy. Through collaborative research with local experts on native flora, Cruzvillegas selected around 23 different species to create the installation of more than 1,000 plants. Many of the included species, like the Salix Caroliniana (Coastal Plain Willow), have medicinal properties and are regularly used by the Seminoles, introducing notions of care and restoration to the installation.

Exhibition dates: 29 November 2020 - 18 April 2021

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Abraham Cruzvillegas: Agua Dulce, Online Lecture, Städelschule

Attempting to describe a personal methodology for making art, the talk will gravitate around a new project to be presented soon at The Bass Museum in Miami, sharing also references of previous projects presented in diverse institutions and galleries in the recent years. All boundaries and limitations, old and new, related to environmental, political, social and cultural elements, used as material, language and discourse, will be discussed as well. This may include approaching local resources vs global strategies, the flow and the speed of digital platforms vs nature slow growth, accessibility, broken paradigms, migration and pollination, alchemic transmutation and some other simultaneous failures.

The lecture will be held over Zoom, viewers can register in advance here. 

Tuesday, 17 November, 7pm (CET; 6pm GMT)

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Cecily Brown: Monograph, Phaidon

Phaidon publish the first major monograph on Cecily Brown which includes 200 illustrations and features an interview with Brown led by Courtney J. Martin, Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, and essays on her work by Jason Rosenfeld, Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount College in New York, and New York-based novelist Francine Prose. The title is part of Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists series—which offers comprehensive surveys of individual artists’ work and a range of art writing contributed by an international spectrum of authors, all leading figures in their fields. 

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In accordance with current government regulations, Thomas Dane Gallery in London will be temporarily closed to visitors from Thursday 5 November until further notice. 

Our current exhibition, Dana Schutz: Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly, is viewable online here.
The exhibition will reopen to visitors in December. 

For any queries, please contact: info@thomasdanegallery.com

Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples: Temporary Closure

In accordance with current government regulations, Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples will be temporarily closed from Wednesday 4 November. The gallery will be open by appointment only, to schedule a visit please contact the gallery via phone: +39 081 1892 0545, or email: naples@thomasdanegallery.com.

Our current exhibition, Alexandre da Cunha: Arena, is viewable online here. 

Catherine Opie: Artists-in-Dialogue, Moody Center for the Arts at Rice University

Catherine Opie will be joined by Marcellina Melvin, Senior Director of Healthy Equity Strategy, Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute; and Andy Keller, PhD, President and CEO, Linda Perryman Evans Presidential Chair of Meadows Mental Health Policy Institute. The conversation will explore the impact of the current political climate on mental health and will be led by the Moody's Executive Director Alison Weaver.

The talk will be held over Zoom, viewers can register in advance here. 

Friday, 23 October, 6-7pm (GMT; 12am-1am BST)

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Thomas Dane Gallery: Temporary Closure 3 & 11 Duke Street St. James's

Thomas Dane Gallery regretfully informs visitors that, due to essential repair work on site, both gallery spaces at 3 & 11 Duke Street St. James's will be closed from 20-21 October 2020. 

The galleries will reopen to visitors from 22 October and resume usual opening hours.

For any queries, please contact: info@thomasdanegallery.com 

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Barbara Kasten: Scenarios, Aspen Art Museum

Scenarios celebrates Kasten’s expansive body of sculptural non-photographic work, through which the artist extends her exploration of spatial constructions into the viewers’ space and experience. 

Among the works in the Aspen Art Museum (AAM) exhibition will be examples from Kasten’s recent series Progressions (2017 onward), in which the artist affixes fluorescent acrylic shapes to the surfaces of her face-mounted photographs, creating a colorful and dynamic interplay between the sculptural relief elements and the acrylic forms depicted in her photographs. The site-specific work Elevation, installed outside of the galleries, interacts with AAM architect Shigeru Ban’s exterior grid of the woven slats that wrap around the museum.  Scenarios will also mark the first museum exhibition in the United States to include three of the artist’s ambitious video installations, making it the most comprehensive presentation of Kasten’s non-photographic work to date.

Exhibition dates: 16 October 2020 - 4 April 2021

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Catherine Opie: Artist Talk, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

Catherine Opie will be in conversation, discussing her work including Yosemite, seen in the exhibiton Ansel Adams in Our Time. 

The conversation will be presented over Zoom. Viewers can register in advance here. 

Thursday, 15 October, 7-8pm (ET).

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Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples: ITALICS Art and Landscape

ITALICS Art and Landscape is an all-digital editorial platform that spotlights the profound cultural experiences cultivated on the Italian territory by its most celebrated gallerists, exploring the extraordinary art heritage of the country. Through insightful storytelling and eye-catching photography, readers will be offered a sense of discovery and unrivalled access to explore Italy.   

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