Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 

Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence is the most comprehensive retrospective in 20 years of the work of Lari Pittman. This exhibition will include approximately 80 paintings and 50 works on paper drawn from the Hammer’s own holdings as well as from public and private collections throughout the world.

Lari Pittman will be joined in conversation with the Hammer’s chief curator, Connie Butler on the opening day. ⁣

Sunday, 29 September, 2pm

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Catherine Opie will also present an informal artist walk-through of the exhibition to discuss specific works.

Thursday, 5 December, 6pm

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Hammer Museum

10899 Wilshire Blvd. 

Los Angeles, CA 

90024

29 September 2019 - 5 January 2020 

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Marisa Merz: Geometrie sconnesse palpiti geometrici, MASI, Lugano, Switzerland 

Museo d’arte della Svizzera italiana, Lugano
LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura
Piazza Bernardino Luini 6

22 September 2019 - 12 January 2020 

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John Gerrard: Okayama Art Summit

Okayama Art Summit

Marunouchi, Kita-ku

Okayama City

Okayama 700-0823 Japan

27 September - 24 November 2019

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Michael Landy: Artist Talk, Chatsworth Arts Festival 

Landy will discuss the central role of drawing in his practice. As a draughtsman, Landy works in exceptional detail and often in large series, at times making preparatory drawings as a means to generate ideas. Landy’s meticulous renderings of detail have formulated series such as Nourishment (2002), a series of botanical drawings of weeds and H2NY - a tribute to Jean Tinguely’s failed self-destructing machine Homage to New York (1960). Drawing has been foundational to Landy’s large-scale series such as Breaking News (2015) and Michael Landy: Saints Alive at The National Gallery (2013), while more intimate series saw him produce 80 detailed portraits of his friends and family.⁣

Saturday 21 September 

2:30-3:30pm

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Glenn Ligon: The Seventh Continent, 16th Istanbul Biennial 

Glenn Ligon's contributions to the Biennial pay tribute to US author and activist James Baldwin’s life in Istanbul. One of the works Ligon presents is Sedat Pakay’s 1973 filmic portrait of Baldwin, From Another Place, which the artist has subtitled in Turkish for the first time. In two related videos, the artist pairs crowd scenes shot in Taksim Square with music from contemporary experimental musicians. Accompanying these videos are two date neons and the newest in a series of sculptures that display the word ‘America’. Ligon has installed these using mahyas, strings of lamps or lights strung between minarets on mosques during Ramadan, that spell out messages to the faithful. The work will change in appearance every two weeks during the exhibition. 

Image: still from James Baldwin 'From Another Place'. Courtesy of © Hudson Film Works II and sedatpakay.com.

Istanbul Foundation for Arts and Culture 

Nejat Eczacıbaşı Building

Sadi Konuralp Caddesi, No: 5 
Şişhane 34433 Istanbul

14 September - 10 November 2019 

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Bruce Conner: 5th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art

Ural Optical-Mechanical Plant

33B Vostochnaya St.

Ekaterinburg

12 September - 1 December 2019

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Alexandre da Cunha: 'Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset', Art on the Underground 

Art on the Underground have commissioned Alexandre da Cunha to create a permanent artwork for the Northern Line Extension. Due to open in autumn 2021, the work will be installed at the new Underground station at Battersea Power Station. ‘Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset’ is a monumental kinetic sculpture reflecting on daily cycles. Da Cunha uses an outdated advertising mechanism - the rotating billboard - to create two friezes which will face each other along the length of the ticket hall, stretching nearly 100m in length.⁣
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Throughout the day, the panels will rotate, presenting different colour combinations into the ticket hall. The colours themselves are extracted from photos of London sunsets and sunrises, their rotation creating an ever-changing environment. 

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Abraham Cruzvillegas: The Ballad of Etc., The Arts Club of Chicago 

The Arts Club of Chicago

201 E. Ontario Street  
Chicago, IL 60611

12 September - 21 December 2019

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Michael Landy: In conversation with Nicholas Chambers, Art Gallery of New South Wales

To mark the opening of Making Art Public, Michael Landy appears in conversation with curator Nicholas Chambers, as they uncover the complex process of re-presenting 50 years of Kaldor Public Art Projects for this landmark exhibition.

Wednesday 11 September 

6:30pm

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Art Gallery Rd, The Domain 2000
Sydney, Australia

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John Gerrard: Western Flag (Spindletop, Texas), Stadtkuratorin Hamburg

Hamburg Rathausmarkt 

Stadtkuratorin Hamburg

8-15 September 2019 

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