Catherine Opie: Artists, Activism, Agency: A Conversation with Nadya Tolokonnikova, Shepard Fairey, Catherine Opie and Tavares Strachan

For the third program in the Artist Talk series — celebrating Los Angeles's contemporay art scene — artists including Catherine Opie willl discuss their practice in relation to the subjects of radical protest and resistance, gender and sex, power, freedom and incarceration, community, and identity. 

The Broad Stage 

The Santa Monica College Performing Arts Center 

1310 11th St. 

Santa Monica 

Monday 11 February 2019

6:30 - 9:00pm 

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Steve McQueen: Year 3 Project at Tate Britain 

Explored through the vehicle of the traditional school class photograph, Steve McQueen, together with Tate, Artangel and A New Direction, invites every Year 3 primary school class in London to be photographed. The class photos will be brought together into a single large-scale installation, capturing tens of thousands of Year 3 schoolchildren in a milestone year in their development. 

Running in parallel to the exhibition at Tate Britain, Artangel will stage an outdoor exhibition spanning London’s 33 boroughs, giving the public a glimpse of the future of their city.

Tate Britain

Duveen Galleries

Millbank

London SW1P 4RG

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If you are a teacher at a London primary school, you can sign your Year 3 class up to be part of this giant collective portrait.

Sign-up here

Lynda Benglis: Bird's Nest, The Harwood Museum of Art 

Caroline Lee and Bob Ellis Gallery 

The Harwood Museum of Art

238 Ledoux Street

Taos, New Mexico 

9 February - 12 May 2019 

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John Gerrard: Desert X

Desert X, Palm Springs, California

9 February - 21 April, 2019 

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Bruce Conner: Please Enjoy and Return: Bruce Conner Films From the Sixties

The UNMAM will be showing a rotation of three of Conner’s films from the 1960’s, which contextualize and expand on themes present in other works by him from the museum’s permanent collection that are currently on view in the exhibition HINDSIGHT/INSIGHT: Reflecting on the Collection.

UNM Art Museum
MSC04 2570
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Opening reception: 8 February 4-6pm

Exhibition dates: 8 February - 4 May 2019 

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Glenn Ligon: Artist Talk at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 

Glenn Ligon will discuss his practice which has pursued critical perspectives of American history since the 1980s. This talk will highlight one of VMFA’s recent acquisition, A Small Band, currently on view in the Cochrane Atrium.

Leslie Cheek Theater

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

200 N. Boulevard 

Richmond, Virginia 

Thursday, 7 February 2019

6:30 - 7:30pm 

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Master Class: Amie Siegel 

Amie Siegel discusses her layered, meticulously constructed works, which consider the undercurrents of value systems, cultural ownership and image-making. Siegel's practice encompasses film, video, photography, performance and installation.

This talk is part of the Testing Ground: Master Class programme, a week long intensive with leading international artists sharing their expertise with a small group of emerging artists from around the country. Each of the artists, in addition to working with the emerging artists, will present a free evening lecture to the public about their work.

Zabludowicz Collection

176 Prince of Wales Road
London
NW5 3PT

Saturday, 2 February 2019 

7-9pm

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Amie Siegel: Book Launch at Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Please join us for a special evening to mark the launch of Amie Siegel: Ricochet, published by Prestel and Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

Amie Siegel will be in conversation with Sven Beckstette, curator of the artist's Kunstmuseum Stuttgart exhibition, and curator at Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof- Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.

Amie Siegel and Sven Beckstette in conversation

Thursday, 31 January, 7pm
Thomas Dane Gallery, 11 Duke Street

Limited spaces available, RSVP essential: emma@thomasdanegallery.com 

Amie Siegel: Ricochet

Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2019

Editors: Ulrike Groos, Sven Beckstette

With Essays by Tom McDonough, Sven Beckstette as well as a conversation between Amie Siegel and Ulrike Groos, Director of Kunstmuseum Stuttgart.

Design by Grafikbüro Kerstin Riedel, Berlin

22.6 x 29.6 cm, 192 pages, softcover

ISBN 978-3-7913-5897-0

In 2011 and 2016 Kunstmuseum Stuttgart presented the work of Amie Siegel in two solo exhibitions, Black Moon and Ricochet. The two exhibitions, including performance, video, and works on paper, were separated by five years yet conceived as a single exhibition unfolding over time under the umbrella title, Ricochet. The visual motifs and ideas reflected between the double exhibition format assumes its final translation in the exhibition catalogue. Instead of combining both presentations in a single publication, Siegel, together with graphic designer Kerstin Riedel, created two mirrored books which are, however, bound together into one volume. Opening the catalogue reveals two double spreads that offer multiple possibilities to combine the illustrations of Siegel's artworks. This unique catalogue elaborates on the thematic contrast across the exhibitions — the archaeology of cinema, image provenance, psychoanalysis and economies of gender — to further involve the reader's associative participation. 

Pre-order copies of Amie Siegel: Ricochet here. 

Master Class: Alexandre da Cunha 

Alexandre da Cunha discusses his practice, in which he transforms everyday or found objects into sculpture and wall-mounted works that are grounded in a material aesthetic and ethic. Influenced by both systems of mass production and artisanal craftsmanship, the objects he creates appear to be a mix between popular consumer object and archaeological relic.

This talk is part of the Testing Ground: Master Class programme, a week long intensive with leading international artists sharing their expertise with a small group of emerging artists from around the country. Each of the artists, in addition to working with the emerging artists, will present a free evening lecture to the public about their work.

Zabludowicz Collection

176 Prince of Wales Road
London
NW5 3PT

Thursday, 31 January 2019 

7-9pm

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Anthea Hamilton: Special Opening, Talk & Performance 

Kettle's Yard House 

University of Cambridge
Castle Street
Cambridge
CB3 0AQ

29 January, 2019 

Talk in the Clore Learning Studio: 6:30-7pm

Performance in the House: 7-7:30pm

Opening event: 7:30-8:30pm 

From 6.30pm, Anthea Hamilton will talk about her new installation in the Kettle's Yard House. At 7pm, see performances by Maria Zahle and Carlos Maria Romero in the House. See the installation outside regular openeing houes and visit the current exhibitions in the galleries from 7:30pm. 

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