E IL TOPO, launch of issue no.24 by Jimmie Durham 

Saturday 26 January, 6pm

Thomas Dane Gallery

E IL TOPO is an artists' magazine that began in Naples in 1992 thanks to an idea of Gabriele Di Matteo and Franco Silvestro, and has evolved into an international community of artists and thinkers with a post-Situationist attitude. Until 1996 — the year in which E Il Topo stopped publication — eleven issues were produced, involving artists who were soon to become major names on the contemporary art scene. The magazine resurfaced in 2012 (with issue no. 12, Rebirth) after 16 years of silence, relying on a new editorial staff. The collaborative and contributive character of the project has made it the ideal vehicle to amplify the group's actions: a clandestine approach, contrary to any editorial policy.

Each new issue is presented with a performance (White Box and Printed Matter in New York, Supportico Lopez gallery in Berlin, MADRE museum in Naples, Nuit Blanche Paris, FRAC Bretagne in Rennes…) or with a retrospective exhibition, such as the shows at CNEAI in Paris, Franz Masereel Centrum in Belgium or Museo Nivola in Orani. In 2014 E IL TOPO published the Topist Manifesto in a Korean newspaper. Its ten programmatic points define a sulfurous aesthetic and transformed the group into a movement.

The last Topist action involves Jimmie Durham as the protagonist of a new transformation: E IL TOPO becomes E IL TORO. In this issue, on the trail of the poem To a Mouse by Robert Burns, the artist imagines an encounter between the two animals, the mouse and the bull, where the mouse represents the figure of the artist and the bull the nations of Europe (the fathers). 

At the Thomas Dane Gallery in Naples, the artists of E IL TOPO and Jimmie Durham will present this final issue with a performance. The texts, sounds, noises and changes of mood will as always be documented by a blind cameraman, a central role in the entire Topist aesthetic.

Performers: Armando della Vittoria, Guillaume Clermont, Théo & Mario Coppola, Gatto Silvetro, David Liver, Frederic Liver, Giancarlo Norese, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato, Claudio Salerno, Gabi Scardi.

Bruce Conner: Untitled Prints

Henry Art Gallery 

15th Ave NE & NE 41st St

University of Washington

10 November, 2018 - 28 April, 2019 

The latest edition of Viewpoints features a group of detailed offset lithographs by Bruce Conner. 

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Glenn Ligon: Traction: Art Talk with Glenn Ligon at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Digital Arts Research Center (DARC)

453 Kerr Road

Santa Cruz

California 95064

Tuesday 15 January 2019 

7-9pm

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Glenn Ligon: To be a Negro in this country is really never to be looked at.

Maria & Alberto de la Cruz Art Gallery, Washington 

24 January - 7 April 2019 

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Holiday Closure

Thomas Dane Gallery will be closed for the Christmas break from 22 December - 2 January.

The gallery will reopen in January with Amie Siegel's Backstory in London, and Caragh Thuring in Naples. 

Abraham Cruzvillegas: Special Project at Art Basel Miami Beach

Autorreconstrucción: To Insist, to Insist, to Insist...

Grand Ballroom, Miami Beach Convention Center

Performances will take place from 6-9 December, 2018

3pm and 5pm

Free 

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Barbara Kasten: Lecture in Photography at Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago IL

Ferguson Hall

Columbia College Chicago 
600 S. Michigan 
Chicago, IL

Thursday 29 November 2018

6-8pm

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John Gerrard: Keynote speaker at 'In this brief time: art, environment and ecology' Symposium

Trinity College Dublin

Robert Emmet Theatre

Arts Building

Dublin

Saturday 24 November 2018

11.30am – 5pm 

Free

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Talk:  'The Artist's Voice', Glenn Ligon in conversation with Jason Moran, jazz pianist

ICA Boston, Boston MA

15 November 2018, 7pm

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Cecily Brown: Where, When, How Often and with Whom

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek

8 November 2018 - 10 March 2019

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