John Gerrard: Western Flag

Channel 4 have announced an important new commission with John Gerrard to be broadcast in April 2016 and appear in large-scale public projections simultaneously at several international locations to be announced. This new project will be a virtual flag made out of perpetually-renewing black smoke that Gerrard will place in a perfect CGI replica of Spindletop, Texas - the birthplace of the modern oil industry. The work will run in cyberspace for a year – exactly parallelling the sunrises, sunsets, lengthening shadows and changing seasons of the real Spindletop – and for one day next spring will break into the Channel 4 schedule in the junctions between programmes - an icon of climate change and modern society’s dependence on oil.

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Steve McQueen: Open Plan

 29 April - 14 May, 2016

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

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Related events:

Friday April 29, 6.30pm

Steve McQueen in conversation with Donna De Salvo

Sunday May 1, 5pm

Harry Belafonte and Dr.Cornel West discuss Paul Robeson

Bergen Assembly 2016

Bergen, Norway

1 September, 2015 - 1 October, 2016

LYNDA BENGLIS 

Primary Structures (Paula’s Props)   |   February 6–28, KODE, Grand opening February 6, 5pm

Glacier Burger, Ceramic works   |  April 9–May 1, Bergen School of Architecture

Slithering Green, Ceramics Conference  |  April 30, Bergen School of Architecture

Double Albatross, Paper works  |  April 30–May 15, Kunstgarasjen

Raptor, Pleats   |   June 17–September 4, Entrée

Adhesive Products, Pours  |   September 2–October 16, Bergen Kunsthall

Secrets   |   October 28–November 14, KODE

Is It Now?, Video works   |   December 6–9, Private homes

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Lynda Benglis

23 April - 30 October, 2016

Aspen Art Museum

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Gabriel Kuri on Jean-Luc Moulène

Artists on Artists Lecture Series

Dia Art Foundation

Tuesday April 19, 2016, 6.30pm

Dia:Chelsea

535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor

New York City

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Akram Zaatari: Twenty-Eight Nights and a Poem

Tate Modern, Starr Auditorium 

Wednesday 11 May 2016, 6.30-9pm

After the screening the artist will be in conversation with Tate Modern curator Andrea Lissoni, followed by a Q&A with the audience. 

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 Daily: 10 - 6pm

Friday 25 March: Closed

Saturday 26 March: Closed

Monday 28 March: Closed

Thomas Dane Gallery at Art Basel Hong Kong

Booth: 1C02

Private view: March 22

Vernissage: March 23

Public days: March 24-26

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Glenn Ligon – ‘Strangers’ and ‘Mirrors’

New York artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is one of the foremost artists working today and a distinctive voice of American culture. In most of his painting, work on paper, film or neon, Ligon appropriates text - borrowing passages from seminal contemporary and historical sources - to examine issues concerning race, authorship, gender and identity in America.Ligon’s favourite literary source is the distinguished African American novelist and social critic, James Baldwin, whose 1953 essay Stranger in the Village has spawned the famous series entitled ‘Stranger’, ‘Mirror’, ‘Figure’ and ‘Masquerade’.

Baldwin’s essay recounts the author’s experience of staying in a remote Swiss village. The other inhabitants of the village, having never seen an African American before, treat him with a distant curiosity, more as an object than a person, which Baldwin likened to the African American experience at home in his native USA.

Ligon has explained his fondness for this specific text: ‘The gravity and weight and panoramic nature of that work inspired me.’ He applies the letters to canvas or paper using stencils, often with a combination of materials including oil stick, gesso, coal dust and even glue.

During the stenciling process, Ligon allows imperfections and accidents to occur so that the words become more and more illegible. The result is that the text increasingly becomes an abstract surface, addressing language's inability to fully articulate experience, while also extending its reach from a literal signifier into a realm of emotive and abstract expression.

For Ligon, ‘there are a lot of things in our culture that seem clear, but … what the paintings are trying to do is to slow down reading, to present a difficulty, to present something that is not so easily consumed and clear.’

Akram Zaatari: The End of Time

April 8 - June 16, 2016

The Common Guild, Glasgow

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Dhaka Art Summit 2016

5 - 8 February

Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Bangladesh

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