Walead Beshty: Media Networks, Tate Modern 

This collection display includes a diverse range of techniques and materials — from posters and paint to analogue and digital technology — the display raises questions around feminism, consumerism and the cult of celebrity. Included in this display is Walead Beshty's Travel Pictures (2007-2008) — a series of photographs depciting the ruins of the former Iraqi embassy in East Berlin. 

Tate Modern 

Bankside
London SE1 9TG

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Lynda Benglis: Quartered Meteor, Tate Liverpool  

Tate Liverpool

Royal Albert Dock Liverpool
Liverpool L3 4BB

This display opens 16 February 2019 

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Frieze LA - Stand: C8

Featuring works by: Terry Adkins, Hurvin Anderson, Lynda Benglis, Bruce Conner, Anya Gallaccio, John Gerrard, Ella Kruglyanskaya, Luisa Lambri, Michael Landy and Marisa Merz. 

Preview: 14 February 

Public days: 15-17 February 

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Glenn Ligon: Selections from the Marciano Collection 

Marciano Art Foundation

4357 Wilshire Blvd

Los Angeles

12 February - 5 May 2019 

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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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