Cecily Brown, The Triumph of Death

at Capodimonte

Exhibition dates: 10 February - 1 May 2022 

Museo e Real Bosco di Capodimonte

Via Miano 2
Naples

Akram Zaatari’s ‘Dance to the End of Love’ is now showing at Tate Modern. A dance piece based on YouTube clips from countries across West Asia and North Africa, including Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Oman, Zaatari chose material from 2005–10 of mostly young men performing activities that range from singing, dancing and playing music. They recreate scenes from sci-fi films or do stunts: special effects fireballs are hurled across the screen and jeeps are driven out into the desert in precarious positions.
 
The clips show how attitudes around masculine identities quickly spread and adapt to different settings and contexts. Cyberspace creates an audience and turns their performances into popular trends to repeat or re-enact. Zaatari completed this work at the beginning of a period of anti-government protests and uprisings, referred to as the ‘Arab Spring’ by western commentators. YouTube and other self-broadcast platforms played an important role in the political climate at that time.
 
Tate Modern, Blavatnik Building Level 3. On view as part of Tate Modern's Collection Route
  

Amie Siegel will discuss Asterisms (2021), her recently premiered 34th São Paulo Biennial video installation with The World Around Summit's director Beatrice Galilee.

Asterisms explores geological and social displacement on a planetary scale through focusing on the United Arab Emirates. Gold factories, oil recovery, migrant labour, desertification, artificial islands and Arabian horses trained for show are among the connected elements that unfold in different, often overlapping, cinematic geometries projected onto a star-like shape that floats between a wall and a sculpture.

The World Around Summit is an annual, global symposium on architecture and design.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY 10128, USA

5 February 2022, 12-6pm EST

Catherine Opie and writer, historian and activist Rebecca Solnit will be in conversation tonight, Monday 31 January.

The free virtual event is part of Stanford University’s series, ‘Artists on the Future’, which pairs renowned artists with cultural thought leaders to talk about issues vital to society.

Monday, 31 January, 5pm PT

Registration is required. 

Glenn Ligon
‘An Open Letter’

Exhibition dates: 4 February - 2 April 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery
11 Duke Street, St. James's
London, SW1

Tonight, Cecily Brown will be in conversation with Deputy Head of The Courtauld and Daniel Katz Curator of 20th Century Art Barnaby Wright, and Leyla Bumbra, The Courtauld’s Research Forum Programme Manager.

The event is part of Open Courtauld Hour and will allow an insight into Brown’s motivations and inspirations, as well as the process behind her large-scale painting, Unmoored from her reflection (2021), which was installed at the top of The Courtauld’s 18th century staircase last year.

Thursday 27 January, 8pm CET

“A lot of my work is all about the beauty of recording.” - Steve McQueen

Shot on Super 8mm in the 1990s, ‘Exodus’ was filmed at London’s Brick Lane market and follows two men, each carrying a budding palm tree, who weave their way through crowds onto the number 243 bus to Wood Green. McQueen filmed the footage quickly and spontaneously, before leaving it and returning to it three years later. It bears witness to the artist’s decision, at the age of 22, to record the world he was moving through - an approach that was neither strictly reportage nor cinéma vérité.

The work is currently on show at Tate Britain, as part of ‘Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s - Now.’

Exhibition dates: 1 December 2021 - 3 April 2022

Susan Rothenberg

Exhibition dates: 4 February - 9 April 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery

3 Duke Street, St. James's

London, SW1

Glenn Ligon
‘An Open Letter’

Exhibition dates: 4 February - 2 April 2022

Thomas Dane Gallery
11 Duke Street, St. James's
London, SW1

Opening tomorrow: British Art Show 9 features work by Hurvin Anderson, and will go on show in Wolverhampton from 22 January.

The British Art Show is a touring exhibition that celebrates the vitality of recent art made in Britain. Organised every five years by Hayward Gallery Touring, the exhibition brings the work of artists defining new directions in contemporary art to four cities across the UK.