Michael Landy: Live Online Conversation with Artangel Co-Director James Lingwood

Wednesday, 10 February, 7pm GMT
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Michael Landy will be joined by Artangel Co-Director James Lingwood to discuss his seminal project, Break Down, which opened to crowds in London on 10 February 2001. 

For Break Down, Landy created an inventory of his every possession, each to be destroyed at a specially constructed facility modelled on a material reclamation factory, installed at an empty department store on Oxford Street, London. Landy set about systematically deconstructing, pulping and granulating all 7,227 of his worldly possessions with the help of a team of operatives and a dedicated car mechanic. After two weeks, Landy was left with only the clothes he was wearing on the final day of Break Down. 

Two decades on, this talk celebrates the twentieth anniversary of Break Down whilst reconvening the artist with the project commissioner for an opportunity to reflect on the work's many themes and its legacy. 

Viewers are encouraged to post questions prior to and during the conversation via YouTube, Twitter, Facebook and Instagram using #20YearsSinceBreakDown. A selection will be posed live by James Lingwood during the audience Q&A section.

To accompany the anniversary, Thomas Dane Gallery will present Michael Landy's Break Down: 20 Years, a display of archive materials on the lower level at No 3 Duke St, St James's when the gallery reopens. Dates will be announced in due course and further information will be posted on our website and social media.

Catherine Opie: Monograph, Phaidon

Phaidon will publish the first survery monography on Catherine Opie, now available to pre-order. This unique artist monograph presents a compelling visual narrative of Opie's work since the early 1980s, pairing images across bodies of work to form a full picture of her artistic vision. With more than 300 beautiful illustrations and made in close collaboration with Opie, the book marks a turning point in the consideration of this artist's work to date.  

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Akram Zaatari: Online Lecture, VCUarts

Akram Zaatari presents an online lecture as part of Wavelength, a series created in collaboration between VCUarts, the ICA, and VCUarts Qatar. Zaatari is part of a selection of artists, designers, curators and scholars who have been invited to share their work with the VCU communities in Richmond and Doha as well as the general public throughout the 2020–21 academic year.

Tuesday, 26 January, 12-1:30pm (ET, 5-6:30pm GMT)

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For the Christmas holidays, Thomas Dane Gallery in London and Naples will be closed from Thursday 24 December 2020 through Sunday 3 January 2021. 

Both galleries will reopen on Monday 4 January 2021. ⁣

Amy Sillman: In Conversation, The Drawing Center, New York

Amy Silllman will be joined in conversation with artist Torkwase Dyson and Chief Curator Claire Gilman as they discuss the present and future of drawing and its ever increasing vitality during this destabilizing, painful, and transformative time. 

The conversation will be held via Zoom. 

Wednesday, 16 December, 6pm (EST; 11pm GMT)

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Abraham Cruzvillegas: Curator Culture Talk, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami 

Rethought, Restored, Regifted, Remade: A Conversation on Reconnecting with Everyday Life

Abraham Cruzvillegas will be in conversation with Elena Reygadas and moderated by writer and activist Tom Healy. The panel conversation will take place online via YouTube, viewers can watch live here.

Sunday, 6 December, 12pm (ET)

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Thomas Dane Gallery in London: Gallery Reopening

Thomas Dane Gallery in London will reopen to visitors from 10am, Wednesday 2 December 2020. 

Our current exhibition, Dana Schutz: Shadow of a Cloud Moving Slowly will be on view across both galleries until Saturday 19 December 2020. 

To ensure the safety of our visitors and staff, the gallery will admit a maximum of 6 visitors at a time per gallery to comply with social distancing. 

Abraham Cruzvillegas: 'Auga dulce', The Bass Museum of Art

Extending from Collins Avenue along the central promenade of the park leading up to the museum entrance, Agua dulce, a large-scale sculptural installation, encompasses nearly 14,000 square feet. Commissioned by the museum, the project will bring the artist’s philosophy of autoconstrucción. Utilizing numerous species of flora, fauna and mineral; performers mimicking native birds; and seating that the artist constructed with locally sourced materials, Agua dulce will form a plant environment in front of the museum, free for the public to enjoy. Through collaborative research with local experts on native flora, Cruzvillegas selected around 23 different species to create the installation of more than 1,000 plants. Many of the included species, like the Salix Caroliniana (Coastal Plain Willow), have medicinal properties and are regularly used by the Seminoles, introducing notions of care and restoration to the installation.

Exhibition dates: 29 November 2020 - 18 April 2021

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Abraham Cruzvillegas: Agua Dulce, Online Lecture, Städelschule

Attempting to describe a personal methodology for making art, the talk will gravitate around a new project to be presented soon at The Bass Museum in Miami, sharing also references of previous projects presented in diverse institutions and galleries in the recent years. All boundaries and limitations, old and new, related to environmental, political, social and cultural elements, used as material, language and discourse, will be discussed as well. This may include approaching local resources vs global strategies, the flow and the speed of digital platforms vs nature slow growth, accessibility, broken paradigms, migration and pollination, alchemic transmutation and some other simultaneous failures.

The lecture will be held over Zoom, viewers can register in advance here. 

Tuesday, 17 November, 7pm (CET; 6pm GMT)

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Cecily Brown: Monograph, Phaidon

Phaidon publish the first major monograph on Cecily Brown which includes 200 illustrations and features an interview with Brown led by Courtney J. Martin, Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, and essays on her work by Jason Rosenfeld, Distinguished Chair and Professor of Art History at Marymount College in New York, and New York-based novelist Francine Prose. The title is part of Phaidon’s Contemporary Artists series—which offers comprehensive surveys of individual artists’ work and a range of art writing contributed by an international spectrum of authors, all leading figures in their fields. 

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