Cecily Brown: Blenheim Palace 

Made up entirely of new works inspired by the Palace’s collection, the Blenheim Art Foundation will unveil a major solo exhibition by Cecily Brown.

This will be the first exhibition in the Foundation’s programme to be comprised entirely of new work created in response to the Palace’s history as an English country estate and as the home to successive generations of the Spencer-Churchill family and their collection of paintings, tapestries and decorative arts.

Rendered in her emotive, frenetic brushstrokes, Brown’s new series will visually reference masterpieces by Sir Joshua Reynolds and Sir Anthony Van Dyck on view at the Palace, as well as family heraldry, armorial banners and the martial scenes of the Blenheim Tapestries that line the State Rooms.

Exhibition dates: 17 September 2020 - 3 January 2021 

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Thomas Dane Gallery: Summer Closure 

For the summer holiday, Thomas Dane Gallery will be closed from Monday 10 August through Friday 14 August. 

Both London and Naples offices will reopen the following week. 

Steve MᶜQueen Reopens at Tate Modern 

Thomas Dane Gallery is pleased to announce the reopening of Steve MᶜQueen at Tate Modern from Friday 7 August, with extended viewing through 6 September 2020. 

The exhibition joins the three existing Tate Modern visitor routes now available to pre-book online here. 

This major exhibition coincides with MᶜQueen’s Year 3, recently extended at Tate Britain until 31 January 2021, an epic portrait of London’s Year 3 pupils created through a partnership between Tate, Artangel and A New Direction. Entry is free and timed tickets can be booked here. 

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Abraham Cruzvillegas: Online Seminar, Museu de arte de São Paulo

Abraham Cruzvillegas will take part in the third online seminar at Museu de arte de São Paulo (MASP). The seminar is part of a long-term project that anticipates the program of exhibitions, lectures, workshops, publications and courses at MASP dedicated to Indigenous Histories in 2023.

The seminars also aim to present and discuss the richness and complexity of indigenous materials and immaterial cultures, their philosophies and cosmologies, in addition to the challenges and possibilities of working with these fields, especially in the context of a museum.

Wednesday, 29 July, 11am-3:30pm 

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Catherine Opie: Online Artist Talk, Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art 

The Plug In ICA present a screening of Catherine Opie's The Modernist followed by an artist talk where Opie will discuss her career from the early 1990s until today focusing on her most recent works, The Modernist (2017) and Swamps and Political Collages (2019). The talk will be followed by a Q+A moderated by Nasrin Himada.

Follow the link to the live stream here. 

Thursday, 23 July, 6pm CT 

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Cecily Brown: Artists on Artworks, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cecily Brown will be in conversation with Sheena Wagstaff, Leonard A. Lauder Chairman, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Met, to discuss the influential work of Gerhard Richter. 

Tuesday, 21 July, 6pm EDT

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Steve McQueen: Year 3 Extension, Tate Britain 

Steve McQueen’s Year 3 exhibition at Tate Britain will be extended through 31 January 2021. ⁣⁣

Using the vehicle of the traditional school class photograph, this vast artwork offers a glimpse of London’s future: a hopeful portrait of a generation to come. Steve McQueen invited every Year 3 pupil in the capital to be photographed and brought these images together into a single large-scale installation, capturing tens of thousands of young faces at a milestone moment in their development.⁣
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Steve McQueen Year 3 is a partnership between Tate, Artangel and A New Direction. 

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Art Basel Online Viewing Room

Outdoor Sculptures & Commissions 

Thomas Dane Gallery presents work by artists who are challenging the meaning and emphasis of producing sculpture in the public realm.

Featuring works by: Lynda Benglis, Walead Beshty, Alexandre da Cunha, Anya Gallaccio, Anthea Hamilton, Arturo Herrera, Phillip King and Jean-Luc Moulène. 

Preview: 17 June, 1pm CET through 19 June, 1pm CET

Public Days:  19-26 June 2020 

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Amie Siegel: Scharaun, Berlin 

As part of The image of the city in the cinematic space, curated by Olaf Stüber and Jaro Straub, Amie Siegel's The Architects (2014) will be screened online from 6pm (CET) today for six days via Scharaun, Berlin.

The Architects cuts transversally through the city of New York, moving through various architecture studios, from Fifth Avenue to downtown to Brooklyn, creating a seamless timeline and a singular visual unfolding. The camera’s ceaseless parallel tracking takes in vast office spaces and gazes uncompromisingly at the highly networked production of global architecture. The view into this world is obscured by surfaces and layers of representation; facades, paintings, models, screens, windows - the very architectures of looking and seeing. The locations, objects and long horizontal desks frame the wide spectrum of practice, unveiling typologies of sameness and difference through the offices, between the lens of the camera and the view of Manhattan, always, and only, just outside the window.

Friday, 12 June, 6pm CET through Thursday, 18 June.

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Image: Amie Siegel, The Architects, 2014, HD video (still) 

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