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Jim Hodges, B.E.2, Silver and Gold, 2011. Japanese Silver, 24K Gold, Silver on primed and unprimed linen 59 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 6 7/8 in. Courtesy of the artist and Gladstone Gallery. On loan from Pizzuti Collection

ART-PRESENTATION:Jim Hodges

Jim Hodges is among a generation of artists who came of age in the 1980s and 90s amidst a deepening AIDS epidemic …

Ellen Gallagher, Ecstatic Draught of Fishes, 2019, Oil, ink, gold leaf, and paper on canvas, 248 × 201.9 cm, © Ellen Gallagher. Photo: Thomas Lannes, © Ellen Gallagher, Courtesy the artist and Gagosian

ART-PRESENTATION: Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher’s work explores issues of race, identity and transformation, referencing historical and contemporary subjects that include modernist abstraction, marine biology and …

Left: Irene Williams, Blocks and Strips Quilt, 2003, The Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection 2017-229-11, © Estate of Irene Williams/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Right: Mary Lee Bendolph, Work-Clothes Quilt, 2002, , The Philadelphia Museum of Art Collection 2017-229-11, © Estate of Mary Lee Bendolph/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

ART-PRESENTATION: Souls Grown Deep

The exhibition “Souls Grown Deep: Artists of the African American South” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art includes paintings, sculptures, and quilts …

Ella Littwitz, The Unknown Land of the South, 2017, Courtesy: the artist; Harlan Levey Projects-Brussels, Copperfield Gallery-London, Photo: Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, Gunnar Meie

ART-PRESENTATION:Ella Littwitz-The Promise

In her comprehensive artistic research, Ella Littwitz concerns herself with archaeology, history, botany, culture and politics. The critical examination of national and …

Nancy Spero, P.E.A.C.E., Helicopter, Mother + Children, 1968, Gouache and ink on paper, 48 x 61 cm, Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co., © The Nancy Spero and Leon Golub Foundation for the Arts / VG Bild-Kunst Bonn 2019, Photo: Courtesy Galerie Lelong & Co.

ART-PRESENTATION: Nancy Spero

Nancy Spero is one of the most significant figures in post-war American art. She engages in a complex way with existential aspects …

The Magnetic Fields, Installation view Galleria Gió Marconi-Milan, 2019, Photo: Filippo Armellin, Courtesy: Galleria Gió Marconi

ART-PRESENTATION:The Magnetic Fields

In 1919 André Breton and Paul Soupault conducted one of the first legendary automatic writing experiments: for whole days and sleepless nights …

Dora Budor, installation view, Year Without A Summer (Panton’s Diversion), 2017, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art

ART-PREVIEW:Dora Budor-I am Gong

Dora Budor creates installations, environments, and sculptures, that recall moments of cinematic experience via their atmospheric scenographies. She explores histories of cinema …

Works from the Guggenheim Museum’s collection in storage, by (clockwise from top left) Jean Dubuffet, Martin Barré, Wifredo Lam, Willem de Kooning, David Hammons, Paul Wonner, Cecilia Vicuña, and Maria Helena Vieira da Silva. Barré, Dubuffet, Lam, and Vieira da Silva © 2019 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris; De Kooning © 2019 The Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Hammons © David Hammons; Vicuña © Cecilia Vicuña; Wonner © Estate of Paul Wonner and William Theophilius Brown, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento. Photo: David M. Heald

ART-PREVIEW:Artistic License

The exhibition “Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection” brings together highlights form the museum’s collection and rarely seen works from …

Ai Weiwei, installation view: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21, 2019, Photo: Achim Kukulies © Kunstsammlung NRW

ART-PRESENTATON:Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei is an artist, architectural designer, curator, and social activist and perhaps the best-known Chinese Contemporary artist. With his criticisms of …

John Cage, Where R = Ryoanji (3R/17), Pencils on handmade Japanese paper, 25.4 x 48.3 cm, Courtesy of the John Cage Trust

ART-PRESENTATION: John Cage-Ryoanji

Widely considered the most influential composer of our time, John Cage’s inventive and unorthodox approach revolutionised contemporary music and his influence extended …