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Join Yinka Shonibare CBE and curator Victor Wang (Artistic Director and Chief Curator of the M WOODS museum in Beijing) for a discussion of Shonibare’s filmmaking practice. This online event is hosted by SOUTH SOUTH and coincides with the platform's first FILM Programme for the year featuring films by Yinka Shonibare CBE. 

Kehinde Wiley will discuss his new exhibition at the National Gallery as part of the 'Friday Lates' series.

Jeffrey Gibson speaks to Anne Ellegood, Director, ICA LA, about key moments in his career and upcoming projects.  

Stephen Friedman Gallery is delighted to announce representation of Japanese artist Izumi Kato.

Kato lives and works between Tokyo and Hong Kong. He was born in 1969 in the Shimane prefecture of Japan, a sparsely populated province bordered by mountain and sea which houses Izumo Ōyashiro, one of the oldest and most significant shrines in Shintoism.

Kehinde Wiley is the recipient of Apollo’s Artist of the Year Award 2021 in advance of his exhibition ‘The Prelude' at The National Gallery opening 10 December 2021.

Christie’s presents 'Unquestioning Love: An Auction to Benefit the New York City AIDS Memorial'. Across two live sales at Christie's New York, the sales of 19 artworks by a select group of leading contemporary artists occurs as the New York City AIDS Memorial celebrates its 10th anniversary. 

The talk will take place on Thursday 28 October, 6-7pm MDT (GMT-6) ahead of Gibson's upcoming residency at Tamarind Institute. 

In collaboration with Bombas Gens Centre d’Art and curator Sandra Guimarães, Thomas Hirschhorn presents 'Energy = Yes! Quality = No! (Critical Workshop)'. Attendees are required to contribute a single work or input such as a text, an original painting, a drawing, a song, a collage, a sculpture, a video, etc. and participate in ‘common work’ such as discussions, exchange, thinking or judging. All are welcome to attend and entry to the workshop is free.

Caroline Walker joins writer and art critic Thomas Marks to discuss the integral role of drawing in her practice. They will discuss drawing towards painting in the preparatory stages of a work and as a means of teaching its mood and composition to the hand.

When Israel banned the Palestinian flag and its colours in Gaza and the West Bank in 1967, activists responded by carrying around watermelons. Over 50 years later, fundraising group Artists Against Apartheid has asked 24 artists including Alvaro Barrington, Lisa Brice and Peter Doig to create works incorporating the fruit. 

TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art is an annual contemporary art auction held in the Richard Meier-designed Rachofsky House in Dallas, benefitting both the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research.

At the third edition of the Setouchi Asia Forum, Setouchi Triennale and Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale is 'Artists’ Breath Live', an online program focusing on the ways that artists are living, thinking, and creating during the global pandemic. The project consists of a digital booklet comprising over 100 artists’ texts and an online forum during which 30 artists will each deliver a three-minute report.

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA has created a special edition of 50 sculptures to help support The Emerging Curators Fellowship. The editions are priced at £1,500 + VAT and available online from frieze.com and Frieze art fairs in London. All of the money raised will benefit the fellowship, and one work will be made available via a free prize draw.

Join this year’s Summer Exhibition Coordinator Yinka Shonibare CBE and writer and broadcaster Afua Hirsch in this online event. They discuss Shonibare's vision for the exhibition, the significance of reclaiming magic in art, and how an inclusive art world can engage with and value artists who have developed their practice in different ways. 

Black Rock Senegal and Kehinde Wiley announce the release of 'Dimietrus Study' (2021), the third annual limited edition print to support the Black Rock Senegal artist-in-residence program. 

In episode 68 of The Great Women Artists Podcast, Katy Hessel (Art Historian, Curator, Broadcaster, and founder of influential Instagram account @thegreatwomenartists) interviews sculptor Leilah Babirye.

Stephen Friedman Gallery is pleased to announce representation of Choctaw-Cherokee artist Jeffrey Gibson. Gibson’s work fuses his Choctaw-Cherokee heritage and experience of living in Europe, Asia and the USA with references that span club culture, queer theory, fashion, politics, literature and art history. The artist’s multi-faceted practice incorporates painting, performance, sculpture, textiles and video, characterised by vibrant colour and pattern.

Visit Museum der Moderne Salzburg to join Yinka Shonibare CBE RA in conversation with museum director Thorsten Sadowsky. 

Join Scottish artist Claire Barclay in conversation with Katy Hessel (Art Historian, Curator, Broadcaster, and founder of the influential Instagram, @thegreatwomenartists), to discuss ‘Claire Barclay: Tenuity’, Stephen Friedman Gallery’s fourth annual exhibition of prints by gallery artists.