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Previously exhibited at the 59th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, 'Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence' is on show at de Young, San Francisco. For this new body of work, Wiley sheds light on the brutalities of American and global colonial pasts using the language of the fallen hero.

Art, Activism and the Women’s movement in the UK 1970–1990. This exhibition is the first of its kind – a major survey of work by over 100 women artists working in the UK from 1970 to 1990. Through their creative practices, women’s liberation was forged against the backdrop of extreme social, economic and political change.

Taking the 1990s as its cultural backdrop, ‘Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990s–Today’ is the first major group exhibition in the United States to envision a new approach to contemporary art in the Caribbean diaspora, foregrounding forms that reveal new modes of thinking about identity and place.

Deborah Roberts is in conversation with Connie Choi as part of the Louis A. and Frances B. Wagner Lecture Series at McNay Art Museum, Texas.

Presenting rotating exhibitions and viewable storage of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, The Bunker showcases a wide range of contemporary art by both well-known and emerging artists, displayed alongside iconic pieces of furniture and other curiosities. The collection champions emerging, and at times, overlooked artists, especially in the early stages of their careers, and so the Bunker offers insight into a truly unique collection.

'Grayson's Art Club: The Exhibition III' is the culmination of a project begun by Grayson Perry during the Covid-19 lockdown. Drawing together works by members of the public, celebrities and established artists, the works included are curated by Perry under weekly themes on the television program, Grayson's Art Club.

'mixed up with others before we even begin' celebrates the historical and cultural processes of creolisation as an age-old mode of world-making. The group exhibition features works that examine postcolonial histories of diversity, satirical transliteration, queer folklore, and collective feminist rituals.

Hospital Rooms has partnered with Devon Partnership NHS Trust to create artworks for three inpatient mental health wards at Torbay Hospital. Hospital Rooms is an arts and mental health charity that commissions extraordinary artworks for NHS mental health inpatient units across the UK, believing in the power of art to provide joy and dignity and to stimulate and heal.

'The World Reimagined' is a ground-breaking, national art education project to transform how the Transatlantic Slave Trade is understood and its lasting impact on all of us. A globe created by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA is on view alongside 95 others at Trafalgar Square on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 November. Eighteen of the globes including Shonibare's will be auctioned by Bonhams in support of the charitable project.

Deborah Roberts joins fellow artist vanessa german on the occassion of german receiving a 2022 Heinz Awards for the Arts. The two will discuss their creative practice and german will share live spoken-word poetry in response to specific artworks.

'Being In the World' marks the tenth anniversary of Long Museum. Curated by Iwona Blazwick, the group show is conceived as an artistic celebration of returning to 'the world' in the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic.⁠

LACMA has a long history of presenting abstract art, dating to the 1964 exhibition 'Post-Painterly Abstraction' at the Los Angeles County Museum in Exposition Park. All of the works in 'New Abstracts' are recent additions to the museum’s permanent collection, many on view for the first time since being acquired.

More than 50 years since the historic '5+1' exhibition at Stony Brook University, 'Revisiting 5+1' reflects and builds on the work and impact of its artists.

Solo presentation ‘Women Observed’ brings together over 40 paintings and oil sketches made since 2016, including several new paintings on display for the first time. The range of subjects depicted include women at work, spaces of leisure and intimate family scenes.

‘A Gateway To Possible Worlds’ brings together over 200 works from the late 1960s to the present day. The exhibition explores the world of science fiction as an expression of the present and a complex tool for understanding the future, which it helps to construct and predict. 

'Juan Francisco Elso: Por América' investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso. Based in Havana, Elso was part of the first generation of artists born and educated in post-revolutionary Cuba, who gained international recognition in the early 1980’s. The exhibition explores crosscurrents between Elso’s art and the creative output of both close colleagues and artists who demonstrate parallel affinities, featuring 45 works by more than 30 artists.

'Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art' is the first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways. Featuring 23 international artists working across recent decades, the exhibition examines the plasticity and the possibilities of ceramics.

Group exhibition 'Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths', curated by Massimiliano Gioni, assembles the work of over one hundred artists and more than two hundred pieces from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection. Taking its title from a 2017 painting by the American artist Nicole Eisenman held in the collection, the presentation brings together recent acquisitions that question the meanings and functions of figuration in contemporary art.

TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art is an annual contemporary art auction benefitting both the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. Included in this year's edition is Hulda Guzmán's 'THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN', 2022.

ICA and Sotheby’s join forces to raise funds to benefit the pioneering contemporary art institution in its 75th year. Yinka Shonibare CBE RA has created an entirely new piece for the sale, titled 'Modern Magic (Bangwa Queen)', 2022.