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'Material (SG) II', by Yinka Shonibare CBE, which forms part of the artist’s 'Wind Sculpture' series, will be unveiled in 2021 at the outdoor plaza at the new office building, 360 Rosemary. The sculpture was commissioned in collaboration with Related Companies, The West Palm Beach Art in Public Places (AiPP) Program and city of West Palm Beach. 

Public Art Fund was invited by Empire State Development to develop and direct a program of ambitious art installations for three prominent sites within the new Moynihan Train Hall, to be launched in January 2021. These very different commissions, by Stan Douglas, Elmgreen & Dragset, and Kehinde Wiley, demonstrate each artist’s ingenuity and vision.

Jim Hodges' new mirrored-glass artwork is now on view above the busiest entrance at Grand Central Station. Located near the 42 Street entrance, on the landing and mezzanine levels of the stairs and escalator that connect Grand Central Terminal with the subway station, the expansive work is comprised of over 5,000 pieces of glass in more than 70 different colours. 

This new monograph represents the first in-depth survey of the life and work of one of America's most celebrated contemporary artists. 

The Queen's New Year Honours list recognises the achievements of a wide range of outstanding individuals from across the United Kingdom. We are pleased to announce that this year Denzil Forrester has been awarded an MBE for services to Visual Arts.

As 2020 ends and another year begins, DRAF's 'Broadcasts: On Screen' programme also draws to a close. After screening fourteen works from the David Roberts Collection so far this year, DRAF leaves us with a final edition, the aptly symbolic 'Light Switch' by David Shrigley. 

'K.I.P' brings together emerging and international artists in an annual project which spans the outdoor public spaces of Puurs-Sint-Amands. For its third iteration, Kendell Geers presents 'Pro Deo et Patria', a sculpture in which two police batons are placed side by side in the sign of a cross. A tool of neither church nor state, this provocative sculpture embodies Geers' faith in the power of art to "change the world – one perception at a time."

‘Winter Dreams’ is a presentation of five collection paintings by Hulda Guzmán, Chris Johanson, and Firenze Lai. Displayed 24-hours in a street-facing vitrine, ‘The Nightmare’, from the series 'Be Kind To Your Demons', 2018 by Hulda Guzmán presents a number of scenes in which female characters carry out mundane activities in the company of devil-like creatures. 

'Photographic Images and Matter: Japanese Prints of the 1970s' is a travelling exhibition of Japanese prints and editions, which opened at Salah Taher gallery in the grounds of the Cairo Opera House in December 2020. The exhibition explores how artists employed myriad printmaking techniques to express the tumult of contemporary Japanese society at the time. 

'Las Palmas: Apofenia' is part of 'Chain reaction', an ongoing collaboration between Fidelidade Arte and Culturgest, Porto where the exhibition travels in spring 2021. Amongst the works on display are new sculptures by Holly Hendry that were created for 'Busy Bodies', the British artist's solo project for Frieze London 2020.

Claire Barclay has been commissioned by Tideway, London to create artworks for the new public realm site at Putney. In response to the heritage theme ‘Recreation to Industry: Society in Transition', Barclay has developed a series of three works: three bronze oars to be incorporated into the foreshore balustrade in the form of lengths of handrail; text integrated within the inlaid University Boat Race (UBR) marker line in the form of raised cast lettering; and a graphic pattern waterjet cut into the granite walling of the foreshore kiosk.

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts marks one year since the 2019 unveiling of Kehinde Wiley’s ‘Rumors of War’, presenting both outdoor and virtual events to "pay tribute to the sculpture’s power, beauty, and prophetic relevance". 

Artist Deborah Roberts joined Evelyn Hankins (Senior Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden) for an online discussion on power, identity, and challenging cultural myths and stereotypes. This virtual event is part of 'Talking to Our Time', the Hirshhorn’s online series of free artist talks featuring a diverse group of artists and collectives. The talk is also part of #HirshhornInsideOut, the Museum’s initiative to bring art into your home.

'My name is not Refugee' is a group exhibition at Firstsite, Colchester which brings together works chosen by refugees and asylum seekers living in the local area. The show explores what it means to find connections in a new place and considers questions about our purpose, choices and morality as human beings. Included in the presentation is David Shrigley's 'The Bell', 2007, on loan from the Arts Council Collection, UK. 

Pérez Art Museum hosted a panel discussion titled 'Black Diasporic Feminism, Intersectionality, and Solidarity in the Age of Protest' on Wednesday 2 December. The conversation took place in conjunction with the special exhibition 'Allied with Power: African and African Diaspora Art from the Jorge M. Pérez Collection' and included three artists featured in the exhibition, Genevieve Gaignard, Naudline Pierre and Deborah Roberts.

This winter, M77 Gallery presents 'OrnAmenTum’EtKriMen' a solo exhibition by South African artist and activist Kendell Geers and curated by Danilo Eccher. The show is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue published by the gallery, which is conceived as a discussion between the artist and curator. 

'Grayson's Art Club' is a group exhibition of works selected by British artist Grayson Perry from 'Grayson’s Art Club', the popular Channel 4 TV series made during the lockdown in the UK due to Covid-19.

"With this lecture on 'Robert Walser-Sculpture', a work in a public space that I/we completed last year with residents of the city of Biel/Bienne, I want to explain in my own words what I gained from this complex and difficult, yet incredibly beautiful experience." – Thomas Hirschhorn 

‘Melvin Edwards: The Sculptor of Resistance’ is a touring solo exhibition which was initiated at Auroras, São Paulo in 2019 and travelled to Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil in November 2020. Spanning sixty-years' of Edwards' practice, the show revisits significant moments within the African-American artist's expansive career.