Simon Lee
Gary Simmons

Psyche and Politics
Psyche and Politics is an exhibition at Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden that examines processes and poses the question of how social and political experiences, which are so different all across the globe, can be made visible through art. The exhibition presents the positions of ten international artists, among them Jim Shaw, who deal with the perception of the self and its transformation into the external world.
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Image: Jim Shaw, St. George and the Dragon, 2015

The Gaze of Things: Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke
The Gaze of Things: Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke shows a selection of works from the Per Amor a l’Art Collection, that constitutes the most important private collection of Japanese photography between 1957 and 1972 outside Japan. The exhibition brings together a selection of images that focuses on the artists, among them João Penalva, involved in the formation of VIVO (1959-1961), as well as the collective responsible for Provoke magazine (Provocative Materials for Thought) (1968).
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Installation View: João Penalva, Simon Lee Gallery, London 2015

Twisted Refrain: The Work of Marnie Weber
Marnie Weber’s centralizing embrace of the societal fringe mimics our globalized reassessment of the dominant point of view, debunking the old norm for a new model where the previously peripheral moves to center stage. Her world of freaky side-show circus characters, runaway waifs and mobile home denizens are counter-culture oddities recast as empowered models of defiantly capable heroes, or at least battered survivors.
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Film still:@ Marnie Weber, A Western Song, 2007

Men of Steel, Women of Wonder
Men of Steel, Women of Wonder is a new exhibition developed by Crystal Bridges Assistant Curator Alejo Benedetti that examines art-world responses to Superman and Wonder Woman ranging from their Depression-era origins to today’s contemporary artist interpretations. The exhibition features over 70 paintings, photographs, installations, videos, and more by over 50 artists, among them Jim Shaw.
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Instalation View: Jim Shaw, at Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, Crystal Bridges

Maybe Maybe Not: Christopher Wool and the Hill Collection
Maybe Maybe Not presents an emblematic selection of the work of American artist Christopher Wool. It inaugurates the exhibition program of the Hill Art Foundation, a cultural center conceived to offer broad public access to the seminal collection of contemporary and historical works assembled by J. Tomilson and Janine Hill over the past four decades.
This presentation of paintings, works on paper, photographs and prints encapsulates the evolution of Wool's career, ranging from early experiments to more recent explorations of spontaneous gesture and digital intervention.
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Image: Christopher Wool, Untitled, 2006
Photo credit: Courtesy Private Collection

Hate Speech: Aggression and Intimacy
Hate Speech: Aggression and Intimacy presents international positions in contemporary art that address forms of ever more aggressive communication and the effects of social media, as well as their media-related facets. The exhibition features various international artists, including Jim Shaw, and takes as its point of departure the alarming leanings of this development toward what is often much-too-direct speech.
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Image: Jim Shaw, Tragedy Display, 2018
Preview: Friday 1 February, 6pm

Atelier E.B: Passer-by
A common interest in the history of motifs and retail display inspired designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie to form the Atelier E.B fashion label.
Their first exhibition in France combines contemporary creation, the history of fashion and museum design. It opens with a bespoke showroom for their new collection, Jasperwear, and continues with historical research into the figure of the mannequin, from ancient sculpture to department store windows. It ends with a series of commissions by contemporary artists, among them Josephine Pryde.
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Image: Ost End Girls collection 2013, Emma...blanket by Marc Camille Chaimowicz courtesy for Atelier E.B.
Photography: Rob Smith

Desert X 2019
Desert X presents a group exhibition curated by Artistic Director Neville Wakefield with Co-Curators Amanda Hunt and Matthew Schum, comprised of works by a range of artists including Eric N. Mack and Gary Simmons.
Desert X® is produced by Desert Biennial, a non-for-profit 501(C)(3) charitable organization founded in 2015 to bring the finest international artists to the Coachella Valley to create art, engage viewers, and focus attention on the valley's environment - its natural wonders as well as socio-political-economic issues that make it vibrant, curious, and exciting.
For more details please visit the Desert X website.
Image: Eric N. Mack, Halter, 2019 courtesy for Desert X 2019
Photography: Lance Gerber

Grace Wales Bonner: A Time for New Dreams
Grace Wales Bonner presents the first in a new series of unique projects in the fields of music, fashion, art and design, featuring Eric N. Mack. Themes of mysticism and ritual permeate Wales Bonner’s exhibition, which explores magical resonances within black cultural and aesthetic practices.
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Photo credit: © 2019 readsreads.info

Mai-Thu Perret: The Blazing World
The Blazing World, Perret’s first major solo exhibition in the UK, explores the subject of witchcraft and the relationship between women’s oppression and the emergence of capitalism. In her immersive installation at Spike Island, a theatrical stage recalls sacred forms of architecture and is punctuated with ritualistic sculptures, puppets and textiles.
For more information, please visit the Museum's website.
Preview: Friday 18 January, 6–9pm
Performance: Wednesday 20 March, 7–8pm

Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room
Lemme walk across the room, the first New York City solo exhibition by Eric N. Mack, transforms the Brooklyn Museum's Great Hall with a site-responsive installation of new and existing textile-based works hung, mounted, and draped in conversation with the classical architecture of the space. Mack's work explodes the boundaries of painting, sculpture, and fashion, dynamically reflecting and framing the rich visual experiences of the everyday.
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Installation view: Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room, Brooklyn Museum, January 11 – July 7, 2019
Photography: Jonathan Dorado

Claudio Parmiggiani: Dematerialization
The Frist Art Museum presents Claudio Parmiggiani: Dematerialization, the artist’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States. Opening Saturday 2 February 2019, the show continues until 5 May.
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Valerie Snobeck: Build of a Nearby Valley While Looking Afar
For her second exhibition at Le Consortium, Valerie Snobeck: Build of a Nearby Valley while Looking Afar, Valerie Snobeck presents a body of work made specifically for the exhibition during her residency at the Atelier Calder in the summer of 2018.
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Installation view: Atelier Calder, Saché, France, July, 2018
Photo credit: Guillaume Blanc

KALEIDOSCOPE | Eric N. Mack
Kaleidoscope will take over the entire surface of Spazio Maiocchi in Milan, curating a multimedia experience which brings together a diverse selection of international artists featured in the magazine’s newly-released Fall/Winter issue. After a two-month residency at Spazio Maiocchi, American artist Eric N. Mack allows visitors into his temporary studio, presenting it as an installation and a glimpse into his creative process. A language of the suspended pile, the messy space, of bodies leaving traces behind, the artist’s shamanic combinations of textile, newspaper pages and fragments of everyday objects have an architectural, even Baroque ambition—his painterly gestures sublimated into a “ballad of the black mundane.”
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7–9 PM Public opening and performance

In Conversation: Eric N. Mack and Grace Wales Bonner
Eric N. Mack and Grace Wales Bonner will be in conversation about their latest collaboration, Des Hommes et des Dieux [Of Men and Gods]. Moderated by design curator, Emily King, this conversation will explore their unique way of working together and use of materials to reflect identity and propose new narratives. For more information please visit Frieze.com.

Toby Ziegler: Your shadow rising
The Museum of Old and New Art (MONA) in Tasmania, Australia, has officially announced the impending exhibition Toby Ziegler: Your shadow rising. The show will open Saturday 3 November, and will continue until 25 March 2019.
For more information please visit the Museum website.

Amazing! Mel Bochner Prints from the Collection of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation
Philbrook partners with the Jordan D. Schnitzer Family Foundation to present a survey of more than 50 prints by Mel Bochner. The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
For more information please visit the Philbrook website.

Centennial Kickoff
The Phillips Collection, Washington, celebrates the reopening of the newly renovated Phillips House. For the occasion the collection will inaugurate a specially commissioned outdoor sculpture by Angela Bulloch.
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STANLEY
João Penalva alludes to the life and work of Stanley Brouwn through a collection of measuring tools and devices, photographs, Brouwn’s artist books and catalogues, and a new artist book produced for this exhibition.
For more information, please visit the Lumiar Cité website.

Mai-Thu Perret
MAMCO presents its first major exhibition of works by Mai-Thu Perret following her nomination for the Manor Prize in 2011. This survey show will explore the full scope of the artist’s practice, which embraces disciplines from sculpture to film, ceramics and performance.
For more information please visit the MAMCO, Musée d’art modern et contemporain website.

Fifteen Dancers and Changeable Tempo
On the occasion of his major solo exhibition at MUDAM Luxembourg, the National Ballet of Portugal will perform Fifteen Dancers and Changeable Tempo at the Grand Théâtre in Luxembourg on 15 September - a ballet created and directed by João Penalva. As an introduction to the performance João Penalva will be in conversation with choreographer Rui Lopes Graça and researcher Carla Montez Fernandes at MUDAM on 12 September.
For more information, please visit the Mudam Luxembourg website.

Atelier E.B
Run between Edinburgh and Brussels, Atelier E.B is the fashion label under which designer Beca Lipscombe and artist Lucy McKenzie collaborate. At the Serpentine Sackler Gallery, Atelier E.B will examine the intersecting relationships between art, design, commerce and display through the figure of the mannequin, and includes work by Josephine Pryde.
For more information, please visit the Serpentine Galleries website.