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WIA Artist Profile: Morag Myerscough

WIA Artist Profile: Morag Myerscough

Artist and designer Morag Myerscough, born and bred in London, creates installations and immersive spatial artworks that transform places and champion community and public interaction. Her work is firmly rooted in a very personal experience of belonging and never fails to charm, entice and encourage people to feel differently about their experience of where they are. Every artwork generates a…

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REVIEW - Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican London

REVIEW – Masculinities: Liberation through Photography, Barbican London

by Brooklyn Rue

The Barbican reopened to the public on 13 July 2020, reopening the acclaimed Masculinities: Liberation through Photographyexhibition which ran for four weeks before the gallery temporarily closed in March due to Covid-19. Now, the exhibition will run until 23 August 2020 and is available for viewing in person with new social distancing measures as well as online through an…

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SPOTLIGHT ON… LYNNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE

SPOTLIGHT ON… LYNNETTE YIADOM-BOAKYE #WIA #lynnetteyiadomboakye #painting #womeninart #womensart

By Brooklyn Rue

Lynnette Yiadom-Boakye uses suggestive, imprecise brushstrokes to create her expressive portraits, which are usually of Black men and women in unclear time periods and settings. She works with oil paint, which she told Dodie Kazanjian in an interview with Vogue she likes for its dirtiness and messiness as well as the fact that it is “fleshy and unpredictable — it has a kind of…

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Hayward Gallery to reopen to the public on 1 August with Among the Trees exhibition and offering free tickets for NHS staff

Hayward Gallery to reopen to the public on 1 August with Among the Trees exhibition and offering free tickets for NHS staff #whatson #london

London’s Southbank have announced the Hayward Gallery will open from Saturday 1 August 2020, with free entry for NHS workers and tickets priced at £5 for Lambeth residents and those under 30.

Among the Treescelebrates key works of art that reimagine how we think about trees and forests. Illuminating their beauty and visually arresting character, the exhibition invites us to consider trees as both…

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Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards announce Long and Shortlists for 35th edition of the prize

Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards announce Long and Shortlists for 35th edition of the prize #artbooks #womeninphotography #awards @KrasznaKrausz

The Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards have announced the long and shortlisted titles for the 35th edition of the prize. The books in the running for the 2020 Photography Book Award and Moving Image Book Award address diverse global issues related to race, justice, identity, and the construction of truth, history and memory.

Ranging from illuminating artist monographs and anthologies to in-depth…

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WIA Artist Profile: Silvia Giambrone

"If I had to find an image for what it means to be an artist, I would say it’s like being a tightrope walker over the empty abyss that we feel as humans and to which we are steadily drawn to." #WIA #artistinterview @silviagiambrone

Silvia Giambrone works in performance, installation, sculpture, sound, video to explore contemporary body politics. Giambrone casts a critical gaze on the traditional domestic environment and excavates the inherent yet often hidden power dynamics between men and women.

Frame No. 21, 2019 Silver, wax, acacia thorns 8 3/10 × 5 1/10 in 21 × 13 cm courtesy of the artist and Richard Saltoun Gallery WIA:…

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Bristol's Black Lives Matter statue removed

Bristol's Black Lives Matter statue removed #ASurgeOfPower #JenReid #representationmatters

The statue of Black Lives Matter protester, Jen Reid, which in an act of guerrilla activism by artist Mark Quinn and Black Lives Matter protesters, was placed on the plinth recently vacated by slaver Edward Colston, has been removed.

Photo Credit: (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

The sculpture was taken away on the back of a lorry at around 5.30 this morning by Bristol Council. The black resin and steel…

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CALL FOR ARTISTS: A LETTER IN MIND - ART ON AN ENVELOPE

CALL FOR ARTISTS: A LETTER IN MIND - ART ON AN ENVELOPE #callforartists #NHS #fundraiser

Call for artists to take part in A Letter in Mind 2020, fundraising for NHS hospital: The National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. In recent years Tracey Emin, Grayson Perry, Antony Gormley, Olafur Eliasson and David Shrigley have donated artworks.

Artists can register at: aletterinmind.org

Tracey Emin, A Letter in Mind 2019

The National Brain Appeal’s art fundraiser A Letter in Mindasks…

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£10,000 Tate Bursaries announced

£10,000 Tate Bursaries announced

Tate Britain have announced the ten artists who will each receive one-off £10,000 bursaries in place of this year’s Turner Prize: Arika, Liz Johnson Artur, Oreet Ashery, Shawanda Corbett, Jamie Crewe, Sean Edwards, Sidsel Meineche Hansen, Ima-Abasi Okon, Imran Perretta and Alberta Whittle.

Alex Farquharson, Director of Tate Britain said: “Following a lively and rigorous virtual debate, the jury…

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34th Bienal de São Paulo extended to 2021

34th Bienal de São Paulo extended to 2021 #artnews

The Ministry of Tourism, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo and Itaú present the 34th Bienal de São Paulo and announce the extention of the 34th Bienal program until the end of 2021.

This moves the 35th São Paulo Bienal to 2023.

In a press release, the Fundação Bienal de São Paulo announced:

In light of the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has imposed on the world, Fundação Bienal…

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National Gallery awards first Contemporary Fellowship

National Gallery awards first Contemporary Fellowship

Artist Nalini Malani is to receive the first Contemporary Fellowship awarded by the National Gallery, and supported by Art Fund.

The new National Gallery Contemporary Fellowshipwith Art Fund is a pioneering, peer-to-peer collaboration with a non-London collecting institution, which this year is the Holburne Museum, Bath. The Fellowship, which is awarded to an artist of international standing and…

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Women in Abstraction - Call for Papers

Women in Abstraction - #CallforPapers #Paris #2021 #positivefutures #womeninart

Call for papers for symposium running alongside the exhibition Women in Abstraction. Another History of Abstraction in the 20th Century scheduled for 2021 at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, continuing in 2021-2022 at the Guggenheim Bilbao (curators: Christine Macel and Karolina Lewandowska in charge of photography).

The event is organized in partnership between the Musée National d’Art Moderneand the

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"Some of you may feel tired and saturated but we ain’t done yet... "

“Some of you may feel tired and saturated but we ain’t done yet… “

“Some of you may feel tired and saturated but we ain’t done yet… ”

Museum Detox have published advice for organisations and those working in the arts to fight racism.

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In conversation: Niamh Coghlan, Richard Saltoun Gallery

In conversation: Niamh Coghlan, Richard Saltoun Gallery

It’s late on Friday afternoon here in London and we’re catching up with Niamh Coghlan, Director, Richard Saltoun Gallery about how she’s getting on under lockdown, the amazing year long initiative 100% Women, which ran from March 2019, to show only women artists, and what we can look forward to in the future. I joke that Friday afternoon isn’t an ideal time to schedule a meeting, but it’s 8 am…

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Black Lives Matter Standing in solidarity #blacklivesmatter

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WIA Artist Profile: Ingrid Berthon-Moine

NEW WIA Artist Profile: Ingrid Berthon-Moine #ArtistInterview #feministart #sculpture #kitchentakeover Read interview with @ingberthonmoine here

French artist Ingrid Berthon-Moine subverts the male gaze by subjecting the male body to the same scrutiny that is traditionally paid to the female. She uses a humorous and mischievous touch to examine the construction of identity and its behavioural consequences in our society.

Berthon-Moine works in video, photography, sculpture, paint and drawing. Recently she took part in Open Space…

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