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This month, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents What Remains to Be Seen, the first major traveling museum survey of Howardena Pindell. Covering five decades of Pindell’s paintings, collages, writings, drawings, and videos, the exhibition also documents her activist projects and includes work from the last two years. Her groundbreaking, multidisciplinary art explores texture, color, and structure. Pindell uses bright colors and unconventional materials such as string, glitter, colored paper and sequins in her work.
Human rights and dignity form the core of Fazal Sheikh’s photographs. For more than 25 years, he has worked with individuals rendered invisible by war, ethnic and religious strife, climate crises, and social banishment, inviting them to share their stories of unimaginable hardship and perseverance. Featuring works from eight of his series, Common Ground demonstrates Sheikh’s sustained attention to the displaced around the world, and his drive to amplify the voices of the marginalized through his documentary-based photographic practice.
Rudolf Stingel’s Monumental Mountain Range
A view of the Tyrolean Alps near Merano, Italy, the town where the artist was born
The first landscape painting by the artist to appear at auction
Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale London, 7 March 2018
The top four highest auction prices for the artist were set last year
BMA ILLUMINATES LOBBY OF HISTORIC BUILDING WITH MOON DUST (APOLLO 17) BY ACCLAIMED AMERICAN ARTIST SPENCER FINCH
Dramatic light work created for 2009 Venice Biennale will be on view for seven years
Opening at Sean Kelly, New York this month, ‘Marina Abramović Early Works’ displays a historical record of the early, groundbreaking performances by the “Grandmother of Performance Art.” The 12 photos represent performances from the 1970's, including her Rhythm series, Lips of Thomas (star on stomach), Art Must Be Beautiful, Artist Must Be Beautiful, and others.
Original Cover Art for The Amazing Spider-Man #100 May Bring $300,000 at Heritage Auctions
Classic vintage comic books highlight Feb. 22-24 auction
Full of glamour, theatricality, escapism, but also wit, innovation, and issues confronting our time, New Orleans Museum of Art’s first presentation of fashion design is an exhibition unlike any ever seen in New Orleans. A Queen Within: Adorned Archetypes, on view from February 21 to May 28, 2018, brings together a wild array of more than one hundred gowns, headpieces, shoes, jewelry, and images by the most insightful fashion designers, artists, and photographers of the past ten years.
Dan Flavin: in daylight or cool white
David Zwiner537 West 20th Street New York
February 21—April 14, 2018
According to the introductory exhibition text, sculptor Bob Trotman’s Business as Usual aims to examine “the confluence of power, privilege, greed, and pretense that often characterizes the world of corporate capitalism.” The show emphasizes the dehumanizing nature of corporate America. But because they respond to the visitor’s approach via motion activation, there is a surprisingly intimate and playful relation between these objects and the spectator.
