NAPLES, FL – Naples Botanical Garden opens its 2020-21 season, Roots: Power of the Unseen, with an ambitious 11-month exhibition of artist Steve Tobin’s acclaimed “Roots” sculptures. The steel and bronze works featured in Steve Tobin: Nature Underground pay homage to the wonderfully complex world that lies beneath the soil.
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The exhibition brings together the work of four contemporary photographers—Elliott Jerome Brown, Jr. (American, born 1993), Esther Hovers (Dutch, born 1991), Dionne Lee (American, born 1988), and Guanyu Xu (Chinese, born 1993)—who all work with and critique new practices in photography.
In three new galleries, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) provides a deeper understanding and appreciation of India and its people through more than 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and personal correspondence.
From the late 1940s on, the term cybernetics began to be used to describe self-regulating systems that measure, anticipate, and react in order to intervene in changing conditions.
The exhibition brings together eleven artists’ projects that respond to a world turned upside down.
Rising prices on the art market make it increasingly difficult for public art institutions to acquire new works by celebrated artists. Now Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have joined forces to acquire a work by El Anatsui from the Sigg Collection, a Swiss private art collection. El Anatsui, from Ghana, is Africa's most prominent contemporary artist, known for large sculptures made from recycled bottle caps. The work will be shown alternately in Bern and Amsterdam.
CARVALHO PARK is pleased to present Mimi Jung: The Subsuming Ellipse, marking the Seoul-born, Los Angeles-based artist’s second exhibition with the gallery and her first solo show in New York.
Engineer, Agitator, Constructor will showcase the activities of historical avant-gardes, including galvanizing works of Dada, Bauhaus, De Stijl, Futurism, and Russian Constructivism, and highlights such figures as Aleksandr Rodchenko, Lyubov Popova, John Heartfield, and Hannah Höch.
The exhibition uniquely positions the iconic artist among a community of peers who were also at the forefront of post-graffiti, a transformative moment in American art.
The Walker Art Center has acquired 39 new works, deepening its commitment to Minnesota artists.
