Jasper Johns’s groundbreaking work sent shock waves through the art world when it was first shown in the late 1950s, and he has continued to challenge new audiences – and himself – over a career spanning more than sixty-five years.Jasper Johns: Mind/Mirror is the most comprehensive retrospective ever devoted to Johns’s art. Featuring his most iconic works along with many others shown for the first time, it comprises a broad range of paintings, drawings, prints, and sculptures from 1954 to today across two sites. Conceived as a whole but displayed in two distinct parts, the exhibition appears simultaneously at the Whitney and at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, two institutions with which Johns has had long-standing relationships. This unique dual structure draws on the artist’s lifelong fascination with mirroring and doubles, so that each half of the exhibition echoes and reflects the other. Organized in largely chronological order, the retrospective presents pairs of related galleries – one in each city – that offer varied perspectives on the artist’s turns of mind. Individually, each gallery focuses on a particular aspect of Johns’s thought and work through the lens of different themes, processes, images, mediums, and even emotional states. Taken together, they provide an immersive exploration of the many phases, treasures, and mysteries of a radical, enduring, and still-evolving career.
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World Press Photo 2023Winners & Exhibitions Announced
Representing major news events and important moments overlooked by the mainstream media in 2022, the 2023 World Press Photo Contest winning works call attention to some of the most pressing issues facing the world today (more…)
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Mild Vertigo by Mieko KanaiBook Publication
The apparently unremarkable Natsumi lives in a modern Tokyo apartment with her husband and two sons: she does the laundry, goes to the supermarket, visits friends, and gossips with neighbors. (more…)
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I Declare a Permanent State of HappinessKenneth Goldsmith
My entire poetic production is founded upon Wittgenstein’s later writings. Although it has sat on my shelf for decades, I never actually read the Tractatus. But I always loved the idea of it; I am a conceptual writer, after all. –Kenneth Goldsmith (more…)
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Thailand Biennale 2023 / The Open WorldDec 9, 2023 – Apr 30, 2024
The first edition of Thailand Biennale was initiated by the Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Thailand’s Ministry of Culture in Krabi in 2018, followed by Korat in 2021. By alternating the locations from various provinces throughout the country, the spirit of the Thailand Biennale decentralizes artistic activities (more…)
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The Others 2023November 2–5, 2023
The Others was founded twelve years ago as a revolutionary project, in order to offer to the most innovative artistic expressions the opportunity to participate in a fair with the same facilities of the great international events, but with costs of access among the lowest in the world. (more…)
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Butterfly! Arken’s CollectionFeb 10 – Dec 31, 2023
Esben Weile Kjær is a luminous star on the Danish and international art scene. In the spring of 2023, he will curate ARKEN’s collection of Danish and international contemporary art. (more…)
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Alec SothPhotographer
Alec Soth’s work is rooted in the distinctly American tradition of ‘on-the-road photography’ developed by Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. From Huckleberry Finn to Easy Rider there seems to be a uniquely American desire to travel and chronicle the adventures that consequently ensue. (more…)
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FotografiskaPhotography Center
Fotografiska is an international meeting place where everything revolves around photography. Located in the heart of Stockholm, with additional locations in New York, London and Tallinn (more…)
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Alek O. / On the Final Day You Won’t Need EnglishMar 31 – May 27, 2023
Il giorno della fine non ti servirà l’inglese (“On the Final Day You Won’t Need English”) is the title that artist Alek O. has chosen for his first solo exhibition in the Martina Simeti Gallery spaces. (more…)
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A Photographic Life: Ashleigh ColemanEpisode 186
In Episode 186 The United Nations of Photography founder and curator Grant Scott is in his shed reflecting on commitment to photography and photographers, never getting old, questioning funded photographic institutions (more…)
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Bauhaus and BeyondOngoing
“A reunion between creative arts and the industrial world” is how architect Walter Gropius described the Bauhaus, the school of art and design he founded in 1919 in Weimar, Germany (more…)
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Pellicola Magazine + Mucho Mas!Open Call
The research of the other is what moves our existence. We exist insofar as we have the desire to encounter, to discover what we do not yet know. It is through this experience that we define our identity, our limits and our possibilities. (more…)
