VRt Ventures and Shepard Fairy Launch “DAMAGED” VR/AR Experience

VRt Ventures, in partnership with Shepard Fairey and Juxtapoz Magazine, today announced the launch of “DAMAGED,” a VR/AR immersive experience allowing fans to step inside Shepard Fairey’s largest solo exhibition to date. Preserving the famed artist’s work in perpetuity, the experience will be available for download today on 5 major platforms, including Oculus, Samsung Gear...

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JASMINE WAHI OF PROJECT FOR EMPTY SPACE CURATES ALUMNI EXHIBITION AT YOUNGARTS – OPENING OCT 9

National YoungArts Foundation (YoungArts) is thrilled to announce today, during National Arts in Education Week, its fall exhibition curated by Project for Empty Space’s Jasmine Wahi titled Education as the Practice of Freedom. The exhibition, featuring works by 20 YoungArts alumni from 1987 through 2018, will open to the public with a reception on October...

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Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby

Above: Devan Shimoyama, Tasha, 2018, Courtesy of the artist. The Andy Warhol Museum announces Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby, opening October 13, 2018. Devan Shimoyama: Cry, Baby will mark the first museum solo exhibition of Devan Shimoyama, Philadelphia-born painter, and professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Spanning his burgeoning career, this exhibition includes painting, photography and...

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Black and Basel: Who made money at Art Basel Last Week

Above: Non-Orientable Nkansa II, 2017 by Ibrahim Mahama. White Cube, Installation, Mixed media. Courtesy of Art Basel/White Cube. Art Basel signature had quite a few artists from the African diaspora on view and pieces by black artist sold. Basel saw work by Barthelemy Toguo, Ghana’s Ibrahim Mahama, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kerry James Marshall, Nick Cave,...

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COREY DAMON BLACK TO DEBUT HIS FIRST SOLO SHOW NO TASTE IN MIAMI

Visual artist Corey Damon Black will debut his first unique exhibition featuring his own personal works with a preview on Friday, June 8 from 7-10 p.m., and open to the public June 9-15 from 12-7 p.m. in the Miami Design District’s Palm Court. NO TASTE will feature 23 works by Black, including his highly regarded...

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Dak’Art 2018: What I Saw and What I Thought

Dak’Art Biennale 2018, opened May 3rd in the vibrant city of Dakar, Senegal to a world of art aficionados, curators and art buyers. For the second iteration in a row, Simon Njami, including guest curators, curated the Biennale with artists representing the African continent and diaspora under the theme, “The Red Hour” by Aimee Ceaser....

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Pérez Art Museum Miami Presents william cordova now’s the time: narratives of southern alchemy

Above: william cordova, prophets (PLO, DC). Image courtesy william cordova, 2009. Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) presents william cordova now’s the time: narratives of southern alchemy curated by PAMM Associate Curator María Elena Ortiz. Born in Lima, Peru in 1969, cordova moved to Miami at the age of eight and now lives in Miami, Lima and...

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John Akomfrah’s Purple at Bildmuseet at Umeå University Through September 16

Above: John Akomfrah, Purple. Installation view Bildmuseet, 2018. Photo: Mikael Lundgren. Purple is an immersive six-channel video installation addressing man’s relationship to nature and to the planet, created by the British artist and filmmaker John Akomfrah. At a time when greenhouse gas emissions from human activities are at historically high levels and glaciers are melting,...

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Bouchra Khalili Presents New Films

Above: Bouchra Khalili, “Speeches – Chapter 1: Mother Tongue” (still) from The Speeches Series, 2012-2013. Video trilogy. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Polaris, Paris. In videos, photographs, and silkscreen prints she often assembles in complex installations that effectively form visual essays, the Moroccan-French artist Bouchra Khalili weaves a kind of “alternative history.” Challenging our...

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Tate Modern Announces Cinema Programme

Above:Gabriel Abrantes, Ornithes (still), 2013. 16mm film. Courtesy of Mutual Respect Productions and the artist Zhou Tao, Tamara Henderson, Babette Mangolte, Jean Painlevé, Cauleen Smith, Jan Švankmajer, Joan Jonas, Bahar Noorizadeh, William Kentridge, Shireen Seno, Jeremy Shaw, Sky Hopinka, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Jumana Manna, James N. Kienitz Wilkins, Wang Bing, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, Adam Pendleton, James Richards and Leslie...

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