Ebony G. Patterson, ...and the dew cracks the earth, in five acts of lamentation...between the cuts...beneath the leaves...below the soil..., 2020. Digital print on archival watercolor paper with hand-cut and torn elements, construction paper, wallpaper, poster board, acrylic gel medium, feathered monarch butterflies, 9 1/4 × 46 3/4 feet (overall). Courtesy of the artist and Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago. Installation view, Ebony G. Patterson ...when the cuts erupt...the garden rings...and the warning is a wailing..., Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, 2020. Photo: Dusty Kessler. © Ebony G. Patterson.

Upcoming exhibitions at ICA/Boston

Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms May 26–September 5, 2022 ICA Watershed The ICA Watershed presents Revival: Materials and Monumental Forms, an exhibition of large-scale installations by international artists who reclaim industrial and everyday materials. Inspired by the Watershed building’s mixed-use history—built in the 1930s as a copper pipe and sheet metal manufacturing plant and renovated by the…

May 21, 2022

Patrice L’Écuyer in Les détecteurs de mensonges (detail), 1990–2021, Radio Canada. Photo: Jean-Pierre Karsenty.

Eva Barto: Weak Tongue at Frac Île-de-France, Le Plateau

May 19–July 24, 2022 Considering that the assets embezzled by their President to live in luxury should be returned to the people, the demonstrators did not ransack or loot the premises but wished to open them up to the public as a Museum of Corruption. —Tripadvisor: Museum of Corruption Weak Tongue, Eva Barto’s first solo exhibition in…

May 21, 2022

Vera Molnar, Interruptions, 1968. Plotter drawing in ink on Benson plotter paper, 13.5 x 12.75 inches.

Education Events

Vera Molnár: Variations at University of California, Irvine

April 2–August 27, 2022 The Beall Center for Art + Technology at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) presents Vera Molnár: Variations, a survey of Molnar’s work from 1958 to 2014, both her pre-computational and early computational drawings. The computational drawings in the exhibition focus on three kinds of objects: lines, squares, rectangles, and scribbles, each…

May 20, 2022

Synnøve Anker Aurdal, Solen, 1968. Tangen Collection. Photo: Vegard Kleven

Events

Synnøve Anker Aurdal at Astrup Fearnley Museet

May 21–September 4, 2022 This year’s summer exhibition is devoted to Synnøve Anker Aurdal (1908–2000), one of Norway’s foremost textile artists. The presentation features works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection alongside key pieces loaned from other collections in Norway, a number of which have rarely or never before been shown in public. Together, these works illustrate…

May 20, 2022

Nina Malterud, Weather Map, 2018. Photo: Dag Fosse.

Events

KODE Bergen Art Museum presents Nina Malterud: Material Statements

May 20–September 11, 2022 For nearly 50 years, Nina Malterud has been one of Norway’s foremost artists in her field. This May, KODE Art Museum presents Material Statements—a major retrospective exhibition of the artist featuring more than hundred works from every stage of her career. Nina Malterud (b. 1951) was one of the key Norwegian figures in…

May 20, 2022

Nam June Paik, Cyberforum, 1994. Korean Folk Village Art Museum Collection.

Events

Nam June Paik: Archaeology of Avant-garde at Nam June Paik Art Center

March 3–September 18, 2022 Curator: Lee Soo Young If Nam June Paik were still alive, we would have celebrated his 90th birthday on a grand scale. What would have 90-year-old Paik said to us? What kind of insight would he have given about the pandemic and metaverse, and the direction of art and technology in our time?…

May 20, 2022

Screening of The Shape of Light on the M+ Facade, M+, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong, 2022. Courtesy of Ellen Pau and M+, Hong Kong. Photo: Lok Cheng. M+, Hong Kong.

Events

M+ and Art Basel co-commission The Shape of Light by Ellen Pau

May 20–June 19, 2022 Live performance: May 27, 5–8pm, Ellen Pau in collaboration with Shane Aspegren, Amy Chan, Elysa Wendi, and Quinn Wong Artist talk and screening: May 28, 2–3:30pm, Ellen Pau in dialogue with Ulanda Blair Grand Stair, M+ Online screening : May 29–June 1, a collection of Ellen Pau’s pioneering videos made between 1988 and 2015 M+, Asia’s first global museum of contemporary…

May 20, 2022

View of Balcony of the brave, 2022 Courtesy Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing.

Events

Diane Xing Balcony of the Brave: Nutrition, Materials, and Future Ecology at Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing

Beijing, April 27, 2022 Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing is proud to announce the opening of Balcony of the Brave: Nutrition, Materials, and Future Ecology curated by Diane Xing, one of the Hyundai Blue Prize Art+Tech 2022 Awardees. Faced with a chaotic present and an uncertain future, curator Diane Xing believes that we need technologies that are rooted…

May 20, 2022

Marguerite Humeau, Waste I - 1 (a respiratory tract mutating into industrial waste), 2019. Courtesy of the artist and CLEARING, New York, Brussels. Photo: Eden Krsmanovic.

Events Galleries Visual Arts Events

The Power Plant presents BREATHLESS

May 20–October 30, 2022 Artists: Flaka Haliti, Marguerite Humeau, Donna Kukama, and Julius von Bismarck The Power Plant is pleased to present a unique partnership with guest curator Ala Roushan: BREATHLESS—a project arising from today’s urgent concerns for our shared atmosphere. Conceived as a conceptual ecosystem, BREATHLESS manifests as an outdoor pavilion with integrated artworks that address…

May 20, 2022

View of Tassili, SculptureCenter, New York, 2022. Photo: Charles Benton.

Events

Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili at SculptureCenter

Lydia Ourahmane’s works often begin as large, open-ended propositions that find the edges of possibility within the political, environmental, and metaphysical conditions in which she operates. Lydia Ourahmane: Tassili is an engagement with a remote desert, how and why one travels there, and the conditions of image production. Specifically it is about Tassili n’Ajjer, a…

May 20, 2022