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Over the course of his nearly 50-year career, Melvin Edwards has explored materiality to confront social injustice. The title of this exhibition, ‘Wire(d) and Chain(ed)’, alludes to two of the artist's signature industrial media. Tracing the breadth of the artist’s life and work, the solo presentation showcases Edwards’ ability to formulate his distinct visual language in both two and three dimensions.

Inspired by feminism and the politics of sexual liberation, Caroline Coon’s unique paintings contest binary notions of gender and oppressive patriarchal values. Her works cover a variety of subjects including sex workers, beachgoers, intersex people, still lifes, football players and urban landscapes. All are united by Coon’s unwavering rebellion against the status quo. 

The Katherine E. Nash Gallery presents 'A Picture Gallery of the Soul', a group exhibition of over 100 Black American artists whose practice incorporates photography.  Featuring a range of photographic expressions from traditional photography to mixed media and conceptual art, the exhibition honours, celebrates, investigates, and interprets Black history, culture, and politics in the United States.

'Home is where the art is' explores the concept of art collection; from how works are brought together to how they interact with their surroundings, and in turn what this can communicate about the collector and the viewer.

'Breathe into the Past: Crosscurrents in the Caribbean' takes its title from a line in Alexis Pauline Gumbs’ 2020 book 'Dub: Finding Ceremony', which concerns channeling ancestral knowledge toward understanding Caribbean histories and navigating Caribbean futures. 

Focusing on the work of African American potters in the 19th-century American South—in dialogue with contemporary artistic responses—the exhibition presents approximately 50 ceramic objects from Old Edgefield District, South Carolina, a centre of stoneware production in the decades before the Civil War.

Nationalmuseum present a seminar on Yinka Shonibare CBE RA and his art, global trade, art collections and museum history. The seminar is arranged by Prinsessan Estelles stiftelse with lectures and panel discussions with representatives from the Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm School of Economics, Moderna Museet and Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art.

The first major exhibition of Hungarian abstract art in Korea, ‘Folded – Unfolded’ presents abstract painting by Hungarian artists from the 1960s and the 1970s. Taking place alongside Frieze Seoul 2022 and Kiaf (Korean International Art Fair) Seoul 2022, the group exhibition draws upon the recently established collection of the Central Bank of Hungary and represents a broad range of techniques and materials.

Reborn Art Festival is an arts and culture festival inaugurated during the summer of 2017 in one of the regions hardest hit by the triple disaster that devastated the northeastern coastline of Japan in 2011. Artworks created by renowned artists from Japan and around the world in collaboration with local people are exhibited in the Ishinomaki and Oshika areas.

The World Reimagined globe trails, are series of 103 unique public artworks that explore the history and legacy of the Transatlantic Trade as part of a UK-wide art and education initiative. The nationwide project aims to transform how we understand the Transatlantic Slave Trade and its impact. 

Featuring fifty-one artworks by thirty-six prominent artists, group exhibition ‘51 @ 51’ is rennie museum’s final presentation in the historic Wing Sang building. Breaking the museum’s self-imposed rule of not titling its shows, ‘51 @ 51’ references the number of artworks in the exhibition as well as the address of the museum, 51 East Pender Street.

This exhibition unites almost a century of work by 49 women and non-binary artists in a range of media drawn exclusively from the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection.

'Who tells a tale adds a tail: Latin America and contemporary art' highlights the work of 19 contemporary artists connected to Latin America. The exhibition demonstrates the ways in which ideas of storytelling and dialogue are essential to contemporary art practice.

We are delighted to present a panel discussion on Friday 22 July, 5-6pm (BST) chaired by Katy Hessel (art historian and founder of The Great Women Artists) featuring artists Kenturah Davis, Genevieve Gaignard, Deborah Roberts and Amy Sherald.

New York: 1962-1964 explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world, through more than 180 works of art—all made or seen in New York between 1962-1964.

‘SLAY’ features two paintings depicting different versions of the story of Judith and Holofernes, one by Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi and the other by American contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley.

Yinka Shonibare CBE RA will be celebrated at Anderson Ranch Arts Center at a series of events during their annual Recognition Week including a gala dinner and live benefit auction on 14 July. The proceeds of the auction will support the non profit arts centre to provide workshops and extended residencies for the local community and international artists. 

Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament meet with artist Jonathan Baldock to discuss his works across multiple platforms including sculpture, installation and performance for Season 13 of Talk Art.

The final instalment of the RWA’s elements series, ‘Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022’ is a major exhibition spanning four centuries of artwork. The group exhibition tackles the most expansive and urgent of subject matters, bringing together important modern, historical and contemporary artworks.

Black Rock Senegal announce the 2022-2023 participants for the third year of its Artist-in-Residence program. Founded by renowned artist Kehinde Wiley in 2019, Black Rock Senegal seeks to support new artistic creation through collaborative exchange and to incite change in the global discourse about Africa.