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More than 50 years since the historic '5+1' exhibition at Stony Brook University, 'Revisiting 5+1' reflects and builds on the work and impact of its artists.

Solo presentation ‘Women Observed’ brings together over 40 paintings and oil sketches made since 2016, including several new paintings on display for the first time. The range of subjects depicted include women at work, spaces of leisure and intimate family scenes.

‘A Gateway To Possible Worlds’ brings together over 200 works from the late 1960s to the present day. The exhibition explores the world of science fiction as an expression of the present and a complex tool for understanding the future, which it helps to construct and predict. 

'Juan Francisco Elso: Por América' investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso. Based in Havana, Elso was part of the first generation of artists born and educated in post-revolutionary Cuba, who gained international recognition in the early 1980’s. The exhibition explores crosscurrents between Elso’s art and the creative output of both close colleagues and artists who demonstrate parallel affinities, featuring 45 works by more than 30 artists.

'Strange Clay: Ceramics in Contemporary Art' is the first large-scale group exhibition in the UK exploring how contemporary artists have used clay in unexpected ways. Featuring 23 international artists working across recent decades, the exhibition examines the plasticity and the possibilities of ceramics.

Group exhibition 'Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths', curated by Massimiliano Gioni, assembles the work of over one hundred artists and more than two hundred pieces from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection. Taking its title from a 2017 painting by the American artist Nicole Eisenman held in the collection, the presentation brings together recent acquisitions that question the meanings and functions of figuration in contemporary art.

TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art is an annual contemporary art auction benefitting both the Dallas Museum of Art and amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research. Included in this year's edition is Hulda Guzmán's 'THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN', 2022.

ICA and Sotheby’s join forces to raise funds to benefit the pioneering contemporary art institution in its 75th year. Yinka Shonibare CBE RA has created an entirely new piece for the sale, titled 'Modern Magic (Bangwa Queen)', 2022.

Join us on Monday 10 October and Thursday 13 October, 6-8pm for special late openings to celebrate Frieze week and view solo presentations by Caroline Coon and Anne Rothenstein.

'To Begin Again: Artists and Childhood' features an international and intergenerational group of 40 artists whose works in painting, sculpture, photography, installation, and video illustrate the diverse experiences of childhood. Through six thematic sections, 'To Begin Again' explores how artists have engaged with issues of self-expression, creativity, power, care, labour, and learning through the subject of childhood.

'I Can't Breathe' is a group exhibition that both recognises the suffering of people of colour in a racist society, and provides space for group mourning, healing and hope.

Tiny Traces' presents a rich history of London life from 1739-1820, a key period in Britain’s colonial past, through the stories of children from the African and Asian diasporas in the care of the eighteenth-century Foundling Hospital. Running as a parallel thread throughout the exhibition, works of art from leading contemporary artists, including Deborah Roberts and Kehinde Wiley, form a dialogue with the historic narratives.

Thomas Hirschhorn's work, 'SAS de contamination', is a site specific installation created for the inauguration of the Lambert Collection. More than two decades later, Hirshhorn's work, conceptualised to explore the role of art in society, returns to Avignon.

Group exhibition 'A Perfect Day' brings together 56 international artists and over 500 drawings with text that reflects the poetic, absurd, frustrating, and glorious in daily life, accompanied by drawing sessions and a programme of live events.

Centred on the provocative term 'fake', the exhibition at Kunsthaus Graz traces the development of the interfaces between graphic design, media images and art since 1971.

As part of European Capital of Culture Holly Hendry presents 'Sump', an outdoor public sculpture commission in Esch-sur-Alzette.

A year since their inaugural exhibition in a cavernous Grade II listed former swimming baths, 'Pigeon Park' returns to its nesting home amid civic unrest, strikes and political hypocrisy to deliver another exhibition which questions inherited hierarchies and the meaning of material value in times of austerity.

The Texas Cultural Trust, a nonprofit organisation that supports access to the arts across the state, has announced the awardees for its 2023 Texas Medal of Arts Awards (TMAA). Deborah Roberts has...

'Subversive Tenderness' is an exploration of ideas of softness in nature and culture. It positions itself as the contemporary alternative to the modernist avant-garde, a tender reimagining of today's reality. 

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.