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SummaryAlmine Rech Tribeca is currently hosting Skin of a Storm by French artist Inès Longevial through August 1.The exhibition features oil paintings, drawings and monotype prints that explore human form and the multiplicity of skin.For Inès Longevial, a body is a home. It’s an ethos reflected in her self-portraiture – diaristic captures, rich with washes of crimson, chantilly and ultramarine. Her current solo exhibition at Almine Rech in Tribeca distills this spirit into a sublime study of skin as the French artist takes her portraits to new heights.Pace and process ground Skin of a Storm. Central to the exhibition is a suite of new oil paintings, many of which were completed in a one-sitting “flow-state” as Lynn Maliszewski” describes in a recent press statement. “The female form become...

SummaryPlato Gallery is currently presenting Exaltation, a group exhibition of 18 artists, now through August 16 in New York.The exhibition reimagines mannerist art through a contemporary lens, taking cues from its embrace of excess as a means of survival in a world characterized by social, emotional and cultural upheaval.In response to an era defined by collapse and reinvention, artists are turning up the dial on extravagance and excess. This response is the center focus of Exaltation, a new 18-person group exhibition at New York’s Plato Gallery, now on view through August 16. The show explores what it means to make mannerist art today, framing our moment as a kind of exquisite distortion, one where history loops back on itself and emotional intensity becomes an act of survival.Mannerism ...

SummaryFootball City, Art United, a new group exhibition in Manchester, pairs legendary footballers with 11 contemporary artists to create all-new artworks inspired by their love of the game.Staged at Aviva Studios, the show brings together the efforts of Factory International, alongside Hans Ulrich Obrist, Juan Mata and Josh Wilding as co-curators.While art and sport may move in differently – in the studio and on the field – a shared energy pulses through them; fueled by drive, discipline and instinct, both disciplines not only give us a language for how to understand the world, but how to move through it.For Football City, Art United, a new exhibition in Manchester, international athletes are paired 11 contemporary artists, with each collaboration bringing forth a new artwork that looks ...