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Summary'Out of LA: Contemporary Voices' highlights paintings, sculptures and mixed media works that touch on the LA wildfire disasterParticipating artists incldue Cleon Peterson, Ed Ruscha, Kour Pour and more notable namesMiami-based opa projects is showing a group exhibition featuring works by eight notable artists from Los Angeles whom were affected by the Southern California wildfires that took place this past January. Entitled Out of LA: Contemporary Voices, the group presentation features a range of diverse works, encompassing painting, sculpture and media, that channel themes of survival, renewal and resilience. Participating artists include Cleon Peterson, Ed Ruscha, Kour Pour, Emily Ferguson, Jessica Taylor Bellamy, Kenny Scharf, Nicholas Shake and Zoe Walsh.Highlights include a li...

SummaryCukrarna in Slovenia is set to open ART VITAL, the first comprehensive exhibition dedicated to Marina Abramović and Ulay's career as an artistic duo.Opening on November 30, the exhibition will feature documentation of seminal performances from the couple's 12-year run, alongside archival materials, letters and personal ephemera.For Marina Abramović and Ulay, their relationship was the medium. In 1988, they ended their personal and professional relationship with a final unforgettable act: walking from opposite ends of the Great Wall of China to meet and part for the last time as a duo. While the end of this era saw a rocky, bittersweet end, the shared spiritual synergy shared between the two continues to redefine the possibilities of contemporary performance art.Their life and legacy...

SummaryOffline positions itself as a response to the limitations of the post-NFT crash art landscapeUnlike typical galleries, Offline does not follow a fixed exhibition calendarSuperRare’s new physical gallery, Offline, has officially opened its doors to the public with Mythologies for a Spiritually Void Time, a group show featuring 15 artists working across digital and physical media. Located at 245 Bowery in New York, the exhibition runs through July 25 and marks a sharp shift in how digital art is presented in traditional spaces.Led by curator Mika Bar-On Nesher, Offline positions itself as a response to the limitations of the post-NFT crash art landscape. “Digital art is not a gimmick,” Bar-On Nesher told ARTnews. “It’s part of contemporary culture, and artists using these tools deserv...

SummaryAi Weiwei’s "Zodiac Heads: Gold" is on view at BlackBook, Southampton through Sept 31The series reinterprets looted 18th-century zodiac sculpturesAfter traveling to more than 30 cities worldwide, Ai Weiwei’s "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold" (2010) has returned to New York, the city where it first debuted. The celebrated sculptures are now on view at Mother Nature in the Bardo, a group exhibition presented by BlackBook in Southampton through September 31.Launched at the Pulitzer Fountain in 2011, Ai Weiwei’s largest iteration of the work, entitled Zodiac Heads:Large Bronze, drew acclaim when they were inaugurated by then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg alongside key art figures such as Julian Schnabel and Shirin Neshat. At the time, Weiwei himself was unable to attend the debut, as he ...

Pipilotti Rist has spent three decades reworking the relationship between video art and and the human body through hypnotic fields of touch and color. The Swiss artist recently landed at Beijing's UCCA Center for Contemporary Arts, where she unveiled Your Palm is My Universe, her latest immersive solo exhibition.Curated by Yan Fang, the exhibition presents an elaborate showcase of Rist's pioneering practice, from name-making pieces like, “I'm Not the Girl Who Misses Much” (1986) and “You Called Me Jacky” (1990) to never-before-seen works, including a new, large-scale video installation — the museum's largest commission to date. With roots in ecological thought and Taoist philosophy, her sensorial works offer poetic alternatives to the algorithmic logic of image culture.Grounding the show i...