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#TysonReeder new painting show at #CanadaGallery is giving summer in the city cool kid vibes 😎⚡️🏙️ “Imagines what Giacometti’s angsty figures might wear, while buildings and garments are adorned with Sonia Delaunay-esque patterning and color.” What an apt description! On view through July 26!

Bringing the outside in with #VirginiaOverton currently on view at @bortolamigallery ! 🌱🌱 “Four of the works are wall reliefs made from various metal components salvaged from a large-scale outdoor sign which was designed in the 1960s. The artist spent a year deconstructing each of the sign’s massive letters, bolt by bolt, into the parts which were repurposed for the works in this exhibition. With an abundance of material, Overton has utilized vestiges of the sign’s typeface, design, and previous fabrication techniques in tandem with her own sculptural interventions to abstract each material and form.” On view through August 9! #BortolamiGallery

Less than 48 hrs in Rome = tour of the greatest hits, an art history lover’s paradise!! 😍🏃🏽‍♀️‍➡️🏛️ 📍#VaticanCity and #SistineChapel 🖼️ 📍#RomanColosseum 💪🏼 📍#Pantheon 🙏🏻 📍#TreviFountain 🫧

“The Secret History” summer group show currently on view at @gladstone.gallery , organized by Alissa Bennett 💫 “‘And if beauty is terror,’ said Julian, ‘then what is desire? We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?’ ‘To live,’ said Camilla. ‘To live forever,’ said Bunny, chin cupped in his palm. The tea kettle began to whistle.” – Donna Tartt, “The Secret History“ On view through Aug 2!

Critical gaming 🎮 #TotalRefusal follow the lives of non-player characters (NPCs) in video games to structure their critique of capitalism—after all, 20% of the world's population own or have access to a console. "It helps to get people on board by using a language that the population is familiar with," writes K. Woods in their review of the collective's latest exhibition in #Ljubljana . #slovenia #videoart #gaming #videogame

Notes from Basel 📝 "Closing the spring art season, the leading presentations at #ArtBasel and #JuneArtFair centered the human experience, a nostalgia for a time before the encroachment of AI and digital technology as well as continued focus on indigeneity, anti-colonialism, and geopolitics," writes @tracykinnally . Her highlights include: #RyanGander #RetoPulfer #LaCholaPoblete @barro_cc #CianDayrit @nomegallery #AhmedUmer @oslcontemporary #MargaretLee @thegreengallery #JorunnHanckeØgstad Follow link in bio to read. #artmarket #trends #switzerland

📍BARRO, #EastHampton . We loved our visit out east to celebrate the opening of @barro_cc_ !!re!!_039;s summer outpost where psychedelics, manufactured histories, and imaginary landscapes reigned supreme in their museum quality group show. 👀Can you spot the artwork outside? 'Unconscious Waves' feat. #elenabajo #joaquínboz #matiasduville #sydkrochmalny #raulmartinez #warrenneidich #catalinaschliebenermuñoz #alejandraseebar #pedrowainer Our very own EIC #AnnaMikaelaEkstrand welcomes you to dive right in! #summerfun #hamptons #ny #artadventure

Paint talk 🎨 At BARRO NY, Argentine painter #JoaquínBoz shared insights about his practice including why he mostly paints with his hands and nails, not brushes. Follow #linkinbio to read the convo! #painting #newyork #argentinianart

We joined Swedish artist @matthias_vanarkel on his quarterly art crawl in #NYC 🚕 "I love to see the work of peers and predecessors in this textured and vibrant city," he said to @cultbytes . #RitaAckermann @hauserwirth #MaurizioCattelan @gagosian #MattiasDuville @barro_cc #StanleyWhitney @gagosian #IsamuNoguchi @noguchimuseum #chelsea #longislandcity #uppereastside #painting #sculpture

Did you know that the United Daughters of the Confederacy approved school textbooks teaching the "Lost Cause" and that US slavery was not morally corrupt? Two African-American Studies scholars visit #JayYoungdahl’s latest exhibition 'What Did You Learn in School Today?' at CALS Roberts Library in #LittleRock which brings viewers face-to-face with these racist 1970s educational materials and begs us to consider their effects. Follow link in bio to read the review. #arkansas #historylesson #conceptualart

Based between #London and #NewYork AWAD is a professional network for female art dealers centred on 'coopetition'----the opposite of competition. In founder Susan J. Mumford's words: "instead of viewing a peer as a competitor, actively help one other to grow and thrive together." Thanks @zandee88 for a great interview feat. Mumford and her colleagues #SusanEley and #IvyBrown which will interest dealers and those considering career moves in the arts! #womeninbusiness #womeninart #artdealer

Works by Brazilian modernist #IoneSaldanha are currently on view in the “The Time and The Color” at @salon94 through June 22 — @bennyor for scale 😂📊 “At the forefront of Saldanha’s work is a concern with a certain representation of the city—including its inhabitants—and abstract architectonic compositions, constructions, and building elements.” #Salon94