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AO ON SITE: 60th Venice Biennale “Foreigners Everywhere” ↠

April 30th, 2024

Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin at Venice Biennale 2024

Movimento dos Artistas Huni Kuin at Venice Biennale 2024

The 60th International Art Exhibition, known as the Venice Biennale, is set to run from April 20 to November 24, 2024. This year’s theme, “Stranieri Ovunque” or “Foreigners Everywhere,” is curated by Adriano Pedrosa, marking a significant milestone as the first South American curator of the Biennale Arte. The event is hosted at Venice’s historic Giardini and Arsenale venues, which have been central to the Biennale since its earliest editions. The theme explores the concepts of intersectionality, displacement, and the reevaluation of geographical margins in the art world. 
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London- Yoko Ono at Tate Modern ↠

March 28th, 2024

Yoko Ono at Tate Modern4

Yoko Ono at Tate Modern

“Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind” exhibition at Tate Modern, is on until September 1st and is an expansive journey through Yoko Ono’s artistic legacy, blending music, installations, photography, and interactive performance art. This landmark showcase, the UK’s most extensive collection of Ono’s work, spans her groundbreaking contributions from the early 1950s to today, highlighting her role as a pioneer in avant-garde art circles worldwide.

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Skarstedt London: Jeff Koons ↠

March 12th, 2024

Koons at Skarstedt

Koons at Skarstedt

From 1st March to 25th May 2024, Skarstedt’s London Gallery presents a solo exhibition featuring the work of American artist Jeff Koons. The show includes five mural-sized paintings crafted between 2001 and 2013 drawn from Koons’ series: Easyfun-Ethereal, Antiquity, and Popeye.
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REFERENCE LIBRARY

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum

258 Main Street
Ridgefield, CT 06877
203-438-4519
www.aldrichart.org
Tuesday – Sunday 12 noon – 5 pm
$7 Adults
$4 Students and Seniors
Free for K-12 teachers and children under 18
Free on Tuesday

Featuring work by emerging and mid-career contemporary artists, The Aldrich is a non-collecting art museum. Founded in 1964 by Larry Aldrich in a suburban Connecticut town, the museum underwent extensive renovations and expansion in 2003. It reopened in 2004 with doubled exhibition space, sporting a the name The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum. With 12 galleries total, the building houses a screening room, a sound gallery, a 22-foot-high project space, a 100-seat performance area and an two-acre outdoor sculpture garden.

Recent and upcoming exhibitions of note:
Marti Cormand: 2007 Emerging Artist Award Exhibition
September 9, 2007 to February 24, 2008
Voice & Void: 2006 Hall Curatorial Fellowship Exhibition
September 16 to February 24, 2008
Radius: Emerging Artists from Connecticut and Southeastern New York
October 28 to November 18, 2007