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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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Tanya Bonakdar Gallery LA: Tomas Saraceno

March 7th, 2024

Tanya Bonakdar, Tomas Saraceno7

Tomas Saraceno at Tanya Bonakdar

At Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in Los Angeles, “Live(s) on Air” is on from February 24 to May 4, 2024, featuring new works by Tomás Saraceno. This exhibit explores the theme of eco-social interdependence with a collection that includes sculpture, works on paper, and film. It aims to engage viewers in thinking about the impact of humans on the environment and paths toward coexistence on Earth.
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AO ON-SITE – LOS ANGELES: FRIEZE LOS ANGELES 2024 AT THE SANTA MONICA AIRPORT

March 4th, 2024

Frieze LA

Frieze LA 2024 at Santa Monica Airport

AO was on the ground at the fifth edition of Frieze Los Angeles, held from February 29th to March 3rd, 2024, at Santa Monica Airport, which brought together over 95 galleries exhibiting contemporary art from various regions, showcasing the city’s role in the global art landscape. 
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Perrotin LA: Izumi Kato

February 29th, 2024

Perrotin: IzumI KatoIzumi Kato at Perrotin

AO is on-site at Perrotin, which inaugurated its new Los Angeles gallery with an exhibition featuring Japanese artist Izumi Kato, running from February 28 to March 23, 2024. Kato’s work, known for incorporating elements of both ancient traditions and modern themes, aligns with Los Angeles’s landscape, which includes both natural and urban environments. The artist’s figures, created in his Tokyo studio, are displayed in a setting that reflects the coexistence of contrasting elements, a theme prevalent in Kato’s art.


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MEXICO CITY: ZONA MACO 2024

February 20th, 2024

Zona Maco 2024

Anahuacalli Museum Mexico City

AO was on-site at ZONAMACO Arte Contemporáneo, the largest art fair in Latin America, which celebrated its 20th anniversary from February 7-11th, 2024. Initially launched in 2002 by Zélika García, the fair soon relocated from Monterrey to Centro Citibanamex in Mexico City where it holds four events annually. Since its inception, ZONAMACO has expanded to feature 208 exhibitors from 25 countries, displaying a diverse range of artworks, from modern and contemporary, to design, to an estate section.


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AO ON-SITE – MIAMI BEACH: UNTITLED ART FAIR, DECEMBER 6TH-10TH, 2023

December 12th, 2023

Untitled Art Miami 2023

Photo from Untitled website

Untitled Art Fair revisited its Miami Beach location, again on the beach just off Ocean Drive.  The fair opened on Wednesday the 6th of December and concluded on Sunday the 10th. The fair featured curated presentations, live events, artist performances, and more. This edition hosted 160 exhibitors from 38 countries, showcasing works by nearly 600 artists. The programming encompassed artist projects, performances, and panel discussions as part of the Untitled Art Podcast, with an emphasis on digital innovation and inclusivity.

Annie Duncan, Johansson Projects, Untitled Miami 2023

Annie Duncan, Johansson Projects, Untitled Miami 2023 
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NADA Miami 2023

December 11th, 2023

NADA Miami 2023

AO on site at NADA Miami 2023, here with Harkawik

NADA Miami 2023, the 21st edition of the art fair presented by the New Art Dealers Alliance, showcased a diverse array of galleries from over 50 cities globally, including more than 85 NADA members and 34 first-time exhibitors. The fair was held at Ice Palace Studios and featured a variety of art forms, from traditional to mixed media, reflecting on contemporary societal themes, identity, and the human condition. 
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Hernan Bas’s ‘The Conceptualists’ at The Bass Miami

December 8th, 2023

Hernan Bas's 'The Conceptualists' at The Bas

Hernan Bas’s “The Conceptualists” series at the Bass Museum in Miami Beach presents a unique exploration into themes of queerness, desire, the occult, and the absurd. The series, inspired by the unusual hobbies and activities people took up during the pandemic, features fictitious conceptual artists performing eccentric behaviors. This approach offers a perspective on the boundaries and perceptions of conceptual art, questioning the very definition of artistic expression.

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Berlin – Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster: “Panoramism and the Abstract Sector” at Esther Schipper Through December 23rd, 2022

November 15th, 2022

Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Panoramism and the Abstract Sector (Installation View), via Esther Schipper
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Panoramism and the Abstract Sector (Installation View), via Esther Schipper

On view this month in Berlin, Esther Schipper presents Panoramism and the Abstract Sector, artist Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster’s tenth solo exhibition with the gallery. Continuing the artist’s ongoing exploration of artistic, emotional and intellectual geneaologies, extending from prior shows in 2021 and this year, the show takes the form of a 30-meter long 180°-degree curved panorama, especially conceived for the exhibition, with imagery spilling over onto a custom-printed carpet, and printed pillow books. Read More »

London – Amy Sherald: “The World We Make” at Hauser & Wirth Through December 23rd, 2022

November 14th, 2022

Amy Sherald, For love, and for country (2022), via Hauser & Wirth
Amy Sherald, For love, and for country (2022), via Hauser & Wirth

Marking the artist’s first solo show in Europe, Amy Sherald, the American painter and portraitist has opened a major suite of new paintings at Hauser & Wirth London. Bringing together a selection of both small-scale works and large, monumental pieces, the show is Sherald’s largest to date with the gallery, and a shining example of her abilities in translating and expressing powerful emotional landscapes and intricate relationships through a simple, elegant color palette and meticulous use of space. Read More »

New York – Kiki Smith at Timothy Taylor Gallery Through November 12th, 2022

November 11th, 2022

Kiki Smith (Installation View), via Timothy Taylor
Kiki Smith (Installation View), via Timothy Taylor

On this month at Timothy Taylor Gallery in New York City, artist Kiki Smith presents a selection of new works focusing on sculpture, drawing, collage, and wall works from the 1990s that draw together Smith’s study of the human body and the natural world. Presented in a new, temporary exhibition space at 211 West 19th Street in Chelsea while the gallery renovates a new 6,000-square-foot gallery in Tribeca that will open next year, the show offers a new series of possibilities and opportunities for the artist’s work.  Read More »

London – Sam Gilliam: “Late Paintings” at Pace Gallery Through November 12th, 2022

November 10th, 2022

Sam Gilliam, Late Paintings (Installation View), via Art Observed
Sam Gilliam, Late Paintings (Installation View), via Art Observed

Debuting a suite of large-scale paintings and works on paper executed in the last two years of his life, Pace Gallery has opened Late Paintings, a testament to artist Sam Gilliam’s commitment to abstraction. Conceived together with the artist prior to his death in June of 2022, the exhibition occupies the entirety of Pace’s Hanover Square gallery, and marks the first-ever solo exhibition for the artist’s work in the United Kingdom.  Read More »

London – Adrian Ghenie: “The Fear of NOW” at Thaddaeus Ropac Through December 22nd, 2022

November 9th, 2022

Adrian Ghenie, Figure with Remote Control (2022), via Thaddaeus Ropac
Adrian Ghenie, Figure with Remote Control (2022), via Thaddaeus Ropac

Marking his latest engagement and exploration of the intersections of history, pop culture, and the dialogues of art history that are bound within the former, artist Adrian Ghenie presents The Fear of NOW, is an exhibition of new oil paintings and charcoal drawings at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. He fuses the profoundly personal with the art historical, bridging the abstract and the figurative to examine the impact of the Digital Age on the human condition.

Adrian Ghenie, Self Portrait with Favorite Book (2022), via Thaddaeus Ropac
Adrian Ghenie, Self Portrait with Favorite Book (2022), via Thaddaeus Ropac

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New York – Emily Mae Smith: “Heretic Lace” at Pace Gallery Through November 12th, 2022

November 8th, 2022

Emily Mae Smith, Habitat (2022), via Pace
Emily Mae Smith, Habitat (2022), via Pace

On view this month in New York, Petzel Gallery presents a series of new works by painter Emily Mae Smith, marking the artist’s debut solo exhibition with the gallery. The painter, who blends the surreal and cartoonish with a meticulous study of space and form to create otherworldly scenes that draw on tensions between the imagined and known world.  Read More »

New York – Do Ho Suh at Lehmann Maupin Through November 5th, 2022

November 7th, 2022

Do Ho Suh (Installation View), via Lehmann Maupin
Do Ho Suh (Installation View), via Lehmann Maupin

On view this month in New York, Lehmann Maupin presents an exhibition of new work by London-based artist Do Ho Suh. Working across various media, including sculpture, drawing, photography, and film, Suh engages ideas of home, memory, psychic space, and displacement. In this exhibition, Suh expands on his exploration of the politics and subjectivity of memory, a concept that has remained central to his practice over the last 25 years. For this exhibition, the artist returns to his long fascination with the role of public monuments, using his signature approach towards fabric to create replicas and embellishments of items, spaces and bodies.

Do Ho Suh (Installation View), via Lehmann Maupin
Do Ho Suh (Installation View), via Lehmann Maupin

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Paris – Carol Bove: “Vase/Face” at David Zwirner Through December 17th, 2022

November 4th, 2022

Carol Bove, Vase Face I / The Ascent to Heaven on a Dentist's Chair (2022), via David Zwirner
Carol Bove, Vase Face I / The Ascent to Heaven on a Dentist’s Chair (2022), via David Zwirner

Marking a continued engagement with scale, monumentality and perception through her enigmatic workings of steel and glass, artist Carol Bove has brought a new body of work to bear on David Zwirner’s Paris exhibition space. Marking a major show of new works by the artist, the show continues her use of crumpled stainless steel tubes, yet here takes these works and adds circular glass discs, all complemented by a stark, monochrome gallery environment.  Read More »

AO On-Site – New York: The ADAA Art Show at Park Ave Armory Through November 6th, 2022

November 3rd, 2022

Liu Xiangdong at Lisson
Liu Xiangdong at Lisson, all images via Art Observed

Since moving its running dates away from the hustle and bustle of Armory Week in New York, the ADAA Art Show has emphasized and capitalized on its reputation as a special and singular event in the New York and international market calendar. Liberated from the usual hustle and bustle of the surrounding fairs, The Art Show’s curatorially-focused programming and emphasis on project-based booths has made for an ever stronger draw, welcoming a casual, meandering pace, with its gentle lighting and wide aisles, all driving home its exploratory and thoughtful program. This year, the event was no different, and its return to the aisles of the Park Avenue Armory was met with enthusiasm with guests during the opening reception last night.

Zio Ziegler at Almine Rech
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New York – Edward Hopper’s New York at The Whitney Through March 5th, 2022

November 2nd, 2022

Edward Hopper, New York Movie (1939), via The Whitney
Edward Hopper, New York Movie (1939), via The Whitney

For Edward Hopper, New York was a city that existed in the mind as well as on the map, a place that took shape through lived experience, memory, and the collective imagination. It was, he reflected late in life, “the American city that I know best and like most.” This concept sits at the center of Edward Hopper’s New York, a new exhibition of works by the artist on view this winter at The WhitneyEdward Hopper’s New York takes a comprehensive look at Hopper’s life and work, from his early impressions of New York in sketches, prints, and illustrations, to his late paintings, in which the city served as a backdrop for his evocative distillations of urban experience.  Read More »