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Box of cards published on the occasion of the exhibition Candida Höfer: The Order of Beauty Celebrating 20 Years of Candida Höfer at Ben Brown Fine Arts.

Exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Calder: Extreme Cantilever. 

Essays by Alexander S. C. Rower and Ann Coxon.

All works © 2024 Calder Foundation, New York / DACS, London

Much more than the photographer behind Beyoncé’s viral pregnancy announcement, the multi-hyphenate artist arrives in Hong Kong with his street hieroglyphics. 

The tragicomic saga of Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana is reaching new highs (and lows) at Miami Art Week.

Most prominent is the presence of Chiquita itself at Art Basel Miami Beach as a first-time official partner. During the VIP preview, the American banana mega-producer rolled up fruit carts and blue-and-yellow swag to the entrances of the convention centre to share its “joyful and unmistakable spirit” and celebrate the “longstanding connection between bananas and the art world”, the company said in a statement.

Observer caught up with the artist in his studio to learn more about how his work is both an act of resilience and a search for roots.

Tate Modern's Electric Dreams exhibition celebrates the trailblazing artists who transformed art through science, technology, and new media from the mid-20th century to the digital age. Heinz Mack’s inclusion underscores his pivotal role as a pioneer in optical and kinetic art. His mesmerizing, light-reflective works, often employing industrial materials and mathematical precision, exemplify the era’s radical fusion of art and technology. 

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now is an evocative new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, featuring the work of Awol Erizku. This exhibition highlights the profound ways Black artists have engaged with Egyptian visual culture, a rich source of inspiration and identity within Erizku’s practice.

“The exhibition takes its title from The Met’s painting Flight into Egypt (1923), an emblem of fugitivity and timeless creativity by the expatriate artist Henry Ossawa Tanner – the first internationally recognized African American painter. – who travelled to Egypt in 1897,” said Akili Tommasino, Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Met and the curator of the exhibition. “Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now challenges Eurocentric constructions of ancient Egypt, offering a more expansive history that celebrates the contributions of cultural figures of African descent.”.

Thematic sections featuring works from The Met's collection and international loans from public and private collections trace subjects including how Black artists and other agents of culture have employed ancient Egyptian imagery to craft a unifying identity, the contributions of Black scholars to the study of ancient Egypt, and the engagement of modern and contemporary Egyptian artists with ancient Egypt.

Ben Brown Fine Arts is pleased to announce José Parlá: Homecoming, now open at Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) – marking Parlá’s first solo exhibition in his hometown. This immersive, two-part exhibition unveils Parlá's experimental process, offering viewers the unique opportunity to witness the creation of a site-specific mural within the gallery space. The second part transforms the space into a dynamic reconstruction of Parlá’s own studio, filled with personal mementoes, Cuban cultural references, and the sounds of his favourite music, providing a window into the artist’s creative world.

Featuring a new series of works, Homecoming showcases Parlá’s signature calligraphic abstractions – vibrant, gestural, and deeply expressive. This process-oriented exhibition celebrates an artist whose practice meaningfully engages with Cuban heritage and the broader diasporic experience, positioning Parlá as a vital voice in contemporary expressionism.

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