Our #mondaymuse this week: Avant.Arte
We've teamed up with Instagram account @Avant.Arte, who allowed us a peak into their Culture Whisper Planner.
Richard Serra exhibition, Gagosian
Why go: Richard Serra is one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century, and the most famous American sculptor working today.
The NYC based artist, now just shy of 80 years old, exhibits entirely new work here: fifteen new drawings at Davies street and three large sculptures over at Britannia Street.
Read more ...Jeff Koons, Almine Rech Gallery, Exhibition
Why go: His name is synonymous with American Post-Pop; his work digests the trash of contemporary culture and spits it back out in lurid pantomime.
His naive, playful works indisputably draw attention, both critical and commercial, wherever they land. Just what he's trying to say is anybody's guess - and Koons embraces this abstractness.
Ed Ruscha, Gagosian
Why go: American artist Ed Ruscha has a way with words. For more than five decades he has played with language and image, mining the American psyche along the way.
Ruscha uses words in the same way Pop Artists use trash culture: he paints words as images, taking them thrillingly out of context. He's California's most expensive living artist!
Read more ...Basquiat, Barbican Centre
Why go: Back in the ‘80s, New York’s contemporary art scene was dominated by Minimalism. White walls, white people drinking white wine. Over in Brooklyn, though, there was a young artist who was about to blow it wide open.
Jean-Michel Basquiat was a high-school drop out turned art world icon.
Read more ...'Walhalla': Anselm Kiefer, White Cube Bermondsey
Why go: Anselm Kiefer is one of the most important artists working today. Working across painting, sculpture, drawing, photography and prints, the German visionary is known for the breathtaking scale of his works, which have grown with time.
A selection of vast new paintings will be shown here, and large-scale sculptures will transform the gallery’s darkened corridors.
Paul Nash, Tate Britain
Why go: Paul Nash was one of Britain's most important Modernist painters. He was also a war artist, photographer, depressive, mystic, Romantic, and naturalist.
His visionary works redefined our idea of landscape painting, and this vast retrospective incorporates immersive installations that represent Nash's creative beliefs later in life.
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