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Our #mondaymuse this week: Avant.Arte

By CW Contributor on 7/11/2016

Every week we team up with another of our favourite Instagrammers, to get a sneak peek into their Culture Whisper Planners.
This week, meet Avant Arte, the Instagram trio introducing a 'swipe thru' app that is (in their words) Tinder for Art. Avant Arte allows artists, galleries and musuems to interact with a new, bright young audience on Instagram.
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Richard Serra NJ-1, 2015, weatherproof steel, six plates, overall: 13’ 9” × 51’ 6” × 24’ 6” (4.2 × 15.7 × 7.5 m), plates: 2” (5 cm thick) (C) Richard Serra. Photo by Cristiano Mascaro

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.

WHEN

01 Oct 2016 – 25 Feb 2017, Tue–Sat 10-6

WHERE

Gagosian Britannia Street
6-24 Britannia Street, London, WC1X 9JD

Jeff Koons at the Almine Rech Gallery, Savile Row

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.

WHEN

04 Oct 2016 – 21 Jan 2017, Tuesday — Saturday, from 10:00 to 18:00

WHERE

Almine Rech Gallery
11 Savile Row, 1st Floor, Mayfair, London, W1S 3PG

ED RUSCHA Years Months Weeks, 2016 Acrylic on canvas 72 × 124 inches 182.9 × 315 cm © Ed Ruscha. Courtesy Gagosian

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!

WHEN

05 Oct 2016 – 17 Dec 2016, Tuesday — Saturday, from 10:00 to 18:00

WHERE

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill
20 Grosvenor Hill, London, W1K 3DL

Jean-Michel Basquiat photo courtesy of Barbican Gallery

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.

WHEN

17 Sep 2017 – 28 Jan 2018, Thu–Fri 10am–9pm (bank holiday 12noon–9pm)

WHERE

Barbican Centre
Silk Street, London, EC2Y 8DS

Detail Anselm Kiefer Rorate caeli desuper 2016 © White Cube

'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.

WHEN

23 Nov 2016 – 12 Feb 2017, Monday Closed, Tuesday - Saturday 10am - 6pm

WHERE

White Cube Bermondsey
144-152 Bermondsey Street , London, SE1 3TQ

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.

WHEN

24 Oct 2016 – 05 Mar 2017, Open daily 10.00 – 18.00

WHERE

Tate Britain
Millbank, London, SW1P 4RG