Brimming with warmth, humour and swordfights, Seize Them! is a comedy road movie set in the dark ages. The egotistical and clueless Queen Dagan is toppled from her throne. She’ll need help to survive as a fugitive and win back her kingdom. With her new friends, a castle worker and a shit shoveler, she begins her quest for justice.
In theatres April 5th, 2024
TweetThis exhibition spans the seven decades of Goldblatt’s career, demonstrating his commitment to showing the realities of daily life in his country without pretense. Showing early black-and-white work alongside color photographs made after the end of apartheid, this presentation highlights how Goldblatt’s perspective shifted over time, responding not only to South Africa’s political upheavals but also his drive towards self-examination that he achieved by revisiting past subjects. The show’s title, No Ulterior Motive, borrows language that Goldblatt used in a newspaper ad seeking subjects for his photographs, gesturing to the artist’s promise of a fully transparent and straightforward photographic encounter and his dedication to impartial observation.
Opposite – In the office of the funeral parlour, Orlando West, Soweto, 1972
Exhibition runs through to March 25th, 2024
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Chicago
IL 60603
Stella McCartney joins French champagne house Veuve Clicquot for a vegan collaboration that takes your beverage anywhere.
The revolutionary female leaders expand on reused material practices, exploring Veuve Clicquot’s European vineyards for discarded waste. The post-harvest residue is turned into vegan leather, supporting the six-piece offering with innovation.
Stella McCartney and Veuve Clicquot’s collaborative range is spread across handbags, shoes, and champagne bottle holders to carry your drinks on the go. The latter is designed with black-colored straps and grape-shaped hang tags, also delivering woven bucket bags with expandable cloth inserts. Platformed gladiator sandals with layered toothed outsoles complete the collection.
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The upcoming exhibition at Pictura explores the complex relationship of a child to a deceased parent. The show features two different projects, Contact by Andrés Mario de Varona, and Las flores mueren dos veces by Cristobal Ascencio.
Both projects are built from the artist’s efforts to connect with the lost parent. Ascencio creates a haunting virtual garden, honoring his father’s vocation as a gardener. De Varona works with personal relics, family members, and the mysterious properties of light to reach back towards his mother.
Opposite – Work by Cristóbal Ascencio
Exhibition runs through to March 25th, 2024
Pictura Gallery
122 W Sixth Street
Bloomington
IN 47404
Taking its title from an 1873 Camille Pissarro painting once seen as ‘vulgar’ for foregrounding the lowly cabbage plant, Cabbage Field imbues moments of everyday urban life with an auratic stillness.
While trying to abandon any metaphysical subject and adhere to the realist tradition—by portraying ordinary scenes without mediation—Rossetti was nevertheless led astray. His attempts at realist representation here are disrupted by mundane fabrications. The characters that populate his paintings, those dear to him, gaze past one another, isolated despite their physical proximity. The result is a mirror-like world where intentions are shaped by impulse and desire.
Opposite – The Connoisseur, 2024
Exhibition runs through to April 27th, 2024
Greene Naftali
508 West 26th Street
NY 10001
New York
In the paintings of Chung Eun-Mo – whether it be the irregular shapes as in the earlier works, or in the regular, circular or rectangular format – the color can be seen as a combination of “light, weight and pleasure”. It becomes the substance to give luminosity and build harmonious relationships. Composed of planes of color and light shifting softly, Chung’s works present a sensitive geometry differing from the normative order of Minimalist art; sometimes they overflow beyond the boundaries of the canvas to extend onto the walls and transform the real space.
Opposite – Embrasure, 1994
Exhibition runs through to May 4th, 2024
Monica De Cardenas
Via Francesco Viganò 4
20124 Milan
Italy
