Art Week
The doors open for Los Angeles Art Week
Narrow stairs lead up to the second floor of Keith Rivers’s residence in a posh, hilly area of Beverly Hills. The first thing you see when you arrive is a large brick wall in various shades of gray. The blocks are drawn on two thick sheets of paper. They form a perfect order, rare in real-life partitions. The work is by Tony Lewis, a Chicago-based African American artist whose creations address themes of power, race and working-class labor. He began drawing to stimulate the process at a time when he felt that he had hit a wall conceptually. Laying brick upon brick made him feel serene.
Rivers owns the drawing and found in it an echo of his past life. “I love this work because it is an exercise in repetition. Doing a process over and over again to accomplish something bigger. And that was football for me. Repeating a play over and over again with a goal,” says Rivers, 37, who played at the professional level for the Cincinnati Bengals, New York Giants and Buffalo Bills.
Read more: https://english.elpais.com/culture/2024-03-03/the-doors-open-for-los-angeles-art-week.html
A neurodivergent designer who refers to his dyslexia as his “superpower” has said he feels “really pleased” that his origami dresses will be showcased at LondonFashion Week (LFW).
Darryl Bedford, 55, from Fulham in west London, creates paper art, which he calls drawstring origami, using a combination of techniques including origami, the art of folding paper, and kirigami, a method of cutting and folding paper to create three-dimensional shapes.
Read More : https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-fulham-perth-western-australia-b2702674.html
Auckland’s city centre will be radiating hues of happiness this October, with the return of Art Week, featuring a programme packed with over 70 events, exhibitions, installations and activations. Art Week, delivered by Heart of the City, and proudly supported by Auckland Council and the city centre targeted rate, runs from 4 to 13 October 2024.
The ten-day programme includes the welcome return of Changing Lanes, which will feature nine temporary public artworks in some of the city centre’s most loved laneways, over 25 free guided art walks and the opportunity to meet and create with 22 artists, while they work. Late Night Art, a highlight of the week, features over 40 events and activations including Late Night on High with an art market and roaming performers, the Urban Art Village on O’Connell Street, a midtown Street Art Festival, galleries open late, along with an annual exhibition from Fingers – celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, and so much more.
Read more: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU2409/S00318/art-week-to-bring-hues-of-happiness-this-october.htm
A new event is slated to hit art world calendars next year with the debut of Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week, an art and design fair set to welcome both local and international galleries, dealers, and collectors March 20–23, 2025. Staged in the North Hall at West World of Scottsdale, the fair promises to be a one-of-a-kind experience within the American Southwest.
Michael Plummer, former senior executive at Christie’s and Sotheby’s; founder of TEFAF New York; and art advisory firm Artvest principal has been named the new Development Director of Scottsdale Ferrari Art Week. With a wealth of personal and professional experience working within the art market and art world at large, Plummer along with the fair’s team will leverage the Southwest’s rich, cultural art scene to craft an event of international caliber.
Marking the announcement, we reached out to Plummer to learn more about what drew him to join the project, and what he envisions for the future of the fair.
