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A high-tech company specializing in UAV technology and unforgettable experiences through drone light shows is using the sky as an advertising platform. They transform traditional brand promotion and storytelling into a futuristic tool that truly delivers results.

Innovation meets inspiration atCyberdrone, a company that has turned its swarm technology into a vibrant art form in the sky for self-expression, presentations, and entertainment. Their drones are lightweight, fast, and capable of bringing any concept to life, sure to captivate the hearts and minds of all audiences.

“The sky is everywhere, and so are we,” said Bernd Seitter, Cyberdrone’s CEO. “We’ve brought our shows to deserts, performed over lakes, and synchronized with live performances in stadiums. We translate your brand’s voice into the language of light and share it worldwide.”

Cyberdrone is often the first to try something new in their niche. This was the case with shows where light figures were integrated into the urban landscape, interacting with the architecture. It was also true for immersive shows, where drones fly at low altitudes, literally encircling the audience. 

Those preferring to stay outside could see any Cyberdrone performance within a 5-kilometer radius, thanks to their fleet’s brightly equipped LEDs. It’s also worth noting the endurance of these drones. Any scale of performance can captivate the viewers for up to 20 minutes, an industry-leading show duration. 

“We embrace animations of every complexity with open arms and thrive on creative challenges,” Bernd Seitter, Cyberdrone’s CEO, shared.

Renowned for seamless transitions, Cyberdrone ensures the sky never dims before the eyes.

Interested customers can also play with adrone simulator on Cyberdrone’s website, allowing people to immerse themselves in the possibilities of customized drone displays. 

It’s crucial to highlight that the company complies with all global drone regulations, backed by high-quality equipment and software. This ensures that their shows are not only visually stunning but also exceptionally safe. 

Impactful Marketing Strategies

Swarm technology and the creative vision of the Cyberdrone team have naturally evolved from mere entertainment to a powerful marketing tool. 

Bright light displays grab the attention of both invited spectators and passersby, recorded and shared widely on social media. Brands create viral content with versatile drone shows, a key element in any marketing strategy. And these are just a handful of the advantages.

Cyberdrone transforms brands and events into memorable experiences, connecting emotionally with a wide audience. Each unique performance, tailored to client requests, hits the marketing mark precisely.

In today’s world, eco-friendliness is crucial, and Cyberdrone embodies these values. Reusable, pollutant-free, and compact for easy transport, their drones offer environmental benefits, ensuring marketing campaigns align with current environmental consciousness.

Experience Economy with Drone Art

Experiences sell. Beyond unique propositions and flawless services, it’s the emotions and fresh experiences that make audiences love a product, brand, or personality. In today’s industries, those embracing the experience economy, especially with drone light shows, are winning.

Businesses generate excitement for launches and events. Public celebrations innovate, drawing larger crowds. Tourist destinations elevate with drone shows, offering a modern, high-tech experience. Sports teams, musicians, and nonprofits leverage drone shows for emotional impact. Artists and cultural organizers use drone tech for dynamic sky-based art installations—whether to advocate for causes, celebrate heritage, or push artistic boundaries.

“Art has a way of stirring emotions, and drone shows are no exception. Watching the excitement in our audience’s eyes, we can see how it’s paving the way for the future of the experience economy,” Bernd Seitter, Cyberdrone’s CEO, said.

Versatile and Unique Entertainment from Every Angle

Take a look at what drones are capable of in a video reel that showcases some of Cyberdrone’s performances. It’s an eco-friendly alternative to many kinds of outdoor displays. And it’s an eye-catching advertisement where the limit is not the sky, but the imagination.

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Cyberdrone started with smaller shows using 100-500-1000 drones, but now, armed with a fleet of thousands,is geared up for truly grand spectacles.

Conclusion

To discover more about Cyberdrone’s advertising solutions or to book a call, visit their website. For a burst of creativity, check out their Instagram page @cyberdrone, and get a glimpse of the business side of things on LinkedIn

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Explore the Intricacy and Elegance of Restoring Century-Old Books as Told by Sophia Bogle

Explore the Intricacy and Elegance of Restoring Century-Old Books as Told by Sophia Bogle

An enlightening video shines the spotlight on educator, author, and book restorer Sophia Bogle. Beaming with adoration and extensive knowledge, Bogle takes audiences through the rigorous process of reconstructing priceless tomes.

In the last 30 years, Bogle has restored thousands of books. Referring to some stages of reconstruction as “book surgery,” she emphasizes the precision and patience that goes into mastering the art of preservation. From carefully removing and washing individual pages to retracing rips and mending even the smallest tears, the arduous practice requires delicacy for a job well done.

By signing each spine’s interior nearing the moments of denouement, she leaves her mark within each project in a seemingly invisible way. Bogle highlights the beauty of cumulative narratives as she shares, “I do love the fact that there’s the story in the book, there’s the story of the restoration of the book, there’s the story of who has owned the book, and now I’m just in there a little bit more.”

Watch the video by WIRED, and check out her YouTube channel for a closer look at her techniques.

 

Left: Organizational trays of book repair materials, Center: A book press, Right: Washing book pages in water

Hands use a bone tool to smooth repaired pages of a book

A knife tool is used to lift paper from the inside of a hardcover book

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A Silk Dress from 1888 Contained a Hidden Pocket with Coded Messages. After a Decade, Someone Finally Solved the Mystery

A Silk Dress from 1888 Contained a Hidden Pocket with Coded Messages. After a Decade, Someone Finally Solved the Mystery

All images © Sara Rivers Cofield, shared with permission

If the phrases “Bismark Omit leafage buck bank” or “Paul Ramify loamy event false new event” mean anything to you, your help has been needed since 2014. For the rest of us, the truth behind these nonsensical lines was only recently solved after a plea from curator and archaeologist Sara Rivers Cofield.

The cryptic messages are just two of dozens like them that Cofield found scrawled on thin, translucent sheets of paper buried inside the hidden pocket of a dress. She bought the bronze silk gown from an antique shop in Maine about ten years ago and inspected its impeccably preserved components when she returned home only to uncover a confounding surprise.

 

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Detail of one of the papers found in the dress

As Cofield writes in a blog post, the dress is typical to those of the mid-1880s and has several unique features. Its buttons, which portray a Shakespearean motif of “a despondent Ophelia,” were all intact and present, something not often seen on vintage garments as the fasteners tend to be harvested and sold separately. A tag signed “Bennett” is also sewn into the bodice, presumably pointing to the former owner.

But the most interesting find emerged when Cofield lifted the overskirt and found a cotton pocket tucked deep inside near the right wrist, accessible only by lifting the outer piece of fabric high up to the waist. The papers were concealed inside this tiny opening. “My first thought was maybe a writing exercise? Or some kind of list? But there are also numbers between the lines, each line is marked off with a different color, and there are weird time-like notes in the margin; 10pm, 1113PM, and 1124 P,” she says in the post.

 

a silk skirt lifted up to reveal a hidden pocket in a cotton skirt lining

The hidden pocket in the cotton skirt lining

As reported this week in The New York Times, data analyst Wayne S. Chan from the University of Manitoba finally uncovered their meaning after several years of study. He reveals in a report that the mysterious phrases were telegraph messages describing weather observations often used by the Army and later the weather bureau, sent to stations around the U.S. and Canada throughout 1888.

Although Chan doesn’t have a hypothesis for why such messages were tucked inside the dress, he was able to use old maps to miraculously pinpoint the day of May 27, 1888, and entirely break the codes. Livia Albeck-Ripka writes in the article:

“Bismark Omit leafage buck bank” indicated the reading was taken at Bismarck station, in the Dakota Territory. “Omit” was for an air temperature of 56 degrees and pressure of 0.08 inches of mercury, though the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has said the true reading could have been higher. “Leafage” for a dew point of 32 degrees, observed at 10 p.m. “Buck,” clear weather, with no precipitation and a northerly wind. “Bank,” a wind velocity of 12 miles per hour, and a clear sunset.

Since Cofiled first shared her findings a decade ago, there’s been much speculation about the owner of the garment, including whether she was a spy, trapeze artist, or part of the Orphan Trains that moved children from congested Eastern cities to the western U.S. throughout the 1800s. While we now know the meaning of the messages, the mystery behind why she decided to stash these notes in such an inconspicuous spot remains.

The discovery also coincides with the recent death of Maureen Sweeney whose daily forecasts in Ireland helped influence the the D-Day invasion in 1944.

 

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The two papers found in the garment

two images, on the left is a side view and the right is a back view of a bronze silk dress with stripes down the bodice and a long line of buttons. the garment has a full skirt, long sleeves, and high neck. a large bustle is at the back

a detail image of a bronze silk dress with stripes down the bodice and a long line of buttons. the garment has a high neck, and the buttons have an ornate motif

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Interview: The Color Network On the Significance of Building Community, Teaching Diversity, and Facilitating Access for Artists of Color

Interview: The Color Network On the Significance of Building Community, Teaching Diversity, and Facilitating Access for Artists of Color

The Color Network website. All images © the artists

Let’s rewind to 1991. Ceramic artist and professor Bobby Scroggins, who was frustrated by the lack of access and recognition for artists and craftspeople of color—particularly Black artists—took matters into his own hands. At the conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), he sought out Black and Brown faces in the crowd and organized informal chats, inviting peers and colleagues to form a cohort. Soon, The Color Network was born.

The original organization ran until 2014. Fast-forward to 2018 when a conversation at the annual NCECA conference spearheaded by artists Natalia Arbelaez and April D. Felipe initiated a new organization with the same name. I sat down for an interview with three of TCN’s co-organizers, including Arbelaez, George Rodriguez, and Magdolene Dykstra, who put it best when she described the power of making resources available:

Educators and curators are well aware of needing to question the models they’ve been following and decenter previously prioritized groups. For me, as an educator, that’s the most exciting aspect of the database: there is no longer any excuse for any educator to say that they just don’t know any artists of color.

Read the interview.

 

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Kiln opening at Watershed Residency, 2022, with Shaya Ishaq, George Rodriguez, and Yesha Panchal

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London now has to defend its status as Europe’s best city for art

London now has to defend its status as Europe’s best city for art
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The recent history of London’s art market, stretching from its boom in 2000 to the present, is one of transformation and adaptation, intricately woven into the fabric of Londoners embracing art as an integral part of their lives. Art serves as an indicator and marker of a successful society. For London to remain successful and dynamic, it must embrace and promote its art industry. Fueled by the city’s magnetic international appeal, London boasts some of the best artists, galleries, curators, collectors, creatives, and doers who converge, exchanging ideas and collectively shaping the future of art. Encouraging conversations and providing a platform for these talents is imperative if London is to sustain its peak. Its enduring prominence stands as a testament to its commitment to diversity, its international inhabitants, innovation, challenging norms, and the timeless power of artistic expression. Let’s keep its flame burning.

‘Business as Usual’ for the Contemporary Art Market, With Risks for a Further Downturn

‘Business as Usual’ for the Contemporary Art Market, With Risks for a Further Downturn

A gallery employee poses next to artworks by English artist Theodore Ereira-Guyer, during a press preview ahead of the opening of the London Art Fair in north London on Jan. 16.


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After an uneven year, most experts surveyed by the London data and analysis firm ArtTactic are expecting the global contemporary art market to remain much the same for 2024. 

There’s “a sense of business as usual,” says Lindsay Dewar, head of analytics at ArtTactic. Respondents seem to be saying: “We don’t think it’s going to be bad, we don’t think it’s going to be good, we just need to get through another year,” Dewar says. 

Dewar experienced this sentiment anecdotally during opening night of the London Art Fair this week, which was “as busy as ever,” she says. “Transactions and deals were happening.” A dealer who was on a panel discussion with her said, “I’m just going to do exactly the same this year as I did last year, and we’re going to see what happens.”

The outlook could shift dramatically, however, depending on the outcomes of wars and conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, and how the world weathers difficult economic conditions, ArtTactic found in its survey. 

Among experts participating, 79% said geopolitical uncertainty “is the greatest challenge facing the art market this year,” and 77% feared high interest rates, persistent inflation, and slower economic growth could undermine a recovery.

“We could have a bumpy year ahead, mainly fueled by external factors outside the art market’s control,” ArtTactic founder
Anders Petterson
said in the report. He added, however, that “the art market has shown resilience before, and for some, the downturn last year, might provide an opportunity to re-enter the art market, as price expectations align with a new reality.”

The survey is based on responses from 124 auction specialists, collectors, dealers, curators, and other market experts surveyed earlier this month. ArtTactic has conducted the survey annually since January 2010. 

Last year, respondents were more optimistic that sales would rise this year, with 37% of those surveyed expecting an uptick compared to only 20% this year. The vast majority of art experts—68%—expect sales will remain flat this year compared to 47% who thought so last year. 

Digging deeper, the survey found experts to be slightly more optimistic about the secondary market than the primary market for contemporary art. Although 38% of experts were negative about future secondary market performance, 36% were neutral, and 27% were positive. For the primary market, 34% were negative, but 47% were neutral and only 19% were positive.

Those surveyed were most upbeat about the potential performance of works by post-war artists this year, with 45% expecting to see positive results. The experts were more neutral on the future of works by blue-chip artists (with 55% expressing a neutral view) and established contemporary artists (51%). 

As for works by young contemporary artists (under 45 years old)—a category that slumped 43.3% last year—the experts were divided, with 34% expecting negative results this year and the same percentage expective positive results. 

The findings suggest “a neutral-to-positive outlook” for the sector, the report said. “With more younger buyers entering the art market, we would expect interest and demand for a younger generation of artists to continue.” 

A big factor in the future performance of works by young contemporary artists is the appetite of Asian collectors. According to ArtTactic, 39.2% of sales in this category last year were by buyers in Hong Kong, a major art hub for the region. Those sales could be dragged lower by the economic slowdown in China. The International Monetary Fund is projecting China’s economy will grow by 4.6% this year, down from 5.2% in 2023.

Of the experts surveyed, 55% believe the Chinese art market will weaken further this year, and only 17% expect it to rebound. The hit to the broader art market could be significant as buyers from China, and more broadly in Asia, accounted for 30% of bidding for works valued at US$1 million or more in the first half of last year, ArtTactic said. 

“Lower demand could have a significant impact on the top-end of the market, which accounted for roughly 75% of the fine art market sales at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, and Phillips,” the firm said. 

Contraction is likely to continue at the very top end of the market, “where people are a bit more wary, and you have to have the right buyer and the right seller to make these kinds of deals happen,” Dewar says.

As was the case last year, she expects sellers will continue to manage expectations so that they can close deals—because collectors are still willing to buy at the right price. Sellers “want to transact and they’re willing to lower the price if that’s what it takes,” Dewar says. 

A bright spot for the auction market last year was, in fact, in lower-priced works, snapped up by new, younger buyers. Sales of art valued below US$50,000 rose 10.3% from a year earlier to US$140.4 million, and the number of lots sold rose 21.6% to more than 9,100 works. 

The experts are divided on the future of this segment for 2024, however, with 38% expecting a positive outcome and 41% expecting a downturn, ArtTactic said.

“As the top-end of the art market has softened in 2023, there is a risk that the weaker sentiment in the market will start to trickle down to the lower price segments,” the firm said. Still, the experts are optimistic on the market for limited editions and prints, which tend to be offered at lower price points. Among those surveyed, 34% have a positive view of this segment, up from 33% the previous year.

As an undervalued sector, prints and editions could present an opportunity this year, Dewar says. “When the top end is on the go-slow, people will start turning their attention to the lower end of the market and the print sections,” she says. 

Among the most positive perspectives in the report is the outlook for art by women. Sales of works by female artists rose 10.5% last year to nearly US$788 million. That’s 14.4% of total sales, up from 9.5% in 2022, ArtTactic said. 

The outlook is strong in part because of a series of big museum and gallery shows planned for this year, including “Women Artists in Britain, 1520-1920,” through March at the Tate in London and Mary Cassat at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in May. 

“This year offers ample opportunities to learn about and revisit an older generation of women artists, who have largely been neglected by the market up until now,” the report said.

Escape to Forests Around the World with the Ambient Sounds of tree.fm

Escape to Forests Around the World with the Ambient Sounds of tree.fm

Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Get away from the stimuli of modern life by tuning into tree.fm, a stream of ambient forest sounds from around the globe. Designed by the Berlin-based design studio New Now, the soothing platform compiles crowd-sourced audio clips from the lush tropics of Kerala to the lively jungles of Madagascar. If you, like us, are stuck at your desk, take a moment to escape those emails and listen to Ecuadorian birdsong or the insect chirps of Panama. It might even boost your health. (via swissmiss)

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Yukihiro Akama Carves a Whimsical World of Miniature Wooden Houses

Yukihiro Akama Carves a Whimsical World of Miniature Wooden Houses

Photos by Red Photography, © Yukihiro Akama, courtesy of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, shared with permission

In Huddersfield, England, a half hour’s drive down the road from Yorkshire Sculpture Park, artist Yukihiro Akama fashions an whimsical, miniature world from within a furniture maker’s workshop. In his forthcoming solo exhibition at YSP—his largest to date—the artist presents 55 intricately carved wooden houses in Basho no Kankaku—A Sense of Place 場所の感覚.

Akama, who pursued a career in architecture while living in Japan, often relied on digital tools and felt disconnected from traditional methods of building and working with his hands. After he moved to the U.K. in 2011, he began to carve small houses that reminded him of vernacular styles, like stilt houses, that he would see on his travels around Asia. Inspiration also comes from Japanese temples and shrines, particularly elements from 4,000-year-old ruins dating to the Jōmon era.

Starting with a hand-drawn sketch, Akama allows intuition and the characteristics of each piece of wood guide the final design. Rough hunks of timber transform into elegant, low shapes or tall, spindly structures, with sizes ranging from a little bigger than a fifty cent piece—about 1.5 inches—to more than 40 inches tall. Sometimes the artist adds a cantilevered effect, occasionally sticking on pebbles and clay to add organic textures to the surfaces, then finishing with a dash of a blow torch before polishing.

Basho no Kankaku—A Sense of Place 場所の感覚 will be on view from March 9 to June 30, and you can learn more on the park’s website. Explore more of the artist’s work on his site and Instagram.

 

A collection of whimsical wooden house sculptures.

Two side-by-side images, both featuring a whimsical wooden stilt house sculpture.

A tall wooden stilt house sculpture.

Two side-by-side images, both featuring a whimsical wooden stilt house sculpture.

A long, low wooden stilt house sculpture.

A whimsical wooden stilt house sculpture that appears to hang out over a rock (also made of wood).

A tiny whimsical wooden stilt house sculpture.

A process image of the artist using a chisel to carve the shape of a wooden house sculpture.

Work in progress. Photo by Benedict Phillips

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Cardboard Takes a Fantastical Turn in Greg Olijnyk’s Mechanical Insects and Wondrous Dream Factory

Cardboard Takes a Fantastical Turn in Greg Olijnyk’s Mechanical Insects and Wondrous Dream Factory

Detail of “Ants,” 50 x 50 x 15 centimeters. All photos by Griffin Simm, © Greg Olijnyk, shared with permission

Hordes of ants with serrated mandibles, a coiled caterpillar, and puffy white cotton-ball clouds materialize in Greg Olijnyk’s Melbourne studio. The artist continues his ever-growing collection of cardboard sculptures augmented with LED lights, toothpicks, and “a lot of hours and lots of coffee.” His most recent works include a trio of mechanical insects presented like entomological displays, their legs and heads revealing Olijnyk’s meticulous attention to detail and devotion to rendering minuscule features. Keeping with the wondrous world that he’s been expanding the last few years, the artist also fashioned a “Dream Factory,” a whimsical manufacturing plant shipping out the most fantastical imaginings.

For more of Olijnyk’s sci-fi universe of robots and uncanny architecture, visit his site and Instagram.

 

an overview image of cardboard ants appearing to crawl out of a hole

“Ants,” 50 x 50 x 15 centimeters

an overview image of a cardboard fly with four wings and long antennae

“Fly,” 50 x 50 x 15 centimeters

a close up image of the head of a cardboard fly with glowing eyes

Detail of “Fly,” 50 x 50 x 15 centimeters

an overview image of a coiled, C-shaped cardboard caterpillar

“Caterpillar,” 50 x 50 x 15 centimeters

a close up image of a cardboard caterpillar with lights glowing on its head

Detail of “Caterpillar,” 50 x 50 x 15 centimeters

“The Dream Factory,” 75 x 90 x 65 centimeters

Detail of “The Dream Factory,” 75 x 90 x 65 centimeters

Detail of “The Dream Factory,” 75 x 90 x 65 centimeters

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Go East: Singapore in the spotlight

Go East: Singapore in the spotlight

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The international art market moves to the Indo-Pacific this week for the second edition of ART SG in Singapore (January 19-21, Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre). Coinciding with Singapore Art Week and notable museum show openings, the fair has generated a “step up of activity in town” this year, according to its co-founder Magnus Renfrew.

Support from the region’s individual collectors bolsters many events, including at the so-called Private Museum, which is in fact a hybrid non-profit charity founded by the real estate developer Daniel Teo and his daughter Rachel Teo in 2010. Shows here include works from 15 members of “Art Addicts Anonymous” — an informal WhatsApp group that has become a thriving collectors circle — and of art owned by Pierre Lorinet, a financier-turned-philanthropist who is a member of ART SG’s 26-person advisory group. Elsewhere, the British curator Zoé Whitley organises an exhibition of 100 artists from Africa and Asia at Gillman Barracks for The Institutum, founded by the international collector Andreas Teoh.

Renfrew notes the acceleration of money flowing into Singapore, including through its thriving biotech and tech sectors. This year’s edition of the fair is however nearly a third smaller than its inaugural edition — with about 110 galleries versus 160 in 2023 — which, Renfrew says, reflects that galleries are “having to make short-term, pragmatic decisions” in a softer market. But, he says, “given the wider context of the ascent of Singapore’s relevance geopolitically and geo-economically, ART SG has the potential to play a role in building a key cultural and art market hub over the coming years.”


‘Disastres’ (2024) by Marco Fusinato © Courtesy the artist and Palas, Sydney

Two Australians who forged their careers in London have moved back and will open a new gallery in Sydney on February 24. Tania Doropoulos, previously artistic director of Frieze London and Frieze Studios, and Matt Glenn, a former director at Sadie Coles gallery, have identified a “generational shift” among gallerists and collectors in Australia and believe that now is a good time to begin catering to the widening demand. The art market’s move towards Asia is among the dynamics helping to put Australia on the map, they say. 

The gallery will be called “Palas”, to invoke a sense of palatial hospitality, and so spelt after “an accident between an artist and an artificial intelligence”, Doropoulos says. The two-story space is in the city’s fast-developing Zetland area, and opens with a show of new silkscreen paintings by Marco Fusinato (US$35,000-$45,000). Fusinato represented Australia in the 2022 Venice Biennale, participating every day in a performance that ran for the event’s 200-day run. 

The Palas founders plan to join the international art fair circuit, they say. “Artists here want to engage more internationally but it can be a very difficult leap, without physically relocating to the northern hemisphere, which can take years out of their practice,” Glenn says. Doropoulos adds that there is also demand from artists outside of Australia to build their profile there. “The biennial and museum sectors are showing a much better exchange but the gallery sector is not as participatory overseas,” she says. Other shows in the pipeline include those of the Irish artist Eva Rothschild, who also recently represented her country at Venice, and Canada’s Tamara Henderson. 


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‘Glen and Gibraltar 1 in Perugino’ (2023) by Glen Pudvine

Experimenting with a new business model is Matt Carey-Williams, who left Victoria Miro gallery in London last year and is now setting up solo. His venture will have a physical space — at 12 Porchester Place near Marble Arch — where he will hang about 10 small and short shows a year, each a “close up” of one artist. The first of these “Scenes” runs February 6-March 2 with work by Glen Pudvine (b1989, £3,500-£11,000), whom Carey-Williams first encountered at Pudvine’s Royal Academy Schools’ graduate show. It’s at this level that Carey-Williams feels he can really make a difference, offering exhibitions without demanding official representation. “There is a real thirst for artists who haven’t even graduated yet, which is risky for everyone, especially the artist,” he says.

He will supplement the Scene showings with “Episodes”, larger-scale group exhibitions based on a theme, which will run in different venues around the world. The first of these, Bump, will be at Frieze’s 9 Cork Street building, March 7-23, and will comprise 21 artists including Marc Dennis, Clare Woods and Flora Yukhnovich (prices up to $140,000). Carey-Williams says he is likely to go to Seoul for a future Episode in the autumn.


A silkscreen of red triangles on a black background
‘Black Dada (A)’ (2023) by Adam Pendleton

Hot on the heels of his Blackness, White, and Light exhibition that closed this month at the Mumok museum in Vienna, American artist Adam Pendleton gets his first solo gallery show in New York for more than 10 years at Pace from May 3. The show, including 20 recent paintings and works on paper, is an extension of the Vienna exhibition — which itself was a continuation of his best-known series, Black Dada and introduced colour for the first timeThe Pace works will be priced between $65,000 and $450,000.

The artist’s “nearly continuous institutional exhibitions over the past 10 years”, including also at New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the KW Institute of Contemporary Art in Berlin, are a reason why it has taken so long for him to have a commercial show in his home town, says Samanthe Rubell, president of Pace, which has represented the artist since 2012. The artist, who explores the relationship between blackness and abstraction, is “one of the most relevant working today” and “reflects how we experience the world in the 21st century through its palpable feeling of everything happening at once”, she says.

Institutional demand has not exactly cooled — also in the planning is a large-scale, site-specific commission for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC, slated for Spring 2025.

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