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Viewing Art Basel Miami 2024

The Wick Culture - Sarah Meyohas
Interference #18, 2023
Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery.

Above Sarah Meyohas Interference #18, 2023 Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery.

The Wick Culture - Chiachio & Giannone, Detail of ‘La Famille dans la Joyeuse Verdure,’ 2013–2019. Courtesy of the artist and Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte.

Above Chiachio & Giannone, Detail of ‘La Famille dans la Joyeuse Verdure,’ 2013–2019. Courtesy of the artist and Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte.

The Wick Culture - Raymond Pettibon, No Title (Procreation extended to...), 2017 (detail). Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery.

Above Raymond Pettibon, No Title (Procreation extended to…), 2017 (detail). Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery.

The Wick Culture - Calida Rawles, Impact, 2024. Photo by Marten Elder. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London.

Above Calida Rawles, Impact, 2024. Photo by Marten Elder. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London.

The Wick Culture - Slawn, Sssssstupid, 2024. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates.

Above Slawn, Sssssstupid, 2024. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates.

Above Sarah Meyohas Interference #18, 2023 Courtesy of the artist and Marianne Boesky Gallery.

Above Chiachio & Giannone, Detail of ‘La Famille dans la Joyeuse Verdure,’ 2013–2019. Courtesy of the artist and Ruth Benzacar Galería de Arte.

Above Raymond Pettibon, No Title (Procreation extended to…), 2017 (detail). Courtesy of David Zwirner Gallery.

Above Calida Rawles, Impact, 2024. Photo by Marten Elder. Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul, and London.

Above Slawn, Sssssstupid, 2024. Courtesy of Saatchi Yates.

Art Basel Miami 2024

Miami Beach Convention Center
December 4 – 8, 2024

Next week is the art world’s last hurrah of the calendar year – Art Basel Miami. The coastal city plays host to an array of spin-offs and satellites at private venues and public institutions, and then of course there’s the main fair.

On our must-see list is the fair’s Meridians sector at the fair, the platform for large-scale projects, curated this year by Yasmil Raymond. This year’s line-up includes conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas’s Interference #18—a monumental, fourteen-feet wide multipanel hologram from the artist’s ongoing Interference series—presented by Marianne Boesky Gallery. Meyohas layers magnified imagery of plant matter with images of a nude female form.

We’ll also be heading to Nova, the place to see new works created in the last three years or less. This always proves to be a highlight of Art Basel, and this year we don’t want to miss Deborah Willis, presented by Welancora Gallery. Across town, the Bass Museum’s ‘Social Assembly: Welcome to the Museum’, is an innovative visitor experience and a celebration of the city, and at the Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, you can see works by Roy Lichtenstein, Louise Nevelson and Isamu Noguchi, among others, in Historic Works from the Margulies Collection 1930’s-1970’s. Round out the weekend with a visit to the Perez Museum for a groundbreaking exhibition surveying six decades of Xicanx-identifying artists.

Viewing As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic at Saatchi Gallery

The Wick Culture - Photo by Kennedi Carter

Above Photo by Kennedi Carter

The Wick Culture - As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic installation photograph

Above As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic installation photograph

The Wick Culture - James Barnor, Drum Cover Girl Erlin Ibreck, 1966

Above James Barnor, Drum Cover Girl Erlin Ibreck, 1966

The Wick Culture - Xaviera Simmons, Denver, 2008

Above Xaviera Simmons, Denver, 2008

Above Photo by Kennedi Carter

Above As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic installation photograph

Above James Barnor, Drum Cover Girl Erlin Ibreck, 1966

Above Xaviera Simmons, Denver, 2008

As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic
Saatchi Gallery
5 November 2024 – 20 January 2025

London gets a real treat with this breathtaking, uplifting, seriously good touring exhibition of works drawn from the Wedge Collection. Based on the Aperture publication of the same title, and brilliantly curated by Elliot Ramsey, As We Rise: Photography from the Black Atlantic brings together portraiture of Black subjects authored by Black subjects from the mid 20th century to today.

Major draws include a chance to see vintage prints by the likes of West African masters Malick Sidibé, Sory Sanlé, Seydou Këita, through to Jamal Shabazz, an early work by Carrie Mae Weems, and a rare black and white documentary portrait by Aïda Muluneh. There are also portraits by more recent superstars in the photo world, such as Kennedi Carter, the youngest photographer to ever shoot a Vogue cover, (aged 21 in 2020).

You might come for the famous names – but you’ll stay for the less celebrated: the Wedge Collection’s Dr Kenneth Montague has a sensibility and sensitivity for histories untold across the Black Atlantic, introducing Canadian artists like Tayo Yannick Anton, and Jamaican artists such as Ruddy Roye, whose bold visions of his homeland are revealed through striking portraits of Jamaicans taken on the beaches of Montego Bay.

Viewing Electric Dreams Art and Technology Before the Internet at Tate Modern

The Wick Culture - Suzanne Treister, Fictional Videogame Stills Are You Dreaming, 1991-92. Courtesy the artist Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P.P.O.W.

Above Suzanne Treister, Fictional Videogame Stills Are You Dreaming, 1991-92. Courtesy the artist Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P.P.O.W.

The Wick Culture - Alberto Biasi, light prisms Cinereticolo spettrale 1962-1965.
© ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo Franz Wamhof

Above Alberto Biasi, light prisms Cinereticolo spettrale 1962-1965. © ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo Franz Wamhof

The Wick Culture - Julio Le Parc, Double Mirror, 1966.
Atelier Le Parc

Above Julio Le Parc, Double Mirror, 1966. Atelier Le Parc

The Wick Culture - Liliane Lijn, The Bride, 1998. © Liliane Lijn

Above Liliane Lijn, The Bride, 1998. © Liliane Lijn

Above Suzanne Treister, Fictional Videogame Stills Are You Dreaming, 1991-92. Courtesy the artist Annely Juda Fine Art, London and P.P.O.W.

Above Alberto Biasi, light prisms Cinereticolo spettrale 1962-1965. © ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, photo Franz Wamhof

Above Julio Le Parc, Double Mirror, 1966. Atelier Le Parc

Electric Dreams Art and Technology Before the Internet
Tate Modern

28 November 2024 – 1 June 2025

Tate Modern’s newly-opened bonanza group show takes you back to a place unimaginable from where we are now: a time pre-internet. This long running survey of early era digital art moves from the psychedelic 1950s to the beginning of the internet era in the 1980s, taking you through the experiments of artists who wanted to innovate with the way we see and sense.

Tracing a trajectory through kinetic, optical and digital works, inspired by mathematical principles, and making use of new tech and industrial processes, artists this is an ambitious examination of how we got to here, and how visual language was pushing perception long before the network as we know it.

Look out for Atsuko Tanaka’s Electric Dress, a sculpture, painting, installation and costume originally created for a performance in 1956. This wearable artwork crafted from hand-painted industrial bulbs and incandescent tubes was hot and heavy – and wearing it could have been fatal in the event of a short circuit. The Zero Group’s founder Otto Piene’s Light Room (Jena) is another unmissable work, a key piece in understanding artistic approaches to technology of the time. The installation comprises five light-emitting sculptures, each fitted with motors, synchronised to perform a theatrical light play or ‘ballet’.