Courtesy of the artist and CLAMP, New York, NY and Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NMArt & PhotographyListsArt shows to leave the house for in December 2023From hip-hop in New York to witchcraft in London and a testament of enduring love in Chicago... here’s our round-up of the must-see shows this monthShareLink copied ✔️November 29, 2023Art & PhotographyListsTextAshleigh Kane Rounding out a great year of art shows are… even more great art shows! The art world has really been gifting us all of 2023, and December’s list isn’t letting up. From celebrating Charlie Ahearn’s iconic film, Wild Style in NYC to surrealism and witchcraft in London, and love and intimacy in Chicago, there’s something under this tree for everyone. See you in 2024! 1/19 You may like next 1/19 1/19 Courtesy of @southlondongalleryHOSPITAL, POPE.L, SOUTH LONDON GALLERY, LONDON, UKAmerican artist Pope.L brings his extensive career to South London Gallery for Hospital, an inaugural London exhibition that navigates the crossroads of philosophy and theatre. He has explored society, politics, and culture across literature, painting, performance, installation, sculpture, and film, often confronting language, gender, race, economics, and community through provocation.Until February 11, 2024view more + 2/19 2/19 Courtesy of @elanatsui_artEL ANATSUI: BEHIND THE RED MOON, TATE MODERN, LONDONEl Anatsui’s Behind the Red Moon is a vast sculptural installation in the Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall that continues the Ghanaian sculptor’s exploration of the transatlantic slave trade, comprised of thousands of found metal bottle tops sourced from Nigeria, which El Anatsui transforms through crumpling, crushing, and stitching them into abstract compositions. From a distance, symbolic landscapes emerge, while close inspection reveals the bottle tops’ logos and their connection to a global industry rooted in colonial trade routes. Merging the past and present of Africa and Europe, the installation embodies El Anatsui’s concept of the ‘non-fixed form’ (whereby each artwork hangs differently each time it is exhibited) while examining the intersecting forces that shape human histories.Until April 14, 2024view more + 3/19 3/19 Courtesy of @suneil_sanzgiriHERE THE EARTH GROWS GOLD, SUNEIL SANZGIRI, BROOKLYN MUSEUMIn Here the Earth Grows Gold, NYC-based artist Suneil Sanzgiri uses 16mm film projection spliced with archival footage, animation, and interviews, alongside new sculptural assemblages comprised of bamboo, family photos, 3D renderings, anti-colonial publications, and nature imagery to examine the complexities of anti-colonialism, nationalism, and diasporic identity. The work is deeply inspired by his family’s resistance while living in Goa, India, under Portuguese occupation. Through this debut solo exhibition, Sanzgiri links this legacy with that of African countries like Angola, South Africa, Morocco, etc, during the 1960s and 70s. Despite this personal anchor, the exhibition could stretch to any anti-colonial struggles raging today and inconsistencies of what’s regarded as official history versus one’s own lived history.Until May 5, 2024view more + 4/19 4/19 Courtesy of @maximillian_williamSENSIBILITIES, MAXIMILLIAN WILLIAM, LONDON, UKWhen a David Hammons’ work comes to London, you go. When his work is paired with Melvin Edwards, Magdalene Odundo, and Reginald Sylvester II – you run. Sensibilities is an intimate group show at London’s Maximillian William, which focuses on artists who forgo ‘style’ for sensibility, “never affixing themselves to a mode. Instead, they develop an instantly recognisable vernacular across forms.”Until January 20, 2024view more + 5/19 5/19 Courtesy of @twincharlieWILD STYLE 40, JEFFREY DEITCH, NEW YORK CITY, USA Four decades after Charlie Ahearn’s Wild Style was released, the small-budget indie film is a testament to a bygone era, an underground culture, and an almost unrecognisable city. Amidst change and renaissance, Wild Style captured lightning in a bottle. Wild Style 40 is an exhibition celebrating the visual artists who defined the era and inspired an art and music movement, from Fred Brathwaite (Fab 5 Freddy) to Martha Cooper, Brian Donnelly (KAWS), Rammellzee, and many more.Until January 13, 2024view more + 6/19 6/19 Courtesy of @gathering.londonPICTURES OF US, GATHERING, LONDON, UKPictures of Us examines how artists working across photography and film explore selfhood through familial, romantic, and social relationships, some of which transcend geographical and temporal boundaries. An intimate and tender show: expect works from Lotte Andersen, Genesis Baez, Jess T. Dugan, Sabelo Mlangeni, and more.From December 1, 2023 – January 13, 2024view more + 7/19 7/19 Courtesy of @marlborough_galleryLAPSUS CALAMI, MARLBOROUGH GALLERY, LONDON, UKLapsus Calami (Latin meaning ‘slip of the pen’) is a group exhibition embracing the intersection of lateral connections and associative ideas rather than the predetermined paths leading to what could make an artwork. Specifically, it relates to identity formation “as a haphazard and intuitive combination of design and accident”. Curated by Eddie Peake, works include Actress, Bolade Banjo, Woodsy Bransfield, Leigh Ledare, Jocelyn McGregor, and Ajamu X; the works specifically explore masculinity in all “its possible permutations, its fragility, its falsehoods, its antitheses, the areas where it collapses or exhausts itself and may even manifest as qualities that are not typically male, or arguably as definitively not male at all.”From December 8, 2023 – January 28, 2024view more + 8/19 8/19 Courtesy of @gazelliarthouse A PORTRAIT, PAULINE BOTY, GAZELLI ART HOUSE, LONDON, UKBritish painter Pauline Boty, a central figure in the 1960s British Pop Art movement, defied conventions by exploring femininity, societal norms, politics, and pop culture. Yet her impact on the art historical canon, specifically in shaping a new wave of feminism, has been largely overlooked. However, next month, her first solo exhibition in a decade, A Portrait, will open at London’s Gazelli Art House, showcasing her paintings and a range of archival materials made before her untimely death from cancer at just 28.From December 1, 2023 – February 24, 2024view more + 9/19 9/19 Courtesy of @brookebeningtonCORPORATE HORRORS, VILTE FULLER, BROOKE BENINGTON, LONDONArtist Vilte Fuller’s Corporate Horrors at London’s Brooke Benington, explores the intersection of technology, the human body, and workplace culture. Echoing David Cronenberg's "body horror" and the literary flair of JG Ballard and Brett Easton Ellis, Fuller mediates on her role as a full-time artist, transforming mundane offices into captivating expressions of modern life. This collection seamlessly blends corporate aesthetics with darker themes, offering a profound commentary on the intricacies of contemporary existence.From December 1, 2023 – January 24, 2024view more + 10/19 10/19 Courtesy of @aliceblackgallerySMALL HOURS, ALICE BLACK GALLERY, LONDON, UKRounding out the year with a group exhibition Small Hours, artists such as Jazz Grant, Amber Pinkerton, Atalanta Xanthe, and more will explore the early morning hours across various mediums. From December 1, 2023 – January 13, 2024view more + 11/19 11/19 Courtesy of @guggenheimONLY THE YOUNG: EXPERIMENTAL ART IN KOREA, 1960S–1970SIn the wake of the Korean War, South Korea underwent a groundbreaking and genre-defying era of artistic production. Currently on show at the Guggenheim is an exploration of the experimental art from the 60s and 70s as avant-garde artists redefined painting, sculpture, photography, video, and performance among changing socioeconomic conditions and a tumultuous political landscape to ultimately harness art’s power in reimagining an ever-shifting present. Until January 7, 2024view more + 12/19 12/19 Courtesy of @courtauldPRESENCE, CLAUDETTE JOHNSON, THE COURTAULD, LONDON, UKAs a key figure in the Black British arts movement, Claudette Johnson is known for her large-scale drawings of Black women and men that converge intimacy with power. In Presence, the first solo show of her work in a London public gallery, her oeuvre spans various media, characterised by dramatic posturing and scale, challenging the narrative of Black presence in the UK. Until January 14, 2024view more + 13/19 13/19 Courtesy of @showstudioPHOTOCOLLAGE, DEBORAH TURBEVILLE, PHOTO ELYSÉE, LAUSANNEFor four decades, the late American photographer Deborah Turbeville defied conventional categorisation, evoking a timeless melancholy that permeated through her haunting, sepia-tinted photos, Photocollage, drills into her oeuvre of personal work, fashion imagery, and handmade collages and accompanied the release of a book of the same name, published by Thames & Hudson. Until February 25, 2024view more + 14/19 14/19 Courtesy of @roseeaston223SACCHARINE SYMBOLS, ROSE EASTON, LONDON, UKLondon gallery Rose Easton’s latest group show, Saccharine Symbols, featuring Marisa Kriangwiwat Holmes, Shamiran Istifan, and Tasneem Sarkez, is accompanied by an essay from Philippa Snow. In it, she explores desire that belies danger – candy that conceals razorblades, poisonous apples, and the almond scent of cyanide. Much like the gallery space itself, its sickly-sweet floor acts as the trojan horse for the works on show, which traverse politicised themes from the effects of hostile immigration policy, digital depression and Libyan liberation.Until December 20, 2023view more + 15/19 15/19 Courtesy of @_workplace_YESTERDAY & THE END, JULIA MAIURI, WORKPLACE, LONDON, UKCinefile and artist Julia Maiuri are interested in the suspense and tension that “freezing moments of transition” can create. In a new series of paintings, on show now at London’s Workplace, she looks to the film technique where one scene dissolves into another. By freezing this split-second transition, the result layers characters, film genres, and motifs in eerie dream-like vignettes. Until January 6, 2024view more + 16/19 16/19 Courtesy of @saatchiyatesELENA GARRIGOLAS, SAATCHI YATES, LONDON, UKSpanish artist Elena Garrigolas pulls from the strangest corners of the collective mind, dreamscapes, the internal and lived experience to create self-portraits akin to a fever dream. It's like seeing a Frida Kahlo or a Paula Rego on acid. Hailing from a deeply religious family and attending Catholic school, years of suppressing feelings and “the physical embodiment of her being”, she looked to surrealism to explore themes like motherhood, ageing, and beauty through anthropomorphic characters that must be seen to be believed.Until December 22, 2023view more + 17/19 17/19 Courtesy of @cobgalleryKINDNESS AND HOSPITALITY FROM A FOREIGNER, CHINAZA AGBOR, UKChinaza Agbor’s debut UK solo exhibition, Kindness and Hospitality from a Foreigner, explores Black female identity in the American South. The daughter of Nigerian migrants, Agbor’s work delves into the cycle of the demise of self-esteem to renewed self-love as a Black woman, and this just-opened show features oil paintings, installation, sculpture, and the debut of her self-portraiture.Until December 16, 2023view more + 18/19 18/19 Courtesy of @mocpchiLOVE: STILL NOT THE LESSER, MOCP, CHICAGO, USAIn this promising group show, twelve artists explore how they encounter and understand love through the dynamics of romantic partnerships, sensual eroticism, familial structures, social utopia, and life and death. Artists include Alia Ali, Alicia Bruce, Jorian Charlton, Jess T Dugan, Mari Katayama, Kierah KIKI King, Mous Lamrabat, Tom Merilion, Salma Abedin Prithi, Modou Dieng Yacine, Yuge Zhou, and the debut of Jorge Ariel Escobar.Until December 22, 2023view more + 19/19 19/19 Courtesy of @lamb.gallery SURREALISM AND WITCHCRAFT, LAMB LONDON, UKIt’s unsurprising that female Surrealist artists, a movement inspired by the power of the unconscious and dreams, drew from the iconography of witchcraft, and a London exhibition is tracing the many ways that this manifests. Using Leonora Carrington’s fabulous series of witch hats (c. 1955), in collaboration with Leonor Fini, as a departure point, Surrealism and Witchcraft unravels explorations of contemporary artists such as Tali Lennox, Sophie von Hellermann, and Georg Wilson, amongst others. Most works were made this year, except Carrington and two etchings from Paula Rego's series “Girl with Goat’s Feet” (2012). 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