JANUARY 29, 2021 GRACE EBERT All images © Naohiko Shimoda, shared with permission Architect Naohiko Shimoda’s interpretation of a kamidana—a small altar or “god shelf” that’s part of a tradition to bring Shinto shrines into private spaces—strays from the simple ledges most often found in Japanese homes. Designed with an intricate foundation and slatted roof, the wooden… More An Elaborate Kamidana Shrine Designed by Naohiko Shimoda Wraps an Inner Corner

MOSCOW JART GALLERY3-Ya Yamskogo Polya Ulitsa, 9November 15, 2020–February 14, 2021 This show, titled “Innocent Pranks. Technorococo,” marks the fourth exhibition organized by curator Sergey Khachaturov to feature the twenty-three-year-old Vladimir Kartashov. In 2018, the artist filled an entire hall of the Tsaritsyno Estate Museum with human-sized superhero and villain figures on canvas for the… More Vladimir Kartashov

January 29th, 2021 Taking over the halls of the König Galerie Chapel in Berlin, artist Claudia Comte  presents a body of new works unified under the title Jungles and Corals, a selection of new sculptural works produced while Comte was on residency last year in Jamaica at the Alligator Head Foundation as a fellow of the TBA21–Academy. Created in collaboration with local… More BERLIN – CLAUDIA COMTE: “JUNGLE AND CORALS” AT KÖNIG GALERIE THROUGH FEBRUARY 28TH, 2021

BY CLAIRE SELVIN January 29, 2021 11:01am To toast the Metropolitan Museum of Art 150th anniversary in 2020, artist Georg Baselitz and his wife, Elke, have gifted six inverted portraits to the New York institution. The works all date to 1969, and they will be on view in the exhibition “Georg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn” through July 18. The portraits depict… More Georg Baselitz Gifts Six Upside-Down Portraits to Metropolitan Museum of Art

by Vadim Rizovin Festivals & Events, Sundanceon Jan 30, 2021 edgar wright, Sparks, Sundance, Sundance Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival 2021, The Sparks Brothers Now entering their sixth decade of steady musical production, Sparks—brothers Ron and Russell Mael’s remarkably enduring musical project—has proved equally alienating to multiple generations of American listeners no matter what phase they were in. During the very first days of MTV,… More Sundance 2021 Critic’s Notebook (2): The Sparks Brothers, Mother Schmuckers