Capitain Petzel is presenting the exhibition “LATER IS NOW” by New York based artist Joyce Pensato. For her second solo exhibition at the gallery, Pensato has created a new series of paintings and drawings. Also on view are new digital c-prints shot by the artist, showing some of her source material from the studio. For many years Pensato has engaged with the expressive power of cartoon and comic book characters. Her large scaled enamel paintings show iconic figures such as Batman, Mickey Mouse and Homer Simpson, which she alters, layers, erases and deconstructs until they are no longer universally recognizable characters, but emblems of cultural reflection. In making familiar faces strange, her practice is positioned between the illustrative figuration of Pop Art and the gestural physicality of Abstract Expressionism. The rawness of Pensato’s work contrasts with the exacting method of her painting practice. She

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Pace London presents an exhibition of works by John Hoyland, Anthony Caro and Kenneth Noland, celebrating the friendship and connections between the three artists. The exhibition is on view in the ground floor gallery of 6 Burlington Gardens from 20 November to 16 January 2016. This exhibition is the first presentation by Pace London of these masters. It also marks Noland’s first exhibition in the UK since the artist’s death in 2010. Anthony Caro, John Hoyland, Kenneth Noland explores the matrix of concerns—colour, form, material and working in series—that these figures shared with a selection of work by each artist from the 1960s and 1970s. It allows the viewer to consider the inner relations between important works by these modern masters. Hoyland, Caro and Noland all emerged in the wake of the first generation of the New York School and sought to continue the legacies of their abstract forebears. Hoyland fi

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The Philadelphia Museum of Art presents an exhibition celebrating the achievements of a renowned designer and author. Work on What You Love: Bruce Mau Rethinking Design encompasses a wide range of innovative work, from book and branding designs to strategies for countries, corporations, and universities, as well as collaborations with filmmakers, artists and writers. It is the first exhibition to explore Mau’s provocative and influential design thinking, focusing primarily on the last ten years and including current projects along with others based on his work as creative director of Bruce Mau Design (1985–2010). The exhibition focuses on key design principles that Mau created for his consultancy, Massive Change Network, which he founded in 2010. These principles, twenty-four in total, offer a kind of working toolbox, intended to demonstrate the power of design to generate positive change in any arena. Nine of them are

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Henning Larsen Architects announced that it was one of three finalists for the planned multi-space Performing Arts Center of the World Trade Center. The building will be located at the northeast corner of the World Trade Center site in New York City. The invited international design competition shortlisted Henning Larsen Architects, REX Architecture, and UN Studio. The arts center signifies a commitment to making the memorial site into a cultural destination for residents and visitors. The World Trade Center site has been developed by world-class architects; as a finalist, Henning Larsen Architects solidifies its position as one of today’s premier architecture firms. “Henning Larsen Architects is deeply honored to have been invited to this competition in the heart of New York City, at the heart of Ground Zero,” said Louis Becker, Design Director and Principal Partner of Henning Larsen Archit

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‘I Was Once Lonelyness’ is a group exhibition that looks at how contemporary artists are utilising differing languages of abstraction to bridge material and immaterial space. In an age where digital platforms proliferate, we mediate a unique moment in history where we occupy and move between physical and immaterial realms. Artists are brought together from each of the world’s continents to explore how this condition is expressed in painting, sculpture, installation, works on paper and photography. Absent from any recognisable forms, abstraction could be described as an act of pure creation. From the early to mid-twentieth century, artists from Russia through to Europe and America assumed a radically non-representational style, purposefully turning away from the knowable material world to preface feeling. How have contemporary artists assumed this mantle? The exhibition’s title derives from a phrase once used by the African artist Moshekwa Langa (b. 1975, South Afric

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The spirit of Coney Island comes alive with Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 on view at the Brooklyn Museum. The exhibition traces the evolution of the Coney Island phenomenon from tourist destination during the Civil War to the World’s Greatest Playground to a site of nostalgia. Covering a period of 150 years, the exhibition features 140 objects, including paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, posters, artifacts, carousel animals, ephemera, and film clips. Also on view is Forever Coney, 42 photographs from the Brooklyn Museum collection. An extraordinary array of artists have viewed Coney Island as a microcosm of the American experience and used their works to investigate the area as both a place and an idea. Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland offers up early depictions of “the people’s beach” by Impressionists William Merritt Chase and John Henry Twachtman; moderni

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We are almost constantly surrounded by architecture, but we barely perceive it. Yet it has a major impact on our thought and actions — sometimes obviously, but usually unconsciously. The Colombian artist Gabriel Sierra is interested in precisely this psychological dimension of architecture. He aims to create an experiment that explores the intricate relation in between reality and perception. After all, built spaces are repositories for ideas, fears, and convictions; they are full of ambitions, traces, and future experiences, and possess multiple layers of time. Hardly any other experience demonstrates this as strikingly as déjà-vu, when we witness a moment as if it had already occurred. During a moment of déjà-vu, the present is transported backward in time; in it, the past, the future, and the present merge into a magical second that is both euphoric and unsettling. Sierra’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Zürich is dedicated to this unfathomable and uncanny Before Present. To rec

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He was one of the most innovative artists of the Italian Baroque. Yet Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (1609–1664) was also a violent and impetuous man, who was repeatedly in court for assault, allegedly attempted to throw his sister off a roof, destroyed his own work in front of powerful patrons, and was forced to flee Rome in mysterious circumstances. The turbulence that characterised his life overshadowed his artistic brilliance, and Castiglione struggled to achieve the recognition that he deserved. Much of what is known about the artist is derived not from fulfilled commissions, but from court documents. The Royal Collection contains the largest and finest group of the artist’s work, and this winter The Kimbell Art Museum will stage the exhibition dedicated to Castiglione. Through 98 drawings and prints the exhibition aims to reinstate Castiglione in his rightful place as one of the greatest artists of the Baroque. Ca

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The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presents three large-scale works from its permanent collection by artists Robert Irwin, Ernesto Neto, and Judith Barry at its downtown location from November 20, 2015 through February 21, 2016. The installations fill each gallery with immersive artworks that engage viewer’s experience of physical space, light, and sound. Light itself focuses and diffuses our gaze in Irwin’s environmental light installation Light and Space (2007). The piece creates a dialogue between solid architecture and empty space mediated by electric light—three forms of matter at different accelerations. Driven by an attention to phenomenological experience rather than illusion, Irwin’s work is an inquiry into the nature of perception. Irwin’s early examinations into the nexus between what is seen and perceived with the senses, in addition to the physical conditions of a site, helped to define the

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Lucien Terras presents an exhibition of works by Ann Pibal that will run from November 21, 2015 until January 17, 2016. The exhibition is comprised of two groups of paintings from 2013 that contrast formally and chromatically and face each other in the space. The two groups are referenced and differentiated by acronyms as all of Ann Pibal’s work – a language convention that reflects her highly distilled approach to abstraction: RBWC is a suite of five paintings on a gold background that constitute a single celebratory multi panel piece while DHWT is a series of six dark toned individual works that are condensed and powerful assertions of an abstraction rooted in the experiential world. The work of Ann Pibal goes back and forth between two poles – the ideal and the pragmatic – manifested through the contrast between the two components of the exhibition, but also their interconnectivity.

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