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A joint exhibition at PPOW and Galerie Lelong in New York aims to show a side of the artist Carolee Schneeman beyond her Meat Joy (1964) days—the work in which the artist and other performers danced while rubbing cuts of meet around their bodies, now part of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection.

Further Evidence—Exhibit A and B (until 3 December) features a series of lesser-known mixed-media works from the 1980s and 90s that were “simply ignored”, Schneeman tells The Art Newspaper.The presentation at PPOW includes drawings and an installation that Schneeman conceived in response to being hospitalised for cancer treatment.

The gallery is also showing the rarely seen installation Known/Unknown: Plague Column (1995-96), incorporating text, photographs, collages, sculptures and video. This was inspired by a 17th-century Viennese monument where the bubonic plague is represented as a witch, created at a time when the feminine was “not considered a power, but was marginalised and made toxic by the church”, Schneeman says.



A still from Precarious (2009) (Image: © Carolee Schneemann. Courtesy PPOW and Galerie Lelong)

Galerie Lelong has the multi-media installation Precarious that was commissioned by Tate Liverpool in 2009 and has never been shown in the US. The work deals with different forms of oppression and includes collaged paintings of caged cats captured for food and video clips of animals and Filipino prisoners dancing in captivity that are projected onto the walls of a separate room. In another gallery is the multi-channel installation Devour (2003), in which everyday scenes are presented in a way “that may be considered startling or disruptive—that appear almost sinister”, Schneeman says.

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Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington by Sir Thomas Lawrence (1829) (Image: © Private Collection)

The National Portrait Gallery in London is launching an appeal to buy a £1.3m portrait of the Duke of Wellington by Thomas Lawrence. Begun in 1829, the painting was unfinished at the artist’s death the following year. Only the face is nearly complete, with the rest of the body loosely sketched in.The portrait was commissioned by Sarah Villiers, Countess of Jersey, who was probably having an affair with Wellington. The historian Andrew Roberts describes it as a “love token”. For some reason the picture was never finished and Sarah did not allow a studio assistant to complete it after Lawrence’s death. Although Wellington was best known as the military leader of the 1815 Battle of Waterloo, the oil painting depicts him as a statesman in civilian dress. He was a Tory prime minister in 1829.

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Just Before The Last by The Narratographer

The lucky cyclist by Lars van de Goor

Extreme Autumn by Martin Podt

On Saturday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting a daylong series of lectures, conversations and film screenings that examine the past year in architecture and design. The event, In Our Time: A Year of Architecture in a Day, includes speakers like Emanuel Christ of the firm Christ and Gantenbein (on their recent expansion of Kunstmuseum Basel), the photographer Wolfgang Tillmans (on his anti-Brexit poster campaign) and the architect Elizabeth Diller of Diller, Scofidio and Renfro (on the future of architecture in New York). Among the films is a tribute to the late Zaha Hadid, who died in March. It includes reflections on her work from architects like Norman Foster and Bjarke Ingels. The event is free with museum admission. Here are some of the projects that will be covered:



Ensamble Studio, Beartooth Portal, Structures of Landscape, Tippet Rise Art Center




Bas Princen, Volcano Walk, Kawah Putih (White Crater), 2015, C-print. (C) Bas Princen




New Society, a performance by Miranda July and the audience, October 2015 at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. Photo by Julieta Cervantes for The New York Times



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Forest mood! by Patrice Thomas

Rainy Day - Morning Version by Adnan Bubalo

The Rock
Photo by Panagiotis Laoudikos

London is a city of firsts—so it’s no surprise to see a new gallery open in the capital dedicated to both contemporary indigenous North American and European art. And there's another noteworthy aspect:*The Baldwin Gallery, located in Blackheath, is based in a house owned by the gallery founder and creative director, Dennison Smith.

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