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#artcubeloves ‘Untitled Anxious Audience, 2018' by #RashidJohnson. When Johnson began the ‘Anxious Men’ series, he was responding to difficult political tensions. Starting with a single ‘Anxious Man’, as anxiety began mounting in the world, with ‘global immigration issues, attacks on America, and attacks within America by police on young black men,’ Johnson says that the notion of exploring just his own anxiety seemed inadequate and he began drawing multiple anxious faces instead. ‘I was coming to the realization that my anxiety was not mine exclusively.’ The resulting works were composed of repetitive black and white block-shaped faces with scrawled features that veer towards crude. @rashidjohnson. Image courtesy of @hauserwirth #artcube

#artcubeloves ‘Untitled (policeman), 2015’ by #KerryJamesMarshall. Marshall made this painting at a time when news about police killings of unarmed black men, women, and children was proliferating across the US, leading to the inception of the Black Lives Matter movement. The painting offers a somewhat unexpected and challenging visual response to these [and also current] overwhelming events. Perched on the hood of his squad car, the figure occupies categories often presented in the mass media as implacably antagonistic: he is both a black man and a police officer, seemingly locked into two conflicting identities. Text & image courtesy of @themuseumofmodernart #artcube

Glenn Ligon’s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources - literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs - to reveal the ways in which the history of slavery, the civil rights movement, and sexual politics inform our understanding of American society. He is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness. 1. ‘Untitled (America), 2018' 2. ‘Small Band, 2015’ 3. 'Notes for a Poem on The Third World (chapter two), 2018’ 4. 'Condition Report, 2000’ 5. ‘Excerpt, 2008’ 6. ‘Hands, 1996’ 7. 'Notes for a Poem on the Third World (chapter one), 2018’ #GlennLigon @glennligon. Courtesy of @regenprojects @thomasdanegallery @luhringaugustine @galeriechantalcrousel @hauserwirth @tate #artcube

In response to George Floyd’s death, Dallas artist Jammie Holmes last weekend flew banners showing Floyd’s last words across five cities. In addition to spreading the words physically, Holmes hoped that photos of the banners would be shared widely on social media: 1. Detroit: ‘PLEASE I CAN’T BREATHE’ 2. Miami: ‘MY STOMACH HURTS’ 3. Dallas: ‘MY NECK HURTS' 4. Los Angeles: ‘EVERYTHING HURTS’ 5. New York: ‘THEY’RE GOING TO KILL ME’ With support from his gallery @librarystreetcollective #GeorgeFloyd #JammieHolmes @jholmes214 #artcube

#artcubetrending - Top 10 Emerging Artists Trending on Instagram this Week from Our Newsletter: 1. #KwesiBotchway @k.botwe1 via @gallery1957 & @houseofafricanart 2. #FloraYukhnovich @flora_yukhnovich via @vitadifil 3. #ConnyMaier via @diamondskull_art 4. #AnkeWeyer via @timvanlaere_tvl 5. #MeghanBrady via @sergnyc 6. #JordyKerwick @jordykerwick via @jordykerwick 7. #AustinLee @austinleee via @paceprints 8. #DaltonPaula via @masp 9. #FriendsWithYou @friendswithyou via @thepitla 10. #WycliffeMundopa @wycliffemundopa via @kristinhjellegjerdegallery #artcube

#artcubetrending - Top 10 Mid-Career & Established Artists Trending on Instagram this Week from Our Newsletter: 1. #EmmaAmos (RIP) via @margaritakarasoulas 2. #MartinParr via @irina_rasquinet 3. #KennyScharf @kennyscharf via @jessicagoldmansrebnick 4. #RichardAnuszkiewicz via @justsly777 5. #JohnSmith @theotherjohnsmith via @tanyaleighton 6. #GabrielRico @el_senor_del_veneno via @sofsaf8 7. #MaurizioCattelan @mauriziocattelan via @kolia_smirnov 8. #MattiaBonetti via @the.archers.inc 9. #HenriRousseau via @uovo.art 10. #BlairThurman @matureblond via @thomaslapointe87 #artcube

#artcubetrending - Top 10 Blue Chip Artists Trending on Instagram this Week from Our Newsletter: 1. #FelixGonzalezTorres via @russell.salmon 2. #SusanRothenberg (RIP) via @haideefindlaylevin 3. #JoshSmith via @brundtlandkrosby 4. #DanColen via @gagosian 5. #SarahSze @sarahszestudio via @usadvisory 6. #GeorgeCondo via @stanis_trenor 7. #SueWilliams via @annebruderart 8. #AmySillman via @themuseumofmodernart 9. #PhilipGuston via @johan.vansteenkiste 10. #BruceNauman via @henningvonderosten #artcube

#artcubepeople: As the art world is turned upside down, it’s time to reflect on how people adapt to the new normal. Italian collectors Francesco Taurisano (Happy Birthday 🎂) & Sveva D’Antonio of @collezionetaurisano are still quarantining at their home in Naples, surrounded by art. Their collection, started by Francesco’s father, spans nearly 400 works with a recent focus on contemporary artists addressing social and political issues, including 1) 'Grateful Detest, 2018’ by #SerSerpas @ser_sera, 2) 'TO SUMMON NEW HORIZONS ... (to Sveva and Francesco), 2019’ by #Apparatus22, 3) 'Kadlites, 2017’ by #JanaSchröder @janarrrrrrrrrrrrr & 4) 'Batuque na cozinha, 2017’ by #Opavivarà! @opavivara. You can find more information on their collection and adapting to life in quarantine here: bit.ly/CollectorsAtHome. The couple has also been very pro-active in hosting live Instagram story interviews with artists & art professionals through their weekly series ‘We Care’. #artcube

#artcubeloves 'a thing called gearbox, 2004' by #UrsFischer via @untitledbasel #artcube

#artcubetrending - Top 10 Emerging Artists Trending on Instagram this Week from Our Newsletter: 1. #DonnaHuanca @ruaminx via @alte_meister 2. #LiamFallon @lfallon via @duveberlin 3. #CristinaBanBan @cristina_banban via @jgartadvisory 4. #DaltonPaula via @masp 5. #NadineIjewere via @icp 6. #KatarinaRiesing @katarinariesing via @topainterstopaintings 7. #RaulDeNieves @norauls via @shellitollman 8. #Okokume via @alreigso 9. #JonathanChapline @jchapline via @case_studyo 10. #ThomasLangley via @union.gallery #artcube

#artcubetrending - Top 10 Mid-Career & Established Artists Trending on Instagram this Week from Our Newsletter: 1. #JBBlunk via @permanentcollection 2. #MaggiHambling via @unitlondon 3. #PierPaoloCalzolari via @pierpaolocalzolari 4. #SeanLanders via @rodolphejanssen 5. #GuanXiao @guanxiaoisme via @antennaspace 6. #ChristineSunKim @chrisunkim via @francoisghebaly 7. #LynetteYiadomBoakye @lynetteyiadomboakye via @gurrjohns 8. #ChristinaQuarles @cequarles via @hepworthwakefield 9. #Quayola @quayola via @domenico_de_chirico 10. #ThomasGainsborough via @nationalgallery #artcube

#artcubetrending - Top 10 Blue Chip Artists Trending on Instagram this Week from Our Newsletter: 1. #SusanRothenberg via @davidrimanelli 2. #NjidekaAkunyiliCrosby @njidekaakunyilicrosby @victoriamirogallery via @newamericanpaintings 3. #JeanDubuffet via @kolia_smirnov 4. #OlafurEliasson @studioolafureliasson via @tyson_ee 5. #KatharinaGrosse @katharina_grosse via @gagosian 6. #AliceNeel via @randallgriffey 7. #PierreSoulages via @racana.camilo 8. #AnishKapoor @dirty_corner via @lisson_gallery 9. #AiWeiwei @aiww via @artsrebellion 10. #RichardSerra @richard.serra via @morilloshk #artcube