Keith Haring in 3D, the first exhibition to highlight the artist’s work in three dimensions, opens at the newly expanded Crystal Bridges Museum of Art in Arkansas; Mark Bradford's monumental mural for The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago is scheduled to open on June 19, alongside works by Theaster Gates, Rashid Johnson, and Lorna Simpson; Lisk Feng, illustrator of the Phaidon Kids Our World collection, is a Guest Mentor for The Children Illustrators Playbook, an 8-week course on how to create picture books for children, organized by InkyGoodness; The exhibition Benton End: A Paradise of Pollen and Paint, at The Garden Museum, London, features early works by Lucian Freud from his time at the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing – the art school Freud said he burnt down by mistake; Sterling Ruby and curator Donna De Salvo discuss Andy Warhol’s 'Shadows' series at Dia Beacon, New York, to mark the closing of Dia's long-term exhibition of the series, which is featured in volume 5 of The Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné; John Pawson designs PUBLIC, a 137-room hotel in a landmark building on Los Angeles’s Sunset Boulevard, co-created with legendary hotelier Ian Schrager; An exhibition of works by Robert Mapplethorpe, The Poetics of Form, will open at the Kukje Gallery in Seoul on June 9; Rosa Barba will project a rectangle of white light from the 6th floor of Centre Pompidou, currently closed for renovation; The funeral ceremony for Martin Parr in Bristol four months ago included ‘cupcakes, bunting, and a bus stuck in the mud,’ as reported in a picture gallery by Sophie Green in The Guardian this week; Reviewing Fire Island Art: 100 Years, Paul McAdory says ‘I love this book’ and ‘I have no criticisms; like the place and its people, this book, notably the first history of the island of its kind, is perfect,’ in The Whitney Review of New Writing; Works by the late Celeste Dupuy-Spencer ‘turned American political crisis into something at once feverish and intimate…rendered in chaotic, physically urgent brushwork that pulls the viewer into complicity rather than offering safe distance,' says an obituary in The Art Newspaper; Philip Sharkey gives advice on how to take the perfect selfie, drawing on his years of experience at Passport Photo Service, in an article for Esquire.
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