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Ten Decades of Alex Katz
To mark our first collaboration with the Guggenheim, we’ve created an interactive timeline highlighting the milestones and impact of Alex Katz’s remarkable journey as an artist.
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Catch up on goings on with Avant artists around the world and dive deeper into our collaborations.
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Alex Katz & Avant Arte for the Guggenheim
For our debut collaboration, Alex Katz unveils his first-ever print edition of his 1991 painting 'Ada Ada' in support of the Guggenheim.
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Make-Ready: A new frontier in printmaking
Make-Ready is Avant Arte's specialist printmaking studio, based in London. Together, we collaborate with some of the biggest artists in contemporary art to realise their vision and push the boundaries of what's possible in print.
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Scorched Earth: A Tale of Two Cities
Mark Bradford’s abstract map works visualise the systems of race and class that have shaped American cities. To mark the release of a new silkscreen edition that translates "Scorched Earth", we unpack the parallel histories of Tulsa and LA excavated by the original.
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Who are the new generation of art patrons?
3,100 collectors participated in our latest report. Here’s what we discovered.
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Jammie Holmes – Painting Pan-Africanism
The Louisiana-born artist opens up about how his upbringing inspired 'Fred', our limited edition print that places Fred Hampton in Jammie’s childhood home.
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Ai Weiwei: 'A New Chatpter'
Ai Weiwei's latest exhibition has arrived at London's Lisson Gallery. Here, we take a deep dive into select works and key themes.
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Ai Weiwei – Combat fear with truth
Happy Lunar New Year! As we enter the Year of the Snake, Ai Weiwei shares his wisdom for the year ahead and explains why the snake is not only the most misunderstood animal in the Zodiac, but the most pertinent symbol of our times.
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Anna Ridler – Price Per Stem
To Anna Ridler, flowers are not only symbols of the natural world, but windows into the complex socioeconomic systems that create and control them. Our collaboration looks specifically at peonies, and everything that leads up to their price on the supermarket shelf.
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20,000 Middle Fingers
What power can be found in a gesture?
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Ai Weiwei – Under surveillance
To understand the origins of a quasi-camera by Ai Weiwei, we trace the history of surveillance in his life and work.
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Ai Weiwei – Everyone is a dragon
It's the year of the dragon. Dragons wield godlike power in myths and folklore, but Ai Weiwei insists that everyone is a dragon. Here's why.
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Danielle Mckinney – Soul & Solace
Paintings by Danielle Mckinney articulate the soul through its ritual comforts, making the interior lives of Black women visible. We set out to capture the feeling in words, and with a community playlist.
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Slawn – The good, the bad, and the Ugly Bastard
Ahead of our first collaboration, a satirical sculpture in his own image, we visited Nigerian artist Slawn in his London studio to talk about cartoons, racist tropes and lucid dreaming.
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Miwa Komatsu – Painting live in London
Japanese artist Miwa Komatsu travelled to London to paint beneath the gilded ceiling of Fitzrovia Chapel. Once finished, her painting was transformed into a limited edition print.
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Rising High II by Peter Halley – How it's made
Anastasia Vavilova, a printmaker at Make-Ready who specialises in experimental hybrid techniques, recounts the steps involved in an elaborate collaboration with Neo-geo painter, Peter Halley.
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