The Yards audacious origin storyand a a3a0million return
Jay Miller launched the Yard in Hackney Wick by posing as a property developer, offering free night-watchman service to secure a space. The three-month pop-up ran 14 years, propelled Michaela Coel’s Chewing Gum Dreams to the National Theatre, and has just reopened after a £7 million rebuild.
At Haus der Kunst, Tome1s Saracenob4s 2Ancestral Futures2 braids webs, air, and salt into a living network
At Haus der Kunst, Tom e1s Saraceno b4s Ancestral Futures spans more than two decades of work, from spider web installations and a bike-powered plastic-bag cavern to a collaboration with Indigenous communities of Red Atacama around The Sanctuary of Water in Salinas Grandes. The exhibition is on view in Munich through February 7.
Gaia Alari’s Frame-by-Frame Worlds in Oil Pastel and Charcoal
Gaia Alari crafts elaborate, tactile animations drawn frame by frame from thousands of handmade drawings on paper, using oil pastel and charcoal. Meandering botanicals, gestural bodies, and sweeping birds flow in fluid loops, and her practice spans brand collaborations, personal projects, and static illustrations.