Albert Museum

• It will be unveiled in early December, and on view throughout Miami Art & Design Week 2023.
• Lexus has brought installations to Miami Art & Design week since 2018, and this project marks the second year of their partnership with ICA Miami.
• With this collaboration, I hope we can bring light to the concept that sustainable design solutions are works of art," said Marjan van Aubel.
• We are delighted to provide an important platform for Marjan van Aubel and their powerful work during Miami Art Week," said Alex Gartenfeld, Irma and Norman Braman Artistic Director at ICA Miami.

• The inaugural exhibition, "The Insect World," marks the beginning of a series of captivating exhibitions that will run for 12 months.
• IMAGINARI, a 17,000+ sq ft exhibit celebrating 'The Insect World,' opens in Soho - New York.
• Spanning over 17,000 sq, IMAGINARI offers a 60 to 90-minute ticketed adventure into the mesmerizing realm of insects.
• IMAGINARI is poised to open its doors this November, and its debut exhibition will run for 12 months.

• by Wang Dongling, a world-renowned calligrapher and professor at the China Academy of Art, is held at the University of Cambridge from May 25th to August 27th.
• The exhibition presents the artist's monumental contemporary Chinese calligraphy work inspired by Prof. Stephen Hawking.
• Wang Dongling is widely recognised as one of the greatest living practitioners of Chinese calligraphy.
• Meanwhile, Wang gave a lecture on contemporary calligraphy art and presided over a workshop on calligraphy writing in Cambridge.

• His street performances around Melbourne in the early 1950s foreshadowed performance art in Australia.
• He was the most daring student prankster Melbourne University had ever known.
• Years later, academic Peter Conrad accurately described Humphries’ adolescence as a “one man modern movement”.
• It also gave him his first taste of the power of an audience to determine what happens in the theatre.

The birth of Edna

• Edna was a composite portrait of various women whose mannerisms had imprinted themselves in his brain as a boy, growing up in staid Camberwell.
• Wearing a massive hat sculpted to resemble the Sydney Opera House, Edna stopped the crowds at Royal Ascot that year.
• The image of her in that sumptuous creation (now in the Victoria and Albert Museum) launched Edna and Humphries around the world.

Conquering the world

• She skewered dozens of politicians, pop stars, singers and actors who graced the program every week.
• Her appearance with Jerry Hall singing Stand by your Man remains one of the most hilarious television moments of that time.
• Humphries’ success on British television in the 1980s and 1990s were among the major achievements of his career.

The early years

• Eric ran a flourishing building business (he might be called a developer nowadays) and Louisa was a homemaker.
• He loved dressing up and accompanying his mother on trips to the city or out for lunch with other ladies.
• At Melbourne Grammar, Humphries found the boys who excelled in sports rewarded and praised for their achievements.
• An interest in art or music was considered by the headmaster to be suspicious, a disappointment for Humphries, passionate about art.

A transformational artist

• With his mask off he was as witty as when he wore it.
• Manning Clark called him one of the “mythmakers and prophets of Australia […] enriching the culture which had been dominated by the straiteners”.
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