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Whether Niyaz Najafov is Francis Bacon´s or Goya´s true new successor is secondary, you may agree with the Huffington Post writer Lorenzo Belenguer´s judgement, but in any case the new expo @ central Parisian Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt is a summer must. Niyaz Najafov - Untitled 2011 Courtesy of the artist & Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris Extremely appreciated in the Parisian art scene, self-taught artist Niyaz Najafov is bringing to NDM his raw crude portraits. Najafov relates and suggests…

While this year´s RA Summer Exhibition kicked off a month ago, many galleries are still opening their very own yearly estival expos. Annely Juda FA has invited The Russian Club Gallery (closed last year) to curate a group show at its established West End gallery. Russian Club prsents Wonderland at Annely Juda Fine Art, London (Image via Annely Juda FA) Rupert Ackroyd, Natsue Ikeda, Juneau Projects, Richard Paul, Yuko Shiraishi and Roy Voss, who have all previously exhibited or performed…

Only a few weeks away from their annual summer exhibition John Martin is bringing to their central London space the South African artist Phillemon Hlungwani for a mini-expo starting this next Tuesday. Phillemon Hlungwani Bulavirisano wu ni nkoka VII- (the importance of communication) - Courtesy of John Martin Gallery In collaboration with Knysna Fine Art, John Martin Gallery are hosting a selection of charcol drawings by Phillemon Hlungwani. These drawings depict everyday life at the iconic Cullinan diamond mine in…

Legendary Iranian-born, US-based artist and sculptor Siah Armajani is presenting a landmark exhibition of his key works opening this week at London’s Parasol Unit, until December 15. Siah Armajani - Wall (detail), 1958. Courtesy of the artist and Beam Contemporary Art, New York, London. Photograph by Larry Marcus. This will be the first major UK survey of the Iran-born, American artist who is internationally renowned for his extensive public art commissions, which include bridges, reading rooms and poetry gardens. Curated by…

Oftenly discarded by most tourists and visitors Beaubourg´s always great Espace 315 is hosting once again last year´s Marcel Duchamp Prix: an expo by the winning artistic duo Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel. Daniel Dewar and Grégory Gicquel met in 1997 at the Fine Arts School in Rennes, and ever since then have been developing a joint approach based on personal experimentation (often pushed to the extreme) with traditional sculpture and craft materials, applied to various themes reflecting their interests…

London-based artist Jimmy Merris is done listening to African tapes in his old Mercedes while inviting people for a beer, and in his new exhibition @ Space Studios Jimmy will be presenting LONDON. The film documents a ten-day road trip taken by the artist around his home city in a hired motorhome and will be shown alongside a series of large scale posters designed by Stockholm’s Studio SM The expo is a collaboration between  and Bloomberg SPACE and will feature…