Clare Burnett opens

Clare Burnett’s solo exhibition *The Objects are Watching* opened Thursday, April 23, in Nicosia, adding a new stop to a crowded late-spring museum calendar. (artseeneditions.com) The show is at Art Seen and runs through May 27, with an opening event scheduled for 7 p.m. at the gallery’s space on Leoforos Archiepiskopou Makariou III in central Nicosia. (happeningnext.com) Burnett, a British artist based in London and Berlin, is showing sculptures, clay works, textiles and works on paper in a presentation curated by Maria Stathi and accompanied by a commissioned text by Pavlina Paraskevaidou. (artseeneditions.com, kiprinform.com) The exhibition centers on objects that move across borders and pick up new meanings as they change hands, places and contexts. Art Seen says the new project continues questions Burnett explored in her 2023 Nicosia exhibition *Shapeshifters, Travellers of Conscience*. (artseeneditions.com, happeningnext.com) Its opening lands in the middle of a busy museum stretch. The Barbican’s Beatriz González retrospective in London opened on February 25 and runs through May 10, bringing together more than 150 works from the 1960s to the present. (barbican.org.uk) In New York, *LEGENDS: Athleticism in Asian/American Art* opened February 10 at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College and stays on view through May 14. The museum says the show examines sport, identity, nationalism, gender and spectatorship through work by Asian and Asian American artists. (gtmuseum.org) That overlap leaves critics and visitors choosing among shows that stay open only into mid- or late May. Burnett’s exhibition runs slightly longer than the Barbican and Queens College presentations, extending to May 27. (artseeneditions.com, barbican.org.uk, gtmuseum.org) For Burnett, the timing puts a small Nicosia opening into the same spring conversation as larger institutional shows in London and New York. By Thursday night, *The Objects are Watching* had moved from announcement to public view, with five weeks left on the calendar. (in-cyprus.philenews.com, artseeneditions.com)