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Book of Beasts
The Bestiary in the Medieval World

Through August 18, 2019
Getty Center, Los Angeles
www.getty.edu

This exhibition is inspired by The Bestiary, a popular medieval book that describes the beasts of the world with vibrant and fascinating images. With over one hundred works on display, this major loan exhibition transports visitors into the world of the medieval bestiary. Work by Walton Ford and Damien Hirst is included.

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Chris Burden in
Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975

Through August 18, 2019
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
americanart.si.edu

Artists Respond brings together nearly one hundred works by fifty-eight of the most visionary and provocative artists and collectives of the Vietnam War era. Galvanized by the moral urgency of the conflict, these artists reimagined the goals and uses of art across multiple movements and media: painting, sculpture, printmaking, performance and body art, installation, documentary art, and conceptual art. Work by Chris Burden is included.

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Helen Frankenthaler in
Spilling Over: Painting Color in the 1960s

Through August 18, 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org

This exhibition gathers paintings from the 1960s and early 1970s that inventively use bold and saturated color to activate perception. During this period, many artists adopted acrylic paint—a newly available, plastic-based medium—and explored its expansive technical possibilities and wider range of hues. Work by Helen Frankenthaler is included.

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Frozen Gesture
Gesten in der Malerei

Through August 18, 2019
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
www.kmw.ch

In 1965 Roy Lichtenstein created his famous Brushstrokes and in doing so highlighted the fundamental elements of the image, such as the appearance of the colors and the pigment, the color fields and their limits, and not least the application of paint in the form of a gesture. This exhibition aims to explore the sheer range of gestures in contemporary painting. Work by Katharina Grosse, Roy Lichtenstein, and David Reed is included.

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Douglas Gordon in
Talking Heads: Contemporary Dialogues with F. X. Messerschmidt

Through August 18, 2019
Belvedere, Vienna
www.belvedere.at

Taking Franz Xaver Messerschmidt’s famous “character heads” as its starting point, this exhibition takes a look at extreme psychological states depicted in images of faces or busts. What endures in our “facial society” beyond the realm of Facebook and selfies? To answer this question, this show juxtaposes Messerschmidt’s sculptural heads with works by contemporary artists. Work by Douglas Gordon is included.

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David Reed
Drawings

Through August 18, 2019
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
www.kmw.ch

This exhibition includes seven working drawings (comprising forty-four sheets in total) by David Reed, and has been organized in conjunction with the group show Frozen Gesture, which features work by Reed, concurrently on view at the museum. These fascinating works on paper provide unparalleled insight into Reed’s processes in creating large-scale abstract paintings. The drawings serve as a visual diary for each new work: they feature meticulous notes on the experiences and visual cues that inform the works, record decisions made in the painting process, and are illustrated with sketches, diagrams, and color tests.

Opening this Week

Feel the Sun in Your Mouth
Recent Acquisitions

August 24, 2019–February 2020
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
hirshhorn.si.edu

This exhibition brings together artworks acquired by the museum over the past five years with a focus on art that incites sensation and demonstrates a renewed interest in sublime encounters with the world. Spanning a period of extreme technological growth that has led us from the first steps on the moon to the development of the Internet, this exhibition illuminates a return to the poetic, the intuitive, and the cosmic in current artistic practice. Work by Alex Israel, Tatiana Trouvé, and Mary Weatherford is included.

Opening this Week

Adriana Varejão
Otros cuerpos detrás

August 24–November 10, 2019
Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
museotamayo.org

This show, whose title translates to Other Bodies Behind, explores the lines of research that Adriana Varejão has developed in her artistic practice since the 1990s, bringing together work created over the past thirty years. The exhibition is structured around three different bodies of work—early figurative canvases, a selection from the series Ruínas de Charque (Jerked-Beef Ruins), and recent Polvo paintings.

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Fiçcão e fabricação
Fotografia de arquitetura após a revolução digital

Through August 19, 2019
Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon
www.maat.pt

This exhibition, whose English title is Fiction and Fabrication: Photography of Architecture after the Digital Turn, looks at artists who have created and engaged with imagery of architecture. It examines how digital manipulation has enabled a fictionalization of architectural spaces, and explores architecture’s role in an expanded practice of photography within contemporary art. Work by Gregory Crewdson, Andreas Gursky, and Jeff Wall is included.

On View

Albert Oehlen in
La Collection de la Fondation: Le parti de la peinture

Through August 26, 2019
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr

Seventy-five paintings by twenty-three international artists from the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s collection, dating from the 1960s to today, are on view. Work by Albert Oehlen is included.

On View

Alex Israel

Through August 31, 2019
MAMO–Marseille Modulor, France
mamo.fr

Alex Israel at MAMO occupies the rooftop deck and former gymnasium of Le Corbusier’s iconic Cité Radieuse. Inspired by Marseille’s gritty history and the architect’s use of concrete, Alex Israel has reimagined the building as Gotham City, and as a temporary home for two new works appropriated from Tim Burton’s Batman (1989). Continuing the artist’s ongoing exploration of rented film props as readymade sculpture, the Batmobile serves as the centerpiece of an installation with smoke, light, and sound, while the Bat-Signal, projected high above the city, activates the night sky throughout the summer.

On View

Chris Burden in
Closer Look: Intimate-Scale Sculpture from the Permanent Collection

Through September 1, 2019
Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, California
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This exhibition provides a focused look at small sculpture in OCMA’s permanent collection. Selected for their innovative materials and playfulness in scale and function, the artworks in Closer Look are intended to be viewed at a close distance, providing the viewer with intimate moments in which to make slow and careful observations about content and construction. Work by Chris Burden is included.