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100 Years of Kinetic Art

September 22, 2018–January 20, 2019
Kunsthal Rotterdam
www.kunsthal.nl

Action<–>Reaction: 100 Years of Kinetic Art covers a wide range of kinetic art and offers visitors an opportunity to experience work that appeals to all of the senses. The exhibition is a revival of the successful 2013 Paris exhibition Dynamo. Work by Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, and Carsten Höller is included.

Opening this Week

The Flexible Plan
The Rococo in Contemporary Art

September 23, 2018–January 6, 2019
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
www.museum-morsbroich.de

The Flexible Plan: The Rococo in Contemporary Art examines the survival of European grandeur in contemporary art. The exhibition presents a varied panorama of works against the backdrop of the Rococo castle that houses the museum. Work by Glenn Brown and Katharina Grosse is included.

Opening this Week

The World on Paper

September 27, 2018–January 7, 2019
Palais Populaire by Deutsche Bank, Berlin
www.db-palaispopulaire.de

This exhibition includes works on paper by 133 artists from thirty-four countries and explores the evolution of this medium from postwar modernism to the digital age. Work by Ellen Gallagher and Katharina Grosse is included.

Opening this Week

Carsten Höller in
Ecstasy

September 29, 2018–February 24, 2019
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany
kunstmuseum-stuttgart.de

This exhibition allows the visitor to become familiar with the various faces of ecstasy and with the shifting social significance of mind-altering states as it changed over the centuries. In doing so, it also considers how different cultural spheres handle the phenomenon of ecstasy. With art at its foundation, the show introduces viewers to various ways that artists have approached ecstatic states—including pictorial representations, video, installation works, and kinesthetic experiences. Work by Carsten Höller is included.

Closing this Week

Counterpoint
Selections from the Peter Marino Collection

Through September 23, 2018
Southampton Arts Center, New York
southamptonartscenter.org

In 1978 Peter Marino acquired an artwork from Andy Warhol. Since then, the Peter Marino Collection has grown to encompass hundreds of paintings and mixed-media pieces representing some of the most notable artists of today. Work by Georg Baselitz, Glenn Brown, Damien Hirst, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Prince, and Andy Warhol is included.

Closing this Week

Sally Mann
A Thousand Crossings

Through September 23, 2018
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
www.pem.org

For more than forty years Sally Mann has made experimental, elegiac, and hauntingly beautiful photographs that span a broad body of work, including figure studies, still lifes, and landscapes. This exhibition, with more than a hundred photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, explores how her relationship with the South has shaped her work. This exhibition has traveled from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

Closing this Week

William Forsythe in
Experience Traps

Through September 23, 2018
Middelheimmuseum, Antwerp, Belgium
www.middelheimmuseum.be

In this exhibition sixteen contemporary artists who have found inspiration in the innovative ideas behind the baroque landscape try to guide our physical and mental experience. William Forsythe, a contributing artist and cocurator, has incorporated some of his well-known choreographic objects into the project to entice visitors to move around.

Closing this Week

Douglas Gordon in
The Rat-Catcher

Through September 24, 2018
Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Poland
muzeumwspolczesne.pl

The starting point for this exhibition will be the 1986 Polish documentary The Rat-Catcher (directed by Andrzej Czarnecki). The show will focus on human nature and on the psyche. Work by Douglas Gordon will be included.

Closing this Week

Tatiana Trouvé
The Great Atlas of Disorientation

Through September 29, 2018
Petach Tikva Museum of Art, Israel
www.petachtikvamuseum.com

This exhibition extends over the museum’s two main exhibition halls and includes sculptural works alongside a large site-specific installation. The first hall features a series of sculptural objects that appear as temporary structures, shelters of sorts, cast from used cardboard in bronze, aluminum, and copper. The second hall is devoted to the immersive installation Prepared Space, which extends over the entire space like a large navigation map.

Just Opened

Taryn Simon in
The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

Through March 3, 2019
Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville
www.harn.ufl.edu

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene chronicles an era of rapid, radical, and irrevocable ecological change through works of art by more than forty-five international artists. Our age, a new geological epoch defined by human impact, has controversially been termed the Anthropocene. Despite the challenges of disaster and denial, artists in the exhibition respond with resistance, imagination, and new ways of seeing and thinking about the world to come. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

Just Opened

Rachel Whiteread

Through January 13, 2019
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
www.nga.gov

This momentous show is the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Rachel Whiteread’s career. It brings together well-known works such as Untitled (Stairs) (2001) alongside new pieces that have never been previously exhibited. Special sections are devoted to the artist’s archival materials and to her drawings. This exhibition has traveled from Tate Britain in London and Belvedere 21 in Vienna.

Just Opened

Edmund de Waal
–one way or other–

Through January 6, 2019
Schindler House, Los Angeles
makcenter.org

Edmund de Waal’s first architectural intervention in America is being held at the Schindler House: a landmark of West Coast modernism, built in 1922 in West Hollywood by Viennese émigré architect Rudolph Schindler. The exhibition includes recent works that respond directly to the materials and spaces of the house, and a sound piece conceived with the composer Simon Fisher Turner.