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Opening Today

Georg Baselitz
Belle Haleine

April 27–November 24, 2024
Galleria degli Antichi, Sabbioneta, Italy
www.visitsabbioneta.it

Georg Baselitz: Belle Haleine features large-scale sculptures, paintings, and ten monumental linocuts by Baselitz installed along the Renaissance arches and under the frescoed ceilings of the Galleria degli Antichi in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Sabbioneta, Italy. In exhibiting his work within this setting, Baselitz aims to reveal the importance of Italian art history to his own artistic development, creating a confrontation between the contemporary and the past.

Closing this Week

Capturing the Moment

Through April 28, 2024
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

Capturing the Moment explores the relationship between photography and painting through iconic artworks from the modern era. The exhibition examines how the two distinct mediums have shaped each other and how artists have blurred the boundaries to capture moments in time. Work by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, John Currin, Andreas Gursky, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol is included.

Closing this Week

Fairy Tales

Through April 28, 2024
Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
www.qagoma.qld.gov.au

Fairy Tales explores centuries of beloved folk stories through contemporary art, costumes, immersive installations, and cinema from visual storytellers around the world. The exhibition aims to untangle themes of bravery and justice, loyalty and humility, cunning and aspiration. Work by Rachel Feinstein, Urs Fischer, and Carsten Höller is included.

Closing this Week

Taryn Simon in
Guest Relations

Through April 28, 2024
Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai
jameelartscentre.org

Guest Relations brings together artwork and archival and architectural research to explore the historical, political, social, and cultural transformations that accompany processes of intense tourism. Examining the transactional nature of modern hospitality, the exhibition considers hotels as sites of artistic investigation, tracing their origins in colonial grandeur and hubris to their current, often generic, ubiquity in the age of globalization. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

Closing this Week

Adriana Varejão in
Souvenirs of the Future

Through April 28, 2024
Pera Museum, Istanbul
www.peramuseum.org

Souvenirs of the Future brings together a selection of commissioned contemporary works inspired by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation’s Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics Collection, exploring the ties forged between memory and imagination. The exhibition examines the meaning, and cultural and symbolic value, of objects that have been collected as souvenirs or personal reminders of certain places and times. Work by Adriana Varejão is included.

Closing this Week

Von Gerhard Richter bis Mary Heilmann
Abstrakte Malerei aus Privat und Museumsbesitz

Through April 28, 2024
Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland
www.kmw.ch

This exhibition, whose title translates as From Gerhard Richter to Mary Heilmann: Abstract Art from Private Collections and the Museum’s Holdings, explores a shift in painting from the 1980s onward. At this time artists—painters in particular—developed a newfound freedom in relation to the work of the historical avant-garde, successfully combining the language of abstraction with reality, and in so doing creating something entirely new and fresh. Work by Richter and Heilmann will be shown alongside paintings from both the museum’s holdings and private collections, including work by Katharina Grosse and David Reed.

Just Opened

Jadé Fadojutimi in
Abstraction (re)creation—20 under 40

Through September 8, 2024
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
www.leconsortium.fr

Through the work of twenty artists under the age of forty, this exhibition explores the question, Will abstraction in painting reveal a new way to face art and provide a better way to address issues that are far away from subjects, storytelling, and other figurative topics? Work by Jadé Fadojutimi is included.

Just Opened

Humain Autonome
Déroutes

Through September 22, 2024
Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne,Vitry-sur-Seine, France
www.macval.fr

This exhibition focuses on the automobile as a paradoxical object, loved by some, hated by others. Production lines, operating systems, links with fossil fuels, myths, and the unconscious are all analyzed, deconstructed, and reassessed in works by more than fifty artists from different generations. Work by Ed Ruscha, Taryn Simon, and Blair Thurman is included.

Just Opened

Travel Diaries

Through October 2, 2024
Musée Mohammed VI d’art moderne et contemporain, Rabat, Morocco
www.museemohammed6.ma

Travel Diaries brings together work by four contemporary painters—Francesco Clemente, Brice Marden, Helen Marden, and Julian Schnabel—who were based in New York but extensively traveled the world. Curated by Vito Schnabel, the works in the exhibition highlight how these artists drew inspiration from their different destinations to create constantly evolving bodies of work. 

Just Opened

Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022

Through September 22, 2024
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de

This exhibition explores Katharina Grosse’s studio-based paintings, from her earliest works in the 1990s to her most recent. The show highlights the role that thirty-seven paintings have played throughout her career in her experiments with the aesthetic potentials and physical and optical properties of color and paint. This exhibition originated at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis.

Just Opened

Maurizio Cattelan in
With My Eyes

Through November 24, 2024
Casa di reclusione femminile Giudecca, Venice
www.labiennale.org

With My Eyes, the Vatican’s exhibition for the Holy See Pavilion in the 60th Biennale di Venezia, is sited within the women’s prison on the island of Giudecca and is dedicated to the theme of human rights and people living on the margins of society. The works on view incorporate the inmates’ participation in a variety of ways: some have provided photographs of themselves as children; some contribute poems for an installation; and others accompany visitors on a tour of the pavilion, alongside guards. Maurizio Cattelan’s contribution consists of a large outdoor artwork on the façade of the prison’s chapel, as well as an editorial feature, created in collaboration with the prisoners, which will be published in a special Biennale-focused issue of L’Osservatore di Strada, a monthly newspaper published by the Vatican.

Just Opened

Lauren Halsey in
60th Biennale di Venezia: Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere

Through November 24, 2024
Giardini and Arsenale, Venice
www.labiennale.org

Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa for the 60th Biennale di Venezia, takes its title from a series of neon sculptures by the artist collective Claire Fontaine that depict the words “Foreigners Everywhere” in different colors and languages. The phrase comes from the Turin collective Stranieri Ovunque, which fought racism and xenophobia in Italy in the early 2000s. Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere focuses on artists who are themselves “foreigners” and on the production of other related subjects: the queer artist, who has moved within sexualities and genders; the outsider artist, located at the margins of the art world; as well as the indigenous artist, frequently treated as a foreigner in their own land. Work by Lauren Halsey is included.

Just Opened

Ewa Juszkiewicz
Locks with Leaves and Swelling Buds

Through September 1, 2024
Palazzo Cavanis, Venice
www.palazzocavanis.com

Locks with Leaves and Swelling Buds includes fifteen paintings that Ewa Juszkiewicz produced between 2019 and 2024. Juszkiewicz’s oil portraits of women turn conventions of the genre inside out. Beginning by producing a likeness of a historical European painting—her sources date from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century—she expertly imitates the original’s technique and style but replaces the subject’s face with a surreal or grotesque distortion. Curated by Guillermo Solana Díez, artistic director of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, this exhibition is a Collateral Event of the 60th Biennale di Venezia and is organized by Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso.

On View

ICP at 50
From the Collection, 1845–2019

Through May 6, 2024
International Center of Photography, New York
www.icp.org

ICP at 50 is a thematic exploration of the many processes that comprise the history of the photographic medium, drawn from the International Center of Photography’s holdings. The institution was established in 1974 and the exhibition offers insight into the breadth and depth of its collection which spans from the nineteenth century to the present day. Work by Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Deana Lawson, and Andy Warhol is included.

On View

Franz West in
When Forms Come Alive

Through May 6, 2024
Hayward Gallery, London
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Spanning over sixty years of contemporary sculpture, When Forms Come Alive highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux, and organic growth. Inspired by sources ranging from a dancer’s gesture to the breaking of a wave, from a flow of molten metal to the interlacing of a spider’s web, the works by twenty-one international artists conjure fluid and shifting realms of experience. Work by Franz West is included.

On View

Some Dogs Go to Dallas

Through May 12, 2024
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
www.greenfamilyartfoundation.org

Some Dogs Go to Dallas presents a selection of works from the collection of Pamela and David Hornik. Ardent dog lovers, the Horniks have a penchant for acquiring pieces depicting canines across eras, locations, and techniques from throughout the art historical canon. The diversity of this collection underscores the universality of the human connection with animals and the profoundly enduring love that those bonds create. Work by Amoako Boafo and Andy Warhol is included.

On View

Multiplicity
Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Through May 12, 2024
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
www.mfah.org

Multiplicity presents over eighty major collage and collage-informed works by fifty-two living artists. The works reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity, exploring diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. From paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives within our fragmented society. This exhibition originated at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee. Work by Derrick Adams, Lauren Halsey, and Rick Lowe is included.

On View

Tatiana Trouvé in
Power Up: Imaginaires techniques et utopies sociales

Through May 12, 2024
Le Grand Café—Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr

This exhibition, whose subtitle translates to Technical Imaginaries and Social Utopias, considers energy infrastructures and their state of disrepair within the context of the global ecological crisis. Focusing on a female perspective, Power Up, which includes works by eighteen artists and architects, puts forward a new history of technology and suggests the need for a radical rethink in our approach to the world around us. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.

On View

Jim Shaw
The Ties That Bind

Through May 19, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
www.muhka.be

The Ties That Bind explores Jim Shaw’s work from the last five decades, which has at once anticipated and mirrored shifts in the American cultural and political landscape during this period. In recent decades, the artist’s work has increasingly highlighted the growing tension between conservative and progressive ideologies. The exhibition presents drawings, paintings, photographs, and immersive installations that bring to light the core motifs of Shaw’s practice.

On View

The Time Is Always Now
Artists Reframe the Black Figure

Through May 19, 2024
National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk

The Time Is Always Now showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora and highlights their use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. The exhibition examines both the presence and the absence of Black figures in Western art history and the social, psychological, and cultural contexts in which they were produced. Work by Titus Kaphar and Nathaniel Mary Quinn is included.

On View

Derrick Adams
Future People . . . Take Off

Through May 25, 2024
PES FUTURES, New York
www.pesfutures.org

Derrick Adams’s exhibition Future People . . . Take Off, an imagined environment meditating on past, present, and future ideas of Black culture, Futurism, and African roots, is the inaugural presentation in the PES FUTURES program. Sited in Project for Empty Space’s new headquarters, PES FUTURES is a space for artists interested in the realization of parallel and intersecting potentialities and the possibility to claim and reclaim space through their work. Inspired by the Afrofuturist movement, Adams’s installation incorporates images, video, and music.

On View

Stanley Whitney
How High the Moon

Through May 26, 2024
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York
buffaloakg.org

Conveying the breadth of Stanley Whitney’s practice from the early 1970s through today, this exhibition of artist’s paintings at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), also includes a robust installation of drawings, prints, and sketchbooks. The retrospective contextualizes Whitney’s practice in relation to his artistic community as well as his influences—from the history of art and architecture to quilting, textiles, and jazz.

On View

Sally Mann in
Love Languages

Open from September 2, 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
www.mfah.org

Love Languages considers how the making of art is a type of love language all of its own. The installation attempts to address the question “How do we prioritize tenderness against debilitating social conditions?” The works on view engage with the necessity of intimacy in interpersonal and collective relationships. Work by Sally Mann is included.

On View

The Whitney’s Collection
Selections from 1900 to 1965

Opened June 28, 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org

This exhibition of more than 120 works, drawn entirely from the Whitney’s collection, is inspired by the founding history of the museum. The Whitney was established in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to champion the work of living American artists. A sculptor and a patron, Whitney recognized both the importance of contemporary American art and the need to support the artists who made it. The collection she assembled foregrounds how artists uniquely reveal the complexity and beauty of American life. Work by Jay DeFeo, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann is included.