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The Top Art Exhibitions To See This Summer
Slide Nr 1Art aficionados need to plan their travels well if they want to stand a chance of seeing the most important biennials, visiting the best art festivals and putting in some time at the most beautiful sculpture parks of the season. Get started with these highlights. [Photo: Dark Mofo, © Charlie Kinross, courtesy Victorian Opera and Dark Mofo]
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Slide Nr 2The thriving Los Angeles art scene is set to receive another significant contemporary museum when the Marciano Art Foundation opens its new exhibition space in late May, showcasing the private collection of Paul and Maurice Marciano. Located in a hulking former Masonic Temple on Wilshire Boulevard, it’s only a few kilometres from the Miracle Mile and Museum Row. marcianoartfoundation.org
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Slide Nr 3New York is celebrating the beginning of alfresco season with the opening of the Met Museum Roof Garden. The artwork commissioned for the space this year, The Theater of Disappearance by Adrián Villar Rojas, was already unveiled in April, but it’s not really spring until the bar opens in May. metmuseum.org
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Slide Nr 4May is also a great time to make the trip to Upstate New York to visit Dia:Beacon. A week after a new exhibition showing works by Anne Truitt from the collection opens, Dia Art Foundation hosts a series of performances commissioned for the cavernous industrial space. diaart.org [Photo: François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea, Dub Love, 2014. © François Chaignaud & Cecilia Bengolea. Courtesy Dia Art Foundation, New York]
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Slide Nr 5Across the Hudson River, Storm King Art Center launches its annual exhibitions. David Smith: The White Sculptures celebrates the 50th anniversary of the park’s acquisition of 13 works by the artist. Outlooks: Heather Hart promises participation with an “interactive, sculptural environment.” stormking.org [Photo: Attila Barcha 2013 of Western Oracle, Seattle]
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Slide Nr 6Meanwhile, European sculpture parks are testing the boundaries of what type of art counts as sculpture. In Sweden, Wanås Konst sculpture park explores moving elements in sculpture as well as bodies in motion and choreography. In addition to the exhibition titled SculptureMotion, visitors can explore the permanent collection of site-specific works strewn about the park. wanas.se [Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, In Dreams, The Wanås Foundation, Sweden, Photo: Mattias Givell]
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Slide Nr 7In keeping with the laid-back atmosphere at hugely popular Belgian Middelheim Museum, this August visitors are invited to become part of the exhibition. Judith van den Berg’s interactive project The day I became a work of art transforms visitors and staff of one of the oldest open-air museums in the world into participants and exhibition pieces. Can’t wait that long? The museum’s summer exhibition of works by contemporary sculptor Richard Deacon will debut on 27 May. middelheimmuseum.be
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Slide Nr 8Skulptur Projekte Münster stays true to the titular “projects” by inviting artists to the northwest German city, allowing those visits to shape their contributions to the festival and letting the complete works that emerge from this process to shape the theme of the final event. The resulting show takes place once every ten years. skulptur-projekte.de [Photo Montage: Jan Bockholt]
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Slide Nr 9The 150th birthday of Käthe Kollwitz has already been marked by exhibitions in the USA, the UK and across Germany. Closer to the anniversary of her birth, the Käthe-Kollwitz-Museum in her adopted home city Berlin is showing an exhibition of sculptures, drawings, graphics and posters in co-operation with the archive in the artist’s birthplace in Kaliningrad, Russia. kaethe-kollwitz.de
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Slide Nr 10For a brief period in June and July, both venues of Documenta 14 will host exhibitions and events concurrently. The second host city, Athens, is considered much more than a mere outpost, but equal partner to Kassel in a European exchange of knowledge. documenta14.de [Photo: Mathias Voelzke]
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Slide Nr 11Artists, gallerists and collectors schmooze their way around Art Basel for a week in June, before decamping to the fringe fairs Scope, Volta and Liste that all occur roughly at the same time. Those who plan to be in the Swiss art capital during that week can – as usual – expect to eat, sleep and breathe art, 24/7. artbasel.com [Photo: Jenkins Johnson Gallery Gordon Parks, Department Store, 1956 © The Gordon Parks Foundation, Courtesy of Jenkins Johnson Gallery]
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Slide Nr 12ARoS Aarhus Art Museum is hosting its first ever Triennial, examining depictions of nature throughout history. Titled THE GARDEN – End of Times; Beginning of Times, it takes on an ambitious scope covering 400 years, divided into the past, the present and the future. en.aros.dk [Photo: Meg Webster, CONCAVE ROOM FOR BEES, of the Artist, Socretes Sculpture Park and Paula Cooper Gallery, New York]
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Slide Nr 13The Russian V-A-C Foundation opens its first permanent exhibition space during the Biennale, adding another private collection to the city’s offerings. The inaugural show at the Venetian Palazzo delle Zattere, Space Force Construction, examines Soviet art of the 1920s and ‘30s. v-a-c.ru [Photo: Wolfgang Tillmans, The State We’re In, A, 2015. Courtesy David Zwirner, New York, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne/Berlin, and Maureen Paley, London]
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Slide Nr 14Tony Cragg: A Rare Category of Objects has been on show at Yorkshire Sculpture Park since March, but spring weather will see crowds flocking to the biggest UK exhibition to date by the Turner Prize-winning British sculptor. Keep your eyes peeled for special events to celebrate the park’s 40th anniversary! ysp.co.uk [Bob and Roberta Smith, All Schools Should be Art Schools. Courtesy the artist and YSP. Photo © Jonty Wilde]
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Slide Nr 15Meanwhile, another British sculpture park is giving less established artists a chance to make a name for themselves. Broomhill Art and Sculpture Foundation opens an exhibition of works shortlisted for the National Sculpture Prize in June, with the winner to be announced in October. broomhillart.co.uk [Photo: Emma Le P/Flickr]
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Slide Nr 16Of all the pop and rock stars to be elevated to fine artists with a V&A retrospective, Pink Floyd are probably right up there with David Bowie as deserving of the honour. After all, the band has long cultivated a Gesamtkunstwerk, mixing concept albums, visual and performance arts with highbrow references and masterful collaborations. vam.ac.uk [Photo: © Pink Floyd Music Ltd photo by Storm Thorgerson/Aubrey ‘Po’ Powell 1971 Belsize Park]
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Slide Nr 17Never one to shy away from the bright, garish and bold at the intersection of high and low art, Grayson Perry is trying on hyperbole for size with The Most Popular Art Exhibition Ever! (exclamation mark artist’s own) at the Serpentine Gallery. The artist’s colourful personality, cross-dressing style and art exploring traditional media combined with contemporary subject matter will certainly make it a popular show. serpentinegalleries.org [Photo: Grayson Perry, Preparatory sketch for large tapestry © Grayson Perry, Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro, London (photography Angus Mill)]
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Slide Nr 18Also at the Serpentine Gallery, award-winning architect Francis Kéré, the man behind the ambitious Burkina Faso opera village, has been commissioned to design this year’s summer pavilion. The temporary structure, opening in June, is inspired by communal buildings his practice built in Africa, adjusted to account for the slightly more inclement British weather. serpentinegalleries.org [Serpentine Pavilion 2017, Designed by Francis Kéré, Design Render, Exterior © Kéré Architecture]
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Slide Nr 19The National Arts Festival, probably the biggest of its kind on the African continent, certainly in South Africa, encompasses a main and a fringe programme, covering performing and visual arts, crafts and workshops. Exhibition venues are spread out across Grahamstown, drawing visitors from all over and temporarily doubling the population of the university town. nationalartsfestival.co.za
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Slide Nr 20The fifth edition of the Sapporo International Art Festival is asking the big question: “What is an Art Festival?” and inviting artists, but also visitors and citizens to look for answers. The capital of Hokkaidō prefecture launched the festival as part of its efforts to brand a Creative City Sapporo. siaf.jp
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Slide Nr 21An Everything Festival and a Museum of Everything, all in one convenient location? Well, unfortunately, MONA – the Museum of Old and New Art in Hobart is only convenient for those in the Southern Hemisphere, preferably the southern part of Australia. But they should definitely make the trip for this year’s Dark Mofo, which coincides with the opening of an eclectic new exhibition. mona.net.au, darkmofo.net.au [Photo: MONA/Rémi Chauvin, courtesy of Mona (Museum of Old and New Art]
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Slide Nr 22Brazil is hardly the first country one thinks of when considering Impressionism, but an exhibition at the Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo is hoping to change that. Not only did the country bring forth a number of remarkable Impressionists, Édouard Manet, one of the most significant figures of the art movement is said to have found inspiration on a trip to Rio. mam.org.br
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