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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring
Slide Nr 1Whether you’re willing to travel for your regular art fix, or if you’re perfectly content to see whatever is happening closer to home; whether you absolutely must visit that new museum everyone is talking about or are quite happy to keep going back to the same three museums that have never led you wrong; whether you prefer your art new and edgy or old and pretty – we’ve got an art event you won’t want to miss this spring.
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Slide Nr 2London’s National Portrait Gallery has chosen to open its new Martin Parr photography exhibition just weeks before Britain’s planned exit from the European Union. Hardly a coincidence, as Parr is considered the foremost chronicler of Britishness, and his latest portrait series promises to “investigate British identity today, including […] the social climate in Britain in the aftermath of the EU referendum.” [Image: The Queen visiting the Livery Hall of the Drapers’ Livery Company for their 650th Anniversary, the City of London, London, England, 2014. Picture credit: © Martin Parr / Magnum Photo ]
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Slide Nr 3One way to describe the current political climate in Britain is “surreal”. Why not escape the bizarre reality by immersing yourself in the fantastically surreal oeuvre of Tate Modern’s Dorothea Tanning exhibition? On view until June, the late American artist’s huge body of work features vaguely threatening tropes as well as dreamy scenes of otherworldly beauty, confident female protagonists – and a sense that, whatever weirdness is going on, you can leave it behind when you exit the exhibition. [Image: Dorothea Tanning, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik 1943. Credit © DACS, 2018]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 4At Yorkshire Sculpture Park, what seems at first glance like a bit of playful escapism turns out to be a confrontation with harsh realities in another part of the world. The interactive exhibition “Thukral and Tagra: Bread, Circuses & TBD” invites visitors to play games. As they progress, they are confronted with challenges faced by farmers in our globalised economy. [Image: Artist impression, courtesy the artists]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 6Redheads rejoice! The ginger pride movement has been gathering steam for some years now; in Paris it’s getting the fine art treatment. At the Musée Jean-Jacques Henner, which is dedicated to the red-haired French painter, a current exhibition rounds up copper tresses in the arts, from the models featured in Henner’s work to fashion designer Sonia Rykiel. The exhibition “Roux!” asks, “What does it mean to be a redhead?” and “How is red hair portrayed?” [Image: Les Trois Soeurs, 2009. © Geneviève Boutry]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 7Street art has become a widely recognised art form in its own right, but what about works of art that are situated in, inspired by or that depict “the street”, but fall outside of what is considered street art? They have found their place in “THE STREET. Where the World Is Made”. The exhibition at MAXXI, Italy’s National Museum of 21st Century Art in Rome explores how street scenes, public life, community interaction, urban landscapes, traffic and other aspects of contemporary life are reflected in artworks all over the world. [Photo © Musacchio Ianniello, Courtesy Fondazione MAXXI]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 8Germany is celebrating its most successful multidisciplinary visual arts movement all year. The Bauhaus 100 Centenary was kicked off in Berlin in January, and the celebratory programme is packed with events across the country. The next highlight: the re-opening of the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar on 6 April. [Bauhaus Museum Weimar © bloomimages GmbH]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 11“Judy Chicago: A Reckoning.” The title of the retrospective at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami sounds confrontational. Sure, the feminist artist’s work can come across as belligerent, but the iconographies, stereotypes, taboos and conventions it challenges sure deserve to be tackled – and few have taken up the fight in such consistent, honest, epic and effective ways. [Image: Judy Chicago, Sunset Squares, 1965/2018. Courtesy the artist and Salon 94, New York. Photo: Fredrik Nils Studio]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 12The recently expanded and reconstructed Norton Museum of Art in in West Palm Beach, Florida is showing off its new facelift with 8 concurrent exhibitions, but this being Florida in spring, may we suggest you check out the revamped sculpture garden, which features a newly added piece by Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen? [Image: The Pamela and Robert B. Goergen Garden at the Norton Museum of Art. © Nigel Young / Foster + Partners]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 13teamLab, the creative arts project behind Tokyo’s Borderless Museum, is bringing an immersive experience on a gigantic scale to the new TANK exhibition space in Shanghai’s West Bund art district. The inaugural exhibition fills the former oil tanks with digital waterfalls that cascade around the visitors, whose presence influences the flow of the “water”.
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 14It’s been a long time coming, but after significant delays, the new National Museum of Qatar is finally set to open in March. The sprawling Jean Nouvel-designed complex will display artefacts from the country’s history, from before human occupation of the peninsula to more recent art, crafts and royal treasures. [Photo: National Museum of Qatar, © Iwan Baan]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 15In Melbourne, Australia, the opening of the Housemuseum Galleries turns what used to be a highly unusual art experience into a regular ol’ museum, open to the public 6 days a week. Whereas previously you had to schedule a visit to get a look at the collection displayed inside a family home, now it sits in a custom-built structure adjacent to the old Housemuseum.
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Slide Nr 16New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is marking the 30th anniversary of the untimely death of Robert Mapplethorpe with a year-long exhibition programme, “Implicit Tensions: Mapplethorpe Now”. The first part opened in January and is focused on his work, the second part will examine its impact on other contemporary artists. Robert Mapplethorpe [Image: Robert Mapplethorpe, Candy Darling, 1973. © The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation. Used by permission]
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