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The Top 14 Art Exhibitions This Spring
introAustralian biennials, African festivals, American anniversaries and European exhibitions – these were the highlights originally expected to dominate the art world over the coming months. Sadly, in the face of the growing coronavirus pandemic, most of these exhibitions will now be closed to the public. Here, we highlight the exhibitions that would have been planned and show how to explore their themes and exhibits online. [Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Photo: Zan Wimberley]
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The Top 14 Art Exhibitions This Spring.
GropiusWith self-isolation the new global norm, we highlight the art exhibitions that would have been planned – and show how to explore their themes and exhibits online
Give yourself cold shivers with an exhibition of art from the time of the Cold War. “The Cool and the Cold. Paintings from the USA and USSR 1960–1990”, juxtaposing works from both sides of the divide, is on display at Gropius Bau in Berlin. [️© Ralph Goings, photo: mumok – Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, loan of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation]
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Slide Nr 6The first major Steve McQueen exhibition of the past 20 years in the UK brings together moving image, photography and sculpture from the artist’s entire career. Tate Britain, very clearly intent on reminding the world that the Oscar-winning Hollywood director is also – first and foremost – a British artist, is simultaneously showing a current project, in which the artist portrayed tens of thousands of Year 3 pupils from across London. [Ashes 2002-2015 © Steve McQueen. Courtesy the artist, Thomas Dane Gallery and Marian Goodman Gallery]
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V&AAlso in London, the V&A takes us through the looking glass and down the rabbit hole with “Alice: Curiouser and Curiouser”. The exhibition shows visual art, literature, film, music performance and fashion, all influenced by Lewis Carroll’s novel Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. [Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Dorothea Tanning, 1943. ©-ADAGP,-Paris-and-DACS,-London-2019]
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The Top 14 Art Exhibitions This Spring.
Pier24As the exhibition celebrating the 10th anniversary of Pier 24 Photography comes to an end, it looks like the show is also set to be a farewell. It now seems inevitable that this mainstay of San Francisco’s art scene will be closing its doors soon, maybe even before the official end of this exhibition, so make an appointment to see it while you still can. [Looking Back: Ten Years of Pier 24 Photography (installation view), Courtesy Pier 24 Photography]
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The Top 14 Art Exhibitions This Spring.
FotografiskaOf course, New York is often the place where old art and emerging trends meet, so in addition to celebrating a revered institution like the Met, art types will be flocking to the recently opened Fotografiska NY, for example for “Brief and Drenching”, a photo series by Naima Green portraying queer and gender-nonconforming people of colour. [Naima Green, Pur-Suit (detail) 2019; photo: Megan Madden]
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The Top 14 Art Exhibitions This Spring.
KusamaYayoi Kusama has long embraced the popular appeal of her work. Today, the queues, selfies and covetable merchandise that accompany each of her projects seem like an indelible part of her oeuvre. “KUSAMA: Cosmic Nature”, an exhibition at the New York Botanical Garden, puts the joyous artifice of the Japanese artist’s work in a new, natural context. [Pumpkins Screaming About Love Beyond Infinity, 2017, Collection of the artist]
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The Top 14 Art Exhibitions This Spring.
Biennale of SydneySeveral Australian biennials are competing for competition or, depending on your point of view, teaming up to make the continent a particularly attractive destination for art aficionados in 2020. The Biennale of Sydney, which was first held in 1973 to celebrate the opening of the Sydney Opera House, is the unmissable blockbuster event, featuring 94 artists from 47 countries across six main sites. [Cockatoo Island – Manuel Ocampo. Courtesy the artist and STATION, Australia. Photograph: Zan Wimberley]
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The Top 14 Art Exhibitions This Spring.
Adelaide BiennalThe Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, on the other hand, is the older yet edgier and more daring event. Underlining the South Australian capital’s reputation as “Festival City”, shows take place all over town in venues large and small. This year’s theme is “Monster Theatres”, inviting artists to “make visible the monsters of our time.” [Installation Pierre Mukeba; photo Saul Steed]
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