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15 Engaging Art Exhibitions Around The World This Autumn
introWhether you turn to art for an escape from reality or to see its most pressing issues reflected – the current season of exhibitions around the world have it all. Pretty or political, outdoors or in venerated institutions, highbrow or popular appeal, take your pick and get your fill at the best art events worldwide. [Photo: National Gallery Singapore]
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TalinnTallinn gets a new contemporary art centre, which is likely to further enhance Estonia’s appeal as a European travel hotspot. Kai Art Center, housed in an industrial heritage site on the old harbour, opens with an international group show. Let the field of your attention…. soften and spread out is also part of the city’s contemporary art biennial, Tallinn Photomonth. [Photo: Kaos Architects]
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PradoThe Prado is using the occasion of its 200th anniversary to not only focus on the “great masters” (read: male artists) in its collection, but also to shine a light on some long-neglected female painters. A Tale of Two Women Painters: Sofonisba Anguissola and Lavinia Fontana shows the work of two female Italian artists who were both famous and successful in their time (during the 16th century), but have since been forgotten – undeservedly, as this exhibition shows. [Photo: Noli me tangere, Lavinia Fontana, 1581, Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi]
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15 Engaging Art Exhibitions Around The World This Autumn.
BerlinAlso putting female artists on the agenda, albeit with a broader focus, is the Alte Nationalgalerie on Berlin’s museum island. Fighting for Visibility: Women Artists in the Nationalgalerie before 1919 takes the centenary of the year women were first allowed to participate in regular art courses at Berlin’s art academy as an opportunity to examine the female artists who made art before then, against all odds. [Photo: Sabine Lepsius, Selbstbildnis, 1885, © Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Nationalgalerie / Jörg P. Anders]
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BauhausIt’s already been a big Bauhaus year across Germany, but the opening of the Bauhaus Museum Dessau promises to add a late highlight to centenary celebrations. The newly built museum will house Bauhaus Dessau Foundation’s collection – 49,000 catalogued exhibits forming the second-largest Bauhaus collection worldwide – displayed together for the first time. [Photo: Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau / chezweitz 2019]
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15 Engaging Art Exhibitions Around The World This Autumn.
LiechtensteinLiechtenstein is having a party, and all art lovers are invited. The principality is celebrating its 300th birthday with a range of cultural events. The jubilee exhibition at the national Kunstmuseum (Museum of Fine Arts) in Vaduz is titled Liechtenstein. The Future of the Past. A Dialogue among the Collections and features works from the Princely Collections. [Photo: Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein]
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15 Engaging Art Exhibitions Around The World This Autumn.
LondonVideo art still seems like such a fresh and sometimes surprising art form – certainly one that isn’t quite considered as canonical as work in other mediums – that we forget it already has a considerable history. Nam June Paik, known as one of its earliest pioneers, already used video to create immersive works that go well beyond mere moving images on a screen. London’s Tate Modern is dedicating a major exhibition to the South Korean artist to refresh our memories. [Photo: TV Garden 1974-1977 (2002), Courtesy Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf]
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15 Engaging Art Exhibitions Around The World This Autumn.
NorvalSouthern Hemisphere spring is the perfect time to debut an open-air sculpture exhibition. Why Should I Hesitate: Sculpture presents three-dimensional works by South African artist William Kentridge. The outdoor event at the Norval Foundation’s sculpture garden, on the outskirts of Cape Town, is complemented by a concurrent exhibition at the city’s Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa (Zeitz MOCAA), Why Should I Hesitate? Putting Drawings to Work. [Photo, and teaser image: Stella Oliver, Norval Foundation]
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15 Engaging Art Exhibitions Around The World This Autumn.
MEIRight now seems a particularly good time to open people’s minds to the rich cultural heritage and creative potential of a region caught in seemingly perpetual upheaval. Washington, DC’s Middle East Institute launches the MEI Art Gallery to “highlight the power of the arts to influence culture and transform society, as well as to build bridges between the peoples of the U.S. and the Middle East.”
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15 Engaging Art Exhibitions Around The World This Autumn.
The BroadShirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again is a survey of video art and photography by the Iranian artist (and New York resident). The exhibition at the Broad in Los Angeles will feature some of the artist’s best-known work, but also pieces that have never been displayed. [Photo: Shirin Neshat, Land of Dreams video still, 2019. © Shirin Neshat, Courtesy the artist and Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels]
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