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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring
Slide Nr 1Political themes are everywhere, but topical shows focused on questions of race, gender and social equality aren’t impossible to avoid. The most important art exhibitions of the season feature a bit of gritty confrontation, mixed with a healthy dose of timeless beauty. [Photo: SO KANNO/TAKAHIRO YAMAGUCHI, Senseless Drawing Bot, 2011. © So Kanno + Takahiro Yamaguchi / Photo: Yohei Yamakami]
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Slide Nr 2In New York, the Metropolitan Museum of Art clearly remains committed to providing social commentary that can be read as political, if one chooses to do so, with History Refused to Die, an exhibition of work by self-taught 20th-century African American artists who largely worked outside the art establishment. On the other hand, the museum also offers escapism in Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, an exhibition on French parks and gardens. [Photo: Edouard Manet, The Monet Family in Their Garden at Argenteuil, 1874. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Bequest of Joan Whitney Payson]
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Slide Nr 3After Seattle Museum Month drew many new visitors to the city’s art institutions in February, several museums continue their exhibitions offering an artistic view on the city. Seattle on the Spot: The Photographs of Al Smith at the Museum of History & Industry captures scenes from the African American community in the Central District neighbourhood, while Making our Mark: Art by Pratt Teaching Artists at Bellevue Arts Museum displays work by artists working at Pratt Fine Arts Center in the very same district. [Photo: David Chatt 1982, 2016]
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Slide Nr 4Between #metoo, #timesup and the second Women’s March on Washington, 2018 is already shaping up to become another year in which women’s voices will demand to be heard. Start by listening to what female artists have to say at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C. In Women House, they explore the role of women in American culture. [Photo: Simmons, Woman Opening Refrigerator]
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Slide Nr 5Speaking of… it’s not just women rising up against perceived injustice – and not for the first time, either. An exhibition at the Contemporary Art University Museum in Mexico City provides a very timely reminder of how art has documented various uprisings throughout history. The interdisciplinary show collects paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, films and manuscripts documenting revolts, revolutions and insurrections. [Photo: Graciela Iturbide, Marcha Juchitan 1, 1983]
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Slide Nr 6London-born artist Simon Fujiwara’s latest project for Kunsthaus Bregenz, on the shores of Lake Constance, takes on a delicate subject. His Hope House examines one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world, the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, with a 1:1 scale reproduction that interrogates reality and authenticity in a surreal way. [Hope House, 2018, Exhibition view second floor, Kunsthaus Bregenz. Photo: Markus Tretter. Courtesy of Simon Fujiwara © Simon Fujiwara, Kunsthaus Bregenz]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 7The legend of Doctor Faustus has inspired artists for centuries, and his ill-fated pact with the devil is firmly entrenched in popular culture. An exhibition in Munich gathers a wide array of works influenced by the most celebrated German work of literature. The art in Du Bist Faust (You Are Faust) ranges from illustrations by contemporaries like Eugène Delacroix to photography and films by the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe and Martin Scorsese. [Eugène Delacroix, Margarete in der Kirche, nach 1850. © Kunstmuseum Basel. Photo: Martin P. Bühler]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 8In Toronto, MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) is due to reopen this spring, following a move to the new neighbourhood of Junction Triangle where it will showcase a collection of “innovative art by Canadian and international artists” across five floors of the industrial heritage Tower Automotive Building. [Photo: Arash Moallemi]
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Slide Nr 9The Hayward Gallery’s reopening in January coincided with the London art institution’s 50th anniversary. You can catch the major exhibition of Andreas Gursky’s large-scale photography in the Southbank venue until late April. [Photo: Linda Nylind]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 10Photography is also in focus elsewhere in the British capital. At the National Portrait Gallery, Victorian Giants: The Birth of Art Photography examines the origin of the art form; at the Barbican, Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins trains the lens on society’s outsiders; and at the Natural History Museum, the annual Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition shows wild animals captured on film. [Photo: Paz Errázuriz, From the series La Manzana de Adán (Adam’s Apple), 1983. Courtesy The Barbican, Another Kind of Life: Photography on the Margins]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 11The David Chipperfield-designed “transformative redevelopment” of the Royal Academy will be presented to the public in May, kicking off a year of birthday celebrations to mark the 250th anniversary of the establishment of “a society for promoting the Arts of Design”. [Photo: The Royal Academy’s north-facing entrance, Burlington Gardens]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 12The year of celebrations marking the 500th anniversary of the birth of Venetian painter Jacopo Tintoretto launched in 2017 with the exhibition Tintoretto – A star was born in Cologne. Now the exhibition, renamed Tintoret. Birth of a Genius, comes to Musée du Luxembourg in Paris. [Photo: Tintoret. La Conversion de saint Paul, 1538-1539. Washington, National Gallery of Art, Samuel H. Kress Collection © National Gallery of Art, Washington]
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Slide Nr 13Paris-born art collector Diane Venet has curated numerous successful exhibitions featuring “jewellery sculptures” around the world. 2018 marks the first time that her exhibition Jewellery by Artists: From Picasso to Koons comes to the French capital. Featuring pieces from Venet’s personal collection – many of them commissioned by her – it will be on show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs until July. [Photos Left to Right – Niki de Saint Phalle, Brooch Brown Nana 1973-1974. Photo: Sherry Griffin, Brooklyn © 2018, Niki Charitable Art Foundation Adagp, Paris; Giuseppe Penone, Pendant Foglia, 2011. Photo MAD Paris, Jean Tholance; Salvador Dalí, Brooch Cuillère avec montre-peigne, 1957. Photo: Philippe Servent, Paris © Fundació GalaSalvador Dalí Adagp, Paris, 2018. ]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 14Artificial intelligence and the mechanisation of labour are socially relevant topics that frequently surface in the work of contemporary artists. Artists and Robots, from Tinguely to Murakami at the Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris offers a rare opportunity to engage with this topical artistic discourse in a monothematic exhibition. [SO KANNO/TAKAHIRO YAMAGUCHI, Senseless Drawing Bot, 2011. © So Kanno + Takahiro Yamaguchi / Photo: Yohei Yamakami]
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15 Art Exhibitions To Catch This Spring.
Slide Nr 15On the other end of the spectrum, the Worldwide Day of Botanical Art is dedicated exclusively to artistic subjects that grow in nature. On and around May 18th, 23 participating countries will hold exhibitions of original botanical artworks depicting indigenous flora, highlighting plant diversity around the world. [Photo: Camellia japonica var. decumbens, © Akiko Enokido, Watercolor on vellum. A painting from Native Plants of Japan to be on view at Makino Memorial Garden and Museum, Tokyo, Japan April 24 – June 28, 2018] ]
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Slide Nr 16Art Basel goes to Hong Kong for the sixth time and includes the second iteration of Kabinett, showing curated exhibitions chosen by the galleries. The fair is well-rooted in the Asian art scene, with half of the participating galleries coming from the wider region. [Edouard Malingue Gallery Chou Yu-Cheng. Refresh, Sacrifice, New Hygiene, Infection, Clean, Robot, Air, Housekeeping, www.agentbong.com, Cigarette, Dyson, Modern People, 2017. Courtesy of the artist and the gallery]
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