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15 Must-See Art Exhibitions To Catch In Early 2020
Slide Nr 12020 is shaping up to be the year of women artists, at least in the USA. According to artnet News, “just 11% of all acquisitions and 14% of exhibitions at 26 prominent American museums over the past decade were of work by female artists.” During the year of the American presidential election, several institutions are trying to fix that. Find out how… and what else is new in the art world for early 2020.
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Slide Nr 2The Feminist Art Coalition will organise events and exhibitions of art by women at 50 museums across the US, and the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA) has announced that it will only acquire works by women this year. The results won’t immediately be visible, but you can already see a female-focused exhibition at the museum now. “By Their Creative Force: American Women Modernists” is at the BMA until 5 July 2020. [Image: Elizabeth Catlett. Domestic Worker. 1946. © 2019 Catlett Mora Family Trust/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY]
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Slide Nr 3When the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas began planning “Norman Rockwell: American Freedom”, the institution couldn’t possibly have known how timely the exhibition would seem to young culture vultures. Just a few months before the opening, Lana Del Rey released her instant classic album “Norman Fucking Rockwell!”, which in equal parts mythologises and dismantles the iconography created by the painter of American national pride. This contemporary critique should add an interesting extra layer to viewings. Until 22 March 2020. [Image: Norman Rockwell, The Problem We All Live With, 1963. Illustration for Look, January 14, 1964. Collection of Norman Rockwell Museum]
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Slide Nr 4The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts is also showing the work of an artist who contributed to American iconography, albeit with a more melancholic bent. “Edward Hopper and the American Hotel” shows how the painter “found artistic value and cultural significance in the most commonplace sites and settings,” in this case in mundane hotel rooms across the country. Road trip, anyone? [Image: Western Motel, 1957, Edward Hopper. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, B.A., 1903. © 2019 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY ]
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Slide Nr 5Rubell Museum (formerly the Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation) reopened in a new location during Miami Art Week. The inaugural exhibition, “Unparalleled Journey through Contemporary Art of Past 50 Years”, is “a museum-wide installation of works that chronicle key artists, moments and movements in vital arts centres over the past 50 years.” [Image courtesy of Rubell Museum. Photo by Chi Lam]
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Slide Nr 6In other relocation news, Tokyo is getting a newly reinvented museum. The Bridgestone Museum of Art, which was the city’s only institution presenting a permanent exhibition of French art when it opened in 1952, is moving to a new building and reopening after a five-year hiatus. The inaugural exhibition won’t just take place in a new location, but also under a new name: “ARTIZON MUSEUM, Emerging Artscape: The State of Our Collection”, from 18 January to 31 March 2020.
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Slide Nr 7The long-anticipated “Centre Pompidou × West Bund Museum Project” finally opened in Shanghai this last November. The David Chipperfield-designed building on the banks of the Huangpu river will feature works from the Parisian art institution’s collection, “in connection with the local cultural context.” [Image: West Bund Museum]
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Slide Nr 8Migration is an act, a process, an experience. Migrant is a status that many can never quite shake, no matter how long they have lived in their chosen home countries, or how successful and well-integrated they are. Between 1900 and 1950, Paris was the art capital of the world, and drew migrant artists in droves. Their status as migrants influenced their work as much as the city inspired it, as “Chagall, Picasso, Mondrian and Others – Migrant Artists in Paris” at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows. Until 2 February 2020. [Image: Peter Tijhuis]
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Slide Nr 9More than half of the known remaining 20 works by Flemish painter Jan Van Eyck worldwide have been preserved and will be brought together for one remarkable exhibition this year. “Van Eyck. An optical revolution” opens at the Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Fine Art Museum, MSK) in Ghent on 1 February 2020. [Image: Jan van Eyck. Portrait of a Man with a Blue Chaperon, c. 1428−1430 . Muzeul National Brukenthal, Sibiu (Romania) ]
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Slide Nr 10Leonardo 500, da Vinci’s anniversary year, kicked off on 1 May 2019 in Milan, 500 years after the artist’s death. It ends on 19 April 2020, so there’s still time to see several major exhibitions and dozens of events in the city where he spent most of his life. You can also catch “Leonardo da Vinci”, dubbed the “exhibition of the century”, at the Louvre until 24 February 2020. [Image: Léonard de Vinci, Sainte Anne, la Vierge et l’Enfant Jésus jouant avec un agneau, dite La Sainte Anne, vers 1503-1519. Paris, musée du Louvre, département des Peintures, INV. 776 © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / René-Gabriel Ojéda]
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Slide Nr 11Following on from the year of Leonardo, 2020 is all about Raphael. To mark the 500th anniversary of Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino’s death, museums all over the world will be dusting off their finest majestic Madonnas and other imposing paintings by the Renaissance master. Why not start with what will likely be the most important exhibition, held in the city where he spent the last years of his life? Catch it at Rome’s Scuderie del Quirinale, from 5 March to 14 June 2020. [Photo via Wikimedia Commons]
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Slide Nr 12If you want to enjoy contemporary art at Paris Mint, now is your last chance. The current exhibition featuring works by Kiki Smith, the “first solo show of the American artist by a French public institution,” will mark the end of the contemporary art programme at the Monnaie de Paris. Until 9 February 2020. [Image: Martin Argyroglo/Monnaie de Paris]
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Slide Nr 13The latest in a series of London art mainstays decamping to Paris, White Cube Gallery is set to open a space in the French capital. They will be joining Pace Gallery, David Zwirner and possibly Hauser & Wirth (as yet rumoured), as well as newly revamped art fair Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain (FIAC). How much more Paris continues to grow as a rediscovered hotspot is sure to depend on Brexit, but its renaissance is already well on its way. [Image: Ben Westoby]
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Slide Nr 14Although Brexit fears seem to be invigorating art scenes elsewhere, so far there’s no noticeable detrimental effect on London. Tate Modern is doing its reliably attention-grabbing thing with a major Andy Warhol exhibition – Marilyns, cokes, soup cans and all – from 12 March to 6 September 2020. [Image: Andy Warhol, Self Portrait 1986. Tate © 2019 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc / Artists Right Society (ARS), New York and DACS, London]
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Slide Nr 15Also going big is the British Museum: “Troy: Myth and Reality” is a blockbuster exhibition in the best sense possible. Like any good myth, the title alone evokes associations in anyone with even a passing knowledge of the epic war, its hero Achilles, the beautiful Helena or the infamous wooden horse. The scope of the show is also suitably epic. Until 6 March 2020. [Image: Eleanor Antin Judgement of Paris (after Rubens), 2007, from “Helen’s Odyssey” © Eleanor Antin. Courtesy the artist and Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York]
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Slide Nr 16Hassan Sharif was one of the 20th century’s most influential artists in the Middle East. Now “Hassan Sharif: I Am The Single Work Artist”, the Sharjah Art Foundation’s retrospective of his work, comes to Europe for the first time. It opens at KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin on 29 February 2020. [Image: Hassan Sharif, Playfulness No. 1, 2015. Sharjah Art Foundation, 2017. Foto/Photo: Sharjah Art Foundation]
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