“Huma Bhabha’s We Come in Peace borrows its title from the classic American science-fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), a tale of first contact between humans and aliens. Its two huge sculptures—the five-headed We Come in Peace and the prostrate Benaam (an… Read More
Walk This Way: Footwear from the Stuart Weitzman Collection of Historic Shoes at New-York Historical Society, April 20 – October 8, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “The New-York Historical Society explores how shoes have transcended their utilitarian purpose to become representations of culture—coveted as objects of desire, designed with artistic consideration, and expressing complicated meanings of femininity, power, and aspiration for women and men alike. Walk This Way: Footwear from… Read More
Sandra Muss: Permutations at OpenArtCode Florence in the Salone di Donatello of the Basilica of San Lorenzo, April 19 – May 8, 2018
Sandra Muss is one of fifty international artists who will be exhibiting in OpenArtCode Florence in the Salone di Donatello of the Basilica of San Lorenzo. This site has a rich history, forming part of the Opera Medicea Laurenziana complex, which features extraordinary work by… Read More
Visitors to Versailles (1682–1789) at The Met Fifth Avenue, April 16 – July 29, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Versailles, the royal residence of the Bourbon kings from 1682 until the French Revolution, was surely the most magnificent court in Europe. The palace and its gardens were also unusually public, allowing entry to anyone who was decently dressed. This strategy… Read More
Terry Winters: Facts and Fictions at The Drawing Center, April 6 – August 12, 2018
“The Drawing Center presents an overview of Terry Winters’s drawings from 1980 to the present, the first such exhibition in the United States. It will include a selection of large-scale works on paper and a wide span of smaller drawings as well as a suite of rarely… Read More
Joan Jonas at Tate Modern, through August 5, 2018
“Tate Modern presents the largest survey of Joan Jonas’s work ever held in the UK. Jonas (b.1936, New York) is regarded as a pre-eminent figure in contemporary performance who continues to influence a younger generation of artists. Reflecting the way Jonas works across many different disciplines, this… Read More
Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s at Neue Galerie New York, through May 28, 2018
“Before the Fall: German and Austrian Art of the 1930s is an exhibition devoted to the development of the arts in Germany and Austria during a decade marked by economic crisis, political disintegration, and social chaos. The exhibition is organized by Dr. Olaf Peters, University Professor at Martin- Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, and serves as the third… Read More
Waste No More by Eileen Fisher DesignWork at Ventura Centrale, Salone del Mobile, Milan, April 17 – 22, 2018
Eileen Fisher has dedicated her career to challenging the ways of the fashion industry. In 2015 with Vision2020, the company took a bold step in reaching its ambitious environmental and social goals. DesignWork is the company’s latest initiative; a creative exchange between makers who felt and stitch consumers’ used garments… Read More
Van Gogh & Japan at Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, March 23 – June 24, 2018
“Van Gogh’s encounter with Japanese printmaking played a decisive role in the direction he took as an artist. During his time in Paris (1886–88) he became fascinated by ukiyo-e, nineteenth-century Japanese colour woodcuts, and began to collect them on a large scale. What Van Gogh… Read More
A Giant Leap: The Transformation of Hasegawa Tōhaku at Japan Society Gallery, March 9 – May 6, 2018
“A Giant Leap: The Transformation of Hasegawa Tōhaku is the first U.S. exhibition focused on the works and stylistic transformation of Hasegawa Tōhaku (1539—1610). A large, jagged pine tree, its branches wound with wisteria and its trunk edged with red azalea, a waterfall cascading into a deep blue stream,… Read More
The Art of Music: The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments at The Met Fifth Avenue, Reopened March 22, 2018
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Music is central to nearly all aspects of human endeavor and culture. Through the theme of the art of music, these galleries explore the artistry of music and instruments across 4,000 years of history and around the globe in the diverse… Read More
Marc Camille Chaimowicz: Your Place or Mine … at The Jewish Museum, March 16 – August 5, 2018
“Marc Camille Chaimowicz’s pluralistic practice encompasses painting, drawing, collage, book making, sculpture, and installation as well as ceramics, furniture, lighting, textiles, and wallpaper. He emerged as an artist in the early 1970s with groundbreaking performative installations that infused everyday life with art and politics and stood at the intersection of the… Read More