Milano Art Week 2020 presents a program of initiatives, exhibitions and performances organized by the City of Milan (April 14-19), that flanks miart, the trade fair of modern and contemporary art that takes place in Fiera Milano (April 17-19). Milano Art Week sees the participation of… Read More
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Inventing Acadia: Painting and Place in Louisiana at New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), through January 26, 2020
“The first major exhibition on Louisiana landscape painting in more than 40 years, Inventing Acadia explores the rise of landscape painting in Louisiana during the 19th century, revealing its role in creating—and exporting—a new vision for American landscape art that was vastly different than that to… Read More
Dora Maar at Tate Modern, through March 15, 2020
The Tate exhibition is the first UK retrospective of the work of Dora Maar (1907–97). Born Henriette Théodora Markovitch, she grew up between Argentina and Paris and studied decorative arts and painting before switching her focus to photography. Her photographs and photomontages became celebrated icons… Read More
Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 at Whitney Museum of American Art, November 22, 2019 – January, 2021
“Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft, beginning with works made after World War II when many artists embraced fiber arts and ceramics to challenge the dominance of traditional painting and sculpture. Over… Read More
Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville at New-York Historical Society, through January 26, 2020
“The New-York Historical Society introduces visitors to a little-known artist whose work documented the people and scenes of early America. Artist in Exile: The Visual Diary of Baroness Hyde de Neuville, on view in the Joyce B. Cowin Women’s History Gallery of the Center for Women’s History, presents… Read More
Finding Home: Four Artists’ Journeys at Norman Rockwell Museum, through May 25, 2020
“Finding Home: Four Artists’ Journeys, a new exhibition open November 9, 2019 through Monday, May 25, 2020 at the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, MA, documents the complex emotional realities of adapting to a new life thousands of miles away from where their stories began, through compelling visual… Read More
Yayoi Kusama: Every Day I Pray For Love at David Zwirner Gallery, November 9 – December 14, 2019
“David Zwirner is pleased to present new work by Yayoi Kusama at the gallery’s 537 West 20th Street location in New York. The exhibition features new paintings, new sculptures, an immersive installation, and the debut of INFINITY MIRRORED ROOM – DANCING LIGHTS THAT FLEW UP… Read More
Manet: Three Paintings from The Norton Simon Museum at The Frick Collection, through January 5, 2020
“The Frick presents three canvases by Édouard Manet (1832–1883) from the collection of the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California, marking the first time the paintings will be exhibited together elsewhere since their acquisition. Considered the father of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and, by some, twentieth-century abstraction,… Read More
A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate at Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), November 6, 2019 – May 24, 2020
“The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) presents A Wonder to Behold: Craftsmanship and the Creation of Babylon’s Ishtar Gate, opening new avenues for understanding one of the most spectacular achievements of the ancient world. The exhibition features 180 objects that bring… Read More
Rachel Harrison Life Hack at Whitney Museum of American Art, through January 12, 2020
“Rachel Harrison’s (b. 1966) first full-scale survey tracks the development of her career over the past twenty-five years, incorporating room-size installations, sculpture, photography, and drawing. Harrison’s complex works—in which readymades collude with invented forms—bring together the breadth of art history, the impurities of politics and… Read More
Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone at The Jewish Museum, November 1, 2019 – March 22, 2020
“The Jewish Museum presents Rachel Feinstein: Maiden, Mother, Crone, the first survey of the New York-based artist in the United States. The exhibition includes three decades of Feinstein’s work in sculpture, painting, and video, as well as a panoramic wallpaper, a major new commission, and the… Read More
Hans Haacke: All Connected at New Museum, October 24, 2019 – January 26, 2020
“The New Museum presents the first major US survey of Hans Haacke in over thirty years. Hans Haacke: All Connected brings together more than thirty works from across the artist’s career, from the 1960s to the present. This exhibition is the first American museum survey… Read More