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ICP at 50
From the Collection, 1845–2019

Through May 6, 2024
International Center of Photography, New York
www.icp.org

ICP at 50 is a thematic exploration of the many processes that comprise the history of the photographic medium, drawn from the International Center of Photography’s holdings. The institution was established in 1974 and the exhibition offers insight into the breadth and depth of its collection which spans from the nineteenth century to the present day. Work by Richard Avedon, Nan Goldin, Deana Lawson, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Franz West in
When Forms Come Alive

Through May 6, 2024
Hayward Gallery, London
www.southbankcentre.co.uk

Spanning over sixty years of contemporary sculpture, When Forms Come Alive highlights ways in which artists draw on familiar experiences of movement, flux, and organic growth. Inspired by sources ranging from a dancer’s gesture to the breaking of a wave, from a flow of molten metal to the interlacing of a spider’s web, the works by twenty-one international artists conjure fluid and shifting realms of experience. Work by Franz West is included.

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Some Dogs Go to Dallas

Through May 12, 2024
Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas
www.greenfamilyartfoundation.org

Some Dogs Go to Dallas presents a selection of works from the collection of Pamela and David Hornik. Ardent dog lovers, the Horniks have a penchant for acquiring pieces depicting canines across eras, locations, and techniques from throughout the art historical canon. The diversity of this collection underscores the universality of the human connection with animals and the profoundly enduring love that those bonds create. Work by Amoako Boafo and Andy Warhol is included.

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Multiplicity
Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Through May 12, 2024
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
www.mfah.org

Multiplicity presents over eighty major collage and collage-informed works by fifty-two living artists. The works reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity, exploring diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. From paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives within our fragmented society. This exhibition originated at the Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee. Work by Derrick Adams, Lauren Halsey, and Rick Lowe is included.

On View

Jim Shaw
The Ties That Bind

Through May 19, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, Belgium
www.muhka.be

The Ties That Bind explores Jim Shaw’s work from the last five decades, which has at once anticipated and mirrored shifts in the American cultural and political landscape during this period. In recent decades, the artist’s work has increasingly highlighted the growing tension between conservative and progressive ideologies. The exhibition presents drawings, paintings, photographs, and immersive installations that bring to light the core motifs of Shaw’s practice.

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The Time Is Always Now
Artists Reframe the Black Figure

Through May 19, 2024
National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk

The Time Is Always Now showcases the work of contemporary artists from the African diaspora and highlights their use of figures to illuminate the richness and complexity of Black life. The exhibition examines both the presence and the absence of Black figures in Western art history and the social, psychological, and cultural contexts in which they were produced. Work by Titus Kaphar and Nathaniel Mary Quinn is included.

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Derrick Adams
Future People . . . Take Off

Through May 25, 2024
PES FUTURES, New York
www.pesfutures.org

Derrick Adams’s exhibition Future People . . . Take Off, an imagined environment meditating on past, present, and future ideas of Black culture, Futurism, and African roots, is the inaugural presentation in the PES FUTURES program. Sited in Project for Empty Space’s new headquarters, PES FUTURES is a space for artists interested in the realization of parallel and intersecting potentialities and the possibility to claim and reclaim space through their work. Inspired by the Afrofuturist movement, Adams’s installation incorporates images, video, and music.

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Stanley Whitney
How High the Moon

Through May 26, 2024
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York
buffaloakg.org

Conveying the breadth of Stanley Whitney’s practice from the early 1970s through today, this exhibition of artist’s paintings at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), also includes a robust installation of drawings, prints, and sketchbooks. The retrospective contextualizes Whitney’s practice in relation to his artistic community as well as his influences—from the history of art and architecture to quilting, textiles, and jazz.

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Sally Mann in
Love Languages

Open from September 2, 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
www.mfah.org

Love Languages considers how the making of art is a type of love language all of its own. The installation attempts to address the question “How do we prioritize tenderness against debilitating social conditions?” The works on view engage with the necessity of intimacy in interpersonal and collective relationships. Work by Sally Mann is included.

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The Whitney’s Collection
Selections from 1900 to 1965

Opened June 28, 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
whitney.org

This exhibition of more than 120 works, drawn entirely from the Whitney’s collection, is inspired by the founding history of the museum. The Whitney was established in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to champion the work of living American artists. A sculptor and a patron, Whitney recognized both the importance of contemporary American art and the need to support the artists who made it. The collection she assembled foregrounds how artists uniquely reveal the complexity and beauty of American life. Work by Jay DeFeo, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann is included.

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Indian Skies
The Howard Hodgkin Collection of Indian Court Painting

Through June 9, 2024
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org

Over the course of sixty years, Howard Hodgkin formed a collection of Indian paintings and drawings that is recognized as one of the finest of its kind. The artist collected works from the Mughal, Deccani, Rajput, and Pahari courts dating from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. This exhibition presents over 120 of these works, many of which the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently acquired, alongside loans from the Howard Hodgkin Indian Collection Trust.

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Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron
Portraits to Dream In

Through June 16, 2024
National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk

Photographers Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) lived a century apart—Cameron working in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka from the 1860s onwards, and Woodman in the United States and Italy from the 1970s. Both women explored portraiture, going beyond its ability to record appearance, and using their own creativity and imagination to suggest notions of beauty, symbolism, transformation, and storytelling. Showcasing more than 150 rare vintage prints, this exhibition presents an overview of both artists’ careers, and suggests new ways both to look at their work and to examine how photographic portraiture was created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Affinità elettive
Picasso, Matisse, Klee e Giacometti

Through June 23, 2024
Gallerie dell’Accademia and Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice
www.gallerieaccademia.it

Affinità elettive, whose title translates to Elective Affinities, is held across two locations in Venice: Gallerie dell’Accademia and Casa dei Tre Oci, the European headquarters of the Berggruen Institute. More than forty works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Klee, Alberto Giacometti, and Paul Cezanne, all from the collection of the Museum Berggruen in Berlin, are presented alongside Venetian paintings from the Gallerie dell’Accademia. The exhibition aims to explore the dialogue between these two different collections and the similarities in iconography and subject matter that arise. 

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Giacometti / Sugimoto
En scène

Through June 23, 2024
Institut Giacometti, Paris
www.fondation-giacometti.fr

In 2013, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, invited Hiroshi Sugimoto to photograph their sculpture garden. This commission initiated the series Past Presence (2013–18), which includes photographs of Alberto Giacometti’s Tall Figure, III (1960) shot both in broad daylight and at dusk. The duality of these images evokes a connection Sugimoto saw between the sculpture and the supernatural aspects of traditional Japanese Noh theater, where the living and the dead meet on the stage. The exhibition, whose title translates to Staged, is organized around the reconstruction of a Noh scene and includes a selection of Giacometti’s most emblematic sculptures, photographs and films by Sugimoto, and ancient Noh masks from the latter artist’s collection.

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For What It’s Worth
Value Systems in Art since 1960

Through June 29, 2024
The Warehouse, Dallas
thewarehousedallas.org

Looking at global, conceptual art tendencies since 1960, For What It’s Worth focuses on artists who generate, question, and infect value systems through their work. These systems might address exchange, social structures, or philosophical intangibles, and many of the selected works share an exploration of the codification of values through language and patterns of behavior. Work by Chris Burden and Sterling Ruby is included.

On View

Chris Burden in
Masterful Attention Seekers

Through July 7, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan, South Korea
www.busan.go.kr

Masterful Attention Seekers explores various ways of acquiring and maintaining attention in today’s society from the perspective of contemporary art. The exhibition examines the pursuit of attention not only as an individual concern, but also as a fundamental aspect of society. Work by Chris Burden is included.

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Giants
Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys

Through July 7, 2024
Brooklyn Museum, New York
www.brooklynmuseum.org

Giants, the first major exhibition of the Dean Collection, owned by musical icons Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean) and Alicia Keys, showcases a focused selection from the couple’s world-class holdings and spotlights works by Black diasporic artists. Expansive in their collecting habits, the Deans, both born and raised in New York, champion a philosophy of “artists supporting artists.” “Giants” refers to the renown of legendary artists, the impact of canon-expanding contemporary figures, and some of the monumental works in the collection. Work by Derrick Adams, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Titus Kaphar, and Deana Lawson is included.

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Effetto Notte
Nuovo Realismo Americano

Through July 14, 2024
Gallerie Nazionali di Arte Antica, Palazzo Barberini, Rome
barberinicorsini.org

This exhibition’s title was borrowed from a work by Lorna Simpson, Day for Night (2018), which translates to Effetto Notte in Italian. Curated by Massimiliano Gioni and Flaminia Gennari Santori in collaboration with the Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, the exhibition features more than 150 artworks from the collection of Tony and Elham Salamé that interrogate the meanings and functions of figuration in contemporary art and address questions around the notion of realism and the representation of truth in painting. Work by Derrick Adams, Louise Bonnet, Maurizio Cattelan, Urs Fischer, Theaster Gates, Duane Hanson, Rick Lowe, Richard Prince, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Sterling Ruby, Anna Weyant, Stanley Whitney, and Christopher Wool is included.

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Roy Lichtenstein
Zum 100. Geburtstag

Through July 14, 2024
Albertina, Vienna
www.albertina.at

Celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the artist’s birth, this comprehensive retrospective, whose English title is Roy Lichtenstein: A Centennial Exhibition, brings together over ninety paintings, sculptures, and prints by Lichtenstein, including early Pop artworks from the 1960s, black-and-white paintings, stylized landscapes in enamel, and a large-scale Brushstroke sculpture. The exhibition was conceived to mark the donation of more than a hundred works by the Lichtenstein Foundation to the Albertina.

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Anselm Kiefer
Angeli caduti

Through July 21, 2024
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
www.palazzostrozzi.org

This exhibition, whose title translates to Fallen Angels, places work by Anselm Kiefer in direct dialogue with the Renaissance architecture of Palazzo Strozzi, and reflects on topics such as identity, history, and philosophy. Featuring over twenty-five works by Kiefer, both historical and recent, it also includes a new work for the museum’s courtyard and an immersive installation comprised of sixty canvases of various formats.

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Carsten Höller in
The Bird Show: Vögel zwischen Freiheit, Krieg und Quantenmechanik

Through July 27, 2024
ERES Stiftung, Munich
eres-stiftung.de

The Bird Show, whose subtitle translates to Birds between Freedom, War, and Quantum Mechanics, focuses on the biology, anatomy, and symbolism of birds. Their unique physique and their ability to navigate fascinate engineers and AI experts alike, making them role models for new developments in bionics and robotics. The exhibition follows the spectacular migration of birds, the secret of which, according to the latest studies, is probably rooted in quantum mechanics. Work by Carsten Höller is included.

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Jordan Wolfson
Body Sculpture

Through July 28, 2024
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
nga.gov.au

This exhibition is the first solo presentation of Jordan Wolfson’s work in Australia and features the world premiere of Body Sculpture (2023), a recent major acquisition by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Body Sculpture is a new animatronic work that combines sculpture and performance to generate emotional and physical responses in the viewer. It is shown alongside key works selected by the artist from the National Gallery’s collection, offering audiences further insights into Wolfson’s innovative vision.

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Simon Hantaï in
Touching the Void

Open from November 14, 2020
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org

As part of New Art from Wall to Wall, the Museum of Modern Art is presenting never-before and rarely shown works in themed, reimagined collection galleries. The gallery Touching the Void explores an important artistic tendency of the 1960s: a shift away from the idea that art should express the artist’s interior life. Works in this vein searched for a poetics of bare form and focused on structural elements such as line, plane, and volume. Whether strict or playful, the work of these artists tested the meditative possibilities of objectivity, challenging viewers to heighten their sensory perception. Work by Simon Hantaï is included.

On View

Damien Hirst
The Weight of Things

Open from October 26, 2023
Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich
www.muca.eu

The Weight of Things—the first major survey of Damien Hirst’s work in Germany—presented by the Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art (MUCA), Munich  spans forty years of the artist’s career. The exhibition features over forty installations, sculptures, and paintings, some of which have never been seen before, as well as work from his most iconic series, including Natural History, Spin Paintings, Medicine Cabinets, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, and more.