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Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami)

Through August 4, 2024
Brooklyn Museum, New York
www.brooklynmuseum.org

For the first time in twenty-four years, Utagawa Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo returns to public display. Originally published in 1856–58, the series captures the evolving socioeconomic and environmental landscape of the city that would become Tokyo. The exhibition includes the full set of prints and other complementary objects drawn from the museum’s collection, as well as new paintings by Takashi Murakami, created in direct response to Hiroshige’s masterpiece.

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Playing with Fire
Edmund de Waal and Axel Salto

Through August 11, 2024
CLAY Keramikmuseum Danmark, Middelfart, Denmark
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Playing with Fire is an exhibition of work by the acclaimed Danish ceramist Axel Salto (1889–1961), curated by Edmund de Waal. Considered one of the greatest masters of twentieth-century ceramic art, Salto is renowned for his highly individual and expressive stoneware inspired by organic forms. A significant number of Salto’s ceramic works from the collection of CLAY Keramikmuseum Danmark and the Tangen Collection at Kunstsilo in Kristiansand, Norway, are shown alongside lesser-known and previously unseen works on paper, illustrations, writings, and textiles. A major new installation by de Waal reflects on Salto’s enduring influence.

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Nam June Paik
The Miami Years

Through August 16, 2024
Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida
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Nam June Paik: The Miami Years explores the artist’s little-known connection to Miami Beach and the surrounding south Florida community. Organized around the Bass Museum’s recent acquisition of his TV Cello (2003), it examines the innovative ways Paik used communication and media technologies in his work. The exhibition also includes Notations, a series of installations and performances by three contemporary artists whose practices engage with and further Paik’s experimentations with technology.

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The Beauty of Diversity

Through August 18, 2024
Albertina Modern, Vienna
www.albertina.at

The Beauty of Diversity presents the depth and breadth of the Albertina’s contemporary collections while demonstrating the essential turn toward women and lgbtqia+ artists, people of color, aboriginal artistic stances, and autodidacts. The exhibition aims to develop an aesthetic diversity that upends the ideality of classicist stylistic and formal strivings. Work by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Amoako Boafo, Jadé Fadojutimi, and Franz West is included.

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Color Is the First Revelation of the World

Through August 18, 2024
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California
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Drawing inspiration from the color theories of Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica (1937–1980), this exhibition explores the intersections of color and form, emphasizing the transformative nature of art. Through a collection of monochromatic works in hues of blue, the works on view span the various histories of the twentieth century to pose timely questions about the world around us. Work by Chris Burden, Cy Twombly, and Mary Weatherford is included.

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Rewilding

Through August 18, 2024
Kunsthaus Baselland, Münchenstein/Basel, Switzerland
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Rewilding is the inaugural exhibition of the Kunsthaus Baselland in its new space, a former champagne warehouse. The exhibition’s title refers to the “rebirth” of the venue, and the artists included in the show, many of whom have exhibited with the museum before, have created new works for the opening. Work by Piero Golia and Tatiana Trouvé is included.

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Sarah Sze

Through August 18, 2024
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
www.nashersculpturecenter.org

Sarah Sze invites viewers into a progression of site-specific works across three gallery spaces. Integrating painting, sculpture, images, sound, and video with the surrounding architecture, Sze’s new installations create intimate systems that reference our rapidly changing world. The exhibition blurs the boundaries between making and showing, process and product, the digital and material, and questions how objects acquire their meaning.

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Damien Hirst
Vivir Para Siempre (Por Un Momento)

Through August 25, 2024
Museo Jumex, Mexico City
www.fundacionjumex.org

This exhibition, whose title translates as To Live Forever (For a While), provides a comprehensive overview of Damien Hirst’s work between 1986 and 2019. Curated by Ann Gallagher in close collaboration with the artist, it features around sixty works including some of Hirst’s most iconic series, such as Natural History, Spin Paintings, Medicine Cabinets, and Cherry Blossoms.

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Ewa Juszkiewicz
Locks with Leaves and Swelling Buds

Through September 1, 2024
Palazzo Cavanis, Venice
www.palazzocavanis.com

Locks with Leaves and Swelling Buds includes fifteen paintings that Ewa Juszkiewicz produced between 2019 and 2024. Juszkiewicz’s oil portraits of women turn conventions of the genre inside out. Beginning by producing a likeness of a historical European painting—her sources date from the Renaissance through the nineteenth century—she expertly imitates the original’s technique and style but replaces the subject’s face with a surreal or grotesque distortion. Curated by Guillermo Solana Díez, artistic director of the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, this exhibition is a Collateral Event of the 60th Biennale di Venezia and is organized by Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso.

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Takashi Murakami
Mononoke Kyoto

Through September 1, 2024
Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art, Japan
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This exhibition staged to celebrate the ninetieth anniversary of the Kyoto City Kyocera Museum of Art (formerly the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art) brings together around 170 works by Takashi Murakami. Kyoto was the center of Edo period painting—a history that has fascinated Murakami since the beginning of his career. 

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Tatiana Trouvé in
Power Up: Imaginaires techniques et utopies sociales

Through September 1, 2024
Le Grand Café—Centre d’art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
www.grandcafe-saintnazaire.fr

This exhibition, whose subtitle translates to Technical Imaginaries and Social Utopias, considers energy infrastructures and their state of disrepair within the context of the global ecological crisis. Focusing on a female perspective, Power Up, which includes works by eighteen artists and architects, puts forward a new history of technology and suggests the need for a radical rethink in our approach to the world around us. Work by Tatiana Trouvé is included.

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Jadé Fadojutimi in
Abstraction (re)creation—20 under 40

Through September 8, 2024
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
www.leconsortium.fr

Through the work of twenty artists under the age of forty, this exhibition explores the question, Will abstraction in painting reveal a new way to face art and provide a better way to address issues that are far away from subjects, storytelling, and other figurative topics? Work by Jadé Fadojutimi is included.

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If not now, when?
Collection Max Vorst

Through September 8, 2024
Museum Beelden aan Zee, The Hague, Netherlands
www.beeldenaanzee.nl

If not now, when? features over seventy sculptures and installations in a diverse range of materials from the collection of Max Vorst. The exhibition offers an overview of developments in contemporary sculpture in the twenty-first century. Larger themes such as abstraction and contemporary representations of the human form, among other concepts, are also considered. Work by Theaster Gates, Thomas Houseago, Donald Judd, Adam McEwen, Sterling Ruby, Rudolf Stingel, Jordan Wolfson, and Christopher Wool is included.

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Willem de Kooning e l’Italia

Through September 15, 2024
Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice
www.gallerieaccademia.it

This exhibition, whose title translates to Willem de Kooning and Italy, investigates the impact of de Kooning’s two visits to Italy, in 1959 and 1969, on his work. Curated by Gary Garrels and Mario Codognato and comprised of about seventy-five works—the largest showing of de Kooning’s art in Italy to date—Willem de Kooning e l’Italia offers a comprehensive survey of the artist’s most expressive period.

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Taryn Simon in
Don’t Forget to Call Your Mother

Through September 15, 2024
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org

At a time when photographs are primarily shared and saved digitally, many artists are returning to the physicality of snapshots in albums or pictures in archives as sources of inspiration. Taking its title from a photograph by Maurizio Cattelan, the exhibition Don’t Forget to Call Your Mother brings together works in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from the 1970s to today. The selected works reflect upon the complicated feelings of nostalgia and sentimentality evoked by these physical artifacts, while underlining the power of the found object. Work by Taryn Simon is included.

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Katharina Grosse Studio Paintings, 1988–2022

Through September 22, 2024
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
www.kunstmuseum-bonn.de

This exhibition explores Katharina Grosse’s studio-based paintings, from her earliest works in the 1990s to her most recent. The show highlights the role that thirty-seven paintings have played throughout her career in her experiments with the aesthetic potentials and physical and optical properties of color and paint. This exhibition originated at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis.

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Humain Autonome
Déroutes

Through September 22, 2024
Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne,Vitry-sur-Seine, France
www.macval.fr

This exhibition focuses on the automobile as a paradoxical object, loved by some, hated by others. Production lines, operating systems, links with fossil fuels, myths, and the unconscious are all analyzed, deconstructed, and reassessed in works by more than fifty artists from different generations. Work by Ed Ruscha, Taryn Simon, and Blair Thurman is included.

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Zeng Fanzhi
Near and Far/Now and Then

Through September 30, 2024
Scuola Grande della Misericordia, Venice
www.lacma.org

Near and Far/Now and Then, organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art on the occasion of the 60th Biennale di Venezia, features new work by Zeng Fanzhi. The installation, designed by architect Tadao Ando, premieres two recent bodies of work by the artist—new abstract paintings and the debut of works on handmade paper rendered in ink, graphite, chalk, and gold dust, among other mineral pigments—and aims to shed light on Zeng’s ambitious practice of redefining the abstract through exercises in figurative representation, and vice versa.

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Travel Diaries

Through October 2, 2024
Musée Mohammed VI d’art moderne et contemporain, Rabat, Morocco
www.museemohammed6.ma

Travel Diaries brings together work by four New York–based contemporary painters—Francesco Clemente, Brice Marden, Helen Marden, and Julian Schnabel—who have extensively traveled the world. Curated by Vito Schnabel, the exhibition highlights how these artists have drawn inspiration from their different destinations to create constantly evolving bodies of work.

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Amoako Boafo in
Singular Views: 25 Artists

Through October 6, 2024
Rubell Museum, Washington, DC
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Singular Views: 25 Artists is drawn entirely from the Rubell Museum’s collection and encompasses over 120 artworks in a range of mediums. The exhibition features solo presentations of twenty-five artists from across the United States and around the world. Work by Amoako Boafo is included.

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ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN

Through October 6, 2024
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
www.lacma.org

Spanning sixty-five years of Ed Ruscha’s remarkable career and mirroring his own cross-disciplinary approach, this exhibition, which was conceived in collaboration with the artist, features over 250 works produced between 1958 and the present. Including painting, drawing, prints, film, photography, artist’s books, and installation, these are displayed according to a loose chronology. Alongside the artist’s most acclaimed works, the exhibition highlights lesser-known aspects of his practice, offering new perspectives and underlining Ruscha’s role as a keen observer of our rapidly changing world. This exhibition traveled from the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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Walton Ford
Birds and Beasts of the Studio

Through October 20, 2024
Morgan Library & Museum, New York
www.themorgan.org

This exhibition celebrates the gift by Walton Ford of sixty-three studies to the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. The works include detailed renderings made from observation in zoos and museums of natural history, quick compositional sketches, and small watercolors in which Ford establishes his color scheme. Birds and Beasts of the Studio also features animal drawings selected by Ford from the museum’s collection, including works by Peter Paul Rubens, Dorothea Maria Gsell, Eugène Delacroix, Antoine-Louis Barye, and John James Audubon.

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Georg Baselitz
Belle Haleine

Through November 24, 2024
Galleria degli Antichi, Sabbioneta, Italy
www.visitsabbioneta.it

Georg Baselitz: Belle Haleine features large-scale sculptures, paintings, and ten monumental linocuts by Baselitz installed along the Renaissance arches and under the frescoed ceilings of the Galleria degli Antichi in the UNESCO World Heritage site of Sabbioneta, Italy. In exhibiting his work within this setting, Baselitz aims to reveal the importance of Italian art history to his own artistic development, creating a confrontation between the contemporary and the past.

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Maurizio Cattelan in
With My Eyes

Through November 24, 2024
Casa di reclusione femminile Giudecca, Venice
www.labiennale.org

With My Eyes, the Vatican’s exhibition for the Holy See Pavilion in the 60th Biennale di Venezia, is sited within the women’s prison on the island of Giudecca and is dedicated to the theme of human rights and people living on the margins of society. The works on view incorporate the inmates’ participation in a variety of ways: some have provided photographs of themselves as children; some contribute poems for an installation; and others accompany visitors on a tour of the pavilion, alongside guards. Maurizio Cattelan’s contribution consists of a large outdoor artwork on the façade of the prison’s chapel, as well as an editorial feature, created in collaboration with the prisoners, which will be published in a special Biennale-focused issue of L’Osservatore di Strada, a monthly newspaper published by the Vatican.