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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.

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Lauren Halsey in
60th Biennale di Venezia: Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere

Through November 24, 2024
Giardini and Arsenale, Venice
www.labiennale.org

Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Adriano Pedrosa for the 60th Biennale di Venezia, takes its title from a series of neon sculptures by the artist collective Claire Fontaine that depict the words “Foreigners Everywhere” in different colors and languages. The phrase comes from the Turin collective Stranieri Ovunque, which fought racism and xenophobia in Italy in the early 2000s. Stranieri Ovunque—Foreigners Everywhere focuses on artists who are themselves “foreigners” and on the production of other related subjects: the queer artist, who has moved within sexualities and genders; the outsider artist, located at the margins of the art world; as well as the indigenous artist, frequently treated as a foreigner in their own land. Work by Lauren Halsey is included.

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Janus

Through November 24, 2024
Palazzo Diedo, Venice
berggruenarts.org

Janus, appropriately titled after the Roman god of beginnings, is the inaugural exhibition at Palazzo Diedo, a new contemporary arts space in Venice established by Berggruen Arts & Culture. For the exhibition, curated by Mario Codognato, eleven international artists—Urs Fischer, Piero Golia, Carsten Höller, Liu We, Ibrahim Mahama, Mariko Mori, Sterling Ruby, Jim Shaw, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Aya Takano, and Lee Ufan—have conceived site-specific interventions in response to the architecture and original features of the eighteenth-century building designed by the acclaimed Venetian architect Andrea Tirali. The Polaroid Foundation has also contributed a special project that invites the participating artists to create an original work using the Polaroid 20×24, the world’s largest instant camera.

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Rick Lowe
The Arch within the Arc

Through November 24, 2024
Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice
polomusealeveneto.beniculturali.it

Inspired by the architecture of the Museo di Palazzo Grimani and the urban dynamics of Venice, The Arch within the Arc features new paintings by Rick Lowe that emerged from his consideration of the arch in architecture. Composed with acrylic paint and paper collage on canvas, the vibrant works balance geometric motifs and improvisational techniques. Radiating outward and turning in on themselves, Lowe’s images materialize via a process of painterly construction and deconstruction that evokes infrastructure, mapping, and the experience of moving through the city. The paintings meditate on spatial, temporal, and social relationships, in keeping with the artist’s interest in linking civic practice and visual expression. Presented in collaboration with Gagosian, the exhibition opens immediately prior to the commencement of the 60th Biennale di Venezia.

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Taryn Simon
Start Again the Lament

Through November 30, 2024
Cisternerne, Frederiksbergmuseerne, Frederiksberg, Denmark
frederiksbergmuseerne.dk

Start Again the Lament is an extensive sound installation by Taryn Simon broadcast into the subterranean urban dripstone cave of the Cisternerne. Performed by professional mourners, the work explores how people mourn individually and collectively, considering the anatomy of grief and whom we choose to guide us through it. These sonic rituals of loss and discontent—including northern Albanian, Wayuu, Greek Epirotic, and Yazidi laments—transform the exhibition space into an instrument echoing recitations with a reverberation of seventeen seconds.              

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Derrick Adams in
Kindred Worlds: The Priscila and Alvin Hudgins Collection

Through March 2, 2025
Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
www.hrm.org

Drawn from the private collection of Priscila and Alvin Hudgins III, Kindred Worlds reveals the couple’s deep and enduring devotion to the arts. For the Hudginses, collecting was a way of building home and community. Their artworks, many of which include images of family members, demonstrate a dynamic network of relationships between collector and artist, artist and subject, and subject and kin. Work by Derrick Adams is included.

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Revolutions
Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960

Through April 20, 2025
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
hirshhorn.si.edu

Revolutions is a major survey of 270 artworks by 126 artists from the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden’s permanent collection. Celebrating the museum’s fiftieth anniversary, the exhibition aims to capture the shifting cultural landscapes of a century defined by new currents in science and philosophy and ever-increasing mechanization. Shown alongside these historic works are contributions from nineteen contemporary artists whose practices demonstrate how many revolutionary ideas from a hundred years ago remain critical today. Work by Francis Bacon, Amoako Boafo, Alexander Calder, Willem de Kooning, Helen Frankenthaler, Rick Lowe, Sally Mann, Man Ray, Henry Moore, Pablo Picasso, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, and Cy Twombly is included.

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Duration
Chinese Art in Transformation

Opened September 25, 2020
Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
www.msam.cn

Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation attempts to show how every moment that stretches is an absorption of the past, and the endless possibilities of the future are based on the past and the present. The exhibition presents painting, sculpture, installation, video, animation, and more from the 1970s to the present. Work by Hao Liang, Jia Aili, and Zeng Fanzhi is included.

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Katharina Grosse in
Collezione MAXXI. Lo spazio dell’immagine

Opened November 21, 2018
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
www.maxxi.art

The spirit and the identity of the museum are being renewed with a display of more than thirty works by twenty-six artists. Dedicated to the museum’s new acquisitions, this group show aims to create a counterpoint between the abstract and the figurative. Work by Katharina Grosse is included.

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New Symphony of Time

Opened September 7, 2019
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
www.msmuseumart.org

New Symphony of Time expands the boundaries of Mississippi’s identity, casting light on a shared past to help reflect an expansive, more inclusive future. The exhibition aims to explore personal and collective memory, history and the connection to place, and the roles artists play in pursuit of civil rights and racial equity through ancestry. Themes include migration, movement, and home; shared humanity; environment; and liberty. Work by Titus Kaphar and Sally Mann is included.

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The Culture
Hip Hop and Contemporary Art in the 21st Century

June 28–September 29, 2024
Cincinnati Art Museum
www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org

Coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of the birth of hip-hop, this exhibition aims to capture the influence the genre has had on contemporary society through more than ninety works. Including painting, sculpture, photography, installations, video, and fashion, the show is organized around six themes—language, brand, adornment, tribute, ascension, and pose. Work by Derrick Adams, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Deana Lawson is included. This exhibition originated at the Baltimore Museum of Art.

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Michael Craig-Martin

September 21–December 10, 2024
Royal Academy of Arts, London
www.royalacademy.org.uk

Michael Craig-Martin is the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in the United Kingdom. The show includes highlights from throughout his career, including thought-provoking installations and works that pop with color. Since coming to prominence in the late 1960s, Craig-Martin has moved fluidly between sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, and print. Fusing elements of Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual art, his work transforms everyday objects with bold colors and simple uninflected lines.

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Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well

Opening October 2024
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
www.smb.museum

This retrospective explores Nan Goldin’s photographic practice within the context of filmmaking. Over the years, she has created more than a dozen moving-image works composed of thousands of images, ranging from portraits of her friends to traumatic family stories about addiction and domestic violence. Embracing the artist’s original vision of how her work is to be experienced, the exhibition—presented in six unique buildings designed by architect Hala Wardé— focuses on Goldin’s slideshows and video installations set to sound and music. This exhibition originated at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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Lauren Halsey

October 4, 2024–January 5, 2025
Serpentine, London
www.serpentinegalleries.org

Lauren Halsey is the first solo exhibition of the artist’s work in the United Kingdom. Halsey’s wide-ranging practice is deeply rooted in the neighborhood of South Central Los Angeles in which her family has lived for generations. Making immersive installations and stand-alone objects, Halsey archives and remixes the changing signs and symbols populating her environment, offering a celebration of the community’s vitality and a creative form of resistance to its growing gentrification.

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Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well

October 5, 2025–February 15, 2026
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
pirellihangarbicocca.org

This retrospective explores Nan Goldin’s photographic practice within the context of filmmaking. Over the years, she has created more than a dozen moving-image works composed of thousands of images, ranging from portraits of her friends to traumatic family stories about addiction and domestic violence. Embracing the artist’s original vision of how her work is to be experienced, the exhibition—presented in six unique buildings designed by architect Hala Wardé—focuses on Goldin’s slideshows and video installations set to sound and music. This exhibition has traveled from Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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Some Dogs Go to Dallas

February 10–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

February 18–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.

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ICP at 50
From the Collection, 1845–2019

January 24–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

February 7–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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Capturing the Moment

June 13, 2023–April 28, 2024
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

Capturing the Moment explores the relationship between photography and painting through iconic artworks from the modern era. The exhibition examines how the two distinct mediums have shaped each other and how artists have blurred the boundaries to capture moments in time. Work by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, John Currin, Andreas Gursky, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Fairy Tales

December 2, 2023–April 28, 2024
Queensland Art Gallery and Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
www.qagoma.qld.gov.au

Fairy Tales explores centuries of beloved folk stories through contemporary art, costumes, immersive installations, and cinema from visual storytellers around the world. The exhibition aims to untangle themes of bravery and justice, loyalty and humility, cunning and aspiration. Work by Rachel Feinstein, Urs Fischer, and Carsten Höller is included.