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“Dan Flavin | Donald Judd: Doha” at QM Gallery Al Riwaq
Image Credit: Left: Dan Flavin Estate/Courtesy David Zwirner/©2023 Stephen Flavin/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Right: Qatar Museums Collection/©Judd Foundation/Artist Rights Society (ARS), New York. America’s two most monumental Minimalists are being treated to what’s billed as their first major presentation in the MENA region by way of this exhibition at the Qatar Museums, curated by LACMA director Michael Govan. The works (34 by Flavin, 25 by Judd) have been assembled under the aegis of Qatar Creates, an initiative described as a “year-round national cultural movement that curates, promotes, and celebrates the diversity of cultural activities in Qatar and connects residents and global audiences with Qatar’s creative industries.”
Oct. 25–Feb. 24 -
William Eggleston, 512
Image Credit: Photo Peter Townsend/Courtesy Secretly Canadian Plangent piano ballads are the main métier of William Eggleston on his newest album, which follows his 2017 debut, Musik, in showcasing an artist better known as one of the greatest photographers ever to peer through a viewfinder as a pretty good musician too. Sounds from ebony and ivory are accompanied by things like keyboards and bells, the latter of which are played by no less than Brian Eno on a song called “Improvisation.” Other guest musicians in the mix include fiddle/banjo phenom Sam Amidon and saxophonist Matana Roberts.
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Performa
Image Credit: ©Marcel Dzama/Courtesy David Zwirner, New York The 10th edition of Performa, New York’s premier performing arts biennial, will feature 40 artists from all over the world, often working in different modes than might be their norm. The artists commissioned to create new works for a variety of venues include Nikita Gale, Marcel Dzama, Nora Turato, and Haegue Yang, and new series of talks, screenings, and performances will be presented as part of the program titled “Protest & Performance: A Way of Life.”
Nov. 1–19 -
Artissima
Image Credit: Stefano Guidi/Getty Images Italy’s prime fair for contemporary art will take over Turin again for its 30th edition, For the second incarnation under new-ish director Luigi Fassi, the fair returns to Oval Lingotto, the indoor arena built for the 2006 Winter Olympics, and features 181 galleries from 33 countries, 39 of which are showing at Artissima for the first time.
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“Dorothea Lange: Seeing People” at the National Gallery of Art
Image Credit: National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Dorothea Lange shot some of the most quintessentially American photographs in the 20th century. Though she is best known for humanizing the subjects of her Depressionera works, made possible through the Farm Security Administration, Lange had a prolific career that informed the development of documentary photography. This exhibition showcases roughly 100 portraits highlighting her approach to capturing people, with an emphasis on such social issues as economic disparity, migration, poverty, and racism.
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“An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers/Gi a hai giòng sông/Entre deux Rivières” at the Museum of Modern Art
Image Credit: ©An-My Lê/Courtesy Marian Goodman Gallery, New York A political refugee in the United States after the fall of Saigon, landscape photographer An-My Lê reflects in her work on her own experience of war and displacement. This exhibition brings together photographs as well as film, video, textiles, and sculpture made over more than 30 years. Highlights include never-before-seen embroideries, an immersive installation, and rarely shown photographs from Lê’s “Delta and Gabinetto” series, which explores the relationship between mass media, gender, labor, and violence.
Nov. 5–March 16 -
Modern Art: Selected Essays by Leo Steinberg
Image Credit: Courtesy University of Chicago Press The fifth and final volume of a series of writings by canonical critic Leo Steinberg follows a previous volume devoted to Picasso, and ventures into the modernist realm of Cézanne, Monet, Matisse, Max Ernst, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Hans Haacke, and Jeff Koons. (The first two volumes in the University of Chicago Press series focused on Michelangelo; the third was mostly Old Masters.)
On sale Oct. 19 -
Shanghai Biennale
Image Credit: Courtesy Power Station of Art, Shanghai China’s longest-running contemporary art biennial takes on the theme “Cosmos Cinema” for its 14th edition, to take place at the Power Station of Art in Shanghai. The curator for the show is Anton Vidokle, the New York–based founder of e-flux and the Institute of the Cosmos. In a description of what’s in store, Vidokle said, “The interpretation of stars and planets gave rise to our origin stories, religions, systems of time, navigation, agricultural planning, science, social order, and most other key aspects of the organization of human life. Nonhuman forms of life are just as conditioned by its forces: no part of the terrestrial world can be separated from the effects of the sun, the moon, and the heavenly bodies.”
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“Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc, 1960s–1980s” at the Walker Art Center
Image Credit: ©Gabriele Stötzer/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Courtesy LOOCK, Berlin In Minneapolis, this survey of experimental art from six Central Eastern European nations chronicles a generation of artists whose ventures in formal and conceptual innovation met varying degrees of control under authoritarian regimes. Presenting works by nearly 100 artists from East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Yugoslavia, the exhibition spotlights lesser-known names, among them, women, collectives, and LGBTQIA+ practitioners, exploring questions around the theme of art and politics sequentially. Nov. 11–March 10
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“Charles Gaines: 1992–2023” at the ICA Miami
Image Credit: ©Charles Gaines/Courtesy Hauser & Wirth, New York One of the most influential conceptual artists, Charles Gaines will be the subject of a survey that brings together some 70 works made over the past three decades. Known for an exacting artistic practice that follows strict systems and methods, Gaines’s art will be on full display in this exhibition for the first time in several years, including his re-creation of two major works, Greenhouse (2003–23) and Falling Rock (2000–23). That alone makes this an exhibition not to miss.
Nov. 16–March 17 -
“Gavin Jantjes: To Be Free! A Retrospective 1970–2023” at the Sharjah Art Foundation
Image Credit: Courtesy Jorge M. Perez Collection, Miami This show in the United Arab Emirates will focus on Gavin Jantjes’s work as a painter, printmaker, writer, curator, and activist, starting with his formative years in Cape Town in the era of apartheid. Organized in collaboration with the Africa Institute in Sharjah, the show will look at the artist’s “engagement with antiapartheid activism in the 1970s to mid-1980s, his transformative role at art institutions in the UK, Germany, and Norway, and his compelling figurative portrayals of the global Black struggle for freedom as well as his recent transition to nonfigurative painting.”
Nov. 18–March 10 -
“Botticelli Drawings” at the Legion of Honor
Image Credit: Photo Wolfgang Fuhrmannek/Courtesy Hessian State Museum, Germany Billed as the first exhibition dedicated to drawings by Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli, this exhibition in San Francisco will feature rarely seen and newly attributed works, all assembled with the aid of 39 lending institutions. Fragments of a newly attributed preparatory drawing for Adoration of the Magi (ca. 1500) will show how that masterpiece began, and two other drawings newly credited to Botticelli include sketches related to The Cestello Annunciation (at the Uffizi Gallery) and Virgin and Child with the Young Saint John the Baptist (at the Louvre).
Nov. 19–Feb. 11 -
Art Basel Miami Beach
Image Credit: Courtesy Art Basel As the art world begins to wind down for the year, the last stop on many calendars will be Art Basel Miami Beach. This year’s edition of what is arguably the most important art fair in the US will be slightly smaller than last year’s, and it will also be the final one without a full-time leader. (Dealer Bridget Finn was hired earlier this year to lead the fair, and her first edition in 2024 will likely signal a change in how the marquee institution operates on this side of the Atlantic.) Whatever goes on in back rooms, however, means only so much to the throngs of seasoned art-world denizens and general scenesters who make Art Basel Miami a glamorous affair.
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“Anne Duk Hee Jordan: I will always weather with you” at the Bass
Image Credit: Photo Paulius Sliaupa Myriad museum shows will coincide with Art Basel in Miami. Don’t miss the debut US museum solo by the hilarious but astute Anne Duk Hee Jordan, who was born in Korea and is based in Berlin. Jordan is creating an immersive simulation of a storm inside The Bass. Read more about her eco-art practice in this issue, in Emily Watlington’s essay “Bees & Potatoes.”
Dec. 4–June 23 -
Michael Stipe at the ICA Miami
Image Credit: Photo David Belisle/©Michael Stipe Since he left the stage as the lead singer of R.E.M., Michael Stipe has been busy making different kinds of art. Much of his work revolves around photography, but he’s moved into sculpture, installation, and video art too. In Milan, for his first museum exhibition, Stipe will show a mix of old and new work that is likely to be viewed by lots of curious eyes.
Dec. 12–March 16 -
“Caspar David Friedrich: Art for a New Age” at Hamburger Kunsthalle
Image Credit: Courtesy National Gallery, Berlin If 2023 was the year of Picasso, 2024 is likely to be the year of Caspar David Friedrich, the Romantic painter whose 250th birthday will be toasted by many museums across Germany. This exhibition in Hamburg is among the most high-profile of these shows, with 160 works attesting to Friedrich’s adroit ways of representing nature’s awesomeness. Among those works will be one of his masterpieces, the 1808–10 painting The Monk by the Sea, featuring a cloaked figure admiring a vast expanse of black ocean that appears ready to swallow him. It almost never leaves its home at Berlin’s Alte Nationalgalerie, and here it will be contextualized anew by contemporary works by Susan Schuppli, Olafur Eliasson, Kehinde Wiley, and more.
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“Harold Cohen: AARON” at the Whitney Museum of American Art
Image Credit: Courtesy Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Long before the days when the layperson feared what DALL-E and Midjourney might unleash upon society, there was AARON, a computer program developed in 1973 by artist Harold Cohen. The drawings that AARON produced seem quaint by today’s standards—squiggly forms and shaky bodies, mainly—but as digital art expert Christiane Paul aims to show with this exhibition, these works were revolutionary, influencing many artists who followed. For the show, AARON’s artistic process will be performed live within the Whitney’s galleries, marking what the museum touts as the first time it has been activated for an audience since the ’90s.
Feb. 3–June -
Cady Noland: The Clip-On Method
Image Credit: Courtesy Cady Noland Originally printed as part of a 2021 show, this two-volume book’s main feature is a series of photographs of Cady Noland’s art. That would not be such a big deal for most artists, but for Noland, a sculptor who has considered it a matter of copyright infringement to print images of her work without her express permission, such a book—conceived for a show in 2021 but soon to be distributed all over—is nothing short of boon. With writing by Noland and essays by others in addition to the pictures, consider The Clip-On Method the ultimate guide to the artist’s fascination with America and its discontents.
On sale Jan. 9 -
Errand into the Maze: The Life and Works of Martha Graham by Deborah Jowitt
Image Credit: Courtesy Farrar, Straus and Giroux Beginning with Martha Graham’s childhood and early work in theater productions, dance critic Deborah Jowitt lays the groundwork for the artist’s revolutionary techniques and methods that reconfigured modern American dance. Through dances that engaged social issues and human experience, Graham challenged 20th-century ideologies. This biography published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux brings to light Graham’s artistic vision as well as personal experiences that linked her life and work.
On sale Jan. 30 -
Future/Present: Arts in a Changing America
Image Credit: Courtesy Duke University Pre The artist-led initiative Arts in a Changing America has worked over the past five years to imagine an art world that is more equitable, diverse, and inclusive. Many of its efforts will be chronicled in this new book from Duke University Press that will bring together a mix of contributions—from essays and interviews to manifestos and documentation of performances—from more than 100 artists in various disciplines. Among them are Sadie Barnette, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ofelia Esparza, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Hayv Kahraman, Wendy Red Star, Favianna Rodriguez, Carrie Mae Weems, Dyani White Hawk, and Kiyan Williams.
On sale Feb. 2 -
Chris Burden: Back to You
Image Credit: Courtesy Steidl This publication about perhaps the only artist ever to have had himself shot and crucified on a car, Back to You presents facsimiles of six rare artist books by Chris Burden, ranging from records of his early performance works in the ’70s to print series published in the 2000s. It comes with a hefty price tag ($250), but it’s been assembled by Steidl, so you know it will be as beautiful as a book can be.
On sale Feb. 6 -
Igshaan Adams at the ICA Boston
Image Credit: Photo Mario Todeschini South African artist Igshaan Adams has risen swiftly since his first show at Casey Kaplan gallery in New York, where he presented large-scale, intricately woven textile works with patterns found in remnants of worn-out flooring from Cape Town homes. The presence of absence is one of the artist’s major themes, and a monumental new weaving commission in Boston is “based on aerial images of the intersecting footpaths between a sports field and a walled-off recreational space south of where Adams grew up.” Feb. 13, 2024–Feb. 15, 2025
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Yoko Ono at Tate Modern
Image Credit: Ron Case/Keystone/Getty Images At 90, Yoko Ono has had a long and, at times, enigmatic career that has often been framed more around her activism and her relationship with John Lennon than her art. But recent scholarship and a series of major retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, among others, have done much to fortify Ono’s status as a leading figure in conceptual art, performance, and experimental film, among other mediums. Now we can add Tate Modern to the list, as the London institution mounts an exhibition that spans the six decades of Ono’s career.
Feb. 15–Sept. 1 -
“The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Image Credit: Collection Hampton University Museum, Hampton, Va./©Estate of Archibald John Motley Jr./Courtesy Bridgeman Images It’s been close to nearly 40 years since New York played home to a major survey dedicated to the Harlem Renaissance, so the opening of the Met’s new tribute couldn’t come too soon. Featuring some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, and film, many from the collections of historically Black colleges and universities, the exhibition aims to put the influential art movement at the center of the “development of international modern art,” according to the museum. Artists in the show include Charles Henry Alston, Meta Warrick Fuller, Archibald Motley, and Laura Wheeler Waring, and their work will be accompanied by “portrayals of international African diasporan subjects” by Europeans including Matisse, Picasso, and Munch.
Feb. 25–July 28