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There is a lot to see in the art-world as we highlight 10 exhibitions opening this week. From Valerie Hegarty at the Brooklyn Musem to Anish Kapoor in Berlin, here are a few exhibitions opening in New York this week. 

Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories
at Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn - New York, NY, USA
May 17, 13 - Dec 01, 13

Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories is the second in a series inviting contemporary artists to activate the Brooklyn Museum’s Period Rooms. Hegarty’s site-specific artworks, which address themes of colonization, Manifest Destiny, and repressed history, are on display in the Cupola House parlor and dining room, and in the dining room of the Cane Acres Plantation. Her installation in the Cupola House includes a Native American–patterned rug that appears to be overgrown with grass, roots, and flowers, as well as two portraits in “conversation,” one of George Washington and the other of an unidentified Native American chief. read more...

William E. Jones: Imitation of Christ
at Armand Hammer Museum of Art, University of California, Los Angeles
Westwood - Los Angeles, CA, USA
May 18, 13 - Aug 18, 13

Houseguest is a series of exhibitions at the Hammer Museum that invites artists to curate an exhibition based on the Museum’s and UCLA’s diverse collections. For this exhibition, entitled Imitation of Christ, Los Angeles-based artist William E. Jones was inspired by a photograph of a wounded guerrilla fighter taken by Pedro Meyer in Nicaragua in the early 1980s. read more...

Syd Mead: Progressions
at Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art
Ft. Collins, CO, USA
May 17, 13 - Jul 21, 13

Syd Mead: Progressions will feature 50 watercolor renderings by visual futurist, automobile designer and film designer Syd Mead.  Mead is best known as the set designer for the 1982 film “Blade Runner” but his futuristic car, yacht, golf course and cityscapes have made him one of the world’s most sought-after design artists. read more...

Nancy Spero: Cri du Coeur
at Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA, USA
May 18, 13 - Oct 13, 13

Nancy Spero's innovative graphic compositions and commitment to social issues rooted in gender established her as one of the leading feminist and post-modern voices. During her six-decade career, Spero (1926-2009) employed a vast and consistent vocabulary of images collected from various histories and mythologies, focusing since the mid-1970s exclusively on those depicting women's experiences, often their resilience in the face of oppression and violence. Completed in 2005, Cri du Coeur (Cry of the Heart) is Spero's last monumental work on paper. read more...

Dieter Roth: Diaries
at Camden Arts Centre
London, UK
May 17, 13 - Jul 14, 13

Throughout his career, German-Swiss artist Dieter Roth (1930-98) worked with obsessive energy, his prolific output comprising installation, sculpture, drawing, video, assemblages and books. Much of his work was a diary of sorts - a record of his relentless and impassioned engagement with life. read more...

Takesada Matsutani: A Matrix
at Hauser & Wirth, London, Savile Row
Mayfair - London, UK
May 18, 13 - Jul 27, 13

Hauser & Wirth is proud to present ‘Takesada Matsutani. A Matrix’, curated by Midori Nishizawa and organised with Olivier Renaud-Clement. This will be the gallery’s first solo show with Osaka-born, Paris-based artist, Takesada Matsutani and also marks the first time his works will be shown in the UK. ‘A Matrix’ features never before seen paintings from Matsutani’s early career, as well as recent organic abstractions in vinyl glue and graphite. read more...

Jo Baer: In the Land of the Giants
at Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
May 16, 13 - Sep 01, 13

The exhibition In the Land of the Giants presents six new paintings and a selection of drawings by Jo Baer (b. Seattle, 1929). In the 1960s and 1970s, Baer, along with contemporaries such as Donald Judd and Sol LeWitt, was one of the pioneers of Minimal Art. The paintings and drawings in the exhibition illustrate Baer’s interest in the practices of our Neolithic past, with stone, astronomical alignments, skull cults, and ancestor worship as her subject matter. read more...

Magnus Plessen
at Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
Brussels, Belgium
May 18, 13 - Jul 05, 13

Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new paintings by Magnus Plessen. Drawing on the formal techniques of painting to push the boundaries of the medium, Plessen uses defined brushstrokes, and a process of adding paint to the canvas and subsequently subtracting it to create spatial depth in his work. Incorporating abstract forms and figurative elements into each composition, Plessen investigates the conflict between the two modes of representation. read more...

Pe Lang
at Galerie Anhava
Helsinki, Finland
May 16, 13 - Jul 12, 13

Pe Lang (born 1974) is a Swiss-born artist working in Berlin, who has been noticed in recent years by others than Galerie Anhava alone. He has displayed his almost magical moving objects in Tokyo, Zürich, London, Berlin, Brussels, Salt Lake City, San Francisco, among other locations. Lang’s works combining physics and poetry make us wonder at what we see and remind us that the world is full of amazing things that nonetheless can be explained, as long as we have knowledge. read more...

Kapoor in Berlin
at Martin-Gropius-Bau
Kreuzberg - Berlin, Germany
May 18, 13 - Nov 24, 13

Anish Kapoor is one of the most important of the world’s contemporary artists. Since his first sculptures – simple forms with paint pigments spread out on the floor – Kapoor has developed a multi-faceted oeuvre using various materials, such as stone, steel, glass, wax, PVC skins and high-tech material. In his objects, sculptures and installations the boundaries between painting and sculpture become blurred. read more...