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Our pick of the top new openings at museums and galleries around the world

Provocations: Anselm Kiefer at The Met Breuer
at The Met Breuer,Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Dec 13, 17 - Apr 08, 18

Over his nearly 50-year career, the German artist Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) has never been afraid to wrestle with the past. In 1969, toward the end of his studies at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, he photographed himself in his father's Wehrmacht uniform, posing before historic monuments and Romantic seascapes in Europe with his arm extended in an illegal Nazi salute. Six years later, the artist selected 18 of these images for a photo-essay titled "Occupations," which met with widespread public outcry. Read more >

Finding Form
at J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dec 12, 17 - Feb 11, 18

Line by line and layer by layer, an artist conjures a three-dimensional world from a two-dimensional sheet of paper. Through an array of media and techniques—hatched ink lines, varying densities of wash, white chalk highlights—these draftsmen generate form, likeness, and depth, yielding an arresting presence. Featuring celebrated masterworks from the 1500s to the 1800s, all from the Getty's permanent collection, this focused exhibition demonstrates how artists have performed this magic across time and place. Read more >

Wu Bin’s Ten Views of a Lingbi Stone
at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Park La Brea - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Dec 10, 17 - Jun 24, 18

In ancient China strange and marvelous stones were valued for their beauty and as reflections of the hidden structures underlying the universe. Stones were seen as fluid and dynamic, constantly changing, and capable of magical transformations Certain stones were believed to be able to speak, to emit clouds and rain, to predict the weather, to move about of their own accord, and to heal. Fantastic stones were perceived as mountains in miniature, imbued with the same primordial energies that made up peaks sacred to both Daoist and Buddhist traditions. Read more >

Rembrandt: Prints “of a Particular Spirit”
at Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA, USA
Dec 08, 17 - Mar 05, 18

Rembrandt van Rijn was the premier portrait painter of Amsterdam, and his masterful history paintings drew admiration from aristocratic patrons, but it was his prints that first brought him international acclaim. Imbuing line and tone with technical finesse and ingenuity, Rembrandt crafted resonant images that were prized by connoisseurs and imitated by artists. Read more >

From Life
at Royal Academy of Arts, Mayfair - London, UK, Dec 11, 17 - Mar 11, 18

Looking to the past, present and future of one of the cornerstones of artistic process, we ask what it means to make art from life, and how the practice is evolving as technology opens up new ways of making and seeing. Drawing from casts and life models was long considered essential training for any aspiring artist, and was once a staple of the Royal Academy’s own art school. Now, on the cusp of the RA’s 250th anniversary, this special exhibition project takes an inquisitive look at the tradition and its ongoing relationship with artists today. Read more >

Small Is Beautiful
at Flowers, London (Cork Street)
Mayfair - London, UK, Dec 14, 17 - Jan 06, 18

Flowers Gallery is pleased to present the 35th edition of the annual Small is Beautiful exhibition, which will take place at the Cork Street gallery. Small is Beautiful was first established at Flowers Gallery in 1974, inviting selected contemporary artists working in any media to present works with a fixed economy of scale, each piece measuring no more than 7 x 9 inches. On display at the Cork Street gallery will be works by over 100 artists,  offering a rare opportunity to purchase smaller pieces by internationally recognised names and discover new talents working across a range of media. Read more >

Ugo Rondinone: Vocabulary of solitude
at Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
Dec 16, 17 - Dec 30, 18

Clowns with cheerful hats at rakish angles and glittering, festive costumes are moving into Arken. The clowns have been created by the renowned Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, and they are the focal point in December when the museum opens its doors for the star artist’s great solo exhibition. Arken’s 150-metre-long Art Axis forms the setting for the exhibition, which has been mounted in close collaboration with the artist. Read more >

Yves Tanguy: In the Realm of the Mistletoe Druids
at Neues Museum, Berlin, Germany
Dec 08, 17 - Apr 08, 18

At the centre of the exhibition are the artist’s little-known prints. Although small in number, they display a surprising variety. Based on the various chapters of the artist’s life and through individual works of art, the exhibition maps out the artist’s oeuvre, highlighting peculiar aspects of Surrealism that connect Tanguy’s work to that of his contemporaries. Read more >

Andreas Gursky: Bangkok
at Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Rome, Italy
Dec 14, 17 - Mar 03, 18

Gagosian is pleased to present photographs by Andreas Gursky, on view for the first time in Italy. Featuring works from the Bangkok series (2011), as well as the monumental Ocean VI (2010), the exhibition coincides with the tenth anniversary of the Rome gallery. Gursky has demonstrated that a photographer can make or construct—rather than simply take—photographs about modern life and produce them on the scale of epic painting. Read more >

Utrecht, Caravaggio and Europe
at Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Dec 15, 17 - Mar 24, 19

Caravaggio (1571-1610) is hugely popular across the world, especially in the last twenty years. But this exhibition will not offer the typical display of Caravaggio’s work. Instead, the exhibition concentrates on Caravaggio’s followers in Europe, and particularly in Utrecht: the so-called Utrecht Caravaggisti painters Dirck van Baburen, Hendrick ter Brugghen and Gerard van Honthorst.  In the early seventeenth century, these three young artists left the medieval city of Utrecht for a long journey across the Alps, to visit revolutionary Rome. Read more >

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