10 Opening Exhibitions Not In Basel
In this article we bring you a diverse selection of unique art events to watch this week. The selection includes photography, design, painting, surrealism, pop-art and drawings.
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12 Jun, 2013
In this article we bring you a diverse selection of unique art events to watch this week. The selection includes photography, design, painting, surrealism, pop-art and drawings.
The Gender Show
at George Eastman House - International Museum of Photography and Film
Rochester, NY, USA
Jun 15, 13 - Oct 13, 13
The Gender Show explores ways gender has been presented in photographs, ranging from archetypal to non-traditional to subversive representations, with a special emphasis on the performances that photography can encourage or capture. The exhibition will feature more than 130 photographs from the George Eastman House collection, spanning from the 19th century to the present, by a wide range of artists including Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Steichen, Nicholas Muray, Richard Avedon, Robert Frank read more...
Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes
at The Museum of Modern Art
Midtown - New York, NY, USA
Jun 15, 13 - Sep 23, 13
MoMA presents its first major exhibition on the work of Le Corbusier (Charles-Édouard Jeanneret, 1887–1965), encompassing his work as an architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer, and photographer. Conceived by guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen, the exhibition reveals the ways in which Le Corbusier observed and imagined landscapes throughout his career, using all the artistic techniques at his disposal, from his early watercolors of Italy, Greece, and Turkey, to his sketches of India, and from the photographs of his formative journeys to the models of his large-scale projects. read more...
Group Exhibition: 30 Americans
at Rubell Family Collection
Kendall - Miami, FL, USA
Jun 14, 13 - Sep 08, 13
30 Americans showcases works by many of the most important African American artists of the last three decades. This provocative exhibition focuses on issues of racial, sexual, and historical identity in contemporary culture while exploring the powerful influence of artistic legacy and community across generations. Artists in the exhibition: Nina Chanel Abney, John Bankston, Jean-Michael Basquiat, Mark Bradford, Iona Rozeal Brown, Nick Cave,
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge: S/HE IS HER/E
at The Andy Warhol Museum
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Jun 15, 13 - Sep 15, 13
H/er first solo museum exhibition, S/HE IS HER/E, will showcase the breadth of P-Orridge’s art practice through over 100 works, dating from the mid 1970s to the present. With an art practice dating back to the late 1960s, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge has reinvented and reintroduced h/erself as groundbreaking performance artist, pioneer of industrial music, "wrecker of civilization", essayist, and, most recently, as pandrogyne. H/er singular and, at times, provocative creative practice has exerted a profound influence on visual artists and musicians alike. read more...
Modern British collage and its Legacy
at Pallant House Gallery
Chichester, UK
Jun 15, 13 - Sep 15, 13
Collage has been at the centre of artistic practice since the beginning of the twentieth century. In its simplest form, whether pasted, painted, assembled or constructed, the technique represented a radical restructuring of the pictorial tradition. Through Surrealism and Pop Art, it evolved from a marginal and purely synthetic process to become an intrinsic part of the modern aesthetic. read more...
William Kentridge as Printmaker">A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker
at The Quad
Derby, UK
Jun 15, 13 - Aug 18, 13
William Kentridge is one of South Africa's pre-eminent artists. Although best-known for his animated films and drawings, he is also a prolific printmaker and many of his key themes were first explored in prints. This major exhibition will include 90 prints in all media from 1991 to the present, with a focus on experimental, collaborative and serial works. read more...
Persuasive Visions: 17th Century Dutch and Flemish Masterworks and Contemporary Reflections
at Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Jun 15, 13 - Sep 15, 13
Painting in the Netherlands and Flanders enjoyed an exceptional variety and richness in the seventeenth century. A robust economy, international trade and a prosperous middle class supported a busy art market, including major painters that painted for the market. Several genres- among them portraiture, still life, landscape and marinescape-dominated the painting of this period. read more...
Albrecht Dürer
at Regional Gallery, Liberec
Liberec, Czech Republic
Jun 14, 13 - Sep 01, 13
A unique exhibition of Albrecht Dürer prints from the private collection of Professor Ulrich Schulz presents 255 prints, including such well-known prints as Adam and Eve, Knight, Death and the Devil, Melancholia and the famous woodcut The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Besides the almost complete graphic work of Albrecht Dürer, the exhibition will introduce around 30 books with Dürer’s prints. read more...
Bettina Blohm: Drawings and Paintings
at Galerie Werner Klein
Cologne, Germany
Jun 15, 13 - Jul 13, 13
The exhibition will focus on recent paintings as well as drawings from the last 20 years. read more...
Riotous Baroque: From Cattelan to Zurbarán
at Museo Guggenheim Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain
Jun 14, 13 - Oct 06, 13
This exhibition, co-organized by Kunsthaus Zürich and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, confronts works created in the 17th century with contemporary pieces in an attempt to extricate the concept of the Baroque from formal clichés and the way it is traditionally perceived. The show does not approach the Baroque as pomp, ornamentation, and gold, but as a manifestation of precarious vitality—vitality hailed, rediscovered or lost, projected and threatened by death. read more...