10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch
In this article we bring you a selection of 10 opening exhibitions around the world. Our list includes expressive sculptures by British artist Nicola Hicks at Flowers in New York, Apparitions by Ranu Mukherjee that features new textile prints, ink paintings, collage and hybrid films at Wendi Norris Gallery in San Francisco, the exhibition Devouring Books that focuses on European and American books, prints, and drawings from the 15th to the 20th century at the Art Institute of Chicago, a group show inspired by a painting with the same title by Jonathan Monk called Nostalgic for the Future featuring 16 of the gallery's artists at Lisson Gallery in London, and War Is Over! (if you want it) by the famous Yoko Ono at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney.
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Nov 13, 2013
Nicola Hicks
at Flowers, New York
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Nov 16, 13 - Jan 18, 14
Flowers is delighted to present a new exhibition by British sculptor, Nicola hicks, to coincide with the artist’s exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art. In her exhibition at Flowers New York, hicks explores the nature of character, exposing the real traits of her creations. There is a quiet expressivity to hicks’ creatures that resonates beyond their situations, suggesting that the animal acts partly as a proxy for human emotions. read more...
Sarah Morris: Academia Militar
at Friedrich Petzel Gallery
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Nov 14, 13 - Dec 21, 13
Petzel Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and a film by Sarah Morris. Titled after the military academy of Rio, which is located at the base of the infamous and cinematic Sugarloaf, the title encapsulates the contradictory political history of Brazil and its system of power which is currently going through a moment of rapid development and change. Morris’ approach to producing work is iconic, systematic yet always open, dynamic, and unresolved. read more...
Marina Pinsky
at White Columns
Greenwich Village - New York, NY, USA
Nov 16, 13 - Dec 21, 13
White Columns is pleased to present the first New York solo exhibition by the Los Angeles-based artist Marina Pinsky (b. 1986, Moscow.) Operating in the spaces between photography and sculpture Pinsky’s exhibition will consist of a series of new photographic works and sculpture that take imagery of clocks, safes and time-lock mechanisms as their departure point. read more...
Ranu Mukherjee - Apparitions
at Wendi Norris Gallery
Union Square - San Francisco, CA, USA
Nov 14, 13 - Dec 21, 13
Apparitions, Ranu Mukherjee’s second solo show at Gallery Wendi Norris, features a vibrant array of new textile prints, ink paintings, collage and hybrid films. Expanding upon materials and themes developed for her exhibitions at the San Jose Museum of Art and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Mukherjee articulates relationships between the compressed spaces of the body, stage and picture plane. read more...
Copley, Delacroix, Dali and Others: Masterworks From The Beaverbrook Art Gallery
at Mobile Museum of Art
Mobile, AL, USA
Nov 15, 13 - Apr 27, 14
As part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Mobile Museum of Art, the Museum will present the lavish exhibition, Copley, Delacroix, Dali and Others: Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery. The Beaverbrook Gallery is located in the City of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada and was recently designated as a Cultural Capital of Canada. A focus of the exhibition will be on William Maxwell Aitken (Lord Beaverbrook) and the artists he collected and cultivated, who in turn influenced the passion Lord Beaverbrook had for collecting. read more...
Devouring Books
at The Art Institute of Chicago
Loop - Chicago, IL, USA
Nov 19, 13 - Jan 27, 14
Voracious readers have often been called bookworms or even book-eaters. Indeed, whether offering food for thought or actual recipes, books and food have long enjoyed a close relationship. This focused exhibition of books, prints, and drawings from Europe and America ranges from the 15th to the 20th century and touches on numerous historical and literary inspirations. Examining food culture from many delicious angles, it delves into over- and under-indulgence in food and drink, presents depictions of the senses and curious appetites in print, finds humor in housekeeping, and demonstrates the fate of books with inks, glues, and paper tasty enough to attract real bookworms. read more...
Nostalgic for the Future
at Lisson Gallery, London, 29 Bell Street
London, UK
Nov 15, 13 - Jan 11, 14
Art & Language, Tony Cragg, Angela de la Cruz, Richard Deacon, Ceal Floyer, Ryan Gander, Shirazeh Houshiary, Peter Joseph, read more...
Jules de Balincourt
at Victoria Miro Gallery
London, UK
Nov 16, 13 - Nov 20, 13
Victoria Miro is delighted to present Jules de Balincourt's Itinerant Ones, the first solo exhibition in the UK for the Paris-born, New York- based painter. Known for his carefully constructed paintings that move effortlessly between abstraction and figuration, the imagined and the real, this new body of work sees De Balincourt moving away from direct references to current social, political or popular culture, and instead depicting a world in which indications of specific place or time are absent. Although the works are diverse in subject matter, throughout the exhibition a poetics of free-association lends the images a certain universal familiarity. read more...
Richard Deacon: Something Else
at Galerie Thomas Schulte
Mitte - Berlin, Germany
Nov 16, 13 - Jan 25, 14
After the group exhibition THOUGHT last spring, Galerie Thomas Schulte is pleased to present a solo exhibition with new works by British sculptor Richard Deacon. As of Friday, November 15, 2013 a group of new sculptures as well as wall reliefs will be on view. Richard Deacon is one of the most important sculptors of his generation, consistently inventive in his work. read more...
Yoko Ono: War Is Over! (if you want it)
at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Sydney, Australia
Nov 15, 13 - Feb 23, 14
Legendary artist, peace activist and musician – Yoko Ono is an icon whose work traverses generations. Ono was described by John Lennon as ‘the world’s most famous unknown artist.’ She is now recognised as a cutting edge musician, innovative artist, and a symbol of the peace movement. read more...