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Our pick of the world’s most exciting shows over the next 7-days — from an auction preview at Sotheby’s, to new presentations from contemporary art’s rising stars

Joseph Beuys: Fat for Heat, Felt for Warmth
at Shin Gallery
New York, NY, USA
Oct 27, 17 - Nov 26, 17

Shin Gallery is pleased to present a solo show of the influential German artist Joseph Beuys (1921-1986), Fat for Heat, Felt for Warmth. This exhibition featuring Beuys' major sculptures and drawings will challenge the viewers to understand the depths of his thoughts beyond the palpable and tangible. Read more >.

Cathy Wilkes
at MoMA PS1
Long Island City - New York, NY, USA
Oct 22, 17 - Mar 11, 18

MoMA PS1 will present the first solo museum exhibition in New York focused on Glasgow-based artist Cathy Wilkes (b. 1966), in conjunction with the inaugural Maria Lassnig Prize. Read more >

Kenny Scharf: Inner and Outer Space
at Jeffrey Deitch
Soho - New York, NY, USA
Oct 21, 17 - Dec 22, 17

Describing his new painting, Kenny Scharf says “Things are disintegrating...I am reacting to our increasingly out-of-control situation.” Scharf’s work continues to be infused by his inexhaustible optimism and his sense of fun but there has always been an engagement with profound issues beneath the fac抬ade. Ecology, the environment, and capitalist excess have long been central themes. Read more >

Iconoplastic: 100 Years of De Stijl
at Sotheby's New York
Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Oct 19, 17 - Dec 08, 17

Sotheby's is pleased to present Iconoplastic: 100 Years of De Stijl, a major selling and loan exhibition in celebration of the centennial of De Stijl, the pioneering avant-garde movement founded by Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg in Leiden in 1917. Featuring emblematic works ranging in date from 1917 to today Iconoplastic will focus on those artists apart from Mondrian who were integral to the development of the style, and then trace the diaspora of De Stijl through the 20th century from Europe to the United States, Latin America, and the Contemporary abstract art which remains informed by this movement. Read more >

Lynda Benglis
at Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Palms - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Oct 26, 17 - Dec 16, 17

Blum & Poe is pleased to present an exhibition by acclaimed artist Lynda Benglis. This marks her first solo presentation on the West Coast since the 2011 retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and offers a broad overview of her output and ethos across the last three decades. Lynda Benglis’ legendary practice began in 1960s New York City, her commitment to merging content and form, subverting the paradigms of Minimalism and Modernism, established her formidable role in contemporary art history as a leader in the Post Minimalism movement. Read more >

Alexander Calder: Scaling Up
at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA, USA
Oct 21, 17 - Aug 19, 18

The second exhibition in SFMOMA’s Calder gallery, Scaling Up takes a close look at the small-scale and surprisingly tactile beginnings of the artist’s most sizable works. While best known for his hanging mobiles, Calder also created an astounding assortment of standing sculptures that delight the eye and engage the mind with dynamic contours, soaring lines, and, in some cases, moving components. With more than a dozen loans drawn from the Fisher Collection and the Calder Foundation, the exhibition introduces visitors to the multi-step methods of enlargement that Calder developed to transform handmade models into monumental sculptures. Read more >

Njideka Akunyili Crosby: Counterparts
at Baltimore Museum of Art
Baltimore, MD, USA
Oct 25, 17 - Mar 18, 18

Los Angeles-based artist Njideka Akunyili Crosby will debut a suite of new paintings that draw upon her experience of moving from Nigeria to the United States, maintaining ties to her family in Nigeria, and building relationships in America. Layers of paint, fabric, and photographic transfers not only energize the interiors and figures depicted in the artist’s works, but serve as a metaphor for the complex merging of relationships and cultural backgrounds that contribute to Akunyili Crosby’s sense of self. Read more >

Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart: Love Life
at De La Warr Pavilion
Bexhill-on-Sea, UK
Oct 21, 17 - Jan 07, 18

Together, artists Jonathan Baldock and Emma Hart have radically re-imagined the traditional seaside show of Punch and Judy. This exhibition combines sculpture with moving image and sound, the artists have envisaged the puppet booth living quarters of the pair as an oversized, darkly humorous place in which the pressure of domestic life is combined with the ever-present threat of violence. Read more >

Irving Penn: The Flavour of France
at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Marais
3e - Paris, France
Oct 19, 17 - Jan 06, 18

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is honoured to present its first exhibition of the iconic American photographer Irving Penn (1917-2009), The Flavour of France, from 19 October 2017 to 6 January 2018 in Paris. Titled after a photographic essay published by Irving Penn in 1960, in which he celebrates what André Gide called the “horror of the approximate” that characterises French charm, the exhibition focuses on three different bodies of work: Nudes, Small Trades and artist portraits. Read more >

Mystical Symbolism: The Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris, 1892–1897
at Peggy Guggenheim Collection
Venice, Italy
Oct 28, 17 - Jan 07, 18

This is the first museum exhibition to examine the art of the Salons de la Rose+Croix. In 1892, Joséphin Péladan (1858–1918), an eccentric critic, author, and Rosicrucian, founded the annual Salon de la Rose+Croix in Paris to showcase mystical Symbolist art. Mysterious, visionary, and mythical themes prevailed in the works at his salons, with images of femmes fragiles and fatales, androgynous creatures, chimeras, and incubi. Read more >

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