Last Week's Major Exhibition Openings (April 18-25)
Walker, Arbus, Lorrain, Graham, Wessel, Miller, King and many more.
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Apr 17, 2011
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Kara Walker: Fall Frum Grace, Miss Pipi's Blue Tale (Lehmann Maupin, Lower East Side)
Walker will present three new video works, which draw on her own experience in the Mississippi Delta, 鈥渁 region mythologized in song and popular culture but tragically depressing.鈥� More...
Henry Wessel: Vintage Work (Pace/MacGill Gallery)
The exhibition marks Wessel鈥檚 first show at the gallery and features over 30 vintage gelatin silver prints made between 1968 and 1987. More...
Hola Havana (Brooklyn Academy of Music)
BAMart will present an exhibition of works by Cuban artists. The exhibition will feature works in a wide range of media, offering a glimpse into the contemporary art of Cuba. More...
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Paul Graham: Photographs 1981-2006 (Whitechapel Art Gallery)
Through renowned photographic series such as the A1, Troubled Land, New Europe or American Night British artist Paul Graham presents vivid portrayals of people and places. This comprehensive survey of over 25 years of work demonstrates his innovative approach to documentary, reinventing traditional genres of photography to create a unique visual language. More...
London Original Print Fair 2011 (Royal Academy of Arts)
The London Original Print Fair is the longest-running specialist print fair in the world. More...
Patrick Tosani: Oeuvres 1981-2010 (Maison Europ茅ene de la Photographie)
Including over 200 works, this exhibition provides an overview of his career, from his early work to recent photographs, some seen here for the first time. More...
Claude Lorrain: The Draughtsman Studying Nature (Mus茅e du Louvre)
Sketches from life, preparatory drawings, large-scale landscape compositions depicting religious or mythological scenes are all central to the oeuvre of this painter, draughtsman and engraver, known as one of the greatest masters of landscape art. More...
Alexandre Singh: La Critique de l'Ecole des objets (Palais de Tokyo)
La Critique de l'脡cole des objets is an installation that takes the form of a play, changing the roles of the artwork and the viewer and inviting objects (a toaster, a bottle of bleach, two cassette players, a sculpture, a play for children and a skunk) to speculate on the human world. More...
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Diane Arbus: People and Other Singularities (Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills)
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to present "People and Other Singularities," a survey of the photographs of Diane Arbus spanning 1956 to 1971. This will be the most extensive exhibition of Arbus's work in Los Angeles since 2004, and will contain several photographs that have never before been exhibited. More...
Camilo Ontiveros: Some Boxes and Two Photographs About America (Steve Turner Gallery)
In this exhibition, Ontiveros expands on his work relating to questions of immigration. He questions how borders--whether individual, domestic, or national --are currently enforced. More...
Brad Miller: Primordial Algorithms (Edward Cella Art+Architecture)
Using the elements of clay, wood and fire, Miller creates three interconnected yet discrete bodies of work that suggest the life generating systems found in nature. More...
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Grazia Toderi: Directions (Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.)
Grazia Toderi likens her video projections to 鈥渇rescoes of light.鈥� Best known for large-scale installations, the artist works from documentary imagery collected from urban night surveillance and military, satellite, and space program footage. More...
Visual Correspondences (Slought Foundation, Philadelphia)
Visual Correspondences is an exhibition of photographs that explore the possibility of communicating through purely visual means. More...
One is the Loneliest Number (Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
One is the loneliest number presents emerging artist duos based in Philadelphia and elsewhere that work in a variety of media鈥攆rom graphic design to video to sculpture鈥攈ighlighting a collective mode that has historical precedents but is also increasingly present in contemporary practice. More...
Mark Boulos (Miami Art Museum)
All That Is Solid Melts into Air is a two-channel video installation, with images screened on opposite walls of a room. In the projected images the corporate colonization of Nigerian oil resources creates the occasion for a contrast of cultures and beliefs. More...
Reverend Howard Finster: Stranger in Paradise (Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville)
This exhibition explores the visions and themes of Reverend Howard Finster. A self proclaimed 鈥淢an of Visions,鈥� Finster was one of America鈥檚 most widely known and prolific self-taught artists, producing over 46,000 pieces of art before his death in 2001. More...
Scott King & Richard Serra (Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis)
This Front Room exhibition creates a dialogue between established American artist Richard Serra鈥檚 influential 1973 video, Television Delivers People, and a projected PowerPoint presentation by emerging British artist Scott King. More...
Shahzia Sikander: The Exploding Company Man and other Abstractions (Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute)
The exhibitionfeatures work created during the last five years, along with the U.S. premiere of an animated video and live performance. More...
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Taryn Simon (Centre d'Art Contemporain Gen猫ve)
The Centre d鈥橝rt Contemporain Gen猫ve is proud and happy to present the first solo show in Switzerland of the American artist Taryn Simon introducing her most recent work, CONTRABAND (2010), an analysis of JFK airport New York, one of the world's major transport hubs, and its passengers. More...
Max Liebermann: Pioneer of Modern Art (Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn)
Drawing on the Dutch Old Masters Rembrandt and Frans Hals as well as on the French Impressionists, Liebermann created an oeuvre of rare stylistic and thematic breadth. Chronologically arranged, the exhibition presents approximately one hundred paintings and drawings by Liebermann, offering a unique insight into all phases of the artist's work. More...
Albrecht Schnider: At the Event Horizon (Haus am Waldsee, A Place for the Arts, Berlin)
The exhibition forms an attempt to illustrate the model character of Albrecht Schnider鈥榮 art and aims to show that artistic thinking can produce a contemporary analogy to the sciences without employing new media.
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Rob Churm: The Exhaustion Hook (Sorcha Dallas, Glasgow)
This exhibition brings together new drawings and etchings with Churm鈥檚 first wall drawing in situ. The exhibition title, 鈥楾he Exhaustion Hook鈥�, means exactly what the words say, an instance of collapse to an oblique point of fact, a known feeling. More...
Narcissus Reflected (The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh)
This group exhibition examines the potency of the Narcissus myth in art, photography, installation, film and video. The exhibition keeps in play the full variety of meanings of the myth, exploring, and seeking to explain, the enduring appeal of the Narcissus subject in art. More...
Mladen Stilinovi膰: Sing! A Retrospective (Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest)
The Mladen Stilinovi膰 retrospective exhibition brings together the main installations, collages, photographs and art books of the most important neo-avant-garde artist in the former Yugoslavia. More...
Space Oddity (CCA Andratx, Mallorca)
The exhibition will explore the notion of art, space and their interplay by challenging the visitor's perception. The show features painting, sculpture, video, film, installation, photography, and new media by 31 international contemporary artists. More...
Guy Tillim: Avenue Patrice Lumumba (Design Exchange, Toronto)
The exhibition is comprised of 55 images from Guy Tillim鈥檚 (South African, b. 1962) series Avenue Patrice Lumumba (2007-08). In this project Tillim records the architecture and infrastructure of colonial and postcolonial Africa. More...
Ammar Al Beik: Oil Leaks (Ayyam Gallery, Damascus)
At a time when the US has expanded its military operations to Libya, Al Beik examines some of the events that have defined American intervention in the Middle East over the past decade with some of his most overtly political art to date. More...
Hans Josephsohn (Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo)
This exhibition provides a first overview of Josephsohn's oeuvre in Japan, featuring the works from 1956-58 to 2006. More...
Wang Chuan: Refocus: Dragon (P茅kin Fine Arts, Beijing)
Solo exhibition of artist Wang Chuan. More...
Shi Guorui: Scenes (F2 Gallery, Beijing)
The exhibition will feature several recent works, as well as works newly created for the exhibition. Although the medium of Shi鈥檚 practice is photography and the subjects of his work are landscapes and cityscapes, the concerns and the concepts behind his praxis go far beyond the obvious visual imageries. More...
CIGE Beijing 2011
CIGE will host around 60 selected outstanding galleries from all over the world, presenting a panorama of modern and contemporary art. More...
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