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We select the shows the art world will be watching this week, including a hotly-anticipated Basquiat solo in London and a focus on refugees in Amsterdam

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon
at New Museum of Contemporary Art
Lower East Side - New York, NY, USA
Sep 27, 17 - Jan 21, 18

Trigger: Gender as a Tool and a Weapon investigates gender’s place in contemporary art and culture at a moment of political upheaval and renewed culture wars. The exhibition features an intergenerational group of artists who explore gender beyond the binary to usher in more fluid and inclusive expressions of identity. The New Museum has been committed to urgent ideas since its inception, devoting many exhibitions and programs over the years to issues of representation with regard to gender and sexuality: Extended Sensibilities (1982), Difference (1984–85), Homo Video (1986–87), and Bad Girls (1994) are just four notable examples. Read more...

Mark Rothko: Reflection
at Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Back Bay - Boston, MA, USA
Sep 24, 17 - Jul 01, 18

An immersive display of 11 masterpieces by Mark Rothko (1903–70), on loan from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, invites visitors to contemplate the power of art to shape human experience. The installation opens with Rothko’s early painting Thru the Window (1938), on public view in the US for the first time, and Artist in his Studio (about 1628) by Rembrandt—portraits of artists reflecting on the act of painting. Read more...

John Bock: Dead + Juicy
at The Contemporary Austin
Austin, TX, USA
Sep 23, 17 - Jan 14, 18

The scene is set in a quintessential South Austin music club.1 A moody glow bathes the room in red light. Center stage stands a beautiful woman, dressed in a fitted white dress with elegant, bouffant blonde hair, her foot strapped into an oversized, shoe-shaped appendage. Like a fifties femme fatale, she sings Marlene Dietrich’s “Where Have All the Flowers Gone? Read more...

Inside: Art by offenders, secure patients and detainees
at Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre
London, UK
Sep 21, 17 - Nov 15, 17

Antony Gormley, the renowned artist, curates an exhibition showcasing artwork produced in the UK’s prisons, secure hospitals and immigration removal centres, and by ex-offenders in the community. This year’s show responds to the theme ‘Inside’, set by Gormley with input from prisoners, and aims to get people talking about the UK’s criminal justice system. The artworks are selected from over 7,000 pieces of fine art, design, writing and music entered to this year’s Koestler Awards. Read more...

Basquiat: Boom for Real
at Barbican Art Gallery
London, UK
Sep 21, 17 - Jan 28, 18

The first large-scale exhibition in the UK of the work of American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960—1988). Discover the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the pioneering prodigy of the 1980s downtown New York art scene. This unprecedented exhibition brings together an outstanding selection of more than 100 works from international museums and private collections. Read more...

Poor Art | Arte Povera: Italian Influences, British Responses
at Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art
London, UK
Sep 20, 17 - Dec 17, 17

Arte Povera emerged in Italy in the tumultuous late 1960s, a time of profound social and economic change, and radical artistic experimentation. The term literally means ‘poor art’, and was applied by critic and curator Germano Celant to a loose association of Italian artists, mostly working in Turin and Rome. At once literal, conceptual, metaphorical, matter-of-fact and sensual, Arte Povera swept away traditional restraints to challenge established views of what art could be, and the nature of its relationship with commerce. Read more...

Allora & Calzadilla: Foreign in a Domestic Sense
at Lisson Gallery, London (Bell Street)
Marylebone - London, UK
Sep 22, 17 - Nov 11, 17

Allora & Calzadilla’s Foreign in a Domestic Sense features new sculpture, performance, photo and video works. The exhibition continues the artists’ ongoing investigation into the politics of language in public speech. In this new body of work, the uncanny vibrancy of the gestural interacts with a wide range of materials, including bat guano, copper, ceramic, wax, electric transformers and industrial remnants. Moving from the performative to the indexical and back, Allora & Calzadilla take the social, political and cultural of the semiotic as a conceptual base and juxtapose it to the incorporated singularity of the human voice. Read more...

Lucio Fontana: Ambienti/Environments
at Hangar Bicocca Contemporary Art Space
Milan, Italy
Sep 21, 17 - Feb 25, 18

Ambienti/Environments is focused on Lucio Fontana’s pioneering work in the realm of installation art, with a selection of his seminal Ambienti spaziali—seen together for the first time—that highlights the farsighted, innovative genius of this twentieth-century master. The Ambienti spaziali (Spatial Environments), rooms and corridors that the artist began to conceive and design in the late 1940s, were almost always destroyed once the exhibition was over; they are Fontana’s most experimental yet least-known works, due to their ephemeral nature. Read more...

“I Am a Native Foreigner”
at Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sep 23, 17 - Jun 03, 18

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam is mounting a series of exhibitions in 2017 and 2018 that explore different aspects of the theme migration. I Am a Native Foreigner examines migration by focusing on the museum’s collection: what are artists views on migration, and how do they visualise it in their work? This collection presentation considers the effects of migration on artists both past and present, and reveals how they dealt with, and depicted, the impact of displacement. Read more...

Arcadia
at Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong
Central - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Sep 26, 17 - Nov 11, 17

Gagosian is pleased to present Arcadia, an exhibition of landscapes, both real and imagined, by modern and contemporary gallery artists. The term "Arcadia" originated in ancient Greece, referring to the inland reaches of the Peloponnese where shepherds lived, far from the sea. The term took on a symbolic meaning during the Hellenistic era, invoking rural life as an escape from the moral corruption of the dense, bustling metropolis. Read more...

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