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Our pick of 10 exhibitions to see this week — in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, London, Paris, and Cairns

Notions of Home
at Yancey Richardson Gallery
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Jul 12, 2017 - Aug 25, 2017

In response to the ongoing crises of population displacement and income disparity, Notions of Home explores how the idea of “home” can manifest in a myriad of ways, whether physical or psychological, permanent or transient, ancestral or nouveau, aspirational or impoverished. read more...

Naama Tsabar: Transboundary
at Paul Kasmin Gallery, 297 10th Avenue
Chelsea - New York, NY, USA
Jul 12, 2017 - Aug 18, 2017

This summer, Paul Kasmin Gallery is pleased to present Transboundary, the gallery’s first exhibition with the New York-based Naama Tsabar. Known for performances, installations and sculpture informed by aspects of music and nightlife, Tsabar focuses on the often hidden elements and materials that are at play in constructing physically immersive environments. Her practice oscillates between visual arts and music with reconfigurations of guitars, strings, amplifiers, microphones, cables, gaffer tape and speakers. read more...

Mary Walling Blackburn
at Art in General
Brooklyn - New York, NY, USA
Jul 14, 2017 - Aug 20, 2017

Art in General presents a newly commissioned work and performance by artist Mary Walling Blackburn in partnership with SWIMMING POOL in Sofia, Bulgaria. For a hundred years, the sermon chart—an American folk form—served as a preacher’s graphic aid and was executed by the preacher on bed sheets; the charts were pinned to altars or tied with rope to trees. Here logic does not flow; it pools. read more...

Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture
at California African American Museum
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jul 12, 2017 - Oct 08, 2017

Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture offers new perspectives on one of art's oldest genres. In the age of social media, when the demand to represent our selves has become a daily imperative, portraiture is more ubiquitous than ever and constantly evolving. In depicting the most familiar element of our identity--the human face--artists allow us to glimpse some measure of a subject's character, personal biography, social status, and emotional state, and more broadly, offer insight into the human condition. read more...

Marching to the Beat
at Jessica Silverman Gallery
San Francisco, CA, USA
Jul 14, 2017 - Aug 26, 2017

At a time when the digital world turns our bodies into isolated eyeballs, we must not forget the energy and joy that comes with face-to-face communal engagement. This exhibition explores the body, sociality, choreography, and human congregation. Comprised of painting, photography, sculpture, performance, video and soundtracks, “Marching to the Beat” intends to be a progressive affirmation of human collectivity and a thought-provoking antidote to the factionalization of our global world. read more...

India Modern: The Paintings of M. F. Husain
at The Art Institute of Chicago
Loop - Chicago, IL, USA
Jul 14, 2017 - Mar 04, 2018

This special installation—the centerpiece of the Art Institute of Chicago’s celebration of the 70th anniversary of India’s independence—presents eight large triptychs from the Indian Civilization series by M. F. Husain (1915–2011). Shown prominently across five of the museum’s Asian art galleries, India Modern: The Paintings of M. F. read more...

Amanda Williams
at Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago
Near North Side - Chicago, IL, USA
Jul 18, 2017 - Dec 31, 2017

For her first solo museum exhibition, Amanda Williams (American, b. 1974), an artist who trained as an architect, presents new bodies of work that use sculpture and photography to respond to changing urban environments. Williams, who was raised in Chicago’s Auburn-Gresham neighborhood, transforms elements of architecture and design into immersive sculptures that draw attention to the ways context dramatically informs the value of material, and by extension, the value of cities. For Williams, architecture and its fragments serve as a microcosm for larger social issues, and the artist invites viewers to consider the social, political, and racial narratives that support the devaluation of certain neighborhoods, such as Englewood on Chicago’s South Side. read more...

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power
at Tate Modern
Bankside - London, UK
Jul 12, 2017 - Oct 22, 2017

Soul of a Nation shines a bright light on the vital contribution of Black artists to a dramatic period in American art and history. The show opens in 1963 at the height of the Civil Rights movement and its dreams of integration. In its wake emerged more militant calls for Black Power: a rallying cry for African American pride, autonomy and solidarity, drawing inspiration from newly independent African nations. Artists responded to these times by provoking, confronting, and confounding expectations. read more...

Fred Forest
at Centre Pompidou
4e - Paris, France
Jul 12, 2017 - Aug 28, 2017

This exhibition devoted to Fred Forest, “media-man” and pioneer of a participatory, sociological art based on the use of modern and contemporary tools of communication takes up the notion of “territory” to organise a survey of his work as a whole. It is modelled on the narrative of his Territoire du m² artistique, created in 1977 – the same year as the Centre Pompidou – which follows the artist’s trajectory from his screen-paintings and other spaces to be filled in to his media-critical actions-performances on territories both local and planetary. read more...

Greg Semu: Blood Red
at Cairns Regional Gallery
Cairns, Australia
Jul 12, 2017 - Sep 17, 2017

Greg Semu is an interdisciplinary artist of Samoan heritage who was born and raised in Auckland, Aotearoa New Zealand. Semu’s first-hand experience of displacement has imbued him with empathy for other First Nations peoples.  BLOOD RED brings together a body of new, large-scale photographic works completed in Coen, a remote Indigenous community in Cape York, Far North Queensland. Working in consultation with Coen artist Naomi Hobson and traditional owners from the Coen region and in close collaboration with community elders, teachers, police, stockmen and actors, Semu and Hobson negotiated a dialogue with displaced peoples of Coen and beyond. read more...

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