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Our pick of this week's top openings, including conceptual art at the Met, and a celebration of all things paper at the Getty

David Zwirner: 25 Years
at David Zwirner, 525 West 19th Street
New York, NY, USA
Jan 13, 18 - Feb 17, 18

On the occasion of the gallery’s 25th anniversary, David Zwirner will present a special exhibition celebrating the artists who have shaped the gallery’s program since its founding in 1993. On view across all of the gallery’s Chelsea spaces in New York (519, 525 & 533 West 19th Street and 537 West 20th Street), the exhibition will feature artworks by the gallery’s artists, including significant historical work, alongside new and never-before-seen works commissioned specially for the occasion. read more...

Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism
at The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Upper East Side - New York, NY, USA
Jan 17, 18 - Jul 15, 18

William Wegmanon will survey Conceptual art as it developed in Southern California in the 1970s. It is occasioned by the artist William Wegman's extraordinary recent gift to the Museum of 174 short videos that he made between 1970 and 1999—his entire career in this medium. A 90-minute selection of videos from this gift will be shown, accompanied by photographs and drawings by Wegman as well as drawings, prints, and photographs by his contemporaries in Southern California such as John Baldessari, Vija Celmins, Douglas Huebler, Ed Ruscha, and others. read more...

Pastels in Pieces
at J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Jan 16, 18 - Jul 29, 18

European paper was not manufactured in giant sheets until the nineteenth century. Competing with painters who worked on monumental canvases, eighteenth-century pastellists joined together multiple sheets of paper in order to create large, continuous surfaces. The piecing together of pastels, however, also served other purposes, allowing artists to paper over their mistakes or paste the heads of important sitters onto bodies posed by models. read more...

Kohei Nawa: Trans-figure
at Pace Palo Alto
Palo Alto, CA, USA
Jan 18, 18 - Feb 25, 18

Kohei Nawaery is pleased to present an exhibition of new sculptures and paintings by Kohei Nawa, marking his first solo exhibition in the United States and his second with the gallery. The exhibition features new physical pixelated sculptures(“PixCell”s) made out of toys, taxidermied animals, musical instruments and other everyday objects, new works in his Direction and Ether series that visualize the effects of gravity, and new works in his Villus series that cover an object’s contours and textures with “villi. read more...

Thomas Struth
at Aspen Art Museum
Aspen, CO, USA
Jan 19, 18 - Jun 10, 18

Thomas Struth target="_blank" href="/Artist/Thomas-Struth/E26A83EB36906FFE">German artist Thomas Struth’s pivotal series on the Middle East is on view in Gallery 1 in its entirety for the first time. The series of eighteen monumental photographs of Israel and Palestine taken between 2009 and 2014 depicts places and people throughout the region, encompassing street views, sites of technological research, and family portraits. Photographing within the political climates of East Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Golan Heights, Ramallah, Al-Khalil/Hebron, Nazareth, and Negev, Struth conveys vivid and emotional narratives of place. read more...

Antoine Caron: Drawing for Catherine de’ Medici
at The Courtauld Gallery, Courtauld Institute of Art
London, UK
Jan 18, 18 - Apr 15, 18

Antoine Caron international loan exhibition, the first dedicated to the drawings of Antoine Caron, brings together a celebrated group of drawings executed by Caron (1521-1599) for his patron Queen Catherine de’ Medici of France (1519-1589). Centered around the Valois series, a set of drawings of courtly pageantry here reunited for the first time, the display will showcase the way in which the powerful and influential Catherine promoted herself and her dynasty through a series of lavish courtly events. read more...

Hans Hartung
at Simon Lee Gallery, London
London, UK
Jan 17, 18 - Feb 17, 18

Simon Lee Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of late paintings by pioneer of twentieth-century abstraction, Hans Hartung (1904-1989). This inaugural presentation with the gallery celebrates the last, highly productive decade of the artist’s life, which saw him return to many of the themes that had occupied him throughout his career, while expanding his repertoire with an array of innovative painting practices. Hartung’s late painting, much of which was made from the confines of a wheelchair, is amongst the most vigorous of his lifetime, revealing a renewed sense of freedom, energy and ambition despite his advancing age and increasing frailty. read more...

Bridget Riley: Recent Paintings 2014-2017
at David Zwirner, London
Mayfair - London, UK
Jan 19, 18 - Mar 10, 18

Bridget Rileyr is pleased to present recent work from the last four years by British artist Bridget Riley, her third solo exhibition with the gallery. Spanning three floors of the 24 Grafton Street location in London, the exhibition will include wall paintings and works on canvas as well as a group of related studies that focus on two themes: works in black-and-white and the disc. The works on view both extend and rework the artist’s previous investigations of these motifs in new ways. read more...

Avigdor Arikha: Landscapes
at Blain Southern, Berlin
Kreuzberg - Berlin, Germany
Jan 20, 18 - Feb 24, 18

Avigdor Arikha presents Landscapes, a selection of landscape paintings and drawings by Avigdor Arikha (1929-2010), one of the great observational artists of the late twentieth century. Landscapes is the gallery’s first exhibition with the artist. read more...

Alex Prager
at Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
Central - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jan 18, 18 - Mar 17, 18

Lehmann Mapuin is pleased to present an  exhibition of new work by Alex Prager. The Los Angeles-based artist returns to Hong Kong with her signature style of theatrical and meticulously staged photography and film, as well as her first exhibited sculpture. In her most recent series, Prager manipulates scale and dimension to challenge our understanding of the boundary between fiction and reality. read more...

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