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Our pick of the best new shows to catch around the world — including new exhibitions Spain, Miami and Chicago

Haroon Mirza: A C I D G E S T
at Pérez Art Museum Miami
Downtown Miami - Miami, FL, USA
Jul 21, 17 - May 20, 18

Haroon Mirza (b. 1977, London) is a multimedia artist who works with audiovisual materials, electronic equipment, amplifiers, and found objects to create immersive environments and kinetic sculptures. His work amplifies phenomena that are often imperceptible––such as electricity––and seeks to create or distort the relationship between optics and acoustics, giving unexpected visual and sensorial analogs to what we hear. Mirza uses a particular visual and material vocabulary to modify architectural spaces, including colored neon and sculptural acoustic foam, creating installations that offer a precise, highly mediated experience of sound and light. read more...

Steve McQueen: End Credits
at The Art Institute of Chicago
Loop - Chicago, IL, USA
Jul 20, 17 - Oct 01, 17

Over the last 25 years, Steve McQueen has earned a reputation as one of the most important and influential artists of his generation, making film and video installations designed for gallery-based presentation as well as feature films for cinematic release. Whether they emerge from a seemingly journalistic impulse or remain more abstract, shaped instead by allegory or metaphor, most of McQueen’s works exhibit a potent, at times oblique, political consciousness. read more...

John Baldessari: Madame Cézanne's Hairdo's
at Elizabeth Leach Gallery
Portland, OR, USA
Jul 20, 17 - Sep 02, 17

John Baldessari epitomizes the visual arts in Los Angeles and playfully explores the dislocation between context and image. His vibrant wit and unclassifiable oeuvre over the past 50 years includes painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and video. Baldessari’s latest series of prints titled Madame Cézanne’s Hairdos were inspired by his visit to the Madame Cézanne exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2015. read more...

20/20: The Studio Museum in Harlem and Carnegie Museum of Art
at Carnegie Museum of Art
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Jul 22, 17 - Dec 31, 17

Experience a dynamic exchange of ideas about art and society. Founded in 1968, The Studio Museum in Harlem is internationally known for its catalytic role in championing the works of artists of African descent. In a unique institutional collaboration, CMOA and the Studio Museum present a group exhibition with works by 40 artists, 20 from each each of the collections. Responding to a tumultuous and deeply divided moment in our nation’s history, the curators have mined these collections to offer a metaphoric picture of America today. read more...

Franciszka Themerson UBU
at Richard Saltoun
London, UK
Jul 21, 17 - Sep 15, 17

Richard Saltoun Gallery is pleased to present Franciszka Themerson UBU, an extraordinary solo exhibition of Polish artist Franciszka Themerson (1907-1988), and her first with the gallery. On 10th December 1896 the Theatre de l’Oeuvre in Paris staged the debut performance of a play that stunned and outraged the audience but kicked down the door to Modernism, the movement that transformed 20th Century culture. Ubu Roi by playwright Alfred Jarry was banned immediately after that first performance. read more...

Abstract Conversations
at Rosenfeld Porcini
London, UK
Jul 21, 17 - Sep 20, 17

rosenfeldporcini is proud to present ‘Abstract Conversations’ featuring Eduardo Stupia, Anna Klimentchenko, Paula Baader, Marianna Gioka, Qingzhen Han and Maaike Schoorel. As the ferocious argument about the relevance of painting within the panorama of contemporary art recedes once again, there is a fresh, distinctly perceived urgency in how artists are once more embracing the medium without fear of being outdated and irrelevant. One of the current strands involving artists across the globe is represented by gestural painters adopting a minimalist attitude to their work. read more...

1517: Martin Luther and the English Reformation
at National Portrait Gallery, London
London, UK
Jul 21, 17 - Dec 02, 18

2017 marks the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, which is traditionally dated from Martin Luther’s nailing of the 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Saxony. The reforming movement that subsequently spread across Europe was to have profound consequences in England, triggering centuries of religious reform, conflict and suppression that have been described as England’s ‘Reformations’. This display looks at a selection of the portraits of some of the most prominent figures of the early years of reform in England, including the prints that were created to disseminate their ideas and commemorate their lives. read more...

Ken Jacobs: The Guests
at Guggenheim Bilbao
Bilbao, Spain
Jul 27, 17 - Nov 12, 17

Ken Jacobs (New York, 1933) is a central figure in post-war experimental cinema. In 1966, after becoming an integral part of legendary collectives like the NY Film-Makers’ Cooperative, he and his wife Flo founded one of the first open-to-all filmmaking studio, The Millennium Film Workshop. Driven by an abiding interest in the act of viewing and the spectator’s relationship with the image, in 1969 Jacobs produced Tom, Tom the Piper's Son, a two-hour film based on a ten-minute short from 1905. read more...

Points of Departure
at Lehmann Maupin, Hong Kong
Central - Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Jul 20, 17 - Sep 09, 17

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present Points of Departure, a group exhibition featuring paintings by Gao Ludi, Lu Song, and Xie Nanxing. These three Chinese artists offer 21st century versions of the appropriation-based processes pioneered by American artists during the 1980s. Points of Departure brings these artists together in order to consider the evolution of painting and its complex relationship with source imagery. read more...

Hokusai
at NGV International
Melbourne, Australia
Jul 21, 17 - Oct 15, 17

Katsushika Hokusai is regarded as one of the most influential and creative minds in the history of Japanese art. His unique social observations, innovative approach to design and mastery of the brush, made him the most famous and popular artist of Edo period Japan as well as an internationally recognised artist. A self-professed ‘drawing maniac’, Hokusai was known by at least thirty names during his lifetime and was renowned for his unconventional behaviour. read more...

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