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Closing Today

Rachel Feinstein in Florence

Through September 18, 2023
Various venues in Florence, Italy
www.museonovecento.it

Rachel Feinstein’s work is the subject of an exhibition project conceived and curated by Sergio Risaliti, director of the Museo Novecento, in collaboration with three other major museums in Florence: Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Museo Stefano Bardini, and Museo Marino Marini. The multipart exhibition places Feinstein’s sculpture and paintings, some shown in Italy for the first time, in dialogue with masterworks of the Italian Renaissance and Baroque period, demonstrating her ongoing fascination with the art of the past.

Closing this Week

Y.Z. Kami
Light, Gaze, Presence

Through September 24, 2023
Various venues in Florence, Italy
www.museonovecento.it

Light, Gaze, Presence presents a selection of works by Y.Z. Kami across four locations in Florence: Museo Novecento, Museo di Palazzo Vecchio, Museo degli Innocenti, and Abbazia di San Miniato al Monte. The multipart exhibition explores the pictorial universe of Kami’s paintings while placing them in dialogue with masterworks of the Italian Renaissance.

Through September 24, 2023
Brooklyn Museum, New York
www.brooklynmuseum.org

Fifty years after his death, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) remains an artistic and cultural icon. It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby examines the artist’s complicated legacy through a critical, contemporary, and feminist lens, while at the same time acknowledging his work’s transformative power and lasting influence. The exhibition is organized with the Australian comedian Gadsby, who has called out the inexcusable behavior of some of art history’s towering figures, including Picasso. With works by Picasso and various women artists, accompanied by a witty and incisive audio tour by the comedian, the show reckons with complex questions around misogyny, creativity, the art historical canon, and “genius.”

Closing this Week

Sterling Ruby in
ARTZUID 2023

Through September 24, 2023
Various locations in Amsterdam
artzuid.nl

The eighth edition of ARTZUID, the Amsterdam Sculpture Biennial, includes more than fifty outdoor sculptures by fifty international artists along a two-and-a-half-kilometer route in the borough of Amsterdam-Zuid. This year’s edition is organized around the theme of “transfer,” reflecting how artists and iconic movements of the 1960s, 1980s, and 2000s sought to transfer the site of artistic engagement from the institution to the streets. Work by Sterling Ruby is included.

Closing this Week

Cy Twombly
Oeuvres sur papier (1973–1977)

Through September 24, 2023
Musée de Grenoble, France
www.museedegrenoble.fr

This exhibition, whose title translates to Works on Paper, presents a vast collection of works on paper made by Cy Twombly between 1973 and 1977, several of which have never before been exhibited. Realized in partnership with the Cy Twombly Foundation, the show explores how Twombly was able to evolve his artistic practice through drawing, collage, and printmaking—he produced only eight paintings during these years—and prepare for the creation of Fifty Days at Iliam (1978), his painting in ten parts based on Alexander Pope’s translation of Homer’s Iliad.

Just Opened

Jennifer Guidi
And so it is.

Through January 6, 2024
Orange County Museum of Art, Costa Mesa, California
ocma.art

And so it is.—Jennifer Guidi’s first solo institutional exhibition in the United States—surveys the artist’s work over the last ten years and features a number of new paintings. Using a methodical system in which sand is applied directly to the surface of the canvas while wet, Guidi creates a ritualistic, repetitive choreography—one entirely her own. Focusing on the importance of place, especially evident within Guidi’s embrace of the colors of California—the fleeting pink and red of its sunrises and sunsets, the hazy light of Los Angeles—the show reveals an intricate body of work that operates as its own energy source.

Just Opened

Multiplicity
Blackness in Contemporary American Collage

Through December 31, 2023
Frist Art Museum, Nashville, Tennessee
fristartmuseum.org

Multiplicity presents over eighty major collage and collage-informed works by fifty-two living artists. The works reflect the breadth and complexity of Black identity, exploring diverse conceptual concerns such as cultural hybridity, notions of beauty, gender fluidity, and historical memory. From paper, photographs, fabric, and salvaged or repurposed materials, these artists create unified compositions that express the endless possibilities of Black-constructed narratives within our fragmented society. Work by Derrick Adams and Rick Lowe is included.

On View

Georg Baselitz

Through September 30, 2023
Peter Marino Art Foundation, Southampton, New York
www.petermarinoartfoundation.org

Georg Baselitz includes forty-five paintings, drawings, and sculptures by the artist shown alongside work from the Peter Marino Collection. In the 1960s Baselitz became well known for his figurative and expressive paintings, and in 1969, he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work. Drawing from a myriad of influences, including Soviet-era illustration, Mannerism, and African sculptures, Baselitz has developed his own distinct artistic language.

On View

Baselitz im Atelier

Open from April 7, 2023
Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Germany
www.hallartfoundation.org

Schloss Derneburg was Georg Baselitz’s home and studio for more than three decades until its sale to Andy and Christine Hall, founders of the Hall Art Foundation, in 2006. This exhibition, whose title translates to Baselitz in the Studio, includes some two dozen paintings and one sculpture that were completed between 1998 and 2005 and are among the last works the artist made in this studio. This is the first in a series of Baselitz exhibitions drawn from the Hall Collection that will be presented on the occasion of the artist’s eighty-fifth birthday.

On View

Deana Lawson in
Put It This Way: (Re)Visions of the Hirshhorn Collection

Through Fall 2023
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
hirshhorn.si.edu

This exhibition unites almost a century of work by forty-nine women and nonbinary artists in a range of mediums drawn exclusively from the Hirshhorn’s permanent collection. Titled after a 1963 painting by American Pop artist Rosalyn Drexler, Put It This Way speaks to traditionally marginalized artists’ decisive and virtuosic achievements, and investigates a wide array of aesthetic, political, and historical concerns. The full-floor presentation is intended to encourage conversations around the significance of gender in creating and perceiving an artwork, the effects of categorizing artists by gender, and the museum’s role and responsibilities in stewarding the national collection of modern and contemporary art. Work by Deana Lawson is included.

On View

After “The Wild”
Contemporary Art from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection

Through October 1, 2023
Jewish Museum, New York
thejewishmuseum.org

Barnett Newman (1905–1970) was a generous supporter of his colleagues, who befriended and mentored countless younger artists. After his death, Annalee Newman, his widow, created the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation to help further the spirit of great art by providing grants. Diverse in style, training, background, and age, the foundation’s grantees—whose works make up this exhibition—share Newman’s seriousness of purpose, as well as his unrelenting drive to explore the outer limits of his own ideas. Work by Michael Heizer, Nancy Rubins, Richard Serra, and Sarah Sze is included.

On View

Richard Avedon
Murals

Through October 1, 2023
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
www.metmuseum.org

In 1969, Richard Avedon started making portraits with a new camera and a new sense of scale. Trading his handheld Rolleiflex for a larger, tripod-mounted device, he reinvented his studio dynamic. Facing down groups of the era’s preeminent artists, activists, and politicians, he made huge photomural portraits, befitting the subjects’ outsized cultural influence. On the centennial of the photographer’s birth, this exhibition brings together three of these monumental works, some as wide as thirty-five feet. For Avedon, the murals expanded the artistic possibilities of photography, radically reorienting viewers and subjects in a subsuming, larger-than-life view.

On View

Jean-Michel Basquiat
King Pleasure©

Through October 15, 2023
Grand LA, Los Angeles
kingpleasure.basquiat.com

Organized and curated by the family of Jean-Michel Basquiat, this exhibition of more than two hundred never-before-seen and rarely shown paintings, drawings, and artifacts tells Basquiat’s story from an intimate perspective, intertwining his artistic endeavors with his personal life, influences, and the times in which he lived. Immersive environments showcase Basquiat’s contributions to the history of art and his explorations of multifaceted cultural phenomena—including music, pop culture, and the Black experience—providing insight into his creative life and his singular voice. This exhibition has traveled from the Starrett-Lehigh Building, New York.

On View

Malelade
Georg Baselitz zum 85. Geburtstag

Through October 22, 2023
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
www.sgsm.eu

Malelade is an artist’s book by Georg Baselitz that includes forty-one large-format drypoint engravings. This exhibition, whose subtitle translates to Georg Baselitz on His 85th Birthday, displays the 148 test prints produced ahead of the book and celebrates the artist’s momentous birthday. The prints provide insight into the work’s genesis and Baselitz’s creative process, which varies from sheet to sheet.

On View

Nan Goldin
Memory Lost

Through October 22, 2023
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
louisiana.dk

The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is presenting Nan Goldin’s Memory Lost (2019–21)—a new acquisition jointly owned with Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Scored by composer Mica Levi, with additional music by CJ Calderwood and Soundwalk Collective, the twenty-four-minute-long slideshow relates a haunting and emotional narrative comprised of outtakes drawn from Goldin’s archive. It is exhibited alongside selected works from the collection by artists including Taryn Simon.

On View

La vie en rose
Brueghel, Monet, Twombly

Through October 22, 2023
Museum Brandhorst, Munich
www.museum-brandhorst.de

La vie en rose is centered around Cy Twombly’s Untitled (Roses), a series of six paintings created for a room in Museum Brandhorst, and on permanent display in Munich since 2009. Taking Twombly’s poetic examination of death, freedom, isolation, and eroticism as its starting point, the exhibition brings together works by various artists who have engaged with floral subjects, including Claude Monet’s Water Lilies (1915) and Andy Warhol’s Flowers (1965). The show aims to reveal the complex, even contradictory motives that have inspired artists over the centuries to take on this subject matter.

On View

Rachel Whiteread
. . . And the Animals Were Sold

Through October 29, 2023
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy
www.gamec.it

. . . And the Animals Were Sold is a new installation by Rachel Whiteread in Bergamo’s Palazzo della Ragione that was commissioned by Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy. Conceived in relation to the city, the architecture of the site, and the history of the region, it comprises sixty sculptures whose forms correspond to the empty space between the legs of two different chair models. Produced with local types of stone, the works suggest human absence and presence at once. Their arrangement evokes both the social distancing of the pandemic, which was particularly difficult for the Bergamo community, and the renewed proximity that is now possible. 

On View

Simon Hantaï in
Touching the Void

Through November 1, 2023
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org

As part of New Art from Wall to Wall, the Museum of Modern Art is presenting never-before and rarely shown works in themed, reimagined collection galleries. The gallery Touching the Void explores an important artistic tendency of the 1960s: a shift away from the idea that art should express the artist’s interior life. Works in this vein searched for a poetics of bare form and focused on structural elements such as line, plane, and volume. Whether strict or playful, the work of these artists tested the meditative possibilities of objectivity, challenging viewers to heighten their sensory perception. Work by Simon Hantaï is included.

On View

The Inner Island

Through November 4, 2023
Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles, France
www.fondationcarmignac.com

This exhibition, which features more than eighty works by fifty artists, presents visitors with new, unknown worlds floating outside familiar geographies and temporalities. The artists included break away from reality, bringing to life fictional, mental, and abstract islands. Work by Harold Ancart, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Alexander Calder, Helen Frankenthaler, Simon Hantaï, Roy Lichtenstein, Albert Oehlen, and Christopher Wool is included.

On View

Sally Mann in
People Watching: Contemporary Photography Since 1965

Through November 5, 2023
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
www.bowdoin.edu

This exhibition explores the phenomenon of people-watching as a recreational activity, an act of surveillance, a type of harassment, a sign of empathy, and a documentary form of expression. It brings together more than 120 photographs that investigate the myriad ways in which artists have represented individuals encountered on the street, at home, at work, in the studio, and on documentary or journalistic assignments. Work by Sally Mann is included.

On View

Francesca Woodman in
The Performative Self-Portrait

Through November 12, 2023
RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
risdmuseum.org

The Performative Self-Portrait explores the body as material and medium and photography as a vehicle with which to consider the ways that artists use self-portraiture to enact the self, question history, and articulate identity. Made between 1930 and the present, the exhibited photographs include both new acquisitions and older works on view for the first time. Work by Francesca Woodman is included.

On View

Room by Room
Concepts, Themes, and Artists in the Rachofsky Collection

Through November 25, 2023
The Warehouse, Dallas
thewarehousedallas.org

Room by Room builds on the ongoing interest at The Warehouse to reflect on the development of its collection, presenting works for the first time. Spanning a range of mediums, geographies, and eras, each gallery focuses on a single artist or theme, allowing an in-depth look at the artistic movements important to the collection from the outset, together with other avenues of interest that have developed over the years. Work by Richard Artschwager, Alex Israel, Sterling Ruby, and Jonas Wood is included.

Through November 26, 2023
Fondazione Prada, Venice
www.fondazioneprada.org

Everybody Talks about the Weather is a research exhibition exploring the semantics of “weather” in visual art, taking atmospheric conditions as its point of departure in order to highlight the urgency of climate change. More than fifty works by contemporary artists, and a complementary selection of historical artworks, trace the various ways in which climate and weather have shaped our histories, and how we have dealt with our exposure to meteorological events. Work by Theaster Gates is included.

On View

Icônes

Through November 26, 2023
Punta della Dogana, Venice
www.pinaultcollection.com

Icônes includes painting, video, sound, installation, and performance from the Pinault Collection. The icons of the title suggest a transcendent reality—the power to render material the invisible, create emotion or a sense of aesthetic and spiritual bedazzlement. This exhibition considers both the fragility and the power of images as icons and the multiple meanings they carry. Work by Theaster Gates, Donald Judd, and Rudolf Stingel is included.