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X
A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022

Through December 21, 2023
Sheldon Museum of Art, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
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X: A Decade of Collecting, 2012–2022 is a survey of artworks acquired for the Sheldon Museum of Art’s collection over the past decade. The chosen works demonstrate the breadth of collecting efforts and are a modest representation of the approximately 1,875 pieces that have entered the museum’s holdings since 2012. The exhibition seeks to present a snapshot of how the collection continues to evolve. Work by Richard Avedon, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Andy Warhol, and Stanley Whitney is included.

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The Whitney’s Collection
Selections from 1900 to 1965

Opened June 28, 2019
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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This exhibition of more than 120 works, drawn entirely from the Whitney’s collection, is inspired by the founding history of the museum. The Whitney was established in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney to champion the work of living American artists. A sculptor and a patron, Whitney recognized both the importance of contemporary American art and the need to support the artists who made it. The collection she assembled foregrounds how artists uniquely reveal the complexity and beauty of American life. Work by Jay DeFeo, Willem de Kooning, Roy Lichtenstein, Man Ray, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol, and Tom Wesselmann is included.

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Andreas Gursky
Visual Spaces of Today

Through January 7, 2024
Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy
www.mast.org

Andreas Gursky: Visual Spaces of Today features forty works by Gursky selected by the artist and Fondazione MAST curator Urs Stahel and spanning his career. Drawing inspiration from the foundation’s name—the acronym stands for “Manifattura di Arti, Sperimentazione, e Tecnologia”—and its focus on art, innovation, and technology, the works aim to reflect these themes.

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ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN

Through January 13, 2024
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org

Spanning sixty-five years of Ed Ruscha’s remarkable career and mirroring his own cross-disciplinary approach, the exhibition features over 250 works, produced between 1958 and the present. Including painting, drawing, prints, film, photography, artist’s books, and installation, the works are displayed according to a loose chronology throughout the sixth-floor galleries of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Alongside the artist’s most acclaimed works, the exhibition highlights lesser-known aspects of his practice, offering new perspectives and underlining Ruscha’s role as a keen observer of our rapidly changing world.

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Capturing the Moment

Through January 28, 2024
Tate Modern, London
www.tate.org.uk

Capturing the Moment explores the relationship between photography and painting through iconic artworks from the modern era. The exhibition examines how the two distinct mediums have shaped each other and how artists have blurred the boundaries to capture moments in time. Work by Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, John Currin, Andreas Gursky, Pablo Picasso, Jeff Wall, and Andy Warhol is included.

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Deana Lawson in
Inheritance

Through February 2024
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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Inheritance traces the profound impact of legacy and the past across familial, historical, and aesthetic lines. Featuring new acquisitions and rarely seen works by forty-three artists drawn from the Whitney’s own collection, the exhibition includes painting, sculpture, video, photography, and time-based media installations from the 1970s to the present day. This diverse array of works considers what has been passed on and how this may shift, change, or live again. Work by Deana Lawson is included.

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Derrick Adams in
Black California Dreamin’: Claiming Space at America’s Leisure Frontier

Through March 31, 2024
California African American Museum, Los Angeles
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Black California Dreamin’ illuminates the work undertaken by Angelenos and other Californians to make leisure an open, inclusive reality in the first half of the twentieth century. In shaping recreational sites and public spaces during the Jim Crow era, African Americans challenged white supremacy and situated Black identity within oceanfront and inland social gathering places throughout California. The exhibition includes historical photographs and memorabilia alongside contemporary artworks. Work by Derrick Adams is included.

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Duration
Chinese Art in Transformation

Opened September 25, 2020
Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
www.msam.cn

Duration: Chinese Art in Transformation attempts to show how every moment that stretches is an absorption of the past, and the endless possibilities of the future are based on the past and the present. The exhibition presents painting, sculpture, installation, video, animation, and more from the 1970s to the present. Work by Hao Liang, Jia Aili, and Zeng Fanzhi is included.

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Katharina Grosse in
Collezione MAXXI. Lo spazio dell’immagine

Opened November 21, 2018
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
www.maxxi.art

The spirit and the identity of the museum are being renewed with a display of more than thirty works by twenty-six artists. Dedicated to the museum’s new acquisitions, this group show aims to create a counterpoint between the abstract and the figurative. Work by Katharina Grosse is included.

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New Symphony of Time

Opened September 7, 2019
Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
www.msmuseumart.org

New Symphony of Time expands the boundaries of Mississippi’s identity, casting light on a shared past to help reflect an expansive, more inclusive future. The exhibition aims to explore personal and collective memory, history and the connection to place, and the roles artists play in pursuit of civil rights and racial equity through ancestry. Themes include migration, movement, and home; shared humanity; environment; and liberty. Work by Titus Kaphar and Sally Mann is included.

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El eco de Picasso

October 3, 2023–March 31, 2024
Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
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Organized as part of Picasso Celebración—1973–2023, a series of international exhibitions and events commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s death, The Echo of Picasso focuses on his influence on twentieth-century art. The exhibition places Picasso’s practice in dialogue with work by more than fifty artists, including Francis Bacon, Georg Baselitz, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Willem de Kooning, Thomas Houseago, Ewa Juszkiewicz, Richard Prince, Nathaniel Mary Quinn, Cy Twombly, Tom Wesselmann, and Franz West.

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Fragments of a Faith Forgotten
The Art of Harry Smith

October 4–September 28, 2023
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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The first solo exhibition of artist, experimental filmmaker, and groundbreaking musicologist Harry Smith (1923–1991)—whose 1952 compendium of song recordings, Anthology of American Folk Music, laid the groundwork for the popularization of folk music in the 1960s—is cocurated and designed by Carol Bove. This major survey introduces Smith’s life and work within a museum setting for the first time and includes paintings, drawings, experimental films, designs, and objects from Smith’s personal collections, such as string figures and found paper airplanes.

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Georg Baselitz
Sculptures 2011–2015

October 5, 2023–January 7, 2024
Serpentine Galleries, London
www.serpentinegalleries.org

Featuring works selected with Georg Baselitz and taken directly from his studio, this exhibition presents never-before-seen towering wood sculptures alongside loose, inky drawings. The sculptures were not originally intended for public view; they were made as maquettes in preparation for bronze works. Each sculpture originated as a single tree trunk, which Baselitz carved down using power saws, axes, and chisels. The exhibition provides new insights into the artist’s process, and how his works inform one another across different mediums.

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Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well

October 7, 2023–January 28, 2024
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
www.stedelijk.nl

This retrospective explores Nan Goldin’s photographic practice within the context of filmmaking. Over the years, she has created more than a dozen moving-image works composed of thousands of images, ranging from portraits of her friends to traumatic family stories about addiction and domestic violence. Embracing the artist’s original vision of how her work is to be experienced, the exhibition—presented in six unique buildings designed by architect Hala Wardé— focuses on Goldin’s slideshows and video installations set to sound and music. This exhibition has traveled from Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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Picasso in Fontainebleau

October 8, 2023–February 17, 2024
Museum of Modern Art, New York
www.moma.org

Pablo Picasso spent much of the summer of 1921 in the garage of a rented villa in Fontainebleau, France, prolifically creating a startling body of work. Among these creations were two radically different six-foot-high canvases that he painted side by side within weeks of each other: Three Women at the Spring and Three Musicians. This exhibition reunites these two monumental paintings, along with other works from the artist’s pivotal three-month stint in the improvised studio, complemented by photographs and archival documents.

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Damien Hirst
The Weight of Things

Opening October 26, 2023
Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich
www.muca.eu

The Weight of Things—the first major survey of Damien Hirst’s work in Germany—presented by the Museum of Urban and Contemporary Art, Munich (MUCA) spans forty years of the artist’s career. The exhibition features over forty installations, sculptures, and paintings, some of which have never been seen before, as well as work from his most iconic series, including Natural History, Spin Paintings, Medicine Cabinets, Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable, and more, on view at MUCA.

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Making Their Mark

November 2, 2023–January 27, 2024
Shah Garg Foundation, New York
www.shahgargfoundation.org

Making Their Mark, curated by Cecilia Alemani, showcases the works of more than seventy women artists from the last eight decades. The exhibition champions the lives and work of women artists, bringing into vibrant relief their intergenerational relationships, formal and material breakthroughs, and historical impact. Through drawings, mixed media, paintings, sculptures, and textile works, these artists aim to rechart art history through their singular, iconic practices. Work by Carol Bove, Jadé Fadojutimi, Sarah Sze, and Mary Weatherford is included.

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Jordan Wolfson
Body Sculpture

December 9, 2023–April 28, 2024
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
nga.gov.au

This exhibition is the first solo presentation of Jordan Wolfson’s work in Australia and features the world premiere of Body Sculpture (2017–23), a recent major acquisition by the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Body Sculpture is a new animatronic work that combines sculpture and performance to generate emotional and physical responses in the viewer. It will be shown alongside a selection of earlier works by the artist, providing an overview of Wolfson’s practice, which probes difficult, often controversial topics and themes that underlie American culture and contemporary society.

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Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron
Portraits to Dream In

March 21–June 30, 2024
National Portrait Gallery, London
www.npg.org.uk

Photographers Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) and Julia Margaret Cameron (1815–1879) lived a century apart—Cameron working in the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka from the 1860s onwards, and Woodman in the United States and Italy from the 1970s. Both women explored portraiture, going beyond its ability to record appearance, and using their own creativity and imagination to suggest notions of beauty, symbolism, transformation, and storytelling. Showcasing more than 150 rare vintage prints, this exhibition presents an overview of both artists’ careers, and suggests new ways both to look at their work and to examine how photographic portraiture was created in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Michael Craig-Martin

September 21–December 10, 2024
Royal Academy of Arts, London
www.royalacademy.org.uk

Michael Craig-Martin is the largest exhibition of the artist’s work in the United Kingdom. The show includes highlights from throughout his career, including thought-provoking installations and works that pop with color. Since coming to prominence in the late 1960s, Craig-Martin has moved fluidly between sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, and print. Fusing elements of Pop, Minimalism, and Conceptual art, his work transforms everyday objects with bold colors and simple uninflected lines.

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Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well

Opening October 2024
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
www.smb.museum

This retrospective explores Nan Goldin’s photographic practice within the context of filmmaking. Over the years, she has created more than a dozen moving-image works composed of thousands of images, ranging from portraits of her friends to traumatic family stories about addiction and domestic violence. Embracing the artist’s original vision of how her work is to be experienced, the exhibition—presented in six unique buildings designed by architect Hala Wardé— focuses on Goldin’s slideshows and video installations set to sound and music. This exhibition originated at Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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Nan Goldin
This Will Not End Well

Opening March 2025
Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan
pirellihangarbicocca.org

This retrospective explores Nan Goldin’s photographic practice within the context of filmmaking. Over the years, she has created more than a dozen moving-image works composed of thousands of images, ranging from portraits of her friends to traumatic family stories about addiction and domestic violence. Embracing the artist’s original vision of how her work is to be experienced, the exhibition—presented in six unique buildings designed by architect Hala Wardé—focuses on Goldin’s slideshows and video installations set to sound and music. This exhibition has traveled from Moderna Museet, Stockholm.

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Stanley Whitney

Opening Spring 2024
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York
buffaloakg.org

Conveying the breadth of Stanley Whitney’s practice from the early 1970s through today, this exhibition of artist’s paintings at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (formerly the Albright-Knox Art Gallery), also includes a robust installation of drawings, prints, and sketchbooks. The retrospective contextualizes Whitney’s practice in relation to his artistic community as well as his influences—from the history of art and architecture to quilting, textiles, and jazz.

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Georg Baselitz
100 Zeichnungen

June 7–September 17, 2023
Albertina, Vienna
www.albertina.at

This exhibition, whose title translates to 100 Drawings, celebrates Georg Baselitz’s gift of fifty drawings to both the Morgan Library & Museum in New York and the Albertina in Vienna. Shown together, the works present a retrospective of Baselitz’s artistic development and highlight the central role that drawing plays in his practice. This exhibition has traveled from the Morgan Library, where it was titled Six Decades of Drawings.