Organized by six groupings — Infinite Possibilities, Systems of Value, Becoming a Commodity, The Private and The Public Body, The Notion of the Facade, and In Front of the Camera/Behind the Scenes — the exhibition is curated by Manetti Shrem Museum Associate Curator and Exhibition Department Head Susie Kantor. Spanning 45 years, this exhibition (including works of Shirin Neshat and Rosemarie Trockel) points to the long and ongoing conversation around these topics. “We are excited that Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo has chosen our university museum as the venue for the U.S. premiere of her collection,” said Founding Director Rachel Teagle. “It’s an extraordinary opportunity to showcase diverse, groundbreaking work and build upon the museum’s track record of featuring women artists at significant moments in their careers.”
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This summer, the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ( ICA) opens the 2025 Watershed season with "Chiharu Shiota: Home Less Home", on view May 22 through Sept.1, 2025. The exhibition features two large-scale installations by the Berlin-based, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota (born 1972 in Osaka, Japan), including the debut of a new commission made for the ICA Watershed. Shiota foregrounds universal stories of migration, home, connection, memory, and survival. Her signature approach combines intricate, immense, and web-like installations built of thread and rope with quotidian objects—such as shoes, suitcases, beds, chairs, dresses, and keys—that serve as symbols for human presence and memory.
Read MoreThere are everyday chamber operas, and then there are the works conceived and directed by South African artist William Kentridge. Kentridge’s "The Great Yes, The Great No", which is being presented Feb. 5–8 at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills and March 14–16 at Cal Performances in Berkeley, is an opera that is also part play, with a Greek chorus thrown in for good measure. Based on actual events, the work involves a who’s who of mid-20th-century thinkers, including French surrealist André Breton, French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Cuban artist Wifredo Lam, depicting their historic escape from Vichy France on a cargo ship sailing from Marseille to Martinique.
Read MoreIshara Art Foundation opens 2025 with Lines of Flight, Shilpa Gupta's first solo exhibition in West Asia (from 18 January to 31 May 2025). Featuring a diverse selection of artworks from 2006 to the present that include a new sound installation, site-specific interventions, sculptures, drawings, prints and videos, the exhibition foregrounds Gupta's longstanding critical engagement with narratives of mobility, control and acts of resilience. Over the last two and a half decades, Shilpa Gupta's interdisciplinary art practice has challenged how individual and collective identities are perceived, governed and orchestrated by state and societal forces. Her work questions how people, places, everyday objects and languages get recast through nationality, gender and economic relations. By focusing on moments of unrest, Gupta's work encourages viewers to participate in imagining a new poetics of resistance.
Read MoreThe group exhibition Modeling the World (15 March—7 September 2025, Aranya Art Center, Beidaihe, China) presents four parallel projects, inspired by and constructed from architecture and models, including Ilya and Emilia Kabakov's works. Here, models become metaphors for a range of concepts, social phenomena, emotions, memories, and imaginations. From spiritual architecture to public space, Aranya has long used architecture to shape its unique social life, culture, and aesthetic, which is itself a starting point for this exhibition.
Read MoreDer Maler Gerhard Richter sorgt sich um eine auf Kunst spezialisierte Bibliothek in seiner Heimatstadt Köln. "Die Kunst- und Museumsbibliothek ist eine unerschöpfliche Wissens- und Inspirationsquelle", teilte der Künstler über die Initiative "Rettet die KMB!" mit. "Als solche habe ich sie über Jahrzehnte schätzen gelernt. Als Kölner Bürger bin ich stolz, dass die Stadt über diesen reichen Schatz verfügt, der jeden Tag von vielen Kunstinteressierten – Professionellen wie Laien – aktiv genutzt wird." Richter, der am 9. Februar 93 Jahre alt wird, gilt als einer der einflussreichsten Maler der Welt, dessen Gemälde zu den teuersten gehören.
Read MoreAcclaimed for the singularity of her work, at once melancholy and mysterious, Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota, of the Templon gallery, has set up shop at the Grand Palais until March 19, to reveal in a masterly exhibition a body of work shot through with illness, underlined by her compulsive weaving of threads unfolding in dazzling spidery enchantments.
Read MoreWith the opening of a blockbuster exhibition at London's Tate Modern last year, let's take this opportunity to celebrate Yoko Ono and explore why she never received a fair trial. (...) An exhibition hoping to celebrate Ono as an experimental, enduring and visionary artist in her own right.
Read MoreThe exhibition “Gerhard Richter. 100 works for Berlin”shows for the first time the long-term loan from the Gerhard Richter Art Foundation to the Neue Nationalgalerie (1 Apr 2023 — 1 Sep 2026). The central work in the exhibition is the series Birkenau (2014), consisting of four large-format, abstract paintings. Birkenau is the result of Richter’s long and in-depth engagement with the Holocaust and the possibilities of representing it. The works are based on four photographs taken in the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, which the artist transposed with charcoal and oil paint to four canvases before gradually painting over them abstractly. With each layer of paint, the depiction of the original drawing disappeared a little more, until it eventually became invisible. The work also includes a large four-part mirror, which is positioned opposite the four Birkenau canvases, creating another level of reflection.
Read MoreThe artist's 36-minute film, ‘Moving Picture (946-3) Kyoto Version (2019–24)’, is currently on show at Gagosian (Gagosian, Rome, until 1 February 1 2025). Now firmly in his ninth decade, the German master has collaborated with filmmaker Corinna Belz, composer Rebecca Saunders and the Dutch trumpeter Marco Blaauw, to make what might just be the crowning achievement of the intervening three decades of work. (...) On opening night, this restless effervescence of almost impossible detail holds a moneyed, vernissage crowd completely spellbound in the way only a magician might. And that is before the actual performance, wherein the film is accompanied by a live performance of its 13-channel spatialised soundtrack. (...) Projected at monumental scale, over 7m across, Moving Picture (946-3) is an immersive experience.
Read MorePoetic and spectacular, Chiharu Shiota's immense swarms of tangled threads have made her famous the world over. The Grand Palais presents the largest exhibition ever devoted to this Japanese artist, born in 1972: “Chiharu Shiota. The Soul Trembles” (December 11 2024 - March 19 2025). Over 1,200 m² of exhibition space is devoted to monumental works and little-known pieces. Far from remaining on the (very Instagrammable) surface of her installations, the exhibition plunges us into the multiple ramifications of her universe.
Read MoreWilliam Kentridge is internationally recognised for his drawings, films, and theatre and opera productions. His method combines drawing, writing, film, performance, music and theatre to create works of art based on politics, science, literature and history while maintaining a space for contradiction and uncertainty. (...) William Kentridge: "More Sweetly Play the Dance" installation which is part of the collection of Fundació Sorigué, will be shown at the Museo Picasso Málaga as an Invited Work from 21 November to 27 April next year.
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