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XXVI, NO. 289, APRIL 2017 p001_Tan2_Cover Attendance.indd 1 22/03/2017 10:15 42 THE ART NEWSPAPER REVIEW Number 289, April 2017 Calendar April 2017 U: United States • David Reed: Vice and Re$ection • American Watercolor in the Age of • Body of Devotion: the Cosmic KEY UNTIL 21 MAY THREE TO SEE Homer and Sargent Buddha in 3D Listings are in alphabetical • Ulla von Brandenburg UNTIL 14 MAY UNTIL 9 JULY order by country, then city UNTIL 25 JUNE NEW YORK • Notations/Joseph Marioni: • Inventing Utamaro: a Japanese Y Commercial gallery • Routes of In$uence Paintings, 2000"15 Masterpiece Rediscovered UNTIL 18 JULY UNTIL 22 MAY 8 APRIL!9 JULY ) Recommended this month Whitney Biennial, Whitney • Inside/Out Museum of American Art • Embroidered Textiles of Punjab • Sky Blue: Colour in Ceramics of the ? Recommended previously: see UNTIL 30 JULY UNTIL 9 JULY Islamic World theartnewspaper.com/shows • John Akomfrah: Tropikos “This enthusiastic and • Marcel Duchamp and the Fountain UNTIL 16 JULY UNTIL 27 AUGUST broad snapshot of Scandal • Artists Transforming Afghanistan NEW YORK 1 APRIL!3 DECEMBER UNTIL 29 OCTOBER Julia Wachtel’s Membership (1984) is in Bronx Museum of the Arts contemporary American the Painting from the 1980s show SAN DIEGO Freer Gallery of Art • Abstract Expressionism • Clayton Frazier: Faces of the Island art comes at a time of Museum of Contemporary Art • Kung Fu Wildstyle UNTIL 6 AUGUST of Saint Dominique • Dimensions of Black: A 1 APRIL!30 APRIL • Japanese Fashion Design 1980s-90s UNTIL 23 APRIL little political optimism. That discord is palpable.” P.P. Collaboration with the San Diego Hirshhorn Museum and UNTIL 28 MAY • The Neighbors, Part Three: Love African American Museum of Fine Art Sculpture Garden • Shade: Cly!ord Still/Mark Bradford Thy Neighbour Painting from the 1980s, Whitney Museum of American Art UNTIL 30 APRIL • Linn Meyers: Our View from Here 9 APRIL!16 JULY UNTIL 11 JUNE • Jennifer Steinkamp: Madame Curie UNTIL 14 MAY HOUSTON • Arlene Slavin: Intersections “Shot: Whitney Biennial. Chaser: this little dynamo of a UNTIL 20 AUGUST • Yayoi Kusama: In%nity Mirrors Museum of Fine Arts, UNTIL 25 JUNE show upstairs, where retro paintings are suddenly hip SAN FRANCISCO UNTIL 14 MAY Houston • Wild Noise/Ruido Salvaje Asian Art Museum of San • Smithsonian Garden presents • A History of Photography: Selections UNTIL 3 JULY again. It’s a good reminder that fashion is cyclical.” J.H. Francisco Orchids: a Moment from the Museum’s Collection • Daniel Hauben: Re$ecting on the • Tomb Treasures: New Discoveries UNTIL 14 MAY UNTIL 9 MAY Familiar Shiva Ahmadi: Ascend, Leila Heller Gallery from China’s Han Dynasty • Bettina Pousttchi: World Time Clock ? • Adiós Utopia: Dreams and UNTIL 3 JULY UNTIL 28 MAY UNTIL 29 MAY Deceptions in Cuban Art Since 1950 Brooklyn Museum “Ahmadi’s lush yet delicate drawings, inspired by both • Arts, Culture and Legacy of the Sikhs National Gallery of Art UNTIL 21 MAY • Georgia O’Kee!e: Living Modern Persian miniatures and the refugee crisis, dance on a UNTIL 18 JUNE • Della Robbia: Sculpting with Color • Central Asian Ikats UNTIL 23 JULY Legion of Honor in Renaissance Florence UNTIL 4 JUNE • We Wanted a Revolution: Black knife’s edge of violence and beauty.” S.P.H. • Monet: the Early Years UNTIL 4 JUNE ? • Cuban Photography after 1980 Radical Women, 1965"85 UNTIL 29 MAY • Frédéric Bazille and the Birth of UNTIL 4 JUNE 21 APRIL!17 SEPTEMBER and Poetry of Emily Dickinson Y David Zwirner M.H. de Young Museum Impressionism • Decorative Arts in the Age of Victoria Dia: Chelsea UNTIL 28 MAY • Alice Neel: Uptown • Danny Lyon: Message to the Future 9 APRIL!9 JULY UNTIL 30 JULY • Hanne Darboven: Museum of Modern Art UNTIL 22 APRIL UNTIL 30 APRIL • Nineteenth-Century American • Ron Mueck UNTIL 29 JULY • How Should We Live? Propositions • John McCracken • Stuart Davis: in Full Swing Landscape Photography UNTIL 13 AUGUST • Kishio Suga for the Modern Interior UNTIL 15 APRIL 1 APRIL!6 AUGUST UNTIL 16 JULY LOS ANGELES UNTIL 29 JULY UNTIL 23 APRIL • Al Taylor: Early Paintings • The Summer of Love Experience: • Theaster Gates: the Minor Arts Hammer Museum Frick Collection • Making Faces: Images of UNTIL 15 APRIL Art, Fashion and Rock & Roll UNTIL 4 SEPTEMBER • Dubu!et Drawings, 1935"1962 • Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports Exploitation and Empowerment in Y Gagosian Gallery, 21st St 8 APRIL!20 AUGUST National Portrait Gallery UNTIL 30 APRIL UNTIL 14 MAY Cinema • Albert Oehlen, Elevator Paintings: • Worldwide Embroidery Traditions • Bill Viola: the Moving Portrait • Selections from the Hammer International Center of UNTIL 30 APRIL Trees UNTIL 31 AUGUST UNTIL 7 MAY Contemporary Collection: Liz Craft Photography • Photographs from Robert B. UNTIL 15 APRIL San Francisco Museum of • Lincoln’s Contemporaries UNTIL 30 APRIL • Perpetual Revolution: the Image Menschel Y Gagosian Gallery, 24th St Modern Art UNTIL 19 MAY • Jimmie Durham: at the Centre of and Social Change UNTIL 7 MAY • Robert Therrien • Diane Arbus: in the Beginning • One Life: Babe Ruth the World UNTIL 7 MAY ) • Louise Lawler: Why Pictures Now 6 APRIL!26 MAY UNTIL 30 APRIL UNTIL 21 MAY UNTIL 7 MAY • Han Youngsoo: Photographs of 30 APRIL!30 JULY Y Gagosian Gallery, Madison • Paul Klee at Play • Daguerreian Portrait Pairs • Hammer Projects: Andrea Bowers Seoul 1956"63 • Making Space: Women Artists and Avenue UNTIL 14 MAY UNTIL 4 JUNE UNTIL 16 JULY UNTIL 9 JUNE Postwar Abstraction • Sterling Ruby • Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in Phillips Collection J. Paul Getty Museum Jewish Museum 15 APRIL!13 AUGUST UNTIL 15 APRIL Motion—Cloud Cities • Jacob Lawrence: the Life of • Breaking News: Turning the Lens on • Using Walls, Floors, and Ceilings: Neue Galerie Y Hauser & Wirth, 22nd St UNTIL 21 MAY Toussaint L’Ouverture Mass Media Alex Israel • Alexei Jawlensky • Roni Horn ? • Matisse/Diebenkorn UNTIL 30 APRIL UNTIL 30 APRIL UNTIL 23 APRIL UNTIL 29 MAY 27 APRIL!29 JULY UNTIL 29 MAY • Toulouse-Lautrec Illustrates the • Remembering Antiquity: the • The Arcades: Contemporary Art New Museum Y Hauser & Wirth, 69th St • Larry Sultan: Here and Home Belle Époque Ancient World through Medieval Eyes and Walter Benjamin • A.K. Burns: Shabby but Thriving • Portable Art Project 15 APRIL!23 JULY UNTIL 30 APRIL UNTIL 28 MAY UNTIL 6 AUGUST UNTIL 23 APRIL 20 APRIL!17 JUNE • British Sculptors: the Fisher • Arlene Shechet, from Here On Now • Gerard David: an Early Netherlandish • Charlemagne Palestine’s Bear • Screens Series: GOD Y Lehmann Maupin, Collection UNTIL 7 MAY Altarpiece Reassembled Mitzvah in Meshugahland UNTIL 21 MAY Chrystie St UNTIL 3 SEPTEMBER • George Condo: the Way I Think UNTIL 18 JUNE UNTIL 6 AUGUST • Carol Rama: Antibodies • Teresita Fernández: Fire (America) SEATTLE UNTIL 25 JUNE • Jane and Louise Wilson’s Sealander Metropolitan Museum of Art 26 APRIL!10 SEPTEMBER UNTIL 20 MAY Seattle Art Museum Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian UNTIL 2 JULY • Peder Balke: Painter of Northern Onassis Cultural Center Y Lehmann Maupin, 22nd St • Jacob Lawrence: the Migration American Art Museum • Concrete Poetry: Words and Light • A World of Emotions: Ancient • Erwin Wurm Series • Voulkos: the Breakthrough Years Sounds in Graphic Space 10 APRIL!9 JULY Greece, 700BC"200AD UNTIL 26 MAY UNTIL 23 APRIL 7 APRIL!20 AUGUST UNTIL 30 JULY ) • Age of Empires: Chinese Art of UNTIL 24 JUNE Y Leila Heller Gallery • Jennifer West: Film is Dead… • June Schwarcz: Invention and Los Angeles County Museum the Qin and Han Dynasties Solomon R. Guggenheim ) • Shiva Ahmadi: Ascend UNTIL 7 MAY Variation of Art (Lacma) 3 APRIL!16 JULY Museum UNTIL 15 APRIL • Seeing Nature UNTIL 27 AUGUST • Awazu Kiyoshi, Graphic Design: ) • Irving Penn: Centennial • Doug Wheeler: PSAD Synthetic Y Marian Goodman Gallery UNTIL 23 MAY Smithsonian American Art Summoning the Outdated 24 APRIL!30 JULY Desert III • Lawrence Weiner: WASHINGTON, DC Museum UNTIL 7 MAY • Celebrating the Arts of Japan: the UNTIL 2 AUGUST UNTIL 22 APRIL Arthur M. Sackler Gallery • Measured Perfection: Hiram • Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Mary Griggs Burke Collection ) • The Hugo Boss Prize 2016 ? • Eija-Liisa Ahtila: Studies on the • Darren Waterston’s Filthy Lucre Powers’ Greek Slave Across Time UNTIL 14 MAY 21 APRIL!5 JULY Ecology of Drama UNTIL 4 JUNE UNTIL 9 JULY UNTIL 7 MAY • City of Memory: William Chappel’s • Lenka Clayton and Jon Rubin: UNTIL 22 APRIL • The Inner Eye: Vision and Views of Early 19th-century New York …Circle through New York Y Michael Werner Gallery Transcendence in African Arts UNTIL 14 MAY UNTIL 31 AUGUST • Jörg Immendor! UNTIL 9 JUNE ? • The Mysterious Landscapes of ? • Visionaries: Creating a Modern UNTIL 13 MAY • Labor and Photography Hercules Segers Guggenheim Y Pace Gallery, West 24th St UNTIL 11 JUNE UNTIL 21 MAY UNTIL 6 SEPTEMBER • Kevin Francis Gray • Moholy-Nagy: Future Present • European Paintings: Recent • Jackson Pollock: Exploring Alchemy UNTIL 22 APRIL UNTIL 18 JUNE Acquisitions 2015"16 UNTIL 6 SEPTEMBER Y Paul Kasmin Gallery, • Ed Fella: Free Work in Due Time UNTIL 26 MAY Studio Museum in Harlem 10th Avenue UNTIL 30 JUNE • The Poetics of Place: Contemporary