Turner and Constable at Tate Britain
To mark the 250th year of both artists' birth Tate Britain has organized a blockbuster exhibition dedicated to the work of Turner and Constable.
Tracey Emin at Tate Modern
Tate Modern has organized a large Tracey Emin retrospective. Her work is a testimony to the cathartic power of art.
Chiharu Shiota at the Hayward Gallery
Chiharu Shiota's immersive installations are highly photogenic, but the symbolism is a bit too obvious for me.
Further Reading
Solvej Balle’s time loop. Chantal Akerman’s predicament. Schubert’s imagination. György Kurtág at 100. Why rivers in the far north are turning orange. Coding after coders. U.S. rail service. Archimedes. László Krasznahorkai. Jürgen Habermas. And more.
Birds at the Mauritshuis
The Mauritshuis has mounted a small but wonderful exhibition about humanity's fraught relationship with birds curated by The Goldfinch and the British writer and art historian Simon Schama.
Metamorphoses at the Rijksmuseum
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam has organized an ambitious exhibition devoted to Ovid's "Metamorphoses", assembling roughly eighty exceptional works by the likes of Bernini, Caravaggio, Titian, Poussin, Rodin and Louise Bourgeois.
Children in Art at the Bucerius Kunst Forum
An ambitious exhibition at the Bucerius Kunst Forum in Hamburg showcases five centuries of children's portraiture, from Titian to Rineke Dijkstra
Monster’s Paradise
Monster's Paradise, the latest collaboration between Olga Neuwirth and Elfriede Jelinek, directed by Tobias Kratzer is a highly entertaining take on the current state of the world in the form of an opera.
Further Reading
Visions of America. Derrida on hospitality. Astrocytes. Kojève vs Hegel. Quantum computers. The mysteries of Easter Island. A starless cloud of hydrogen gas. Morton Feldman. Barnett Newman. Gertrude Stein. And more.
John Baldessari at BOZAR
At the last minute and just before it closed I visited the John Baldessari exhibition "Parables, Fables and Other Stories" at BOZAR in Brussels. I’m glad I did, because it was a fun show.
Escher at the Monnaie de Paris
The Monnaie de Paris is hosting the first major exhibition in France dedicated to the work of M.C. Escher. Evidently it is not to be missed if you happen to be in Paris.
Gerhard Richter at the Fondation Louis Vuitton
The Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris is presenting the largest retrospective ever dedicated to Gerhard Richter, featuring 271 works spanning six decades.