Exhibitions
Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, and the Female Form
Recasting Antiquity: Whistler, Tanagra, and the Female Form focuses on a series of works on paper by the American artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903), created in the early 1890s under the inspiration of the recently excavated Hellenistic Greek terracotta figurines known collectively as Tanagras.
February 3 - May 19, 2024
Michael C. Carlos Museum
Spring Energy
Geelong-based printmaker and painter, Astrid’s Lino print collection, Spring Energy uses meticulous, intricate mark-making to create vibrant textures and lifelike fabrics in her artworks.
Combining portraiture and immersive scenes, the viewer becomes the protagonist, engaging intimately with each piece. Astrid aims to evoke a profound connection, inviting individuals to weave their personal memories into the depicted moments.
5th February – 5th March 2024
Solo Show
Eagle Nest Gallery,
48 Great Ocean Road, Aireys Inlet, Vic 3231 Australia
Alexis Hunter
A survey of this feminist artist who died in 2014 leaving a striking body of radical art.
Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, from 6 February until 30 March
Beyond Form: Lines of Abstraction, 1950-1970
Abstract art by women including Eva Hesse and Marisa Merz, from the era between 1950 and 1970 when modernism triumphed, then broke into more organic and personal visions.
Turner Contemporary, Margate, from 3 February until 6 May
In Pursuit of Light: Women in Photography from the Permanent Collection
The camera has played a significant and sometimes controversial role in the advent of image-making. The photographic print is a step between seeing and publication, a democratization of art and image. Women photographers who respond to feminist movements use the lens to mobilize a call for a unifying salvation; and to consider illusion and subjective faith in something greater, to collectively persuade everyone to act for the sake of self-preservation, deliverance from ignorance, harm, loss, or ruin.
Join us at the Martin Museum of Art as we proudly present a thought-provoking exhibition that celebrates the strength, resilience, and creativity of women through the art of photography.
Exhibition Open:
January 9th - April 8th, 2024
Martin Museum of Art
Cathrine Raben Davidsen: Let Everything Happen To You
Let Everything Happen to You is the most comprehensive retrospective exhibition of Raben Davidsen’s art to date. In Hall 3, more than 130 paintings and drawings show new sides of the Danish artist Cathrine Raben Davidsen’s (b. 1972) distinctive and impactful work.
Spanning the artist’s three most important periods – the mid-1990s (1995-1998), the 2010s (2015-2017) and the present – the exhibition reveals a less familiar, more personally rooted side of Raben Davidsen’s work, shaped by experiences of loss, the search for identity and transformation.
Known for her poetic, dream-like, vibrant visual language, Raben Davidsen, in a nearly 30-year career, has developed a singular expression moving between myth and history, light and darkness, reality and fantasy across time, space and stylistic genres. Let Everything Happen to You combines raw, atmospheric drawings, in charcoal, oil and ink, with lavishly layered oil paintings large and small. The subject matter ranges from intimate portraits (including two self-portraits) to abstract landscapes, mythological and religious narratives and figures transforming from one state to another. At the heart of her work is the artistic treatment of humanity and personal experience.
26.01.24 – 12.05.24
Copenhagen Contemporary
Refshalevej 173A, 1432 Cph K
+45 29 89 80 87
Artists, Constellations, And Connections: Feminist Futures
Artists, Constellations and Connections: Feminist Futures has been organized by the JSMA and seven members of the UO Department of Art as part of the 50th anniversary of the Center for the Study of Women in Society. Placing current work by studio art faculty alongside and in conversation with works they have selected from the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art’s permanent collection, the exhibition explores critical questions about artmaking, history, the future, and feminist models of intersectional inquiry in the current moment of great social, political, and environmental change.
January 27, 2024 to June 17, 2024
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
‘Georgia O’Keeffe and Henry Moore: Giants of Modern Art’ at MMFA
As two of the greatest and most recognized names in the history of Modern art, O’Keeffe and Moore have been the subjects of innumerable exhibitions and publications. Now, for the first time, their lives and art are examined in parallel in this exhibition presenting over 120 works, together with recreations of each artist’s studio, thanks to an unprecedented collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation, Much Hadham, England, and the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, New Mexico. In the resulting unique and powerful dialogue, O’Keeffe’s paintings and Moore’s sculptures underscore the fundamental relationship between humanity and the natural world – a theme that will undoubtedly resonate with audiences today.
From Feb 10, 2024 to Jun 2, 2024
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Crafting Modernity Design in Latin America, 1940–1980
“There is design in everything,” wrote Clara Porset, the innovative Cuban-Mexican designer. She believed that craft and industry could inspire each other, forging an alternative path for modern design. Not all of Porset’s colleagues agreed with her conviction. This exhibition presents these sometimes conflicting visions of modernity proposed by designers of home environments in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela between 1940 and 1980. For some, design was an evolution of local and Indigenous craft traditions, leading to an approach that combined centuries-old artisanal techniques with machine-based methods. For others, design responded to market conditions and local tastes, and was based on available technologies and industrial processes. In this exhibition, objects including furniture, appliances, posters, textiles, and ceramics, as well as a selection of photographs and paintings, will explore these tensions.
Mar 8–Sep 22, 2024
MoMA
DIVA
DIVA celebrates the power and creativity of iconic performers, exploring and redefining the role of 'diva' and how this has been subverted or embraced over time across opera, stage, popular music, and film.
Open until Wednesday, 10 April 2024
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 2RL
Entry Fee: £20.00
Body Constructs
Modern architects and designers imagined not only new buildings and objects, but also the bodies that would inhabit and use them. This gallery explores two seemingly opposing yet complementary design tendencies that developed after World War II: the invention of narrowly defined “average” human figures intended to support universally applicable designs; and an urge to challenge the belief that such simplified constructs could encompass the full range of bodily variation and embodied experience.
MoMA, Floor 4, 417
The David Geffen Galleries
New on view
Ongoing
An-My Lê: Between Two Rivers
For 30 years, the photographs of artist An-My Lê have engaged the complex fictions that inform how we justify, represent, and mythologize warfare and other forms of conflict. Lê does not take a straightforward photojournalistic approach to depicting combat. Rather, with poetic attention to politics and landscape, she meditates on the meaning of perpetual violence, war’s environmental impact, and the significance of diaspora. “Being a landscape photographer,” she has said, “means creating a relationship between various categories—the individual within a larger construct such as the military, history, and culture.”
MoMA, Floor 3, 3 East
The Robert B. Menschel Galleries
Through Mar 16
The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
Undoubtedly one of the most buzzed-about shows for the year ahead is the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s February opening of “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism,” which will feature over 150 artworks including paintings, sculpture, photography, film, and other ephemera.
The show delves into the far-reaching impact of Black artists portraying everyday life in the new Black cities that sprang up in the decades between the 1920s and 40s, particularly in Harlem but also nationwide. The show explores the early years of the Great Migration when African Americans began leaving the segregated South in drove. It’s the first major survey of the subject in New York City since 1987. Featured artists include Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
February 25—July 28, 2024
Zanele Muholi: Eye Me
“Eye Me” is the first major museum solo exhibition of South African artist Zanele Muholi on the West Coast. Featuring more than 100 photographs by the artist dated from between 2002 through today, alongside a selection of paintings, sculptures, and video works, the show offers a comprehensive look into the artist’s practice—for both those new to her work and longtime followers. Recognized for her ongoing engagement with the Black queer community of post-Apartheid South Africa, Muholi’s work is frequently situated at the intersection of art and activism. Regardless of a specific subject, Muholi’s work emphasizes the power and beauty, as well as the complex history, of LGBTQ+ communities.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
January 18–August 11, 2024
Women Dressing Women
The Costume Institute's fall 2023 exhibition will explore the creativity and artistic legacy of women fashion designers from The Met’s permanent collection, tracing a lineage of makers from the turn of the twentieth century to the present day by highlighting celebrated designers, new voices, and forgotten histories alike.
Women Dressing Women will feature the work of over seventy womenswear designers, spanning ca. 1910 to today, including French haute couture from houses such as Jeanne Lanvin, Elsa Schiaparelli, and Madeleine Vionnet, to American makers like Ann Lowe, Claire McCardell, and Isabel Toledo, along with contemporary designs by Iris van Herpen, Rei Kawakubo, Anifa Mvuemba, and Simone Rocha.
A catalogue, published by The Met and distributed by Yale University Press, will accompany the exhibition.
The exhibition and catalogue are made possible by Morgan Stanley.
Through March 3, 2024
Now on view at The Met Fifth Avenue, Galleries 980-981
Free with Museum admission
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
Want to appreciate more art and design in your daily life? Just look down. The apparel we wear reflects not only our personal tastes and values but also a profound relationship to modern art. Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction reveals the myriad ways textiles intersect with and influence world-renowned modern artists and movements. Woven Histories delves into dynamic moments when social and political issues have activated textile production and artmaking with heightened focus and urgency. Traced chronologically with 160 works made in a range of techniques—from oil painting to weaving, basketry, netting, knotting, and knitting—the exhibition explores the overlap between abstract art, fashion, design, and craft.
March 17 – July 28, 2024
East Building, Concourse Galleries
The National Gallery of Art
Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has the largest public collection of works by Alma Thomas in the world. Thomas’s art first entered SAAM’s collection in 1970. The museum acquired more than a dozen works during the artist’s lifetime, and thirteen that were bequeathed to the museum by Thomas after her death. Composing Color: Paintings by Alma Thomas draws on these extensive holdings to offer an intimate view of Thomas’s evolving practice during her most prolific period, 1959 to 1978.
Smithsonian American Art Museum
September 15, 2023 – June 2, 2024
Open Daily, 11:30 a.m.–7:00 p.m
Free Admission
Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design
Any act of good design must also be an act of empathy, respect, and responsibility toward all living organisms and ecosystems––as well as future generations. By translating scientific, technological, and social revolutions into objects and behaviors, design can be an agent of positive change and play a crucial part in restoring the fragile ties between humans and the rest of nature. Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design explores the regenerative power of design as it shifts its focus towards a more collaborative rapport with the natural world. The objects in this exhibition highlight the entire life cycle of the materials they are made of. From extraction to reuse or disposal, designers are exploring new ways––sometimes drawn from old traditions––to enlist materials in their efforts to bring ecosystems into balance. Cow manure collected from the streets of Indonesia is transformed into casings for loudspeakers and lamps. Bricks made from crop waste and fungi mycelium are used as a carbon-neutral building material. Bees fabricate honeycomb vases over human-made forms. These objects demonstrate that design can be elegant, innovative, and compelling, while at the same time offering new strategies for repairing our planet.
Through Jul 7, 2024
MoMA, Floor 1, 1 South