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A guide to the best exhibitions and events in the visual arts
It’s a Picasso summer in New York, with the Met mounting a landmark display of its 300 works by the European master and a complementary MOMA show of 100 prints. To Aug. 1/to Aug. 30. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave./Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St.
Houle unveils Paris/Ojibwa, a room-sized multimedia installation that serves as a post-colonial recontextualization of the encounter between Parisians and indigenous Canadians brought to France in 1845 to perform in tableaux vivants that accompanied the display of George Catlin’s paintings. Through Sept. 10. Centre culturel canadien, 5, rue de Constantine, Paris.
This large-scale exhibition marks Cattelan’s return to sculpture and characteristically provokes uneasy laughter and tense smiles. Until Aug. 15. Menil Collection, 1515 Sul Ross St., Houston.
A major retrospective demonstrates how Klein concisely channelled the 20th century’s material and spiritual radicalism in his short, dramatic career. To Sept. 12. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, National Mall, Washington.
Calder’s much-loved art is joined by new work from seven contemporary sculptors who cite the American artist’s direct, expressive aesthetic as a major influence. Opening June 26. Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago.
The first-ever US museum show of Warhol’s late work consists of 50 paintings from the prolific, celebrity-drenched ten-year period prior to his 1987 death. Until Sept. 12. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy., Brooklyn.
The Canadians Stan Douglas, Luis Jacob, Jeff Wall and Sarah Anne Johnson are included in this vast presentation exploring the desire for an “unrecuperable past” in contemporary photo, video and performance art. To Sept. 6. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave., New York.
A commission for the historic Scotsman Steps and a ballet collaboration with Sadler’s Wells are highlights of this survey of the UK artist’s thoughtful yet public-friendly work. From July 30. Fruitmarket Gallery, 45 Market St., Edinburgh.
Davey’s cool but intimate still-life photographs join video works and new folded-photo grid assemblages in ”Speaker Receiver,” the Canadian artist’s first European museum show. Until Aug. 29. Kunsthalle Basel, Steinenberg 7, Basel.
This edition of the Australian biennial, helmed by David Elliott under the theme “The Beauty of Distance,” celebrates the extraordinary and art’s life-affirming power, with exuberant spectacles and costumed performances figuring prominently in a show that bears out its title by including art from around the world. May 12 to Aug. 1. Museum of Contemporary Art and other Sydney Harbour sites.
Paris was portrayed in newly magical ways in the 1920s and 1930s thanks to the Surrealist aesthetic of photographers such as Man Ray, Brassaï and André Kertész. An exhibition of more than 150 photos, magazines, films and other items demonstrates how these artists and more used an avant-garde approach to the photographic medium to depict both the city’s dreamlike romance and the jarring disjunctions inherent in modern urban life. To May 9. International Center of Photography, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York.
Walter Benjamin’s view of history as discontinuous is the organizing principle of an exhibition that both revisits the recent past of Central and Eastern Europe via works by more than 50 artists primarily from those regions and also takes stock of these figures’ considerable influence upon current art-making. Opening Apr. 14. Centre Pompidou, pl. Georges Pompidou, Paris.
The New Museum kicks off an experimental exhibition series based on private collections with a museum-wide presentation of the famed Dakis Joannou Collection of contemporary art, curated by the Greek industrialist’s longtime friend and associate Jeff Koons. To June 6. New Museum, 235 Bowery, New York.
The performance pioneer is known for intense durational actions that push the limits of body and mind alike. Her first full-scale U.S. museum retrospective is slated to include the world premiere of The Artist Is Present, her longest solo piece to date. Until May 31. Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York.
Playground, laboratory or factory: works in a wide range of media that explore environments devoted to the creative process are gathered for an allstar exhibition subtitled “The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out.” Until May 30. Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago.
Full talks and tours schedule, Douglas Coupland conversation info, and magazine launch details posted for free day of activities
Applications due May 9 for $55,000 in prizes
Free art tours for high-school students to take place in April and May
New writers on contemporary art encouraged to apply by June 1
Dates already set for next year’s Toronto festival
Applications for this $7,000 student award are due April 6
Event to feature a conversation with Douglas Coupland, gallery tours, a magazine launch and more
Films on Shary Boyle, Elmgreen & Dragset, Michel de Broin and Jon Gnarr set to open the festival on March 22
Opening-night celebration and art-industry talks highlight fifth year of fair
Don’t miss the North American premieres of films on Candida Höfer and Thomas Struth, happening February 23
The 85-year-old artist Arnaud Maggs nudged out Fred Herzog and Alain Paiement as winner of the second annual Scotiabank Photography Award, announced last night in Toronto. This $50,000 win follows the opening of a major Maggs survey at the National Gallery of Canada.
As one of the primary exhibitions for Contact 2012, “Public: Collective Identity | Occupied Spaces” is ambitious. Charlene K. Lau observes that the two-venue show mirrors the fractures of contemporary life: public and private, visible and invisible, place and non-place.
In this review, writer and artist Joni Murphy considers Abbas Akhavan’s current solo show in Montreal, which activates a variety of themes—war and art, destruction and nation building, human and animal—with a distinctively light touch.
Melding William Morris-style ornamentation with more contemporary concerns, artist Luke Painter detours around dry academicism for something more vibrant and visceral. Mariam Nader reviews his current Toronto show at LE Gallery, finding depth in decoration.
Frieze opened its first New York edition last week with some surprising highlights: sculptures that were free for public viewing outside the big commercial tent. Canadian Art art director Barbara Solowan was there, and brought back this slideshow.
