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A guide to the best exhibitions and events in the visual arts
The 75th edition of the Whitney’s roundup of new American art includes 55 artists offering “diverse responses to the anxiety and optimism of the past two years.” To May 30. Whitney Museum of American Art, 945 Madison Ave., New York.
The former slaving hub of Liverpool is an appropriate venue for this exhibition on the role the hybrid culture of the Black Atlantic diaspora has played in the development of modernist thinking and aesthetics from the early 20th century to today. Until Apr. 25. Tate Liverpool, Albert Dock.
26 artists from India attest to the art boom underway in the world’s largest democracy. To May 7. Saatchi Gallery, Duke of York’s HQ, London.
Fritsch’s art seems to speak directly to the collective consciousness: the stripped-down contours and colouring of her sculptures give her work a certain totemic, anxiety-inducing power that undercuts its subtle humour. In this retrospective, the German artist continues to address the museum-going experience by juxtaposing large-scale sculptures with oversized silkscreens. On view to Feb. 7. Deichtorhallen, Deichtorstrasse 1–2, Hamburg.
An array of photo and video works that foreground the mechanics of personal image-making add up to a crit- ical examination of fashion and style. Opens Oct. 2. International Center of Photography, 1114 Avenue of the Americas, New York.
The relationship between aesthetics and social organization informs the U.K. artist’s unorthodox, eclectic prac- tice and is the focus of his largest U.S. show to date. From Oct. 10. Museum of Contemporary Art, 220 E. Chicago Ave., Chicago
The idyllic tableaux painted by Jean-Antoine Watteau drew from the thriving performing- arts scene of Louis XIV’s France. This 60- work display is the first U.S. show of his art in 25 years. Sept. 22 to Nov. 29. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave., New York
Familiar surroundings become magical, unpredict- able sites of resistance and energy in this year’s Biennale de Lyon: the curator Hou Hanru presents 60 artists in a show he has titled “The Spectacle of the Everyday.” Until Jan. 3. 10th Biennale de Lyon, Various locations, Lyon, France.
Kapoor has redefined sculpture with his sensitive arrangements of wax, pigment and stainless steel and his manipulation of colour and scale. This sur- vey of his monumental, often transcendental art also includes new and previously unseen productions. Sept. 26 to Dec. 11. Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington House, London.
Works from six dec- ades by the vanguard environmental activist and creator of politically provocative “auto- destructive” art. Sept. 29 to Nov. 8. Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, London
What keeps mankind alive? The searching question that Bertolt Brecht put to audiences of The Threepenny Opera in 1928 serves as the theme of this year’s Istanbul Biennial. The all-female curatorial collective known as What, How & for Whom/WHW has gathered works by 75 artists to reanimate Brecht’s critique of capitalist values and cre- ate a 21st-century frame for the idea of art as a venue for social engagement. Sept. 12 to Nov. 8. 11th International Istanbul Biennial, Various locations, Istanbul.
A major retrospective marks the 90th anniversary of the influential European movement that merged industry and fine art and launched 20th- century modernism. Opens Nov. 8. Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St., New York.
A group show highlights the marketplace-savvy “branding” of art and artists from Warhol through the YBAs, Keith Haring, Takashi Murakami and others. From Oct. 1. Tate Modern, Bankside, London
What would today’s art look like if it were collected, interpreted and presented to the public by extraterrestrials? That is the hypothesis of “Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art,” at the Barbican Art Gallery to May 18. Many of current art’s major names are present in the 180-work show, which irreverently offers contemporary art up for anthropological examination. (Silk St., London.)
By addressing history and power in his work, Luc Tuymans has revived representational painting as a contemporary practice. An exhibition of 90 works is at Munich’s Haus der Kunst to May 12. (Prinzregentenstrasse 1.)
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.
