Ingenious women and dedications in lights
On March 2, the Kunstmuseum Basel opens two parallel exhibitions: In the main building, the show Ingenious Women. Women Artists and their Companions presents around 100 works and social backgrounds from the early modern period. In the new building, Dan Flavin. Dedications in Lights examines his works in rarely discussed contexts.
The whisper of color: Bonnard's artistic cosmos
A master of color: Pierre Bonnard is considered one of the quiet leaders of modernism. In Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection is organizing a comprehensive exhibition of his work. Bonnard's World opens on March 2.
Europe's most sought-after painter? Angelica Kauffman
»The most cultivated woman in Europe«: the painter Angelica Kauffman has been a sensation since the 18th century. From March 1, the Royal Academy of Arts in London will be presenting numerous of her remarkable self-portraits and history paintings in an exhibition.
Painted fragments of life
She captures fading and fragmentary memories in paintings: artist Anja Mamero presents her line-dominated works of art in the exhibition LINE UP II. It opens on March 1 in the »Alte Post« town gallery in Westerland on Sylt.
On the provocative power of blood
Blood fascinates and repels. It is considered a symbol of vitality, but people avoid coming into contact with it as much as possible. In the exhibition Blood: Medieval/Modern, the Getty Museum looks back at the role of blood in the last 1,000 years of European art history. The show opens in Los Angeles on February 27.
Groundbreaking: the Harlem Renaissance
From February 25, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicating an exhibition to one of the most influential art and cultural movements of the 20th century: the Harlem Renaissance. Black American artists and authors reshaped »African-American culture« in the 1920s and 1930s.
»Korean Treasures«: A special insight into Korean art history
On February 25, the exhibition Korean Treasures from the Chester and Cameron Chang Collection opens at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Oil paintings from the 20th century meet 1000-year-old ceramic art. The exhibits were donations from the Chang family to the museum.
100 years of art at once
An exhibition like a wild voyage of discovery: The Von der Heydt Museum in Wuppertal presents the history of abstract art not chronologically, but in a convoluted and surprising way. Not much to see. Paths of Abstraction 1920 to the Present opens on February 24.
Photographing artists at work: Sidney B. Felsen
The Getty Museum presents photographs by Sidney B. Felsen, a founder of the renowned Gemini G.E.L. print workshop. Numerous famous artists produced high-quality prints there and were photographed by Felsen. First Came a Friendship: Sidney B. Felsen and the Artists at Gemini G.E.L. opens in Los Angeles on February 20.
Behind the windows of the world: randomly observed everyday life
Galerie Palais Walderdorff is showing paintings by Susanna Storch from her current series FACADES: she explores the obvious and the mysterious of everyday life in cities. Susanna Storch – MAPPING CITY LIFE opens in Trier on February 23.
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