Food: Between Hunger and Consumption
Few things fascinate people across all walks of life as much as food. It's a basic human need some cannot even fulfill, while others overfeed or even monetize it to excess. The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena will show how European artists responded to the double-edged evolution of food between 1500 and 1900 beginning April 14.
miart: It gets louder
The 27th edition of the art fair miart gathers galleries from 27 countries: Under the motto Crescendo, which alludes to the steady growth in recent years and reveals the goal for the coming ones, Milan's largest art fair opens on April 14.
Together in surreal worlds
A hanging ball marks the beginning of the artist's friendship: Salvador Dalí was enthralled by Alberto Giacometti's sculpture Boule suspendue. The Kunsthaus Zürich now explores with Giacometti − Dalí. Dream Gardens for the first time the artistic, surrealist exchange between the two friends Dalí and Giacometti.
First exhibition on Sam Francis' relationship with Japan
After traveling to Japan for the first time in 1957, he never let go of his fascination: from then on, influences of Japanese art and culture shaped the paintings of Abstract Expressionist Sam Francis. Beginning April 9, LACMA explores this cultural dialogue for the first time with Sam Francis and Japan: Emptiness Overflowing.
Long Moments at MoMa
For five decades she repeated, changed, observed and abstracted her motifs: Georgia O'Keeffe's life's work is unmistakably hers, yet not monotonous. She took her time, which she certainly had in the 99 years of her life: from 9 April, the Museum of Modern Art will be showing a solo exhibition of how she dealt with this precious resource.
Textile Moments of Self-Empowerment
The reverse side of her portraits features knots and loose ends - artifacts of Bahamian textile artist Gio Swaby's careful, as well as imperfect, freehand style. The Art Institute in Chicago dedicates her first solo museum exhibition beginning April 8. In Gio Swaby: Fresh Up, the public may primarily look forward to the front of the textile photo interpretations.
Picasso − for eternity
He painted Guernica (1937), Les Demoisselles d'Avignon (1907), designed the Dove of Peace and had an ambivalent relationship with women: Pablo Picasso is considered the most famous and important artist of the modern era. He died 50 years ago today.
Painting and poetry: a revolution
What did art revolutionaries of the 19th century look like? Tate Britain in London explores this question through three highly diverse œuvres. The Rossettis, an exhibition about Dante Gabriel, Christina, and Elizabeth Rossetti opens April 6.
40 Years of Friendship and Reality – an Excerpt
Over 40 years of friendship is what Dawoud Bey and Carrie Mae Weems share. Their photographic series intersect in their narratives of Black history and realities of life. Los Angeles' Getty Museum rings down the curtain on an artful as well as amicable dialogue beginning April 4.
From slave to painter: Juan de Pareja
He was a slave of Diego Velázquez, worked in his workshop and rose to become a painter himself: the Metropolitan Museum's Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter exhibition in New York highlights the life and work of this unique life journey. The presentation begins on April 3.
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