Takashi Murakami --- Perrotin Dubai, ICD Brookfield Place
Till January 28, 2023
Takashi Murakami's inaugural show in the city will feature some of the artist's most well-known pieces and be co-hosted by Perrotin Dubai and ICD Brookfield Place. Traditional Japanese painting methods and aesthetics clash with the language of consumerism, nostalgia, and childhood obsessions in this exhibition, showcasing the artist's distinctive fusion of high and low culture.
Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined --- New Museum, New York
March 2–June 4, 2023
American artist Wangechi Mutu, who was born in Kenya, will debut a solo show at the New Museum in March. The Kenyan artist Wangechi Mutu, whose art has evolved over the last 25 years from jewel-like collages to paintings, cinema, performance, and large-scale sculpture, has over 100 pieces on display at the New Museum. The way Mutu works with the feminine body in her art is consistently startling and unearthly. Mutu draws inspiration for her innovative concepts about feminism, Afrofuturism, and interspecies symbiosis from a range of sources, including fashion magazines, medical schematics, and traditional African artworks.
Simone Leigh --- ICA Boston
April 6–September 4, 2023
The ICA Boston will host Simone Leigh's first complete survey exhibition. The ICA exhibition, which will be accompanied by a sizable monograph, promises to take a retrospective look at around two decades' worth of ceramics, sculptures, bronze, video, installation, and other work by Leigh, who has fast become one of the leading figures of our time as artists. This comprehensive exhibition will begin at the ICA Boston, proceed to the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC, and LACMA in Los Angeles, and conclude there in 2025.
Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: The Modern Landscape --- Art Institute of Chicago
May 14–September 4, 2023
The Art Institute of Chicago examines Vincent van Gogh's time in the suburbs of Paris, a hotspot for Post-Impressionist artists from 1882 to 1890, including Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand, as yet another perspective on the career of the renowned Dutch artist. These suburbs, which were becoming more industrialized, were a favorable environment for experimentation with the exaggerated colours and dramatic brushstrokes that would later come to define the genre.
Georgia O’Keeffe --- MoMA, New York
April 9–August 12, 2023
Georgia O'Keeffe, a key figure in American modernism, made several works of paper, which will be revisited in the MoMA exhibition "To see takes time." These amazing studies, which the artist created in charcoal and watercolor, will be shown alongside some of her most famous works.
Van Gogh’s Cypresses --- The Met, New York
May 22–August 27, 2023
This year, fans of Van Gogh's art will get another opportunity to see his paintings. Van Gogh's Cypresses, the Metropolitan Museum of Art's upcoming show, will be the first to exclusively highlight the master painter's depictions of trees. To demonstrate how expertly van Gogh addressed flora, classic works like Wheat Field with Cypresses and The Starry Night will stand at the center of the future presentation with other pieces.
The Last Picasso 1963 – 1972 --- La Casa Encendida, Madrid
May 19–September 17, 2023
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso's passing, La Casa Encendida will exhibit a new overview of the final 10 years of the artist's creative output from 19 May to 17 September 2023. Through the perspective of a modern artist, this show is seen as a reappropriation of his own work and is presented as a synthesis, a testimony, and opportunities for the future. The artist died fifty years ago on April 8, 2023. With a program of worldwide scale, this event will honor his contributions and creative heritage in France, Spain, and all over the world.
Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence --- The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
March 26–July 16, 2023
Japanese ukiyo-e artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760–1849) is renowned for his painting and printing techniques. His woodblock series Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, which includes the famous print The Great Wave off Kanagawa, is most known for. This show approaches his work from a fresh perspective, carefully examining how it has influenced other artists both then and now. Over 90 Hokusai works are included in the MFA Boston show Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence, together with 200 pieces from his professors, pupils, competitors, and fans.
The Rossettis --- Tate Britain, London
April 6–September 24, 2023
Visitors to art galleries in the UK and internationally are familiar with the luminous visions of Dante Gabriel Rossetti and his Pre-Raphaelite companions. The Annunciation (1849–50), Beata Beatrix (1864–70), and Proserpine are just a few of the classic paintings by Dante Gabriel Rossetti that will be shown in the artist's first-ever exhibition at the Tate (1874). There will be poetry recordings of Dante's sister Christina, who is best known for writing In the Bleak Midwinter and Goblin Market and who served as the inspiration for The Annunciation.
Michelangelo and the Consequences --- Albertina, Vienna
September 15, 2023–January 7, 2024
The Albertina Museum in Vienna opens its famed collection of Michelangelo sketches to the public about once every ten years. In its main exhibition hall in September, a display on the renowned Renaissance master will feature nine of the 13 works as its centerpiece. Michelangelo and the Consequences follows the artist's impact on draftsmanship and aesthetic perceptions throughout the course of a half-millennium and includes around 170 works.