- VIRGINIA (USA)
Exhibition: Lessons of the Hour: A Conversation with Isaac Julien
At the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), an exhibition dedicated to Frederick Douglass (1817-1895), who remains a symbol of African-American emancipation, opens on December 10. Former slave and later influential abolitionist and human rights activist Frederick Douglass inspired the artist Sir Isaac Julian, who created a film installation as a tribute. Join Valerie Cassel Oliver, VMFA‘s Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, and artist Isaac Julien for a conversation about the film installation that contemplates the life and times of Frederick Douglass.
This special exhibition opens for VMFA members on Thu, Dec 8 and Fri, Dec 9 and to the public Sat, Dec 10.
- MONTREAL (CANADA)
Exhibition: Seeing Loud: Basquiat and Music
The influence of music on the visual work of the American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) who was associated with the current of Neo-Expressionism is the subject of an exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA). The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the Musée Musique-Philharmonique de Paris with the aim of illuminating the parameter of music, as a symbol, as a signal, as a motif, as a sound, among Basquiat’s groundbreaking works. Music holds a prominent place in Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painterly practice in the form of sign, symbol and sound. His oeuvre is replete with depictions of musical instruments alongside references to opera, classical music, jazz, bebop, hip-hop and rap. Presenting some 100 works by the artist together with numerous sound clips, film footage and archival documents, the exhibition provides an innovative in-depth look at Basquiat’s career as a musician, the sounds that accompanied his mark-making and the musicians who inspired him, from Beethoven to the New York underground scene of the 1970s and 1980s and, notably, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Maria Callas.
Until February 19, 2023
- LONDON (UK)
Exhibition: Members Hours: Magdalena Abakanowicz
This exhibition is a rare chance to see the towering works from artist Magdalena Abakanowicz. She created radical sculptures from woven fibres. These three-dimensional textile works are called Abakans. You can view the sculptures in a forest-like display across a large gallery space. Early textile works and drawings are also on view.
- VIENNA (AUSTRIA-EU)
Exhibition: Carl Anton Fleck
Albertina Museum dedicates a personal exhibition to Karl Anton Fleck (1928 – 1983) which includes around 90 works. With the exception of a few loans, the drawings on display come from the collection of Dagmar and Manfred Chobot, who acquired the Austrian artist’s entire estate in 1987. Fleck’s estate is a large part of the Chobots’ substantial donation to Albertina museum in 2019. The exhibition takes individual focal points from the work of Karl Anton Fleck: While in the early 1960s he used an abstract pictorial language inspired by Informel, he subsequently incorporated increasingly figurative elements, resulting in surreal compositions of body fragments and objects.
Until January 22, 2023
