Exhibitions to Visit this December: New York
ByYunyi Lau
If you're spending Christmas in the Big Apple or just swinging by before or after the holidays, then you've got to check out these exhibitions!
Guggenheim Museum
Art and China after 1989: Theatre of the World
Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, Cao Fei, Chen Chieh-jen, Chen Tong, Wenda Gu, Zhang Fanzhi and more
6 October - 7 January 2018
Art and China after 1989 presents work by 71 key artists and groups active across China and worldwide whose critical provocations aim to forge reality free from ideology, to establish the individual apart from the collective, and to define contemporary Chinese experience in universal terms.
Installation view of 'Art and China after 1989: Theatre of the World'
Image courtesy of the Guggenheim Museum
Public Art Fund
Good Fences Make Good Neighbours
Ai Weiwei
12 October - 11 February 2018
Ai Weiwei conceived this multi-site, multi-media exhibition for public spaces, monuments, buildings, transportation sites, and advertising platforms throughout New York City. Collectively, these elements comprise a passionate response to the global migration crisis and a reflection on the profound social and political impulse to divide people from each other.
"Circle Fence" (2017) by Ai Weiwei
Image courtesy of the artist and Timothy Schenck
David Zwirner
Fesival of Life
Yayoi Kusama
2 November - 16 December 2017
David Zwirner is pleased to present two major concurrent exhibitions of recent work by Yayoi Kusama on view across three gallery spaces in New York: 'Festival of Life' at 525 and 533 West 19th Street in Chelsea and 'Infinity Nets' at the recently opened space on 34 East 69th Street on the Upper East Side.
Installation view of Yayoi Kusama's 'Festival of Life' at David Zwirner, New York
Image courtesy of David Zwirner, New York
Tina Kim Gallery
Mamour
Minouk Lim
2 November - 22 December 2017
'Mamour' is the artist’s first solo presentation in New York and centers around three bodies of work that explore how broadcast TV can surface remembrances of those otherwise marginalized by national and political narratives.
Installation view of 'Mamour' by Minouk Lim at Tina Kim, New York
Image courtesy Tina Kim, New York
Lisson Gallery
Nothing is deeper than the skin
Shirazeh Houshiary
3 November - 22 December 2017
Shirazeh Houshiary investigates the friction between the conscious and unconscious, control and chance, reflecting on the physical and immaterial qualities that shape art and human life through her ninth exhibition with the gallery.
An installation view of 'Nothing is deeper than the skin' by Shirazeh Houshiary at Lisson Gallery
Image courtesy of Lisson Gallery
Galerie Perrotin
Snow Forest
Farhad Moshiri
5 November - 22 December 2017
A new body of works by Iranian artist Farhad Moshiri comes from old photographs of snowy trees shot by the artist several years ago in a forest in Iran.
An installation view of 'Snow Forest' by Farhad Moshiri, Snow Forest at Galerie Perrotin, New York
Image courtesy of Galerie Perrotin and Guillaume Ziccarelli
Klein Sun Gallery
Photography Autocracy
Cai Dongdong
30 November - 6 January 2018
A solo exhibition of mixed media installations by Beijing-based artist Cai Dongdong that focuses on how photograph may serve strictly as a reference point or a gateway towards the story Cai is constructing or reconstructing.
"The Mountain Cutters" (2017) by Cai Dongdong
Gelatin Silver Print, Stones, Wood / 20 1/2" x 21 7/8" x 22 1/4" / 52 × 55.5 × 56.5 cm / Edition of 3
Image courtesy of the artist and Klein Sun Gallery
MoMA PS1
There Is No Last Man
Naeem Mohaiemen
Till 11 March 2018
Bringing together two distinct works, Naeem Mohaiemen: There Is No Last Man imagines a relationship between two lonely narrators, each trapped at the edge of history.
A still from Naeem Mohaiemen's "There Is No Last Man" at MoMA PS1
Image courtesy of the artist and MoMA PS1
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