In a word, this fall’s offerings are electric. The word shows up in the titles of not one but two tech-minded shows—one devoted to Op art and its influence, the other to the rise of digital art, at the Buffalo AKG Art Gallery and Tate Modern, respectively. It may as well also have figured in the name of a survey of women artists who involved computers in their art at MUDAM in Luxembourg, or to an exhibition about digital effects technologies at LACMA.
But the word “electric” might also be used to characterize a number of more analog offerings as well. The Centre Pompidou’s long-awaited Surrealism blowout is finally nearly upon us, as are retrospectives for well-established figures such as Lygia Clark, Thomas Schütte, Amy Sherald, Elizabeth Catlett, Sophie Calle, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, and more.
Art history nerds will find much to geek out about: the Metropolitan Museum of Art is mounting a blockbuster about pre-Renaissance Sienese art, the Qatar Museums are putting 19th-century French painter Jean-Léon Gérôme under the microscope, and the Getty Foundation’s science-minded edition of PST ART will reintroduce many deep cuts in more than 60 shows at venues across Southern California. Other shows will add new chapters to the discipline’s annals: there are expansive surveys of Indian and Pakistani art on the horizon, as well as shows about 1970s documentary photography and lens-based art in the UK during the 1980s.
Perhaps you crave something more spectacular? For that, look no further than a long-awaited survey devoted at Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art for Anicka Yi, whose past works have involved AI and cutting-edge technology. You could probably apply the word “electric” to that show, too, in more sense than one. Below, a look at 81 museum shows and biennials to see this fall.
The post “81 Museum Exhibitions and Biennials to See This Fall” by Alex Greenberger was published on 09/02/2024 by www.artnews.com