Whether you’re willing to travel for your regular art fix, or if you’re perfectly content to see whatever is happening closer to home; whether you absolutely must visit that new museum everyone is talking about or are quite happy to keep going back to the same three museums that have never led you wrong; whether you prefer your art new and edgy or old and pretty – we’ve got an art event you won’t want to miss this spring.
At Yorkshire Sculpture Park, what seems at first glance like a bit of playful escapism turns out to be a confrontation with harsh realities in another part of the world. The interactive exhibition “Thukral and Tagra: Bread, Circuses & TBD” invites visitors to play games. As they progress, they are confronted with challenges faced by farmers in our globalised economy. [Image: Artist impression, courtesy the artists]
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Last year, European art fans had the opportunity to immerse themselves in Japanese art and culture without boarding a long-haul flight. “Japonismes 2018: les âmes en résonance”, a multifaceted programme featuring exhibitions, events, talks and ceremonies across Paris, comes to an end in March, so this is your last opportunity to enjoy decorative arts, art brut, Buddhist statues and significant films from Nippon.
Great light can make or break a photograph. The founders of Nordic Light International Festival of Photographyhave taken that truism to its logical conclusion and have been bringing photographers to a place with great light – and lots of it – for more than 10 years now. The festival brings some of the most renowned photographers in the world to Kristiansund on the northwest coast of Norway in May, when the sun sets for only a few hours per day.
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Journalists are regularly told that they should “learn to code” to future-proof their careers. Artists? Not so much. An ongoing exhibition titled “Programmed: Rules, Codes, and Choreographies in Art, 1965–2018”examines “works of art based on instructions” and explores how art based on sets of rules, codes and programming in the widest sense has evolved over the decades.
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“Judy Chicago: A Reckoning.” The title of the retrospective at The Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami sounds confrontational. Sure, the feminist artist’s work can come across as belligerent, but the iconographies, stereotypes, taboos and conventions it challenges sure deserve to be tackled – and few have taken up the fight in such consistent, honest, epic and effective ways. [Image: Judy Chicago, Sunset Squares, 1965/2018. Courtesy the artist and Salon 94, New York. Photo: Fredrik Nils Studio]
teamLab, the creative arts project behind Tokyo’s Borderless Museum, is bringing an immersive experience on a gigantic scale to the new TANK exhibition space in Shanghai’s West Bund art district. The inaugural exhibition fills the former oil tanks with digital waterfalls that cascade around the visitors, whose presence influences the flow of the “water”.
In Melbourne, Australia, the opening of the Housemuseum Galleries turns what used to be a highly unusual art experience into a regular ol’ museum, open to the public 6 days a week. Whereas previously you had to schedule a visit to get a look at the collection displayed inside a family home, now it sits in a custom-built structure adjacent to the old Housemuseum.
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