Residents and visitors can look forward to many
new exhibitions at New York museums this summer. Below are a few highlights, noted in the order of their openings. Following these selections, please find the list of continuing exhibitions as well as the titles and dates of most all of the upcoming openings at area museums. This list will be regularly updated throughout the summer.
Summer Highlights at New York Museums:
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Guggenheim Museum. Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960
June 8-September 12, 2012
A survey of nearly 100 works in the Guggenheim permanent collection provides an overview of the global post-war phenomenon of abstraction in visual art. Artists include
Louise Bourgeois, Alberto Burri, Asger Jorn, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Soulages, Antoni Tàpies, and
Zao Wou-Ki, among others.
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| Caribbean: Crossroads of the World Arnaldo Roche Rabell, We Have to Dream in Blue, 1986 84 x 60 inches Oil on canvas Collection of John Belk & Margarita Serapion Photo courtesy of Walter Otero Gallery |
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El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, and The Studio Museum in Harlem. Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
June 12, 2012-January 6, 2013
The most ambitious exhibition of the summer explores the far-reaching cultural history of the Caribbean basin and its diaspora. Organized by El Museo del Barrio in conjunction with the Queens Museum of Art and The Studio Museum in Harlem, the three museums each take a separate theme in presenting 500 works of art from four centuries.
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Rineke Dijkstra, Amy, The Krazyhouse, Liverpool, England, December 22, 2008.
Archival inkjet print, 125 x 103 cm. © Rineke Dijkstra, courtesy the artist
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Guggenheim Museum. Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective
June 29-October 3, 2012
The Guggenheim presents a major mid-career survey of the Dutch photographer and videographer
Rineke Dijkstra. The artist's accomplished technique and sensibility in portraiture, especially her signature large-scale works featuring young people, have drawn comparisons to the golden age of Dutch painting of the 17th century.
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MoMA. Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan
July 1–October 1, 2012
A retrospective, organized in collaboration with the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Tate Modern in London, offers the largest survey of works by Italian artist
Alighiero Boetti (1940–1994) to date outside of Italy. Boetti was one of the guiding lights of Arte Povera, the radical art movement that challenged the modes and materials of the established art culture.
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| Alighiero Boetti. Io che prendo il sole a Torino il 19 gennaio 1969 (Me sunbathing in Turin 19 January 1969). 1969. 101 concrete stones, 69 11/16 x 35 7/16″ (177 x 90 cm). Private collection, Turin. © 2011 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome |
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New Museum. Ghosts in the Machine
July 18, 2012 - October 7, 2012
A global-minded exhibition on the museum's three floors provides a survey of artists exploring the "nature" of technology - from the meanings of machines to virtual reality. With work from the past fifty years and including contemporary artists, New Museum promises an "encyclopedic cabinet of wonders."
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Brooklyn Museum. Jean-Michel Othoniel: My Way
August 17–December 2, 2012
A late summer opening at the Brooklyn Museum, organized by the Centre Pompidou in Paris, offers a mid-career retrospective of
Jean-Michel Othoniel (French, born 1964), an artist known for his large-scale glass sculptures. Difficult to categorize, Othoniel is part surrealist and part conceptualist, exploring a visual language of myth and fantasy, yet the works often evoke cultural and political realities.
