February 2018 Art News

Hirshhorn Revisits the 1980s with “Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s”
Featuring Nearly 70 Artists and 150 Works, Some Displayed for First Time in 30 Years

BAMPFA Mounts Exhibition of New Work by Contemporary Artist Jay Heikes

On View February 14–April 29, 2018

Jay Heikes / MATRIX 269 Marks First West Coast Museum Presentation of Heikes’s Work

What is Art? “Dali/Duchamp” Premieres

What is Art? The Conceptual and the Surreal Collide in “Dali/Duchamp”
First Exhibit Dedicated to the Friendship of Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali Opens February 10

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Celebrates the 10th Anniversary of Chris Burden’s Urban Light

Retrofitting of incandescent to LED lightbulbs made possible by a grant from the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

A leading figure among Italian Futurists alongside Severini, Balla and Marinetti, Boccioni played a pivotal role in shaping the visual aesthetic of this short-lived yet highly influential movement.

As the first UK retrospective of the record-breaking German photographer’s work appears at the Hayward Gallery in London, the gallery’s director, Ralph Rugoff, explains why he considers Gursky to be among the foremost artists of our time.

Raqib Shaw is an Indian-born, London-based artist whose extraordinary paintings feature rich colours and intricate detail. The artist’s works evoke the Old Masters, such as Hans Holbein and Hieronymus Bosch, as well as reflecting the ornate style of Persian miniatures and Kashmiri and Japanese textiles.

Find out more about Raqib Shaw: https://goo.gl/XMziw9

Born and educated in Poland, London-based artist and designer Marcin Rusak blends the natural and industrial worlds in his dramatic objects for the home.

Rusak casts flowers and exotic plant life in poured resin, preserving their ephemeral beauty forever in tables, lamps, screens, and more. Rusak’s works are visually striking: the smoothness of his surfaces and the natural beauty of the plants embedded in them draw the viewer in. But what makes his works truly memorable are the contrasts they embody.

Artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930), who rose to prominence with his paintings of flags, targets and other familiar objects, will be the sole subject of a special exhibition at The Broad in early 2018. Johns’ 60-year career of work will be presented in the most comprehensive survey in the U.S. in two decades.

In the Minneapolis Institute of Art’s collaboration with renowned avant-garde theater artist Robert Wilson, theater and art combine in a phenomenal experience. For Power and Beauty, Wilson creates an immersive environment, using light, staging and sound to envelop visitors in the mystery and splendor of China’s Qing (pronounced “ch’ing”) dynasty. Each room examines an aspect of life within China’s imperial palace during that over 250 year artistic golden age, which ended in 1911.