#TheLIST: Andrea Andersson's Fall Museum Guide
Andrea Andersson is the Visual Arts Curator of the Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, the multi-disciplinary arts center dedicated to the presentation, production and promotion of work by living artists. Before accepting the position at CAC, Andersson, a native New Orleanian, was an independent curator whose resume included the highly acclaimed Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art at MCA Denver, which traveled to the Eli and Edythe Broad Museum in Michigan and the Power Plant in Toronto. Here, her expert guide to 10 exhibits worth exploring this season.
Martin Wong: Human Instamatic
This is the first museum retrospective of the Chinese-American artist since his death (1946-1999). Featuring over 100 paintings from throughout his career, the exhibition will highlight the artist's defining role in the art community of New York's Lower East Side during the 1980s and 1990s. Wong's work mirrors the rich and complicated environments and cultures in which he participated – the Lower East Side's Latino community, NYC's Chinatown, an active scene of graffiti artists, and the San Francisco community to which he returned in 1994.
Bronx Museum, New York
November 4, 2015 to February 14, 2016
Jacqueline Humphries
Including her signature, abstract paintings in both metallic and ultraviolet pigments, this presentation is the artist's first solo museum exhibition to be held in her hometown. Moving from light-filled to black-lit galleries, this exhibition presents abstract paintings as a theatrical, time-based art.
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
November 19, 2015 - February 28, 2016
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 – ICA Boston
This is the first American exhibition to fully explore the influential and interdisciplinary community of thinkers, artists, writers, teachers, and students. Everything I know of American art of the last half century is informed by this time and place of experimentation.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Through January 24, 2016
Agnes Martin
This retrospective examines the career of one of the most important 20th century American artists. With a fierce commitment to the infinite possibility of the line, Martin provides bounty in remarkable simplicity. If you missed the show at the Tate Modern, you can catch it in Dusseldorf and then there will be another chance to see her extraordinary pencil drawings when this exhibition travels to LA (Spring 2016) and NY (Fall 2016).
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
November 6, 2015 - March 6, 2016
American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood
In his murals and paintings, Benton absorbed the lessons of the European avant-garde to depict every day Americans. His influence is evident in the Abstract Expressionist work of Jackson Pollock, whom Benton taught at the Art Students League in New York. This exhibition shifts the gaze from his naturalist depictions of rural America to those of Hollywood and the American films of the first half of the 20th century. As political as his murals, this work provides another lens for looking at the artist's narrative painting.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
October 10, 2015 - January 03, 2016
Christopher Knowles: In A Word – ICA Philadelphia
I heard Knowles read a few years back at White Columns. I had seen his typed works before, but only in hearing his compositions could I fully appreciate his patterns and variations. This exhibition will bring together Knowles' independent work along with his works for Robert Wilson's productions, including Einstein on the Beach.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Through December 27, 2015
Diana Thater: The Sympathetic Imagination
With over 20 videos and video installations from the past 25 years, this exhibition invites the view into a visual prism, in which removed places converge with gallery spaces and documentation presents an obscured natural world.
LACMA, Los Angeles
November 22, 2015–February 21, 2016
James Hoff: B=R=I=C=K=I=N=G
The first solo museum presentation of Hoff's work, this exhibition focuses on the artists' "virus paintings." Using computer viruses to infect digital files, later transferred to aluminum, this body of work definitively moves the boundaries of painting into the 21st century.
Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
November 19, 2015 to February 28, 2016
Jennie C Jones
Working with the detritus of our sound culture (wires, cables, old casettes, as well as samples of music, itself), Jones repurposes material remains in her restrained sculptural and sonic compositions. Jones' are quiet works that teach you how to listen and look as much as they give you something to listen to and look at.
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
December 12, 2015 – March 27, 2016
Picasso Sculpture
I still go back to the notes I took after seeing MoMA's exhibition, Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 about 5 years ago. Even in drawings and paintings, Picasso is always operating in three-dimensions (and gesturing towards the 4th). This exhibition makes that field of vision concrete.
MOMA, New York
Through February 7, 2016
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