Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Through December 1, 2024 Traveling from the Singapore Art Museum, “Time & the Tiger” presents a mid-career survey of Singaporean artist Ho Tzu Nyen’s video installations, which draw from historical events, documentary footage, art history, music videos, and mythical stories to present new visions of contemporary
Summer is a season of abundance, not least for experiencing art beyond galleries and museums. Below, see an international list of sculpture parks and gardens—plus a few less traditional outdoor venues—worth visiting this summer, along with details on current temporary exhibitions.
Berry Campbell New York Through June 22, 2024 “Dorothy Dehner: A Retrospective” presents works from Dehner’s 70-year career, and in particular highlights the sculptures, from smaller assemblages through to monumental works, she created in its latter half.
National Museum of Women in the Arts Washington, DC Through August 11, 2024 “New Worlds: Women to Watch 2024,” featuring works from 28 artists, is the seventh and largest exhibition in the NMWA’s “Women to Watch” series, for which the museum collaborates with regional outreach committees of curators to find exhibiting artists. Irina
Hayward Gallery London Through May 6, 2024 “When Forms Come Alive” presents a survey of mutable, voluptuous form in contemporary sculpture with large-scale work by 21 artists, including Nairy Baghramian, Phyllida Barlow, Choi Jeong Hwa, Tara Donovan, Holly Hendry, EJ Hill, Marguerite Humeau, and Matthew Ronay.
Petzel New York January 11–February 17, 2024 “In the Expanded Penalty Box: Did You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Fox?” features the German artist’s characteristically surreal and semi-autobiographical multimedia artworks. Vogel, actor and performer in all her video works, employs an elusive “I” to question the dynamics between ourselves and machines, animals, and infrastructure.
Seattle Seattle Art Museum Through August 4, 2024 “In Motion” presents a selection from Seattle Art Museum’s significant collection of Alexander Calder’s works, recently donated by Jon and Kim Shirley. The exhibition traces Calder’s career non-chronologically, covering the 1920s through the 1970s, and features the artist’s iconic mobiles and stabiles, along with paintings, illustrations, and
Barcelona MACBA (Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) Through May 20, 2024 “A Leaf Shapes the Eye” presents the Spanish-born, Brazil-based artist’s phenomenological investigations into the relationship between nature and culture, as well as the agency of objects themselves.
New York Guggenheim Museum Through September 10, 2023 On the sixth level of the Guggenheim’s rotunda, Sarah Sze’s “Timelapse” features a string of site-specific installations created by the New York-based artist that address an image- and motion-saturated world, wherein the distinction between images and objects collapse.
Boston ICA/Boston Through September 4, 2023 Simone Leigh’s exhibition at the ICA/Boston (traveling to the Hirshhorn in fall 2023, and to LACMA and CAAM in summer 2024) includes 10 works from Leigh’s historic presentation for the U.S.
