WITH A NEW YEAR UNDERWAY and a promising selection of new books, exhibitions and events on the horizon, here is what is on my radar, what I am most looking forward to in 2015:
“Represent: 200 Years of African American Art,” a sweeping new exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art (Jan. 10 – April 5, 2015).
“Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott,” featuring previously unpublished photographs Parks took when he traced the whereabouts of his childhood classmates, at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston (Jan. 17 – Sept. 13, 2015).
“David Adjaye: Form, Heft, Material,” the first exhibition devoted to the British-based architect’s global practice, at the Haus der Kunst Museum in Munich, Germany (Jan. 30 – May 31, 2015, traveling to Art Institute Chicago Sept. 19).
“Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic,” a 60-painting survey of the artist’s career since 2001 at the Brooklyn Museum (Feb. 20 – May 24, 2015).
JACOB LAWRENCE, “Bus,” 1941 (gouache on paper). | Collection of George Wein, Courtesy of Michael Rosenfeld Gallery LLC, New York, NY. © 2015 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
“One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Works,” the artist’s entire 60-panel series presented in context with interpretations of migration by other creatives, spanning disciplines and generations, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (April 3- Sept. 7, 2015).
“Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design,”
a forthcoming volume (and coinciding exhibition at Germany’s Vitra Design Museum) examining a new generation of African designers, architects, photographers and artists that is redefining the identity of the diverse continent (April).
Okwui Enwezor’s vision for the 2015 Venice Biennale, the 56th international art exhibition for which he is serving as curator (May 9 – Nov. 22, 2015).
“Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada,” which seeks to give the pivotal figure his just due, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (June 7 – Sept. 27, 2015).
“Terry Adkins: Recital,”
a new volume published by Prestel, spanning his entire career, that was delayed due to his untimely death last year (June).
“The Freedom Principle: Experiments in Art and Music, 1965 to Now,” a look at how 1960s African American avant-garde is reflected in contemporary art and culture, at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (July 11 – Nov. 22, 2015).
The first comprehensive monograph
of Theaster Gates, the Chicago-based contemporary artist and social innovator, to be published by Phaidon (October).
2 comments
Bill hodges says:
Jan 3, 2015
Wonderful groupings.
Just found your site.
Will keep it on the radar..
What about the lewis exhibition in the Jewish musem and the retrospective opening in November?
Victoria L. Valentine says:
Jan 3, 2015
Thanks for the reminder re: the Norman Lewis exhibition at PAFA in the fall. I recall Ruth Fine referencing it at a National Gallery of Art event last year. The Norman Lewis/Lee Krasner exhibition at the Jewish Museum was mentioned in an earlier post about Fall 2014 exhibitions.