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1. Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Ride at Tate Modern, London April 25th to October 20th, 2024

Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider explores the work of the artists that made up The Blue Rider group. The Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) was an informal collective of modern expressionist artists who came together in Munich, Germany in 1911. Led by artists including Wassily Kandinsky, Gabriele Münter and Franz Marc, the group aimed to explore the emotional and spiritual dimensions of art, emphasizing abstraction, symbolism and expressive art making. This exhibition features a large collection of masterpieces from paintings, sculpture, and photography to performance and sound and it contains over 130 works.

2. Ellsworth Kelly: Shapes and Colors, 1949-2015 at Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris April 5th- to September 9th,2024

Ellsworth Kelly: Shapes and Colors, 1949-2015 is a must-see exhibition at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris. Ellsworth Kelly is regarded as one of the most significant American abstract painters and sculptors. His career is marked by his independence from any school or art movement and by his innovative contribution to painting. This exhibition offers an overview of Kelly’s significant career, featuring over 100 works.

3. Turner’s Sublime Legacy: In Dialogue with Contemporary Artists, at Grimaldi Forum in Monaco July – September 2024

The Grimaldi Forum Monaco, in collaboration with Tate, presents 'Turner's Sublime Legacy' an exhibition featuring an ensemble of works by Joseph Mallord William Turner. The works presented are representations of the world in a sublime mode, from his landscapes to the elementary explorations of light and atmosphere. Turner’s works will be in dialogue with thirty works by leading modern and contemporary artists including John Akomfrah, Olafur Eliasson, Richard Long, Cornelia Parker, Katie Paterson, Mark Rothko and Jessica Warboys.

4. Georgia O’Keefe: “My New Yorks” at The Art Institute of Chicago, June 2nd- September 22nd,2024

The Art Institute of Chicago presents this show centered around O’Keefe’s paintings of New York, the city where the modernist lived before departing for Taos, New Mexico, in 1929. In 1925, she moved into the Shelton Hotel in 1925, which was then the tallest residential building in the world. O’Keefe called the works she produced her “New Yorks,” going on to say that “One can’t paint New York as it is, but rather as it is felt.” This exhibition presents the first serious examination of O’Keefe’s New York period and brings it into dialogue with her other compositions of the 1920s and 1930s.

5. Mary Cassatt at Work at Philadelphia Museum of Art May 18- September 8 2024

The Philadelphia Museum presents Mary Cassatt at Work, the first major showing of the artist’s oeuvre since 1998–99. Pennsylvania born Mary Cassatt shared with the Impressionists an interest in experiment and in using bright colors inspired by the outdoors. In 1874, she moved to Paris where she committed herself to a career as a professional artist and made the social, intellectual, and working lives of modern women the main subject of her prints, paintings, and pastels. This exhibition presents over 130 diverse works that follow the artist’s evolving practice.