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FEBRUARY

1 February: Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You, Serpentine Galleries, London, until 17 March 2024.

Serpentine is hosting Barbara Kruger’s first institutional show in London in over 20 years. The exhibition will include a range of the artist’s works, including installations across the gallery’s building, moving images, and soundscapes.

25 February: The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism, The Metropolitan Museum of Art until 28 July 2024

In the first art museum exhibition devoted to the subject in New York since the 1980s, the Met is presenting what promises to be an innovative exhibition about the Harlem Renaissance and its contributions to the development of international modern art. Bringing together over 150 artworks spanning painting to ephemera to film, the Met will explore daily like in the black cities that formed from the 1920s to the 1940s in Harlem in the midst of the Great Migration, which saw millions of African Americans make their way north from the segregated south.

MARCH

2 March: Dan Flavin: Dedications in Light, Kunstmuseum Basel until 18 August 2024

This exhibition from the Kunstmuseum Basel will reexamine Dan Flavin’s popular florescent works and put them back into the contexts and times in which they were made, reinforcing their relevance to broader issues, such as police violence.

8 March: Roy Lichtenstein: A Centennial Exhibition, The Albertina, Vienna, until 14 July 2024

It’s been over a decade since the last retrospective of Roy Lichtenstein’s work at Tate Modern, London. The Albertina celebrates what would have been the artist’s 100th birthday with a new and long-overdue retrospective.

22 March: Anselm Kiefer: Fallen Angels, Palazzo, Strozzi, Florence, until 28 July 2024

In 2006, the Palazzo Strozzi opened to the public as an art gallery and it has now held more than 70 exhibitions on a range of artists from Donatello to Jeff Koons. The gallery now turns its attentions to Anselm Kiefer following his gallery exhibitions last year all over the world.

26 March: Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, until 14 July 2024

The first Impressionist exhibition took place in Paris 150 years ago this April. Paris 1974 traces the events of that fateful April in 1874 that launched the art avant-garde and looks at what circumstances led the 31 artists in that first exhibition to join forces and change art history forever.

Paul Cézanne, Une moderne Olympia, 1873-1873, oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. To be included in Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism, Musée d’Orsay, Paris.

MAY

12 May: LaToya Ruby Frazier: Monuments of Solidarity, MoMA, until 7 September 2024

LaToyna Ruby Frazier uses text, photography, moving images, and performances to preserve and resurrect the forgotten tales of labor, gender, and race in the post-industrial era. MoMA’s retrospective of her work survey Frazier’s entire output and she highlights instances of the denial of fundamental rights, such as the Flint, Michigan water crisis. The exhibition highlights Frazier’s role as an activist and advice for the 21st century working class.

16 May: Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920, Tate Britain, London, until 13 October 2024

Covering 400 years of art history, Now You See Us follows women such as Angelia Kauffman and Laura Knight as they worked to become professional artists. These women pushed back against the expectations of society by having painting commercial careers and exhibiting their work. The exhibition seems to redress the stereotypes that follow female artists, including that they were amateurs, and demonstrates how many took on subjects thought only for men: history paintings, battles, and nudes. It also shows how these women fought for equal access to training and Academy memberships and blazed a trail for artists working today.

17 May: Jenny Holzer: Light Line, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, until 29 September 2024

The Guggenheim reimagines the exhibition it held of Jenny Holzer’s work in 1989. New versions of Holzer’s electronic signs will climb the ramps of Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda. These works will comprise pieces from her earlier series of truisms and aphorisms as well as newer experiments with language and artificial intelligence.

25 May: Vanessa Bell: a Pioneer of Modern Art, Courtauld Gallery, until 6 October 2024

This is the first exhibition dedicated to the Courtauld Gallery’s significant collection of works by Vanessa Bell. It will combine masterpieces such as A Conversation with the designs she produced for the Omega Workshops, a project which sought to collapse boundaries between decorative and fine art, and bring art into daily life.

Vincent van Gogh,* Starry Night over the Rhone*, 1887-1888, oil on canvas. Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons. To be included in Vincent Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers at the National Gallery, London.

JUNE

2 June: Georgia O’Keefe: “My New Yorks”, The Art Institute of Chicago, until 22 September 2024

Though most well-known for her floral canvases and visions of the Southwest desert, O’Keefe also spent several years painting New York City. In 1925, she moved into the brand-new Shelton Hotel in 1925, which was then the tallest residential building in the world. She 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 and argues that her New Yorks were central to her modernist artistic practice.

SEPTEMBER

14 September: Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers, The National Gallery, London, until 19 January 2025

Celebrating its 200th anniversary this year, the National Gallery is hosting a crowd-pleasing blockbuster exhibition centered on Vincent van Gogh. The Gallery is bringing together the Dutch artist’s works from all over the world, some little seen in public, to be paired with his drawings. It looks at the years Van Gogh spent in Arles and Saint-Rémy as a “decisive period” of his career in which he” revolutionized” his style.

22 September: Matisse: Invitation to the Voyage, Fondation Beyeler, until 26 January 2025

In September, the Fondation Beyeler will host the first Henri Matisse retrospective in the German-speaking world in nearly 20 years. With 80 works from museums and private collections, the exhibition uses Charles Baudelaire’s 1857 poem L’Invitation au voyage to journey through Matisse’s life and work, in which travel was a key component and inspiration. Matisse continually referred to Baudelaire’s poem and its themes of luxury, peace and pleasure were central to the artist, who wrote in his Notes d’un peintre (1908), “what I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity”.

28 September: Paula Rego: Power Games, Kunstmuseum Basel, until 2 February 2025

The fantastical work of the late and daring Portuguese artist Paula Rego, who died in 2022, comes to the Kunstmuseum Basel in September. Rego, known for her fairy-tale figures was a powerful and visionary explorer of human relations, including social, political and sexual power and their particular effects on women, leading to her paintings to be called “crime scenes” by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung.

Robert Delaunay, *Formes circulaires* (detail), 1930, oil on canvas. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Image courtesy the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Photo: Kristopher McKay. To be included in Harmony and Dissidence: Orphism in Paris 1910-1930.

NOVEMBER

8 November: Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-30, Guggenheim Museum, until 9 March 2025

Orphism developed as an artistic movement in the 1910 as the innovations of the period rapidly altered conceptions of time and space. The Guggenheim will present nearly 100 works of the period in their rotunda, exploring transnational developments and the impacts of dance, music, and poetry upon fine art. Works by Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, and František Kupka will be included.