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Introduced by David Salle.

By Martha Schwendener

Baselitz: Six Decades at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum is the first major US retrospective in more than twenty years of one of Germany’s greatest living artists, marking the artist’s 80th birthday.

Huma Bhabha (born 1962, Karachi, Pakistan) has been selected to create a site-specific installation for The Met's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden.The Roof Garden Commission: Huma Bhabha, We Come in Peace will be on view from April 17 through October 28, 2018.

Article by Hans-Joachim Müller
Welt am Sonntag
11 March, 2018

The photographer Juergen Teller has teamed up with 20 young people
affected by the Grenfell Tower disaster, in a project that aims to
document their lives and perspectives on the fallout from the fire seven
months ago.

In The Guardian

Plastikspielzeughaufen im Kinderzimmer, ein aufgeblasenes Schwimmtier, Batman oder Wurstberge sind die Motive in den Gemälden von Christa Dichgans (geb. 1940 in Berlin). Die Künstlerin zählt zu den wichtigsten weiblichen Akteuren der Pop-Art und mit der Ausstellung »Bilder aus dem Leben« in der Kestner Gesellschaft erfährt ihr Werk nun erstmals eine umfassende institutionelle Würdigung.

Piles of plastic toys in a child's bedroom, an inflatable pooltoy animal, Batman, or mountains of sausage; these are the motives in Christa Dichgans's (born 1940 in Berlin) work. The artist remains one of the most important female figures in Pop Art. This exhibition marks the first comprehensive instutional recognition of the artist's work.

On view from January 26 through April 8, 2018

Dana Schutz: Eating Atom Bombs  debuts a new series of paintings by Schutz. Created mostly in the past year, the works reflect the turbulent political atmosphere experienced in the United States in the wake of the 2016 election.

On view from January 20 through April 15, 2018.

Cecily Brown: Rehearsal is the artist’s first museum show on the West Coast and the first exhibition dedicated to her drawings.

On view January 28 through June 3, 2018.

Anlässlich des 80. Geburtstags widmet die Fondation Beyeler dem deutschen Maler, Grafiker und Bildhauer eine umfangreiche Ausstellung, die in enger Zusammenarbeit mit dem Künstler konzipiert ist.

On the ocassion of his 80th birthday, the Fondation Beyeler has dedicated an extensive exhibition to the German painter, printmaker, and sculpture, conceptualized in close cooperation with Baselitz.

On view January 21 through April 29, 2018

Anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags ehrt das Kupferstichkabinett mit Georg Baselitz einen der bedeutendsten Protagonisten der deutschen Nachkriegskunst mit einer Zeichnungsretrospektive. Hundert grossformatige und farbige Blätter geben Einblick in sechzig Jahre intensiver zeichnerischer Tätigkeit.

On the ocassion of his 80th birthday, the Kupferstichkabinett honors Georg Baselitz with a drawing retrospective. One of the most signifcant protagonists of German post-war art, hundreds of large format and colorful works on paper offer insight into sixy years of intensive graphic practice.

On view from January 21 through April 29, 2018

Die Ausstellung bringt grafische Arbeiten von Baselitz in einen spannungsreichen Dialog mit bedeutenden Werken des Manierismus. 

The exhibition brings Baselitz's graphic work in an exciting conversation with important mannerist works.

On view from March 3 through May 27, 2018

Im Zentrum der Recklinghäuser Ausstellung stehen großformatige, wie ein Puzzle gedruckte Holzschnitte, die durch ihre überbordende Fantasie und gleichzeitige handwerkliche Askese, durch Humor und hintergründige Künstlichkeit bestechen.

At the heart of the Recklinghausen exhibition are large-format woodcuts created with jigsaw puzzle-like blocks, which captivate through their exuberant imagination and simultaneous artistic asceticism, through humor and subtle artificiality.

On view May 6 through September 16, 2018