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Left: an original Egyptian sarcophagus. Photo: Ricardo Ferreira. Right: Fernando Lindote, Kill, Macunaíma!, 2015.

Desvairar 22 (Hallucinate ’22) at Sesc Pinheiros

August 27, 2022–January 15, 2023 Two significant historical anniversaries in Brazilian history are being commemorated in 2022: the bicentennial of Independence (September 7, 1822) and the 100th anniversary of the Modern Art Week of 1922. (February 13–17, 1922). Sesc is holding a variety of cultural events to commemorate these milestones with the intention of reflecting…

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Pablo Picasso, Female nude, Barcelona or Paris, 1902–03. Pen and sepia ink on paper pasted onto electric-blue glazed paper. 7 5/8 x 13 5/16 inches. Museu Picasso, Barcelona. Gift of Pablo Picasso, 1970. © 2022 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Hammer Museum presents Picasso Cut Papers

October 1–December 31, 2022 Fall exhibitions celebration: October 9, 6–9pm, Joan Didion and Bob Thompson exhibitions also on view Curator walk-through: October 29, 1–2pm Picasso Cut Papers, an exhibition highlighting a significant but little-known aspect of Pablo Picasso's technique, is on display at the Hammer Museum at UCLA (1881–1973). In addition to a small number of sculptures made of…

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View of Delinking and Relinking, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2021. Photo: Joep Jacobs.

Van Abbemuseum presents Delinking and Relinking

The next Van Abbemuseum collection show, titled Delinking and Relinking, will be on display through 2025. The collection is presented as a sequence of encounters between artworks, histories, and visitors, drawing on concepts created by decolonial philosophers. Three axes govern how the exhibition develops. One focuses on the occasions and connections that have influenced the museum…

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Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Walled Unwalled, 2018 (video still). Courtesy of the artist

EMST Athens announces four new exhibitions

June 16–October 30, 2022 The National Museum of Contemporary Athens, EMST, is pleased to present four additional exhibitions as part of its new artistic program under the direction of artistic director Katerina Gregos. These exhibitions join the museum's flagship international exhibition Statecraft (and beyond), which explores the underlying mechanisms at work in the engineering of the…

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Left: Sedje Hémon, Fête, 1957. Oil on canvas, 93 x 77 cm. Collection Sedje Hémon Foundation. Photo: Marjon Gemmeke. Center: Imran Mir, Eighth Paper on Modern Art, 1996. Acrylic on canvas, 183 x 154 cm. Collection Imran Mir Art Foundation. Right: Abdias Nascimento, Afro Standard, 1993. Acrylic on canvas, 84 x 54 cm, Rio de Janeiro. Collection Abdias Nascimento/Black Art Museum/IPEAFRO Collection. Photo: Miguel Pacheco e Chaves, RCS Arte Digital.

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and sonsbeek20→24 present Abstracting Parables

July 1–October 16, 2022 Abstracting Parables is the result of a collaboration between three historical voices and aesthetic views, each giving their own interpretations of how abstraction might be translated into diverse and complex languages. Sedje Hémon (1923–2011), a Dutch-Jewish painter and composer, Abdias Nascimento (1914–2011), an Afro-Brazilian painter, poet, essayist, dramatist, and political activist, and…

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Georges Seurat, Tree Trunks Reflected in Water (Homage to Stéphane Mallarmé), 1883–84. Conté crayon on paper. Villa Flora, Winterthur. Permanent loan to Hahnloser/Jaeggli Foundation, Winterthur. Photo: Reto Pedrini, Zürich.

Serra/Seurat: Drawings at Guggenheim Bilbao

June 9–September 6, 2022 Curators: Lucía Agirre, curator, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, and Judith Benhamou, independent curator and art writer. The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Serra/Seurat: Drawings, an exhibition that brings together a selection of 22 drawings by late-nineteenth-century master Georges Seurat, which engage in dialogue with Richard Serra's Ramble drawings, a great admirer of Seurat's and without…

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