The fall art season kicks-off this week with exhibitions at the Goss-Michael Foundation, The Power Station, and in galleries throughout the Design District. Next week will see even more new gallery openings, as well as the debut of a number of new museum exhibits. Here are the five museum shows we’re most looking forward to this fall.
Genzken’s oeuvre unfolds as series of inventions and reinventions. In the 1970s, she produced wood sculptures which approached minimalist aesthetics while brushing up against the established conventions of that art movement. In the 1980s, she turned to plaster, resin, and concrete for her sculptures, often riffing on architectural styles. In recent decades Genzken has produced her most celebrated and influential work, assemblages of dolls, trash, kitsch, and other every day and found objects. She brings this bric-a-brac together into bewildering, haunting, and elusive pieces which confound our expectations of what art is or can be.
September 14-January 4, 2015 at the Dallas Museum of Art
Provocations: The Architecture and Design of Heatherwick Studio
This will be the first museum exhibition in the U.S. dedicated to the British designer Thomas Heatherwick, and it is also the first show at the Nasher focused on the work of an architect. Heatherwick’s work resolves with the Nasher’ commitment to exploring trends and movements in contemporary sculpture. Heatherwick’ buildings that read like sculptures – a drawbridge that rolls up like a snail, a cathedral with a prickly, porcupine façade — employing ambitious engineering, as well as new materials and technologies. The exhibition will include prototypes, large-scale models, objects, photographs, and film and video footage.
September 13-January 4, 2015 at the Nasher Sculpture Center
Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s
This huge retrospective survey of a moment and a place – the hot intensity of New York during the fervent decade of the 1980s – will include huge names, artists whose work continues to shape how we think about and approach art. Among the highlights: Laurie Anderson, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger, Sherrie Levine, Robert Longo, Robert Mapplethorpe, Richard Prince, Julian Schnabel, Cindy Sherman, Andy Warhol, and Christopher Wool.
September 21-January 4, 2015 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from the Musée d’Orsay
Impressionism exhibitions tend be popular draws. This one pairs the obvious appeal of seeing some of the most beloved artists of the movement with an intriguing focus — zooming in, so to speak, on the evolving approach to portraiture during the emergence of impressionism. And, as is typical for the Kimbell, the museum is bringing in some big name paintings, including Cézanne’s Portrait of Gustave Geffroy and Woman with a Coffee Pot; Degas’s Self-Portrait with Evariste de Valernes and L’Absinthe; and Renoir’s Portrait of Claude Monet and Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano.
October 19 – January 25, 2015 at the Kimbell Art Museum
Goya: A Lifetime of Graphic Invention
The Meadows exhibition will focus on four complete, first edition sets of Goya’s major print series, Los Caprichos (1799), Los Desastres de la Guerra (1810-19), La Tauromaquia(1816), and Los Disparates (1816-23). Exhibited alongside Goya’s paintings from the museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition will seek to examine the Spanish artist’s printmaking as an essential component of his artistic project and output.
September 21 – March 1, 2015 at the Meadows Museum
