{"id":1949769,"date":"2026-05-21T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1949769"},"modified":"2026-05-21T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:16:41","slug":"summer-guide-20-art-world-highlights-not-to-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1949769","title":{"rendered":"Summer Guide: 20 Art World Highlights Not to Miss"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\tAs surveyed in the latest issue of Art in America<\/em>, see a highly discerning list of things to experience in the art world in the coming months. <\/p>\n
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El \u00daltimo Sue\u00f1o de Frida y Diego at the Metropolitan Opera\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Zenith Richards\/Courtesy Metropolitan Opera, New York\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThe stormy, steamy relationship between Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera did not lack for operatic extremes, so expect a mix of emotions when the creative couple\u2019s story goes onstage at New York\u2019s premier opera house. With music by Gabriela Lena Frank, direction by Deborah Colker, and a libretto by Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning playwright Nilo Cruz, El \u00daltimo Sue\u00f1o de Frida y Diego<\/em> imagines Kahlo reuniting with Rivera after leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead. May 14\u2013June 5<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cCostume Art\u201d at the Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Renata Buzzo\/\u00a9Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\t\u201cCostume Art\u201d is the first show in new 12,000-square-foot gallery spaces that will host the Met Costume Institute\u2019s annual spring exhibitions, among other shows. The debut will feature close to 400 objects from the Met\u2019s collection, juxtaposing garments with artworks to \u201cexamine the centrality of the dressed body within the museum,\u201d as curator Andrew Bolton put it. Through Jan. 10<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Bj\u00f6rk\u00a0at the National Gallery of Iceland<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Santiago Felipe via Getty\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tBj\u00f6rk was not well served by a notoriously panned MoMA exhibition in 2015, but an ambitious undertaking in her hometown of Reykjavik offers a second chance to do right by an artist whose visionary work has drifted beyond music into realms of performance art, theater, fashion, video, and lots more. Titled \u201cecholalia,\u201d this show features three \u201cimmersive installations\u201d: one inspired by Bj\u00f6rk\u2019s forthcoming album, and two that pay tribute to her late environmental-activist mother Hildur R\u00fana Hauksd\u00f3ttir. May 30\u2013Sept. 19<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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High Waters: An Oral History of the Venice Biennale \u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Touring Club Italiano\/Marka\/Universal Images Group via Getty\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tIf\u00a0you\u2019ve\u00a0ever wanted to know how\u2014and why\u2014one assembles so\u00a0strange\u00a0a creature as the Venice Biennale,\u00a0here\u2019s\u00a0one heck of a chance. For this book, Massimiliano Gioni, who curated the 2013 edition, interviewed 11 curators\u2014including his wife, Cecilia\u00a0Alemani; the late\u00a0Okwui\u00a0Enwezor; and the team executing Koyo\u00a0Kouoh\u2019s\u00a0posthumous 2026 edition.\u00a0 On sale in May<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Raven Halfmoon\u00a0at Ballroom Marfa<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Kes Efstathiou\/Courtesy Salon 94, New York\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tRaven Halfmoon\u2019s stoneware sculptures serve as monuments to her Caddo Nation ancestors, especially the long line of women who taught her ceramics. \u201cFlags of Our Mothers\u201d surveys her work from the past five years. For this incarnation of the show\u2014which originated at the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and then traveled to the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska\u2014Ballroom Marfa commissioned new works addressing West Texas. Through Oct. 11<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Pierre Huyghe at Fondation\u00a0Beyeler\u00a0Basel\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York; Hauser & Wirth, Zurich; Esther Schipper, Berlin; Taro Nasu, Tokyo, and Anna Lena Films, Paris\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tSwiss institutions always save their biggest exhibitions for Art Basel season. This major Pierre Huyghe show sees recent works join several new commissions, among them a site-specific environment that promises to make the building appear to inhale and exhale. May 24\u2013Sept. 13<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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James McNeill Whistler\u00a0at Tate Britain<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Mus\u2000e d’Orsay, Paris\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tJames McNeill Whistler\u00a0contained\u00a0multitudes as a notoriously combative figure best\u00a0known for a tender portrait of his aging mother.\u00a0All his complexities will\u00a0be on view in his retrospective at the Tate.\u00a0 May 21\u2013Sept. 27<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Medina Triennial<\/h2>\n
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\n\tIn its namesake town on the Erie Canal, about an hour\u2019s drive north-northwest from Buffalo, the inaugural Medina Triennial opens this summer. It was conceived by the New York Power Authority and the New York State Canal Corporation to bring attention to a canal that was a marvel of civil engineering when it was completed in 1825. Site-specificity is a priority. Among this edition\u2019s projects are Mary Mattingly\u2019s Floating Garden<\/em> on a repurposed barge and Two Waters, <\/em>a film by Tania Candiani shot in an abandoned school auditorium, a site that will double as a main exhibition space during the triennial\u2019s run. June 6\u2013Sept. 7<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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\u201cGen X: Tales from the Forgotten Generation\u201d\u00a0at Deste\u00a0Foundation Athens\u00a0<\/h2>\n
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\n\tThe so-called forgotten generation hits the limelight in this show in Greece curated by the New Museum\u2019s Massimiliano Gioni. It features artists\u00a0born between 1960 and 1980 who ushered the culture through\u00a0the transition from the analog to the digital\u00a0age and set a lasting ironic tone featuring \u201clowbrow aesthetics, self-deprecation, and a healthy disregard for convention.\u201d\u00a0 June 11\u2013Nov. 26<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Art Basel<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Fabrice Coffrini\/AFP via Getty\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThe art world\u2019s flagship fair returns with 290 galleries, 21 of them participating for the first time. The fair\u2019s Unlimited program, devoted to monumental work, will be curated by Ruba Katrib of MoMA PS1, and Stefanie Hessler of the Swiss Institute in New York returns as curator of the Parcours program of presentations around town. June 18\u201321<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Modernism\u2019s Lesbian Icons in Novel Form\u00a0<\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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\n\tWhen two lesbian icons of modernism met\u2014Alice B. Toklas and Gertrude Stein\u2014it\u00a0was\u00a0love at first sight. Fate is in their favor\u00a0yet\u00a0again as a pair of novels inspired\u00a0by\u00a0each of their lives\u00a0make their way around the world: Deborah Levy\u2019s My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein <\/em>comes out just as Prudence Bussey-Chamberlain\u2019s\u00a0Bone Horn<\/em>, which\u00a0tackles\u00a0Toklas, makes its paperback premiere.\u00a0\u00a0 On sale in June\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Obama Presidential Center<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo E. Jason Wambsgans\/Chicago Tribune\/Tribune News Service via Getty\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tAt long last, the unveiling of an institution associated with a president whose name doesn\u2019t instantly make the blood boil is upon us. On the South Side of Chicago, the Obama Presidential Center will open with a flood of commissioned artworks by some major names, among them Julie Mehretu, Nick Cave, Maya Lin, Kiki Smith, Theaster Gates, Mark Bradford, and Carrie Mae Weems. (That\u2019s really just a sampling, too.) Expect some liveliness: As Obama himself has said, \u201cI\u2019m not interested in a mausoleum.\u201d Opening June 18<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Edgar Arceneaux at Tinworks Art<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Paula Court\/\u00a9Edgar Arceneaux\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tAs part of an exhibition related to storied sculptor Edmonia Lewis and her brother Samuel, Edgar Arceneaux will stage a two-day theatrical production in Bozeman, Montana, where Samuel helped support Edmonia\u2019s rise as one of the first internationally acclaimed Black artists. Edmonia, who worked in the late 19th century, is best known for her legacy in Rome; Samuel\u2019s stint as a Black settler in the American West is another part of her story that Arceneaux will retell in a live production. The performance will form the basis of an installation of painting and video and will remain on view throughout a monthslong show titled \u201cChisel & Razor: The Artistic Legacies of Edmonia & Samuel Lewis.\u201d June 20\u201321<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Alan Ruiz at Dia Bridgehampton<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo David Hale\/Courtesy Alan Ruiz\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tFor his solo show at this summer destination in the Hamptons, Alan Ruiz responds to an installation by\u00a0Dan Flavin, considering Flavin\u2019s light sculptures not as pure light and line but as materials with a history\u2014electric light was invented to extend the workday. Refiguring white lights into a white picket fence,\u00a0Ruiz\u2019s show draws attention to the Latinx labor on Long Island\u2019s East End.\u00a0 Opening June 26\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Marilou Schultz at Hessel Museum of Art\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Thatcher Keats\/Courtesy Gochman Family Collection\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tIn 1994, the Navajo artist Marilou Schultz was commissioned by Intel to weave a replica of one of its computer chips. The project marked the beginning of a body of work that wove together historical and physical threads\u2014connecting histories of copper mining in Navajo Nation to the overlooked labor of women and Indigenous people in early computer history. This show at Bard College, titled \u201cReplica of a Chip: The Weaving Technology of Marilou Schultz,\u201d surveys the artist\u2019s work. June 27\u2013Nov. 29<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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Tony Oursler\u00a0at Tokyo Node<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Photo Gu\u0308nter Richard Wett\/Courtesy Tony Oursler Studio\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tTony Oursler\u2019s career-spanning museum survey in Japan includes over 3,000 works\u2014but one will stand apart, as the show marks the\u00a0world premiere of his collaboration with David Bowie, which Oursler has been working on for more than 25 years.\u00a0 July 3\u2013Sept. 27<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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250th Anniversary Shows<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy American Folk Art Museum, New York\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tAs the United States turns 250, a smattering of museum shows tackle the nation\u2019s past and present\u2014from the Norman Rockwell Museum to Crystal Bridges to the American Folk Art Museum. Their different tacts and tones are explored by Greg Allen in his D.C. \u201cDiary\u201d essay elsewhere in this issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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AIR Festival<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Mennour and Hauser & Wirth, New York\/\u00a9ADAGP and Camille Henrot\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\tThe first AIR Festival in 2025 featured a heady mix of talks and performances around Aspen, Colorado, a destination known for its art collectors and a museum to match. Under the guidance of Nicola Lees, who took over as director of the Aspen Art Museum in 2020, AIR garnered lots of attention in its first year\u2014and stands to do so again under the theme \u201cFigures in a Landscape.\u201d Its program will include the likes of Camille Henrot, Lucy Raven, Lyle Ashton Harris, and Adrian Villar Rojas. July 27\u201331<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
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John Berger Bonanza<\/h2>\n<\/figure>\n
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\n\tThis year has seen a slew of reissues by the beloved critic, from both Verso and The New York Review of Books. G, reissued by NYRB, boasts a new introduction by Ben Lerner. All this is crowned by a new Berger biography coming out in September\u2014a 500-page tome by Tom Overton that offers new glimpses into the great critic\u2019s life and mind.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n
\n\tThe vaunted photography magazine and publishing enterprise Aperture is opening a new headquarters on Manhattan\u2019s Upper West Side, where it will host exhibitions, events, and a bookstore. The organization is marking the occasion with \u201cAperture Loves New York,\u201d an exhibition of photographers who regarded the city as a muse. The show will include works by Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Nan Goldin, and Dawoud Bey. Opening in July<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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