Weekend Cheat Sheet: July 16 - 22, 2018

A short list of the can’t-miss new exhibition openings (and closings) this week, by city. See last week’s list for other recent openings, and for a more comprehensive guide, see our Itinerary.

NEW YORK

Ivo van Hove “The Damned”
Park Avenue Armory
643 Park Avenue
OPENS: July 17
Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove’s much-lauded adaptation of Luchino Visconti’s bleak 1969 drama has its North American premiere at the the Park Avenue Armory Wade Thompson Drill Hall. Recounting the ideological unraveling of the wealthy von Essenbeck family against a backdrop of Nazi Germany, the production echoes the original screenplay’s motifs of ambition, corruption, and brutality amid a stark, minimalist scenography.

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“Constantin Brancusi Sculpture”
Museum of Modern Art
11 W 53rd Street
OPENS: July 22
In his 50-year career, the Romanian artist revolutionized the form and vernacular of sculpture through severe abstraction (as in the graceful “Bird in Space” from 1928) and an emphasis on the natural properties of his materials (bronze, marble, oak). His transformative effect on the medium is noted in this compact presentation of 11 of his sculptures, and a selection of his drawings and photographs.

(Opening image: Constantin Brancusi, “Mlle Pogany. version I,” 1913. © 2018 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris. Photo: Courtesy Imaging and Visual Resources Department, MoMA)

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“Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now)”
The Met Breuer
945 Madison Ave
CLOSES: July 22
This survey of 700 years’ worth of sculptural practice brings together approximately 120 significant sculptures from various eras to uncover the diverse strategies artists such as El Greco, Louise Bourgeois, and Jeff Koons employed in replicating and reconstructing the human figure.

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“Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960–1985”
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn
CLOSES: July 22
The contributions of Latin American and Latina women to contemporary art are documented here through the conceptual and radical works of more than 120 pioneering artists, including Lygia Pape, Ana Mendieta, Margarita Paksa, and Feliza Bursztyn. Ranging from sculpture to photography to performance, these pieces highlight the use of the female body for artistic expression, activism, and social critique.

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ELSEWHERE

John Bock “The Next Quasi-Complex”
Fondazione Prada
Largo Isarco, 2
Milan
OPENS: July 18
Berlin-based multimedia and performance artist John Bock presents two large installations at the Podium of the Fondazione Prada in Milan. Combining objects and sets from his previous works, 2001’s When I’m looking into the Goat Cheese Baiser and the site of a grisly murder from 2006’s Lütte mit Rucola, the exhibition will culminate on Sept. 8, 2018 in a live performance of one of Bock’s parodic “lectures.”

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“Echoes”
Gagosian San Francisco
657 Howard Street
San Francisco
OPENS: July 19
The basis of this new exhibition at Gagosian San Francisco is the artistic and thematic resonance between three pairs of artists from different generations. Each pairing of artists and their works—Adriana Varejão with Richard Artschwager, Mary Weatherford with John Chamberlain, and Jeff Wall with Cy Twombly—aims to draw out the shared strains and unique commonalities that cross the generational gap between them.

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“Signals: If You Like I Shall Grow”
Thomas Dane Gallery
3 & 11 Duke Street St James’s
London
CLOSES: July 21
From 1964 to 1966, London gallery Signals was a hub of experimental activity, staging presentations of artists, including Lygia Clark and Jesus Rafael Soto, that linked national and international avant-garde networks. This exhibition, organized by kurimanzutto gallery and presented at Thomas Dane, celebrates its legacy by bringing together the works of its founders, artists David Medalla, Gustav Metzger, and Marcello Salvadori, mapping its aesthetic connections with Latin American and Western European artists, and highlighting the British artists who emerged out of its orbit.

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