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"\u201CEyebeam Resurfaces: The Future of the Digital Archive,\u201D at Eyebeam, New York, January 8 \u2013 January 12Reflecting on the game-changing effect of Hurricane Sandy on the conservation of art \u2014 from the analog to the digital \u2014 this four-day event series will include lectures, workshops, and exhibition of works saved from Eyebeam\u2019s collection, and a screening of the documentary \u201CArchive,\u201D in which director Jonathan Minard examines our society\u2019s collective reliance on digital records.\u201CDorothea Tanning: Unknown but Knowable States\u201D at Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco January 10 \u2013 March 2A full year following the death of this emphatically mixed-media artist, this exhibition will bring together over 30 works of painting, sculpture, craft, and collage from the 1960s and \u201870s, during which time Tanning lived and worked in Paris with fellow artist Max Ernst.\u201CAlighiero Boetti a Roma,\u201D Fondazione MAXXI, Rome, January 23 \u2013 October 6Arte Povera devotees rejoice as 30 works by Boetti \u2014 in addition to those of fellow Conceptualists Francesco Clemente and Luigi Ontani \u2014 are included in an exhibition centered around the themes of place and identity.\u201CManet: Portraying Life,\u201D at the Royal Academy, London, January 26 \u2013 April 14In 1865, the unveiling of Manet\u2019s \u201COlympia\u201D stunned the Paris Salon for its portrayal of a commodified female body. Of course, this wasn\u2019t the artist\u2019s first engagement with the human form; portraiture was a fascination of Manet\u2019s, and as this exhibition shows, his paintings of Antonin Proust, \u00C9mile Zola and St\u00E9phane Mallarm\u00E9 are among the most endearing chronicles of Parisian life at the dawn of modernity.\u201CGravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui\u201D at the Brooklyn Museum,&amp;nbsp;February 8 \u2013 August 4Combining elements of painting and sculpture via the appropriation of found objects, El Anatsui is globally recognized as one of the foremost contemporary artists. This exhibition \u2014 the first solo show in an American museum &amp;nbsp;\u2014 includes site-specific sculptures in wood and metal, as well as 12 malleable wall and floor sculptures composed of liquor bottle caps.The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection at MOCA, Los Angeles, February 10 \u2013 &amp;nbsp;March 28Dorothy and Herbert Vogel collected over 4,000 works by contemporary artists in the second half of the 20th century. In 2008, they donated 50 works to museums in each of the 50 states as part of the Vogel 50x50 initiative. A selection of the works donated to MOCA will be on view, offering a chance to see a piece of the famed collection of these  proletarian art collectors. \u201CDancing Around Duchamp\u201D at the Barbican, London, February 14 \u2013 June 9On the anniversary year of the 1913 Armory Show, where Marcel Duchamp scandalized the art world with  Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2,  the Barbican is hosting a massive Duchamp-centered season, including the exhibition  The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns  with around 90 pieces, some exhibited for the first time the UK, focusing on his influence on the American modern masters.\u201CGutai: Splendid Playground\u201D at the Guggenheim, New York, February 15 \u2013 May 8One of postwar Japan\u2019s most influential artistic movements, Gutai was an avant-garde collective that sought a response to the postatomic world in radical artistic creation. \u201CSplendid Playground\u201D presents over 100 works \u2014 from painting and installation to sound and light \u2014 created by members of the movement between 1954 and 1972.\u201CLebbeus Woods. Architect\u201D at the San Francisco MoMA, February 16 \u2013 June 2There have been few architects as fearless as Lebbeus Woods, who passed away this October leaving&amp;nbsp;behind a stunning legacy of architectural drawings that challenged design, structure, and gravity, and this exhibition explores his often brutal and severe approach, driven by his belief that  architecture must learn to transform the violence, even as violence knows how to transform the architecture. \u201CPicasso and Chicago\u201D at the Art Institute of Chicago, February 20 \u2013 &amp;nbsp;May 12Back in 1913, the Art Institute of Chicago was the first American museum to show the work of Pablo Picasso, who was then in the midst of Cubism, and this exhibition, the first in 30 years at the museum to focus on Picasso, celebrates the 100-year anniversary with more than 250 examples of his work sourced from the museum's collections and private collections in Chicago, tracing the artist's career and the relationship between the city and modern art.\u201CLichtenstein: A Retrospective\u201D at the Tate Modern, London, February 21 \u2013 May 27Over 100 of Lichtenstein\u2019s immediately recognizable Pop paintings are brought together in this retrospective; the first one dedicated to the artist in over 20 years. With famed works like \u201CLook Mickey\u201D and \u201COh, Jeff...I Love You, Too...But...\u201D this exhibition highlights Lichtenstein\u2019s enduring influence on 20th-century art.\u201CImpressionism, Fashion, and Modernity\u201D at the Met, New York, February 26 \u2013 May 27As Paris became the epicenter of fashion in the 1800s, Impressionist painters saw an opportunity to portray the stylish men and women of the times in their works. With works by Manet, Monet, Renoir and their contemporaries presented alongside Parisian photographs, prints, costumes, and accessories from the era, this exhibition sheds light on the influence of fashion upon Impressionist painters.\u201CJay Defeo: A Retrospective\u201D at the Whitney, New York, February 28 \u2013 June 2 This retrospective of Beat artist Jay Defeo \u2014 known for her wide experimentation with material, and the almost 2,000-pound painting, \u201CThe Rose\u201D \u2014 presents some of her works in jewelry, photography, and collage amongst the 130 works in the show.\u201CThe Angel of the Odd. Dark Romanticism from F\u00FCssli to Max Ernst\u201D at Musee d'Orsay, Paris, March 5 \u2013 June 9 Beginning in the late 1700s, flourishing in the 1880s, and remaining popular throughout the 1920s, so-called Dark Romanticism has established itself both within art history and in popular culture. This exhibition presents works by Goya, F\u00FCssli, and Max Ernst in tandem with Expressionist films of the 1920s to illustrate the complexity and breadth of the genre.Garry Winogrand at the San Francisco MoMA, March 9 \u2013 June 2Garry Winogrand is one of his generation's most important photographers, yet much of his oeuvre remains out of the public view. This exhibition \u2014 the most comprehensive presentation of his work to date \u2014 is the culmination of extensive archival research, and offers the opportunity to see many of his lesser-known photographs of America in the 1960s. &amp;nbsp;Parallel Practices: Joan Jonas &amp;amp; Gina Pane at the Contemporary Art Museum Houston, March 23 \u2013 June 20Joan Jonas and Gina Pane, born one year apart, and working on different continents (Jonas in New York and Pane in Paris), were both pioneers in the early days of performance art. This exhibition explores the similarities and differences of their practices and includes live performances of Jonas\u2019s works.\u201CDavid Bowie Is\u201D at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, March 23 \u2013 July 28, 2013Keep your \u2018lectric eye on the V&amp;amp;A to freak out in the daydream of the incomparable David Bowie, with this retrospective, sourced from the David Bowie Archive, the first to give a concentrated look at the career of the glam icon/Ziggy Stardust rocker/chameleon-of-modern-music through 300 pieces including art, video, instruments, costumes, photography, film, and other artifacts of the earthbound starman.\u201CIn Focus: Ed Ruscha\u201D at the Getty, Los Angeles, April 9 \u2013 September 29Ed Ruscha is to Los Angeles what perfumes are to Paris and baile funk is to Brazil. Bringing his meditation on horizontal cityscapes and car-driven architectural photography back to the fore, this exhibition includes some of the gems of the Getty\u2019s stash of Ruscha\u2019s work as an art book maker, including the iconic  Every Building on the Sunset Strip  (1966).The Reopening of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, April 13Following 10 years of work on its 19th-century home, the Rijksmuseum finally reopens with Rembrandt's  The Night Watch  returned to its place of honor in the stately corridors, along with a revamped presentation of galleries and gardens showcasing 800 years of Dutch art and culture.\u201CClaes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store\u201D at MoMA, New York, April 14 \u2013 August 5Claes Oldenburg\u2019s storefront installations of sculptures of quotidian commercial objects came to redefine ideas of sculpture in the 1960s. MoMA brings together various works &amp;nbsp;from this period, along with the rarely seen installation, \u201CThe Street\u201D in an exhibition paying homage to Oldenburg\u2019s complexity and inventiveness.\u201CChagall: Modern Master\u201D at the Tate Liverpool, June 8 \u2013 October 6&amp;nbsp;With a selection of works highlighting the formative years of Chagall\u2019s career \u2014 from his pre-war time in Paris, to his time in Russia during the Revolution \u2014 this exhibition explores Chagall\u2019s early influences, and traces his development into an iconic 20th-century artist.James Turrell at the Guggenheim, New York, June 21 \u2013 September 25Best known for his still-uncompleted \u201CRoden Crater,\u201D for which he intends to transform a 3-mile-wide volcanic cone into a naked-eye observatory, James Turrell will perform a similar feat of reorientation and site-specificity with this exhibition, turning his skills to transforming the Guggenheim\u2019s immense atrium.\u201CVermeer and Music: The Art of Love and Leisure\u201D at the National Gallery London, June 26 \u2013 September 8There are only just over 30 known paintings by Vermeer, so having three in the same place at once is a special occasion. In this case, the works all depict young ladies practicing music, and the National Gallery is celebrating with an exhibition of 17th-century music with rare instruments, songbooks, and works by contemporaries of the Dutch master of light.Balthus: Cats and Girls at the Met, New York, September 2013 \u2013 January 2014 While some have debated the erotic nature of Balthus\u2019s work, nobody has doubted the accuracy with which he depicts adolescent ennui. With just 35 works, this exhibition offers a selection of Balthus's finest paintings, featuring his preferred models: young girls and cats.\u201CDamage Control: Art and Destruction since 1950\u201D at the Hirshhorn Museum &amp;amp; Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, September (TBA) \u2013 February 16, 2014Sometimes it seems like we're living in the age of destruction, with the brutal wars of the 20th century, the obliterating atomic age, and ongoing fear of terrorist attacks. The Hirshhorn is salvaging through the wreckage with contemporary work from around the world for the first in-depth museum exploration of the art of annihilation.Janet Cardiff: \u201CThe Forty Part Motet\u201D at the Cloisters, New York, September 10 \u2013 December 8As part of the Cloister's 75th year anniversary, Janet Cardiff's  The Forty Part Motet  (2001), which breaks out each voice in Thomas Tallis's  Spem in alium numquam habui  (1573) into 40 speakers, inhabits the acoustically friendly medieval Fuentidue\u00F1a Chapel for what will surely be one of the most transcendent art experiences of the year.\u201CThe Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926\u20131938 Magritte\u201D at MoMA, New York, September 22, 2013 \u2013 January 12, 2014Dedicated exclusively to the years of Magritte\u2019s life in which he began painting in order to \u201Cchallenge the world,\u201D this exhibition explores the most groundbreaking period of the artist\u2019s life and traces his development as a definitive Surrealist painter.Paul Klee at Tate Modern, London, October 15, 2013 \u2013 March 9, 2014Curated to illustrate the relationship between Klee\u2019s work, his personal life, and the changing political climate of Europe, this exhibition brings together works from throughout Klee\u2019s career \u2014 from his years teaching at the Bauhaus to his forced to return to Switzerland after his work was declared \u201Cdegenerate\u201D by the Nazi regime.Christopher Wool at the Guggenheim, New York, October 25, 2013 \u2013 January 22, 2014Combining elements of Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, Christopher Wool\u2019s works continually explore the ways in which images can be conceived and experienced. Presented in the museum\u2019s rotunda, this retrospective includes paintings, works on paper, and photographs that engage these questions in an open-ended visual dialogue.\u201CWar Is Over! (If You Want it): Yoko Ono,\u201D at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, November 14, 2013 \u2013 February 23, 2014Not enough educated people (artists even!) seem to appreciate how cool Yoko Ono was before she became Mrs. John Lennon. Borrowing the name from a work of Ono\u2019s that first appeared in 1969, this much-warranted retrospective of one of the co-authors of Conceptual art spans five decades."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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