2020 art exhibitions: a quick look

Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932). Ice (detail), 1981. Oil on canvas, 27 9/16 x 39 3/8 in. (70 x 100 cm). Collection of Ruth McLoughlin, Monaco. © Gerhard Richter 2019 (08102019).

2020 art exhibitions: a quick look We welcome 2020 with a quick look at some of the most interesting art exhibitions planned for the year.]]>

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Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art
Belvedere Vienna
14 February to 1 June 2020
Featuring works by Toulouse-Lautrec, Otto Dix, Hans Arp, and many others, the exhibition explores art and culture from the 1880s to the 1960s though the lens of cabarets, clubs and cafes.

Degas at the Opéra
National Gallery of Art, Washington
March 1 to July 5, 2020
Celebrating the 350th anniversary of the Paris Opéra’s founding, the exhibition will present approximately 100 of the artist’s best-known and beloved paintings, pastels, drawings, prints, and sculpture.

Gerhard Richter: Painting After All
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
March 4 to July 5, 2020
“Gerhard Richter: Painting After All” will span the artist’s six decade-long preoccupation with the twin modes of painterly naturalism and chromatic abstraction, in relation to photographic and other representational iconographies.

Niki de Saint Phalle
MoMA PS1
April 5 to September 7, 2020
The exhibition will feature over 100 works created from the 1970s until the artist’s death, including sculptures, prints, drawings, jewelry, and archival material.

Picasso: Painting the Blue Period
Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO)
June 27 to September 20, 2020.
The exhibition will include approximately 65 works of art by Picasso as well as a discrete selection of works by other artists that the then young Spaniard would have known and studied.

Cy Twombly: Making Past Present
MFA Boston
July 18 to October 24, 2020.
This exhibition is the first in the U.S. to explore the artist’s sustained engagement with antiquity and the first to focus on Twombly in Boston.

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