The Top 10 Summer Museum Shows in Europe
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Shortly after Claude Monets death, eight of his large-scale waterlily paintings were placed on display inside a former indoor orange grove in Paris, and the natural light made it a perfect setting for the verdant works. After a six-year, $36 million renovation, the Musée de lOrangerie reopened this spring, and the paintings are once again in full bloom. From enterprising street vendors to soaring skylines, rapid economic growth has dramatically changed Chinas cities. The 15 Chinese artists represented in New Urban Realities at Rotterdams Museum Boijmans van Beuningen through Aug. 13 chronicle architectural, social and aesthetic transitions in Chinas urban environs with photography, film, performance, video and installations. The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, which is just north of Copenhagen, may not have the largest collection of video art around, but with work by Nam June-Paik, Bill Viola and Aernout Mik among its holdings, it has some of the most significantand the most cutting edge. Sip My Ocean: International Video in the Louisiana Collection offers a taste of its holdings through Aug. 20. Another exhibition of Chinese art looks behind the countrys glossy façade of economic success. The photographs in Humanism in China: A Contemporary Record of Photography tell individual stories from inside Chinas radically changing society. Almost 600 images by Chinese photographers span 50 years of tumultuous history at the Museum für Moderne Kunst in Frankfurt through Aug. 27. Following a history-making exhibition, The Museum of Modern Art returned Pablo Picassos Guernica (1937) to Spain in 1981. Now, the Reina Sofía National Museum and the Museo del Prado in Madrid are teaming up to celebrate the 25th anniversary of its return with Picasso: Tradition and Avant-Garde, a full-scale retrospective. Its a rare opportunity to see more than 100 masterpieces by the larger-than-life artist. At both museums through Sept. 3. Known for both his early graphic work critiquing the excesses of Weimar Germany and his later painted triptychs from the 1930s and 40s, Leibzig-born painter Max Beckmann also produced spectacular watercolor and pastel works on paper. Nearly 100 of them are now on view in Max Beckmann: Watercolors and Pastels at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao through Sept. 17. Fans of Pierre Huyghes film A Journey that Wasnt (2006) at this springs Whitney Biennial are in luck. Not only does Pierre Huyghe: Celebration Park at the Tate Modern include that work, but it also incorporates it into an immersive exhibition of texts, films, puppet shows and more. Add Huyghe to your London journey through Sept. 17. Yves Klein may be best remembered for paintings executed in his trademark (literally, he patented it) shade of blue. But his most groundbreaking work was made with ephemeral materials, such as water, fire and the human body interacting with space. Yves Klein: Air Architecture uses drawings, texts, photographs and video to recreate his fleeting work at Viennas MAK Gallery through Sept. 24. What do you do if bureaucracy frustrates your plans to build a major museum in France? If youre luxury-goods magnate François Pinault, you buy a large share in Venices 18th-century Palazzo Grassi and show your renowned collection of work by Donald Judd, Jeff Koons, Agnes Martin and other big-name contemporary artists there instead. Get a peak at Pinaults collection in Where Are We Going through Oct. 1.
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