Because the artwork world prepares to go to Frieze New York, museums and galleries are unveiling a brand new host of summer season blockbusters. These are the exhibitions opening in Could that caught our eye.
Seeing Every Different: Portraits of Artists, Pallant Home Gallery, Chichester
17 Could-2 November
Friendship, love, inspiration and rivalry are working themes in an exhibition at Pallant Home Gallery that charts how artists have portrayed each other. Spanning portray, sculpture, set up, images, drawing and printmaking, Seeing Every Different: Portraits of Artists contains depictions of greater than 130 artists by not less than 80 completely different arms, all working in Britain from the early twentieth century till now. Extra
Ishbel Myerscough’s Two Painters (2025), of the artist with longtime pal and fellow artist Chantal Joffe
Courtesy of the artist and Flowers Gallery
Historic India: Residing Traditions, British Museum, London
22 Could-19 October
“This sort of imagery is now a part of day-to-day life,” says the curator Sushma Jansari of the forms of objects included within the British Museum’s new exhibition Historic India: Residing Traditions, which presents devotional artwork of three of India’s nice religions: Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. “These are faiths practised by nearly two billion folks around the globe. Our present is in regards to the commonalities, our shared cultural heritage,” she says. For Jansari, this commonality is expressed most articulately by means of devotional artwork that goes again to the traditional roots of the religions, which nonetheless finds its manner into present ritual and observe—therefore the present’s title. Extra
A second-to third-century pink sandstone sculpture of a scowling Yaksha, a male nature spirit
© Ashmolean Museum, College of Oxford
Rebecca Horn: Reducing By way of the Previous, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin
23 Could-21 September
A motorised spear turns on the centre of Rebecca Horn’s set up Reducing By way of the Previous (1992-93), housed on the Castello di Rivoli close to Turin. It pierces 5 picket doorways in a 360-degree movement someplace between “a caress” and “a surgical lower”, says the museum’s chief curator, Marcella Beccaria. This isn’t solely the primary main exhibition in Italy to be devoted to Horn, however the first since her dying final September, aged 80. “We felt an urgency to have a look at the legacy of Rebecca’s work—for the primary time with out the opportunity of relying on Rebecca herself,” Beccaria says. Extra
Reducing By way of the Previous (1992-93) options in Horn’s present on the Castello di Rivoli
© Renato Ghiazza 2016
Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity, Jewish Museum, New York
23 Could-12 October
A serious retrospective opening this month at The Jewish Museum in New York, Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity, honours the artist’s lifelong activism. The present contains 175 artworks and objects from the Thirties to the Nineteen Sixties, divided into sections devoted to Shahn’s early Social Realism; artwork made for the US authorities’s New Deal companies; mid-Nineteen Forties posters and graphics; works created throughout and after the Second World Warfare; responses to McCarthyism and the Atomic Age; his assist of the civil rights motion; and his later curiosity in spirituality and Jewish identification. Extra
Ben Shahn’s East Aspect Cleaning soap Field (examine for Jersey Homesteads Mural) (1936) © 2025 Property of Ben Shahn/Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Picture: John Parnell © The Jewish Museum, New York
On Displaying Violence: First Exhibitions on the Nazi Occupation in Europe, 1945-48, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin
24 Could-23 November
When does the previous finish and the current start? That’s the tough query posed this month at Berlin’s Deutsches Historisches Museum, in an exhibition that revisits how Europeans within the interval instantly following the Second World Warfare tried to make sense of the disaster in various exceptional, bold and infrequently wildly fashionable museum exhibits. Extra
The present Warsaw Accuses featured empty frames and works earmarked for Nazi looting
Picture: Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie
