6. Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty
The Metropolitan Museum of Art | 2023.05.05-2023.06.16
The MET’s spring 2023 exhibition will showcase works by Karl Lagerfeld from the 1950s to his last series in 2019, by using Lagerfeld’s design sketches as the theme. Curator Andrew Bolton said: The retrospective is not the purpose of the exhibition. Instead, it’s Lagerfeld’s unique way of working and the fashion vocabulary he created, as a guide to the future. At its core, the exhibition will explore the evolution of Karl’s transformation from 2D hand-painted sketches to 3D clothing. This exhibition will feature about 150 original sketches, all from brands he has worked for, highlighting his complex creative process and collaboration with tailors. The fluid lines in Lagerfeld’s works are combined in his works for Balmain, Patou, Chloé, Fendi, Chanel, as well as his own brand, to create diversity unparalleled in the history of fashion.
7. Keith Haring: Art is for Everybody
The Broad | 2023.05.27-2023.10.08
For the first time, The Broad will exhibit a large number of Keith Haring’s works. Haring has nearly 120 artworks and archival material, most of which come from his personal diary. Known for his vibrant lines, colors, and iconic characters, such as barking dogs and babies, Haring seeks to bridge the gap between art and everyday life and aims to spread joy.
Divided into 10 galleries, the exhibition will present works from the 1970s to 1988, using different forms and media. Haring’s personal experience with AIDS and the subject at large are important factors in his works, and they also occupy an important place in this exhibition.
8. Marina Abramović
Royal Academy of Arts | 2023.09.23-2023.12.10
Over the past 50 years, Abramović’s performance art has been widely recognized around the world. Known as the “Godmother of Performance Art”, she is one of the world’s most important performative artists. This year she will hold her first large-scale solo exhibition in the UK, and will showcase her career and feature more than 50 works, including works from a new series. The exhibition, curated by the Royal Academy in close collaboration with the artist, will incorporate physical touch, which she is known to incorporate in many of her works.
9. Sarah Lucas
Tate Britain | 2023.09.28-2024.01.14
Internationally recognized for her bold and provocative use of material and imagery over the past 40 years, Sarah Lucas uses ordinary objects in unexpected ways to subvert the world’s perceptions of sex, class, and gender. This exhibition will showcase her diverse practices in sculpture, installation, and photography. Lucas pushes boundaries with humor and boldness, allowing the audience to explore the meaning of what it means to be human.
10. Emily Kame Kngwarreye
National Gallery of Australia | 2023.12.02-2024.04.28
Highly acclaimed Australian artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye is one of the most important contemporary painters of the 20th century. The origins of her painting, "Batik", a craft technique used in textiles, were initially created with dynamic wax dyeing. She later extended its concept to painting, which encapsulates her life experiences. This exhibition conducts in-depth research on Emily Kame Kngwarreye, bringing together the most important works in her creative career, from early Batik to to her later large scale paintings.
The National Gallery of Australia began collecting Kngwarreye's work before the end of the 1980s. She has created more than 3,000 paintings in her artistic career. The works that will be exhibited this time include paintings, textiles (Batik), sculptures, and works on paper from international collections, many never-before-seen works from private collections, as well as new collections of the artist's groundbreaking works in national collections.
Must-See exhibitions in 2023
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Top image：Emily Kame Kngwarreye, Anmatyerre people, Ntange Dreaming, 1989, purchased 1989 © Emily Kame Kngwarreye
Photo 2 top left：Keith Haring, Pop Shop 1, 1987 © Keith Haring Foundation
Photo 2 left bottom ：Sketch of dress, house of Chanel (French, founded 1910), Karl Lagerfeld (French, born Germany, 1933–2019), spring/summer 1995 haute couture. Photo: Courtesy of Chanel and The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photo 2 top right：Marina Abramović, ‘Artist Portrait with a Candle (A)’, from the series With Eyes Closed I See Happiness, 2012. Colour, fine art pigment print. © Marina Abramović.
Photo 2 bottom right：Sarah Lucas, WHY SHOULD I?, 2019, Tights, wool, wire, bulldog clip, chair, acrylic paint, and shoes with MDF plinth, Sculpture: 41 3/8 x 29 1/2 x 21 1/4 inches (105 x 75 x 54 cm), Plinth: 8 x 48 x 48 inches (20.3 x 121.9 x 121.9 cm) © Sarah Lucas, Courtesy the artist, Gladstone Gallery, New York and Brussels, and Sadie Coles HQ, London
