Must-See Museum Shows Opening This Spring
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- 24 Apr 2023
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For the annual Art in America Guide, published in print in January, the editors of A.i.A. highlight significant and intriguing museum exhibitions throughout the year. Below is a list of noteworthy shows opening this Spring.
Wangechi Mutu
Wangechi Mutu is known for her otherworldly works that combine mythical and folkloric narratives with sociohistorical references. Her early collage-based works of beguiling chimeric creatures often contained subtle feminist and colonialist critiques. Her recent sculptural practice, including the large bronze “aliens” installed on the facade of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2019, explores themes of migrancy, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. This major exhibition, featuring more than 100 works from Mutu’s 25-year career, will allow viewers to trace the evolution of her work and her vivid imagination.
New Museum, New York, Mar. 2–June 4, 2023
Celia Álvarez Muñoz
Born and raised in El Paso and now living in Arlington, Texas, Chicana artist Celia Álvarez Muñoz has long dealt with the lived experience of those residing in the borderlands of the US and Mexico. Key to her practice is her mission to be an “artivist,” both an artist and activist at once. Her multifaceted conceptual practice comprises installation, photography, painting, and artist books. Some 35 major works are gathered here for her first career retrospective, including examples from her “Enlightenment” series that directly, and subversively, puns on mistranslations and double meanings between Spanish and English as a way to analyze language barriers and language acquisition.
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, Mar. 16 – Aug. 13, 2023
