The most exciting exhibitions around the world in 2022
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- 04 Jan 2022
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Yves Saint Laurent aux Musées
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, Centre Pompidou, Musée d’Orsay, Musée National Picasso Paris, Musée Yves Saint Laurent Paris, Musée du Louvre, 29 January-15 May (closes 15 April at Musée Picasso)
Sixty years ago, the first fashion show under the Yves Saint Laurent (YSL) name hit the runway. To celebrate this milestone, six Parisian museums where the French designer would seek inspiration, have collaborated on a city-spanning exhibition. Each will pair YSL creations with works by artists including Mondrian, Picasso, Matisse, Bonnard and Dufy. For example, at the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris, next to Dufy’s La Fée Electricité (the electricity fairy, 1937) will stand three spectacular silk dresses, while the Musée d’Orsay will focus on his fascination with Marcel Proust, which probably inspired Saint Laurent’s Le Smoking, the first tuxedo for women. Meanwhile, the Musée National Picasso will explain how influential the Spanish master was on Saint Laurent, from the fashion designer’s tribute to Picasso’s Ballets Russes sets and costumes (1976) to his 1988 Cubist collection. SB
The World of Stonehenge
British Museum, London, 17 February-17 July
Constructed more than four millennia ago, Stonehenge is one of the most famous yet mysterious monuments in the world. Who were the people who built it and inhabited prehistoric Britain? The World of Stonehenge will show they were more developed than is widely thought, with established trade links to mainland Europe. One of the undoubted highlights of the show will be the 3,600-year-old Nebra Sky Disc, the oldest existing depiction of the cosmos, which was discovered in present-day Germany and will be exhibited in the UK for the first time. JS
Faith Ringgold: American People
New Museum, New York, 17 February-5 June
This is the first retrospective of the pioneering American artist Faith Ringgold in her hometown of New York. The exhibition will span six decades of the 91-year-old artist’s prolific career, from works created in response to the civil rights era, to autobiographical pieces that tell stories of the Harlem Renaissance. GAi
Donatello: the Renaissance
Palazzo Strozzi and Museo del Bargello, Florence, 19 March-31 July; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, 2 September-8 January 2023
In his own time, the 15th-century Florentine sculptor Donatello was regarded as “the master of masters”. Despite this, there has been no major exhibition devoted to the sculptor’s work for nearly 40 years. That is set to change in March when a sweeping survey of Donatello’s work opens in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi and at the nearby Museo Nazionale del Bargello, which houses the most important collection of works by the sculptor, including David (around 1440). Smaller incarnations of the show will be seen at the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin in September and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London next year. CR
150 years of Mondrian
Kunstmuseum den Haag, 2 April-25 September; Fondation Beyeler, 5 June-9 October; K20, Düsseldorf, 29 October-10 February 2023
With just three primary colours (plus black and white) and two ordinal directions, Piet Mondrian took painting to new levels of abstraction. His influence on Modernism was immense – in the visual arts as well as design, architecture and fashion. To mark 150 years since his birth in the Netherlands town of Amersfoot, several museums are putting on big surveys of his work. A show at Switzerland’s Fondation Beyeler and K20 in Düsseldorf will start with his early paintings, which were influenced by Dutch landscape painting and post-impressionism. It will then trace his development as he left representation behind completely, ending in his right-angled wonders. LC
