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contemporory Chinese artists who maintain links
with the country's ink painting tradition despite
having gained recognition in recent years for
more experimental or conceptually driven meth-
ods of art-making. Featured artists include Xu
Bing, Ai Weiwei, Zhang Yu and Zhan Wang.
American falk artist Mary A. Bell. Grant
is known for combining ort historical, per-
sonal and pop-cultural references to explore
issues of race, gender and identity. This
exhibition includes drawings, paintings and
collages that provide an alternate chronicle
of modernist painting.
Joan Colom
Museu Nocional d'Art de Cotalunya presents
a Joan Colom retrospective showcasing its
recent ocquisition of the Sponish photogra-
pher's extensive archives. A major figure in
Spain's postwar New Avant-Garde, Colom has
long documented Barcelono's distinctive culture.
Among the show's highlights ore a series of
photographs taken between 1958 and 1961 de-
picting the city's spectacular bullfights, upscale
neighborhoods and seedy red light districts.
The Possible
Inspired by innovative art schools like the
Bauhous ond Black Mountain College, "The
Possible" is on experimental exhibition about
interdisciplinary artistic creotion. Pather than
assembling pre-existing objects, curators Law-
rence Pinder and David Wilson have invited a
diverse cadre of Bay Area artists, perform-
ers, croftsmen and teochers to participate in
residencies and work collaboratively on-site.
JANUARY
Deborah Grant
Deborah Grant's instollotion "Christ You
Know It Ain't Easy!!" depicts a fictional
meeting between Henri Matisse ond African-
Ed Atkins
British artist Ed Atkins explores corporeol-
ity, focusing especially on themes of disease
ond deoth, in high-definition video works
that mix imoges of fruits, forests ond
beoches with excerpts from zombie movies.
The richly colored digital scenes are accom-
panied by computer-generated animations
and surround-sound audio combining music.
Mike Nelson
Mike Nelson transforms the Power Plant,
Toronto, with an immersive installotion that
requires viewers to navigate o labyrinthine
space filled with frequently jarring tobleoux.
The British artist is known for creating metic-
ulous environments redolent of crime, violence
and politicol unrest. With the Contemporary
Art Gallery, Vancouver, the Power Plant
has also commissioned o work that continues
Nelson's "Amnesiacs" series, centering on
a fictionol biker gang composed of Gulf War
veterans.
FEBRUARY
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto's photographs question
how the past can be preserved, and for
what purposes. This solo exhibition ot the
Getty Center, Los Angeles, feotures imag-
es of natural history museum dioramas and
wax partraits of politicians ond celebrities.
The static figures exhibited in museums ore
doubly frozen in Sugimoto's still images.
Take It or Leave It
"Take It or Leave It: Institution, Imoge,
Ideology" explores how contemporary
artists have engaged critically with
museums and golleries. Curated by the
Hammer's senior curator, Anne Ellegood,
and the New Museum's director and
curator of education, Johonna Burton,
the exhibition features key works by ort-
ists who come to prominence in the 1970s
and '80s, such as Adrian Piper, Fred
Wilson, Glenn Ligon, Pon Athey, Karen
Finley, Andrea Fraser, Sherrie Levine
ond Robert Gober.
David Bates
A joint retrospective exomines A-0 years
of work by Dallas-based David Bates.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
50 GUIDE 2013 MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

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