Scholten Japanese Art announces the gallery presentation, Mirror Mirror: Reflecting Beauty in Japanese Prints and Paintings, an exhibition exploring representations of the mirror, both as a theme itself and as a visual metaphor for viewing other subjects in floating world imagery. Mirrors appear in compositions as accessories or key props in a story being told. Mirrors can function as ingenious framing devices or as windows into private space, and they provide seemingly endless opportunities for the artist to present an alternate view within a design. The use of kagami, round bronze mirrors, dates back nearly two thousand years in Japan to the Yayoi period (300 B.C. to 250 A.D.). Early mirrors were intimate, usually approximately 4 inches in diameter, with a smooth side of gilded tin which was highly polished to achieve a reflective quality. Precious for their material and their function, mirrors were used for Shinto ri

Polaroid! A brand that has long since become legendary. One look at Instagram is enough to show how instant photography transformed the medium in ways that are still pervasive today. The exhibition positions the Polaroid phenomenon at the crossroads between art and technology. Outstanding artists from Ansel Adams to Andy Warhol used the medium of the instant photo to blaze new trails with their art, leaving a lasting mark on the aesthetics of an entire era. Featuring some 240 photos by 120 artists, The Polaroid Project sheds light on the whole aesthetic spectrum of instant photography while also demonstrating based on 87 camera models and prototypes the innovative technology that made this visual revolution possible in the first place. The Polaroid works on view range from the early days of the company in 1955 through to 2015. The main focus is on art from the 1980s and 90s. Instant camera film, presented to the public for the first time in 1947 by Edwin H. Land in New York, shortened

The Kunsthistorisches Museum is presenting the exhibition The Shape of Time. Following monographic exhibitions of Lucian Freud and Joseph Cornell, and collection presentations curated by Ed Ruscha and Edmund de Waal, this is the first group exhibition conceived as part of the museum’s Modern and Contemporary programme. The collections of the Kunsthistorisches Museum represent some 5,000 years of human creativity from Ancient Egypt through to European painting around 1800. The Shape of Time presents a group of remarkable art works dating from 1800 to the present day, as stepping stones to lead visitors from the point at which the museum’s own collections end to the point at which we find ourselves today. Among them are major works by artists such as J.M.W. Turner, Claude Cahun, Mark Rothko, Maria Lassnig, Eleanor Antin, Steve McQueen, Catherine Opie and Peter Doig. Borrowed from some of the most important museums and private collecti

From 16 March 2018 on, Schaulager is presenting a comprehensive retrospective of the work of Bruce Nauman. Born in 1941 and based in New Mexico, Nauman is widely acknowledged as one of the seminal artists of our time. The exhibition brings together rarely exhibited pieces alongside renowned key works. The show includes the world premiere of the artist’s most recent works, the monumental sculpture Leaping Foxes (2018) and a 3D video titled Contrapposto Split (2017), as well as the European debut of the monumental video projection Contrapposto Studies, i through vii (2015 / 2016). In addition, three works of Nauman’s from the Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation will be presented at Kunstmuseum Basel. The exhibition “Bruce Nauman: Disappearing Acts” is organized in collaboration with The Museum of Modern Art, New York. As the first comprehensive retrospective of Bruce Nauman’s work in 25 years, the exhibition spans some five decades o