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Hokusai
National Gallery of Victoria
Melbourne, Australia
July 21, 2017 to October 15, 2017
Undoubtedly one of the most influential artists in the history of Japanese
art, Katsushika Hokusai (b. 1760, d. 1849) was a ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of
the Edo period known most for his woodblock prints. This Hokusai exhibition will
feature 129 of his prints, four paintings and ten rare books on loan from the Japan
Ukiyo-e Museum, Matsumoto.
Some of Hokusai’s most celebrated works will also be on view, including
his series of landscape prints titled
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
from the NGV
collection, including its timeless iconic image,
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
.
Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors
The Broad Museum
Los Angeles, California
October 2017 to January 2018
The most talked about art show of 2017 is Yayoi Kusama’s traveling exhibition
Infinity Mirrors, where the 88-year-old, Japanese-born artist (b. 1929) displays her
series of mirror-lined chambers and kaleidoscopic environments alongside other
key works. The show also brings the North American debut of
All the Eternal Love I
Have for the Pumpkins (2016),
a whimsical room featuring yellow, dotted pumpkins.
A single-installation version of Kusama’s
Infinity Mirrored Room
, has been on view
at The Broad since 2015 and features endless LED flickering lights in total dark-
ness, conceiving an extension of space and a disorientating experience for viewers.
If you can’t catch the impressive exhibition at The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden (Feb. 26 to May 14), or The Seattle Art Museum
(June 30 to Sept. 10), then head to The Broad this October.
The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
September 30, 2017 to January 14, 2018
This unique exhibition will be the first major museum display regarding
American style and taste in art and design during the 1920s.
“Against a backdrop of traditional historicist styles, a new language of design
emerged to define an era of innovation and modernity — the Jazz Age — capturing
the pulse and rhythm of the American spirit,” states the Cleveland Museum of Art.
This multi-media experience will show more than 400 examples of interior
design, decorative art, jewelry, fashion, art, architecture, music and film.
Co-organized by Cooper Hewitt and the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jazz Age
can also be seen at New York City’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
(April 7 to Aug. 20).
Katsushika Hokusai,
The Great Wave off Kanagawa
c. 1830
from the
Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji
series 1826–33.
Actaeon,
1925. Paul Manship (American, 1885–1966).
Yayoi Kusama,
Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away
, 2013.
IMAGE COURTESY DAVID OWSLEY MUSEUM OF ART
FRANK C. BALL COLLECTION, GIFT OF THE BALL BROTHERS FOUNDATION
IMAGE COURTESY NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE, FELTON BEQUEST,
1909 (426-2)
COURTESY THE BROAD MUSEUM