Kneeling archer (221-206 BC), earthenware, excavated in 2001 from the tomb complex of Emperor Qin Shihuang. Courtesy of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 3 April-16 July In a remarkable cultural exchange, 31 institutions in China are lending 160 objects to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for this show exploring the Qin and Han dynasties. The exhibition, which covers around 440 years of history, examines the development of a cohesive Chinese Han ethnic identity in light of recent scholarship and archaeological digs conducted in the past 50 years. The show opens with a group of the famous terracotta warriors that guarded the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, and also includes later works such as a monumental stone carving of a lion, which carries the influence of Persian and Hellenistic art, pointing to early exchanges between East and West.  Damien Hirst. Courtesy of Gazanfarulla Khan Palazzo Grassi and Punta della Dogana, Venice 9 April-November Damien Hirst’s first major show in Italy in more than a decade, and the first to be held in both of the Pinault Collection’s Venetian venues, “has been ten years in the making”, according to a press statement. The show seems to be shrouded in secrecy, with little more than the opening date and venues announced so far. Speaking to the Guardian newspaper last year, Hirst did give some clues as to what he might be showing. The artist said that he was going to be retrieving works he had buried at sea off the coast of Mexico two decades ago, which he “wanted all covered in coral”; although it was unclear whether this was said tongue-in-cheek. The sheer scale of the double show is sure to make it a big talking point in the run-up to the Venice Biennale.  Martin Luther in the Circle of Reformers (1625/50) © Deutsches Historisches Museum Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 12 April-5 November The Protestant Reformation began, in the conventional reckoning, on 31 October 1517 when Martin Luther supposedly nailed his 95 Theses, a list of the abuses of the Catholic Church, to the door of the electoral church of Wittenberg in Saxony. This year marks the 500th anniversary of the event that changed the religious and political face not only of Europe, but of the world. Luther’s criticism of the church spawned a multitude of Protestant denominations and was the seed that flowered in modern individualism, human rights and nationalism. This exhibition, organised by the Deutsches Historisches Museum (but shown in the Martin-Gropius-Bau) illustrates Reformation history and its international reach from the beginning to the present. Best of the rest opening in AprilPity and Terror in Picasso: the Path to GuernicaMuseo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid 4 April-4 September Queer British Art 1861-1967 Tate Britain, London 5 April-1 October Rosa Barba Secession, Vienna 6 April-18 June Matisse in the Studio Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 9 April-9 July Irving Penn: Centennial Metropolitan Museum, New York 24 April-30 July Juergen Teller: Enjoy Your Life! Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 20 April-3 July In the Light of Naples: the Art of Francesco de Mura Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie 21 April-2 July Georgia O’Keeffe Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto 22 April-30 July Bacon, Freud and the School of London Museo Picasso Malaga, Malaga 25 April-17 September Walker Evans Centre Pompidou, Paris 26 April-14 August Nari Ward: Sun Splashed Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 26 April-4 September Photographs Become Pictures: the Becher Class Städel Museum, Frankfurt 27 April-13 August Teresinha Soares Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, São Paulo 27 April-6 August Louise Lawler: Why Pictures Now Museum of Modern Art, New York 30 April-30 July |
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