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What, Me Worry? 60 Years of MAD

What, Me Worry? 60 Years of MAD
Cartoon Art Museum, San Francisco
April 21 – September 16, 2012
In 1952, editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines launched MAD, one of the most influential and imitated humor publications in the world. Originally created to parody popular TV shows, movies and, inevitably, comic books, MAD soon expanded into a wide-ranging satire of modern American culture. Features like the MAD Fold-In, “Spy vs. Spy,” the wacky sound effects of “MAD’s Maddest Artist” Don Martin, the “marginal” cartoons of Sergio Aragones, and the motto “What, me worry?” have become indelible parts of popular culture, and the magazine’s mascot, Alfred E. Neuman, is one of the world’s most recognizable faces.

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Jeff Wall

Jeff Wall – Children
Museum Boijmans van Beuningen
until 1 January 2013
‘Children’ by photographer Jeff Wall was presented to Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in 2008 as promised gift by Han Nefkens. The installation is a collection of circular light boxes with photographs of children from different ethnic backgrounds.

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Timothy H. O’Sullivan

Timothy H. O’Sullivan: The King Survey Photographs
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
April 7, 2012—September 2, 2012
The photographs made by Timothy H. O’Sullivan as part of the United States Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel, or King Survey, comprise an iconic and richly varied body of work.

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Ged Quinn

FOCUS: Ged Quinn
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
April 22-June 17, 2012
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth presents the third FOCUS exhibition of the season, FOCUS: Ged Quinn, organized by Curator Andrea Karnes. Ged Quinn’s paintings combine landscapes in the vein of Claude Lorrain, Jacob van Ruisdael, and Asher B. Durand, with incongruent and often dark fragments of history, mythology, and the artist’s imagination.

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Walter De Maria

Walter De Maria: The 5-7-9 Series
Gagosian Gallery Rome
22 March – 29 May 2012
Gagosian Gallery Rome is pleased to announce The 5-7-9 Series (1992), a historic installation piece by U.S. artist Walter De Maria (b. 1935), best known for his pioneering work in the Minimal and Land Art movements with seminal projects such as The Lightning Field (1977) in New Mexico.

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Helaine Blumenfeld OBE

Helaine Blumenfeld Robert Bowman Modern 10 May – 31 July 2012 The Robert Bowman Modern gallery is delighted to announce a selling exhibition of recent work by Helaine Blumenfeld OBE, which will open on the 10th May at 34 Duke Street James’s, continuing until July 31st 2012. The exhibition at Robert Bowman Modern will feature […]

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Francesca Woodman

Francesca Woodman
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
March 16–June 13, 2012
Francesca Woodman, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work since Woodman’s untimely death in 1981 at the age of 22, will be on view at the Guggenheim Museum from March 16 through June 13, 2012. Spanning the breadth of her production, the exhibition includes more than 120 vintage photographs, artist books, and a selection of recently discovered and rarely seen short videos, presenting a historical reconsideration of Woodman’s brief but extraordinary career.

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Ted Vasin

Poison Bliss
101/exhibit, Miami
April 14 – June 6, 2012
Ted Vasin, the Russian-born psychedelic artist known for his meticulously drawn, dark psychedelic works is returning to Miami for a month-long exhibit of his latest work. “Poison Bliss” is the just-completed collection he began in 2009, and will be showcased at 101/exhibit in Miami from April 14 to June 6, 2012.

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Anna Skladmann

Anna Skladmann – Little Adults
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
28 March – 22 April
Moscow Museum of Modern Art and Grinberg Photos Company present the First large-scale presentation in Moscow of a project by a young photographer Anna Skladmann.

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Alexander Gutke

Alexander Gutke
Malmö Kunsthall
17 March – 10 June 2012
Alexander Gutke (born 1971) works within the conceptual and minimalist tradition. Cameras, film- and slide projectors are some of the main components in his art practice. Gutke uses them to explore space, light, shade, darkness and the infinity of the void. He investigates these technical apparatuses as objects and mechanical devices, and uses them as tools and objects in his works and narrative – creating a visual illusionism and a poetic and mystical materialism.

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Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective
Art Institute of Chicago
May 16 to September 3, 2012
Whaam! Bratatat! Varoom! The Art Institute of Chicago explodes this summer with the energy of Roy Lichtenstein in the largest exhibition of the seminal Pop artist to date. More than 160 of Lichtenstein’s works, from the familiar to the completely unexpected, will be on view in the first of only two American venues for Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective. Bringing together never-before-seen drawings, paintings, and sculpture, this exhibition presents the deepest exploration of Lichtenstein’s signature style and its myriad applications across one of the most prolific careers in 20th-century art.

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Tauba Auerbach

Tauba Auerbach – Tetrachromat
Malmö Kunsthall
17 March – 10 June 2012
In Tauba Auerbach’s work traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content collapse. Surface, specifically the larger issues surrounding topo¬logy, has been a central concern in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist’s books. Auerbach interweaves discordant positions such as disorder and order, readability and abstraction, permeability and solidity – phenomena that are usually viewed as incompatible – into unified surfaces and volumes.

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