{"id":1548,"date":"2015-06-05T19:17:43","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T18:17:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyeplug.net\/magazine\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2011-03-25T17:31:04","modified_gmt":"2011-03-25T17:31:04","slug":"exhibition-newsfeed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/exhibition-newsfeed\/","title":{"rendered":"Exhibitions Newsfeed"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"rssclass\"><li>31 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/31\/south-african-gabrielle-goliath-sues-minister-venice-biennale-gaza-entry\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"South African artist sues minister for blocking her Venice Biennale Gaza entry\">South African artist sues minister for blocking her Venice Biennale Gaza entry<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Gabrielle Goliath says Gayton McKenzie violating freedom of expression after \u2018highly divisive\u2019 artwork Elergy banned from SA pavilion<\/p><p>A South African artist is suing the arts minister after he blocked her from representing the country at the Venice Biennale, having called her work addressing Israel\u2019s killing of Palestinians in Gaza \u201chighly divisive\u201d.<\/p><p>Gabrielle Goliath filed the lawsuit last week, with Ingrid Masondo, who would have curated the pavilion, and the studio manager, James Macdonald. It accuses Gayton McKenzie of acting unlawfully and violating the right to freedom of expression and demands the high court reinstates her participation by 18 February, the deadline for confirming installations with biennale organisers.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jan\/31\/south-african-gabrielle-goliath-sues-minister-venice-biennale-gaza-entry\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>30 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/30\/samurai-erotica-metal-and-flesh-sculptor-jenny-holzer-big-glow-up-the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Samurai erotica, a metal-and-flesh sculptor and Jenny Holzer\u2019s big glow-up \u2013 the week in art\">Samurai erotica, a metal-and-flesh sculptor and Jenny Holzer\u2019s big glow-up \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The secret side of Japan\u2019s warrior class, Holzer lights up Scunthorpe, Julia Phillips steels herself and Quentin Blake takes off in Dorset \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/29\/samurai-review-british-museum-demonic-warrior\">Samurai<\/a><\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>A tremendous, awe-inspiring journey into Japan\u2019s past, with samurai armour so sublimely crafted it seems darkly alive, as well as exquisite landscapes, erotica and other arts that delighted the samurai between battles. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/29\/samurai-review-british-museum-demonic-warrior\">Read the review here<\/a>.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/samurai\">The British Museum, London<\/a>, from 3 February to 4 May<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/30\/samurai-erotica-metal-and-flesh-sculptor-jenny-holzer-big-glow-up-the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>30 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/30\/2-for-1-ticket-offer-for-tracey-emin-a-second-life-at-tate-modern\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"2-for-1 ticket offer for Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern\">2-for-1 ticket offer for Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>From textiles and neons to paintings and her unmade bed, the largest-scale retrospective ever mounted of Tracey Emin\u2019s work opens next month. Book before Thursday 26 February and save \u00a320<\/p><p>Tate Modern in London is opening the largest ever exhibition celebrating Tracey Emin\u2019s life\u2019s work, on Friday 27 February.<\/p><p>Spanning her extraordinary 40-year practice, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/tracey-emin\">A Second Life<\/a> showcases career-defining works alongside works never exhibited before. Through painting, video textiles, neons, writings, sculpture and installation, Emin continues to challenge boundaries, using the female body as a powerful tool to explore passion, pain and healing.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/30\/2-for-1-ticket-offer-for-tracey-emin-a-second-life-at-tate-modern\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>29 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/29\/samurai-review-british-museum-demonic-warrior\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Samurai review: Japan\u2019s lethal warrior class are shown in all their sexy, demonic glory\">Samurai review: Japan\u2019s lethal warrior class are shown in all their sexy, demonic glory<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>British Museum, London<\/strong> <br>Extraordinary battle armour, complete with moustachioed masks, enlivens this scintillating show, which brilliantly captures the theatrical side of a chivalrous epoch<\/p><p>Japan\u2019s pre-modern warrior elite can\u2019t still be alive inside the suits of armour that hold you awed and scared in this scintillating journey through their world of gore, power and artistic beauty. But they surely seem to be: samurai armour is so vital, so electric, with its grimacing, moustached, black face masks and full-body metal and fabric plating. The crests of their helmets incorporate eagles, dragons, goblins, even a clenched fist of metal emerging from one warrior\u2019s head. It\u2019s so intense you feel a presence.<\/p><p>Then again, the samurai always were ghosts in their suits. The metal mask became their face to the world, their carapaces transformed them into someone else. This idea that in battle the warrior becomes other, a bloody demon, is not unique to Japan: Viking \u201cberserkers\u201d lost themselves in a ritualised frenzy and may have believed they changed into bears. Armour in medieval Europe, too, was never just practical but a second skin, a full metal jacket suppressing softness and symbolising the steely transfiguration of normal souls into killers. But no culture has ever put quite as much creativity into blood-lust as Japan did from the 13th century \u2013 when samurai courage saw off Mongol invaders \u2013 until the abolition of this class in the 1800s.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/29\/samurai-review-british-museum-demonic-warrior\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>29 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/29\/robert-crumb-review-david-zwirner-london-theres-no-end-to-the-nonsense\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Robert Crumb review \u2013 sexual deviancy elevated to an art form\">Robert Crumb review \u2013 sexual deviancy elevated to an art form<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>David Zwirner, London<br><\/strong>Though they were created for comic books, the artist\u2019s horny and hilarious drawings of his own neuroses, and of glamazons in thigh-high boots, are unnervingly powerful on gallery walls<\/p><p>It is unnerving to walk into a gallery and see all your deepest fears and anxieties splayed out across the wall, but that is the power of Robert Crumb. For more than half a century, the wiry, weird, difficult and awkwardly horny artist (now in his 80s) has been churning out underground comics that lay bare his deepest neuroses, and reflect yours back in the process.<\/p><p>Now he is being celebrated in an ultra-high-end London gallery, with pages ripped from his notebooks and framed up like the finest of fine art. Except this isn\u2019t fine, it\u2019s filthy and angry and paranoid. It\u2019s classic Crumb: skinny men quivering with worry and fear and hormones in a cruel, uncaring, senseless world \u2013 filled with towering women in thigh-high boots, obviously.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/29\/robert-crumb-review-david-zwirner-london-theres-no-end-to-the-nonsense\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>29 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/29\/don-mccullin-bath-exhibition-war-conflict-roman-sculptures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"War, conflict and Roman sculptures: Bath exhibit shows different side of Don McCullin\u2019s work\">War, conflict and Roman sculptures: Bath exhibit shows different side of Don McCullin\u2019s work<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Holburne museum places renowned photographer\u2019s pictures of ancient Roman statutes alongside his images of war and conflict<\/p><p>He is revered for his extraordinary black-and-white images documenting conflict, humanitarian crises and the tougher side of postwar Britain.<\/p><p>But an exhibition of work by photojournalist Sir Don McCullin opening this week at the Holburne museum in Bath focuses on a very different subject: Roman sculptures.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/29\/don-mccullin-bath-exhibition-war-conflict-roman-sculptures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>23 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/23\/the-week-in-art-jessica-rankin-mario-merz-andy-warhol\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Seductive stitches, Warhol in Nottingham and an Italian giant\u2019s igloo sculpture \u2013 the week in art\">Seductive stitches, Warhol in Nottingham and an Italian giant\u2019s igloo sculpture \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Jessica Rankin sews up painting, arte povera\u2019s Mario Merz comes in from the cold and Andy Warhol brings pop to the Midlands \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Jessica Rankin <\/strong><strong><br><\/strong>This New York artist\u2019s abstract works hover between embroidery and painting and have a seductive, lyrical beauty.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitecube.com\/gallery-exhibitions\/jessica-rankin-masons-yard-2026\">White Cube Mason\u2019s Yard, London, 28 January to 28 February<\/a><\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/23\/the-week-in-art-jessica-rankin-mario-merz-andy-warhol\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>22 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/22\/beryl-cook-pride-and-joy-review-a-fun-filled-parade-of-bouncing-bosoms-smirky-smokers-and-a-spot-of-bdsm\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy review \u2013 a saucy parade of bouncing bosoms, smirky smokers and a spot of BDSM\">Beryl Cook: Pride and Joy review \u2013 a saucy parade of bouncing bosoms, smirky smokers and a spot of BDSM<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>The Box, Plymouth <br><\/strong>Roof-felters, bawdy boozers, off-duty sailors, whip-wielding dominatrixes \u2026 this 100th birthday show in Cook\u2019s home town is an exuberant celebration of working-class frivolity<\/p><p>Generally, you get two versions of England in art: it\u2019s either bucolic vistas, rolling hills, babbling brooks and gambolling sheep \u2013 or it\u2019s downtrodden, browbeaten, grim poverty and misery. But Beryl Cook saw something else in all the drizzle and grey of this damp old country: she saw joy.<\/p><p>The thing is, joy doesn\u2019t carry the same critical, conceptual heft in art circles as more serious subjects, so Cook has always been a bit brushed off by the art crowd. They saw her as postcards and posters for the unwashed, uncultured masses, not high art for the high-minded. But she didn\u2019t care: she succeeded as a self-taught documenter of English life despite any disdain she might have encountered. And now, on what would have been her 100th birthday, her home town of Plymouth is throwing her a big celebratory bash.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/22\/beryl-cook-pride-and-joy-review-a-fun-filled-parade-of-bouncing-bosoms-smirky-smokers-and-a-spot-of-bdsm\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>22 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/22\/london-black-queer-nightlife-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018Who was this golden creature?\u2019: the stars of London\u2019s black queer nightlife \u2013 in pictures\">\u2018Who was this golden creature?\u2019: the stars of London\u2019s black queer nightlife \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>From newbie drag queens to wild voguing performances, a new archival exhibition boasts images from four decades of riotous nightlife<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/22\/london-black-queer-nightlife-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>21 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/21\/a-later-life-love-triangle-redefining-how-to-grow-old-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"A later-life love triangle? Redefining how to grow old \u2013 in pictures\">A later-life love triangle? Redefining how to grow old \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>From naked embraces and sofa snogging to the very final stages of life, a new exhibition proves there is no one way to age <\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/21\/a-later-life-love-triangle-redefining-how-to-grow-old-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>18 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/18\/beryl-cook-artist-retrospective-show-plymouth\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018Radical and joyous\u2019: Beryl Cook show aims to prove she was a serious artist\">\u2018Radical and joyous\u2019: Beryl Cook show aims to prove she was a serious artist<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Major retrospective in Plymouth, her adopted city, presents her as a skilful chronicler of social transformation<\/p><p>In her lifetime, Beryl Cook\u2019s colourful, vibrant paintings tended to be dismissed by most critics as mere kitsch or whimsy.<\/p><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theboxplymouth.com\/blog\/press-release\/the-box-announces-landmark-beryl-cook-exhibition-for-2026?gad_source=1&amp;gad_campaignid=23322861047&amp;gbraid=0AAAABA9fwSdRbuAmHahUMfK7d0O_RVncX&amp;gclid=CjwKCAiA4KfLBhB0EiwAUY7GAfQYO120jDLJG4heeFisBXKDFu8IStViao2s5HovjsdyHQC0K_U26hoCyVEQAvD_BwE\">major retrospective of Cook\u2019s work<\/a> opening in her adopted city of Plymouth next weekend makes the case that she was a serious, significant artist who skilfully chronicled a tumultuous period of social transformation.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/18\/beryl-cook-artist-retrospective-show-plymouth\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>16 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/16\/dark-depths-long-lost-london-and-punchy-political-posters-the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Dark depths with Emin, a homoerotic saint and punchy political posters \u2013 the week in art\">Dark depths with Emin, a homoerotic saint and punchy political posters \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Tracey gathers the melancholy giants, a lost London is remembered and collages celebrate Scots strugglers \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Crossing into Darkness<br><\/strong>Tracey Emin curates an exhibition about thresholds of despair and the power of melancholy featuring Goya, Munch, Bourgeois, Baselitz and other visionary artists.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/carlfreedman.com\/exhibition\/crossing-into-darkness\/\">Carl Freedman Gallery, Margate<\/a>, opens Sunday<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/16\/dark-depths-long-lost-london-and-punchy-political-posters-the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>15 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/15\/stirring-the-melting-pot-photography-exhibition-new-york-historical\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Stirring the Melting Pot: capturing the New York immigrant experience \u2013 in pictures\">Stirring the Melting Pot: capturing the New York immigrant experience \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyhistory.org\/exhibitions\/stirring-the-melting-pot-photographs-from-the-new-york-historical-collection\">new exhibition at the New York Historical museum<\/a> looks at the immigrant experience in New York City through a range of revealing and diverse viewpoints, with more than 100 photographs and objects showing how the city has been shaped by people from across the globe.<strong> <\/strong>The exhibition runs to 29 March<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/15\/stirring-the-melting-pot-photography-exhibition-new-york-historical\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>15 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/15\/nan-goldin-ballad-of-sexual-dependency-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018Love can be an addiction\u2019: Nan Goldin\u2019s Ballad of Sexual Dependency \u2013 in pictures\">\u2018Love can be an addiction\u2019: Nan Goldin\u2019s Ballad of Sexual Dependency \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>For the first time in the UK, the photographer\u2019s magnum opus is going on display in its entirety \u2013 introducing new viewers to New York\u2019s edgy downtown scene and a generation lost to Aids. Here, she looks back at the \u2018fearlessness and wildness\u2019 of her life and times<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/15\/nan-goldin-ballad-of-sexual-dependency-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>14 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/14\/nan-goldin-ballad-of-sexual-dependency-review-gagosian-london\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency review \u2013 an electrifying parade of sex, smoke and sullen silence\">Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency review \u2013 an electrifying parade of sex, smoke and sullen silence<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>Gagosian, London<br><\/strong>More than four decades on, Goldin\u2019s louche lovers, waxwork royals, divorcing Mexicans and frightening wallpaper feel uncannily present \u2013 normal even<\/p><p>Now more than 40 years old, Nan Goldin\u2019s The Ballad of Sexual Dependency records a lost world, but one that feels as present as it did when I first saw these images. A compilation of photographs taken by the artist between 1973 and 1986, the Ballad has been presented as an ever-changing slide show, with various accompanying soundtracks and voiceovers, since the 1980s.<\/p><p>It has also been presented on video, as a film and a book. I\u2019ve been familiar with these images for much of my adult life, watching Robin smoking, with Kenny in the background in the purple room. The smoke still hangs there beneath the mirrorball and Robin\u2019s profile is still astonishing. I have seen Suzanne in tears and, in another shot, looking at her face in the mirror in a tiled bathroom dizzy with slanting reflections.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/14\/nan-goldin-ballad-of-sexual-dependency-review-gagosian-london\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>14 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/14\/i-knew-these-photos-wouldnt-be-published-for-decades-gay-cruising-in-new-york-in-pictures\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018I knew these photos wouldn\u2019t be published for decades\u2019: gay cruising in New York \u2013 in pictures\">\u2018I knew these photos wouldn\u2019t be published for decades\u2019: gay cruising in New York \u2013 in pictures<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>In 1969, Arthur Tress started making images at an overgrown corner of Central Park known as the Ramble \u2013 the beginning of an archive of a transitional period in queer culture<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/gallery\/2026\/jan\/14\/i-knew-these-photos-wouldnt-be-published-for-decades-gay-cruising-in-new-york-in-pictures\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>13 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2026\/jan\/13\/trump-arts-institutions-museum-funding-cuts\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u2018A very tough moment\u2019: how Trump has put museums in jeopardy\">\u2018A very tough moment\u2019: how Trump has put museums in jeopardy<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>A study has shown the devastating impact of arts funding cuts on institutions across America and many within the industry are concerned for what\u2019s next<\/p><p>From Times Square to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/01\/01\/trump-america-250-celebration-new-years-eve-dc\">Washington Monument<\/a>, America saw in the new year with a bigger bang than usual, celebrating the fact that 2026 marks the nation\u2019s 250th birthday. Yet as the US looks back, precious repositories of the nation\u2019s history are facing an uncertain future.<\/p><p>Museum attendances are down. Budgets are precarious. Cuts in federal funding are taking their toll. And Donald Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/30\/smithsonian-institution-trump-executive-order\">culture wars<\/a> are spreading fear, intimidation and self-censorship among some directors and donors.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2026\/jan\/13\/trump-arts-institutions-museum-funding-cuts\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>13 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/13\/joseph-beuys-review-thaddaeus-ropac-gallery-bathtub-horrors\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Joseph Beuys review \u2013 the grotesque bathtub containing all the horrors of modern history\">Joseph Beuys review \u2013 the grotesque bathtub containing all the horrors of modern history<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p><strong>Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, London<br><\/strong>There\u2019s no escape from the torments of the past in this show, which celebrates the German artist at his most Wagnerian, enchanting and sickening you simultaneously<\/p><p>Born in 1921, Joseph Beuys was the \u201cperfect\u201d age to fight for Hitler and he did, with the wounds to prove it. The Andy Warhol portraits that complement this exhibition, without actually being part of it, brutally catch his gaunt, ravaged face in the glare of a photo flash under the hat he wore to hide burns sustained in a plane crash while serving in the Luftwaffe. The most haunting portrait turns Beuys into a spectral negative image, all darkness and shadow, his eyes wounded, guilty, lost. This was in the 1970s when Beuys was a charismatic one-man artistic revolution, inspiring young Germans to plant trees, lecturing about flows of ecological and human energy \u2013 and, in breathtaking performances, speaking to a dead hare or spending a week locked in a cage with a coyote.<\/p><p>All that remains today of those actions, protests and performances are posters, preserved scrawls on blackboards and mesmerising videos. Yet the moment Beuys disappeared \u2013 he died in 1986 \u2013 his solid, material sculptures took over. He believed passionately in flow and flux, promoting an animist vision of humanity and the cosmos. When he stopped talking and acting, entropy gripped his art, making it a static, slumped set of dead objects. And all the greater for it.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/13\/joseph-beuys-review-thaddaeus-ropac-gallery-bathtub-horrors\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>9 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/09\/the-week-in-art\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Hawaiian headwear, Beuys\u2019 bathtub and Nan Goldin\u2019s photo diaries \u2013 the week in art\">Hawaiian headwear, Beuys\u2019 bathtub and Nan Goldin\u2019s photo diaries \u2013 the week in art<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>Jewels of island life go on display, Beuys introduces heroism to washtime and Nan Goldin\u2019s classic The Ballad of Sexual Dependency reveals itself \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2015\/oct\/19\/sign-up-to-the-art-weekly-email\">all in your weekly dispatch<\/a><\/p><p><strong>Hawai<\/strong><strong>\u2018i<\/strong> <br>\n Some of the most spectacular masterpieces in the British Museum, including feathered war helmets and glaring gods collected by Captain Cook, make this exhibition created in collaboration with Hawaii community leaders and artists entrancing.<br>\n \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.britishmuseum.org\/exhibitions\/hawaii-kingdom-crossing-oceans\">The British Museum, London<\/a>, from 15 January to 25 May<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/09\/the-week-in-art\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><li>6 January: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/06\/us-art-exhibitions-2026\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The most exciting US art exhibitions in 2026\">The most exciting US art exhibitions in 2026<\/a> - Exhibitions | The Guardian<br \/><p>The next 12 months promise blockbuster surveys of noted greats and introductions to intriguing lesser-known artists<\/p><p>From old masters to pop artists, contemporary greats and even a major Mexican film-maker, art museums and galleries across the US have some dazzling shows coming up in 2026.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2026\/jan\/06\/us-art-exhibitions-2026\">Continue reading...<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[121,1182,205],"series":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-exhibitions","tag-eyeplug","tag-exhibitions","tag-newsfeed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eyeplug.net\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}