Six Galleries Worth the Trip
A short list of exhibitions rewarding a proper journey this season.
Most of what is written about art this month is written by people who have not been. The following six shows are worth actual travel — a train, a plane, an afternoon reorganised — and reward slow looking rather than a phone photograph.
Why go in person
Scale, texture and surface do not survive a screen. A Rothko is not a colour field on a laptop. A Bourgeois is not a shape. You go for what the reproduction erases.
Six current shows
- A career retrospective for a mid-century sculptor at a Rhineland kunsthalle.
- New paintings from a rising Lagos figurative artist at a London gallery.
- A ceramics survey at a Kyoto museum.
- An underappreciated American photographer in Paris.
- A textile-based installation at a Sao Paulo bienal.
- A quiet drawing show in a small Copenhagen space.
How to look
Give any painting you like at least ninety seconds. That is longer than it sounds. Come back to one work three times. The second and third visit are where the exhibition happens.
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