April 2017: The Arts

Performing Arts.

–American soprano Renee Fleming portrays Marschallin for the last time in her career in the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Der Rosenkavalier – opening April 13

–The Salzburg Easter Music Festival, founded by Herbert von Karajan 50 years ago, marks its Jubilee year with performances of a recreation of Karajan’s vision of Die Walküre from 1967; Lohengrin, a contemporary chamber opera by Salvatore Sciarrino; and one guest concert each from the Vienna Philharmonic and the Berliner Philharmoniker – April 9-16

–The New York City Ballet opens its spring season with Alexei Ratmansky’s works Namouna, a Grand Divertissement and Russian Seasons – April 18

–Le Printemps de Bourges, the annual music festival held in Bourges, France over the course of five days, has proven to be a great venue to spot emerging talent – April 18-23

–At the New York Philharmonic, composer-conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the premiere of Forest by the British composer Tansy Davies – April 27-29

–Carnegie Hall presents a four-concert series called Three Generations, celebrating the achievements of minimalists and post-minimalists, including works by Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, and Nico Muhly – April 6, 19 and 26

Visual Arts.

–Theaster Gates – sculptor, installation and performance artist and urban interventionist – presents the exhibition The Minor Arts at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC.

–The Tate St. Ives in seaside England partially reopens after an 18-month renovation and expansion – an additional extension will open this fall.

–The Metropolitan Museum of Art will present a major retrospective exhibition of the photographs of Irving Penn (1917-2009) to mark the centennial of the artist’s birth; over 200 prints will be on view including iconic fashion studies of Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn, the artist’s wife; Quechua children in Cuzco, Peru; tribesmen in New Guinea; color flower studies; nudes; portraits of urban laborers; and still lifes – April 20 – July 30

–Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Han Dynasties at the Metropolitan Museum in NYC includes more than 160 objects, many never before seen in the West – opens April 3

–Launched in 1955, Documenta is one of the most important art exhibitions in the world; it takes place only once every five years, usually in the German city of Kassel. But in 2017, the 14^th edition will also be held in the Greek capital of Athens, in partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens – Curator Adam Szymczyk made the decision to showcase the city’s embrace of refugees and its continuing economic struggles. The event kicks off in the Greek capital on April 8 and moves on to Kassel in June.

–Damien Hirst unveils his first new body of work in many years in Venice at the Pinault Collections’s two locations: the Palazzo Grassi and the Punta della Dogana – April 9

–We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-85 at the Brooklyn Museum is the first major museum show to focus on second-wave-feminist art works by women of color – opening April 21

–Works by glass artist Dale Chihuly will be on view at the New York Botanical Garden in his first major garden exhibition in New York in more than ten years. CHIHULY will showcase approximately 20 installations and include drawings and early works, including a new monumental work inspired by his storied 1975 Artpark installation – April 22 – Oct 29

–Louise Lawler: Why Pictures Now is the MOMA’s 40-year survey of the American photographer’s work – “Bird Calls” is a sound piece installed in the museum’s garden – opening April 30

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