Sarah Lucas: Good Muse at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco

 


Sarah Lucas has been an art market juggernaut for the better part of 25 years, having first appeared on the scene with her peers Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin in the early 1990s under the umbrella of the much-maligned moniker Young British Artists. Unlike her peers, though, Lucas has managed to evolve, persistently creating art that feels fresh, challenging, and fun.

 

 

This show at the Legion of Honor is the result of the museum’s invitation to Lucas to create new works that “dialogue” with works from its exhibition Auguste Rodin: The Centenary Installation, which closed in April. Many of those works will remain on view alongside Lucas’s sculpture.

Sarah Lucas: Good Muse opens July 15 and runs through September 17.

Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Met might be in the throes of a much-publicized budget crisis and management shakeup, but you wouldn’t know it from the quality of its 2017 exhibitions.

One of the most exciting displays is a colossal painting by Cristóbal de Villalpando (c. 1649–1714), a Mexican Baroque painter. The painting is more than 28 feet tall and depicts two biblical scenes (Moses and the brazen serpent, and the Transfiguration of Jesus). Ten additional works round out the show, but the massive painting is the star: This is the first time in more than 300 years that it’s left Mexico.

Cristóbal de Villalpando opens July 25 and runs through October 15.

Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz at LACMA, Los Angeles
It’s entirely reasonable that Carlos Almaraz’s reputation is intertwined with Los Angeles: He founded a Chicano artist collective in the city in the 1970s and subsequently created a series of prominent murals in East L.A. depicting the struggle for Chicano civil rights.

But his paintings, which are bright, vivid, and often verge on the surreal, practically beg for an international audience. This show—the first major retrospective of his work—includes more than 60 pieces from 1967 until his death from AIDS-related complications in 1989.

Playing with Fire: Paintings by Carlos Almaraz opens August 6 and runs through December 3.

The Sculpture Park at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
No roundup is worth its salt without a glaring exception, and there's no better exception than the Louisiana Museum’s outdoor sculpture park. Truly, it’s one of the most beautiful summertime destinations for art viewership on the planet.

Set on a rolling lawn overlooking the Öresund Sound, the park contains more than 60 sculptures dotted amid trees, flowers, and meandering paths. The park is about a half- hour drive from downtown Copenhagen and well worth the trip.

The sculpture park is open year round.

This article was provided by Bloomberg News.

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