The 21 Art Exhibitions You’ll Be Talking About This Year

“Another year over,” John Lennon still coos, posthumously, over a march of several, semi-irritating weeks between Thanksgiving and New Year’s. “And a new one only begun.” It’s substantially a many laconic approach of melodically profitable reverence to a flitting of one 365-day duration and a emergence of another.

We’re reminded of Lennon’s lyrics as we indicate a list of a new year’s many drool-worthy museum shows. His widow, a good musician and artist Yoko Ono, is one among several womanlike artists headlining vast shows in 2015, fasten Bjork, Marilyn Minter and a late artists Frida Kahlo and Mary Louise Reynolds, among others.

Yes, artists like Alex Katz, Jean-Michel Basquiat and Barnett Newman have wound their approach into a ranks, though we’re gratified to see shows like “Islamic Art Now” and “Women to Watch 2015” creation waves for underrepresented and rising total too. While there’s always room to grow (we’d adore to see some-more women of tone hosting retrospectives around a U.S., for example), we’re blissful a year of considerably macho artists like Jeff Koons, Paul McCarthy and James Turrell is over.

The following 21 shows will entrance during some of a biggest art institutions in a United States, and a few tiny ones too. From New York to Los Angeles, Minneapolis to Houston, Atlanta to Chicago, these are a art exhibitions we’ll be articulate about in a new year.

1. On Kawara during a Guggenheim

What:On Kawara: Silence
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Also on view: Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian: Infinite Possibility, Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting

2. Bjork during a Museum of Modern Art

What:Björk
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3. Frida Kahlo during a New York Botanical Gardens

What:Frida Kahlo: Art, Garden, Life
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Also on view: The Orchid Show, Wild Medicine in a Tropics

4. Islamic Art Now during LACMA

What:Islamic Art Now: Contemporary Art of a Middle East
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Also on view: Bari Kumar: Remembering a Future, Drawing in L.A.: The 1960s and 1970s, Noah Purifoy: Junk Dada

5. Super Indian during a Denver Art Museum

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Also on view: Wyeth: Andrew and Jamie in a Studio, Joan Miró: Instinct Imagination

6. Yoko Ono during a Museum of Modern Art

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Also on view: Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980, This Is for Everyone: Design Experiments for a Common Good, Picasso’s Sculpture, One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence’s Migration Series and Other Visions of a Great Movement North

7. The Whitney’s Inaugural Exhibition

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Also on view: Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist, Frank Stella

8. Basquiat’s The Unknown Notebooks in Brooklyn

What:Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks
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Also on view: Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic

9. Barnett Newman during a Menil

What:Barnett Newman: The Late Work
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Also on view: Becoming Modern: Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from The Morgan Library Museum and a Menil Collection

10. Marilyn Minter during a Contemporary Art Museum Houston

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Also on view: Mel Chin: Rematch, Art on a Lawn: Joseph Havel

11. The 2015 Triennial during a New Museum

What:2015 Triennial: Surround Audience
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Also on view: Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden

12. Women to Watch 2015 during a National Museum of Women in a Arts

What:Organic Matters — Women to Watch 2015
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Also on view: Vanessa Bell’s Hogarth Press Designs, Daisy Makeig-Jones

13. TR Ericsson during a Cleveland Museum of Art

What:TR Ericsson: Crackle Drag
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Also on view: Themes and Variations: Musical Drawings and Prints, The Novel and a Bizarre: Salvator Rosa’s Scenes of Witchcraft, Senufo: Art and Identity in West Africa

14. China: Through a Looking Glass during The Met

What:China: Through a Looking Glass
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Also on view: Bazm and Razm: Feast and Fight in Persian Art

15. Mary Louise Reynolds during a Art Institute of Chicago

What:Decidedly Surreal: The Bindings of Mary Louise Reynolds
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Also on view: Chatter: Architecture Talks Back, David Adjaye

16. Alex Katz during a High Museum

What: Alex Katz, This Is Now
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Also on view: A Painter’s Profile: The High Celebrates Romare Bearden, Helen Levitt: In a Street

17. Hippie Modernism during a Walker

What:Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia
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Also on view: International Pop

18. Light, Paper, Process during a Getty

What:Light, Paper, Process: Reinventing Photography
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Also on view: Zeitgeist: Art in a Germanic World, 1800–1900, J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free

19. Trenton Doyle Hancock during a Studio Museum

What:Trenton Doyle Hancock — Skin and Bones, 20 Years of Drawing
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Also on view: Titus Kaphar: The Jerome Project

20. America Soldier during a Nelson-Atkins Museum

What:American Solider
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Also on view: A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America

BONUS: The Jim Henson Exhibition and Gallery during a Museum of a Moving Image

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Honorable Mentions:

• Victoria Gitman during Perez Art Museum Miami

• Black Box: Sharon Hayes during a Baltimore Museum of Art

• Pao Houa Her during a Broad Art Museum

• Tomi Ungerer during a Drawing Center

• All True Tomboys during Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art

• Three Photographers from a Bronx: Jules Aarons, Morton Broffman, and Joe Conzo during a Bronx Museum of a Arts

• Keren Cytter during MCA Chicago

• Gordon Parks during MFA Boston

• Black Like Who? during Birmingham Museum of Art

• Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades during MoMA PS1

For some-more on what 2015 has to offer, check out a list of artists to watch in a new year here

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