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...transformation for participants. As a retrospective of sorts, New York City's Guggenheim Museum has invited artists including Angela Bulloch, Jorge Pardo, and Rirkrit Tiravanija to collaborate on site-specific installations for the upcoming theanyspacewhatever. Carsten Höller, who installed aluminum slides last year at London's Tate Modern, will erect the "Revolving Hotel Room" at the Guggenheim in which visitors can sleep for the night. (Naturally, this opportunity is already sold out, but at least you can see the digs.) Through Jan. 7, 2009. 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, New York...
...Running until Nov. 20 at the elegant Queen's Palace, in the newly renovated gardens of the Mughal era Emperor Babur, the exhibition has been expertly brought together by former Tate Gallery curator Jemima Montagu, and features modern interpretations of two genres that have long defined the region: calligraphy and miniature painting. "I wondered if it was possible to bring contemporary art to Afghanistan while at the same time going back to the traditions of the past and seeing how they still have links to modern day," says Montague, who now works with Turquoise Mountain, a foundation dedicated to revitalizing...
Fifteen of the Seagram murals, exhibited together for the first time in one gallery, are the centerpiece of "Rothko," a quietly devastating show of his late work running at London's Tate Modern. By the time he made them, Rothko was at the height of his powers as an artist. He was also a favorite among rich collectors, which didn't sit well with him. Were the moneymen buying his beckoning fogbanks of color simply because they found them decorative? Possibly; that may be one reason why, in 1957, his palette darkened. Nothing about a glowering picture like Four Darks...
Francis Bacon did for despair what Michelangelo did for faith. He made it majestic. The Bacon retrospective that just opened at Tate Britain in London is one of the most powerful shows I've seen in more than 40 years of museum-going. This is Bacon's fifth retrospective, and by now his screaming Popes, wrestling lovers and tread-marked faces are so famous it's impossible to make them new. But the Tate show, which runs until Jan. 4, does something better. It brings almost five decades of Bacons together into a kind of collective cry, one that makes...
...nostalgia is the sentiment at the heart of "Cy Twombly: Cycles and Seasons," the career-spanning survey that runs at London's Tate Modern through Sept. 14, it's not the kind limned in gentle twilight. The best pictures and sculptures in this confounding, mostly captivating show - which moves later to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain and from there to Rome - are as tough-minded as any art of the last half-century...