This article highlights 10 art exhibitions from 2024 that surprised viewers and challenged their preconceptions about art.
Art & Design The 10 most interesting art shows of 2024 And they all had one thing in common: Surprise. No one sets foot in an art exhibition with a completely open mind. There are always preconceptions, expectations or doubts. The key to putting on a good museum show—and what unifies the most interesting ones we saw in 2024—is to make the viewer reconsider whatever they thought they knew.
It doesn’t matter if the work is a thousand years old or made last week; and it’s immaterial if the visitor thinks they’re an expert on the topic or is coming to it a total naïf. There’s always the chance to rewrite an art historical narrative or reintroduce a much beloved (or loathed) artist. Check out the shows that did this best below, several of which are still on view. Steve McQueen: Bass Through May 26 at Dia Beacon, New York McQueen is best known for his films, both artistic (he won the prestigious Turner Prize, awarded to British artists, in 1999) and commercial (14 years later, he won the Academy Award for Best Picture with 12 Years a Slave ). So this massive light-and-sound installation in Dia’s 30,000-square-foot basement is therefore a departure of sorts—there are no images or projections of any kind. Instead, visitors are bathed in a gradually changing spectrum of light, while a soundtrack of bass instruments serves as a subtle, shifting accompaniment. The word “immersive” is thrown around a lot, most of the time incorrectly, but here McQueen has created a full-body sensory experience that heightens visitors’ awareness of space and movement. Olga de Amaral Through March 16 at the Fondation Cartier in Paris Don’t worry if you haven’t heard of Amaral, a nonagenarian Colombian textile artist. Despite being represented by the prestigious international Lisson gallery, she wasn’t exactly on the tip of the contemporary art world’s tongue, at least not until the opening of this retrospectiv
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