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The Best Public Art Shows to See this Year
From Yayoi Kusama s flora-inspired sculptures at the New York Botanical Garden to this year s Shanghai Urban Space Art Season, these are must-see public art shows across the globe
Yayoi Kusama,
Dancing Pumpkin, 2020. Courtesy: the artist Otis Fine Arts, Tokyo, David Zwirner, New York and the New York Botanical Garden
Yayoi Kusama: Cosmic Nature
New York Botanical Garden, USA
Yayoi Kusama’s monumental sculptures take over the grounds of the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in the Bronx. Inspired by time the artist spent on her family’s seed nursery as a child, ‘Cosmic Nature’ features her most iconic installations, including
What was the last exhibition you saw? On the
Condé Nast Traveller team, we have what now seem like distant memories of racing to the Andy Warhol show at Tate Modern before lockdown measures kicked in last March. Then going to the incredible
Titian: Love, Desire, Death at the National Gallery when it reopened in July, following newly added floor arrows around an eerily empty space and feeling a sense of rare privilege at being more or less alone with the painter’s evocative Renaissance masterpieces.
Along with museums, art galleries in England will be able to reopen on Monday 17 May (Monday 26 April for Scotland, dates to be confirmed for Wales and Northern Ireland). That seems a long time to wait. But as Bernard Donoghue, the director of the Association of Leading Visitor Attractions, has said, ‘The visitor experience this year will be phenomenal. You will be up close and personal with animals or art in a way you would never have experienced before and possibly won’t in
This week’s Apollo Art Diary picks out four outdoor sculpture trails and exhibitions that you can still enjoy while the long wait continues for UK museums to reopen…
The 11th Liverpool Biennial launched its first ‘chapter’ on 20 March – a series of outdoor sculptures, as well as sound and digital pieces on its website, commissioned from nine artists. Among the sculptors are Larry Achiampong, whose
Pan African Flags For the Relic Travellers’ Alliance, with their designs of 54 stars representing the 54 nations of Africa,
are sited in 10 locations across
the city; Linder, whose billboard
Bower of Bliss takes its cues both from