© David van Dartel/Elliott Gallery, Amsterdam

Elliot Gallery | Feb. 4 - Apr. 23, 2023

What Once Was is the exciting new exhibition, showcasing the much anticipated new body of work by David van Dartel.

This exhibition will be accompanied by the launch of van Dartel’s second book, following his successful debut in 2020 with This Time Tomorrow.

A vivid portrait of young adults in several European countries, carefully stylised, but still very close to Van Dartel’s sense of friendship. The series raises questions about the classicaldiscourse of masculinity.

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Violette Bule, *Dream America*, 2015, chromogenic prints, each: 30 x 36 in., Collection of the artist (photo: © Violette Bule)

Blanton Museum of Art | Feb. 19 - July 23, 2023

Day Jobs, the first major exhibition to examine the overlooked impact of day jobs on the visual arts, is dedicated to demystifying artistic production and upending the stubborn myth of the artist sequestered in their studio, waiting for inspiration to strike. The exhibition will make clear that much of what has determined the course of modern and contemporary art history are unexpected moments spurred by pragmatic choices rather than dramatic epiphanies. Conceived as a corrective to the field of art history, the exhibition also encourages us to more openly acknowledge the precarious and generative ways that economic and creative pursuits are intertwined.

The exhibition will feature work produced in the United States after World War II by artists who have been employed in a host of part- and full-time roles: dishwasher, furniture maker, graphic designer, hairstylist, ICU nurse, lawyer, and nanny–and in several cases, as employees of large companies such as Ford Motors, H-E-B Grocery, and IKEA. The exhibition will include approximately 75 works in a broad range of media by emerging and established artists such as Emma Amos, Genesis Belanger, Larry Bell, Mark Bradford, Lenka Clayton, Jeffrey Gibson, Jay Lynn Gomez, Tishan Hsu, VLM (Virginia Lee Montgomery), Ragen Moss, Howardena Pindell, Chuck Ramirez, Robert Ryman, and Fred Wilson, among many others.

Organized by Veronica Roberts, Former Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, with Lynne Maphies, Former Curatorial Assistant, Blanton Museum of Art

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Theaster Gates
*A Heavenly Chord*, 2022. Leslie speakers, Hammond B3 Organ, and sound, dimensions variable. © Theaster Gates. Courtesy Theaster Gates. Photo: Jim Prinz Photography

New Museum | Closing Feb. 5, 2023

In “Young Lords and Their Traces,” Gates honors the radical thinkers who have shaped his city and the United States as a whole. This presentation will comprise a selection of works including paintings, sculptures, videos, performances, and archival collections that together memorialize both heroic figures and more humble, everyday icons. Gates’s elevation of these quieter sources of knowledge, and his assertion that collecting is a form of devotion and remembrance, has made his work reverberate on both the local and international level. “Young Lords and Their Traces” demonstrates the emotional and critical depth of Gates’s consistently surprising art.

“Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces” is curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, and Gary Carrion-Murayari, Kraus Family Senior Curator, with Madeline Weisburg, Curatorial Assistant.

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