Tate Announces 2019 Exhibitions:

• Pierre Bonnard: The Colour of Memory (23 Jan – 6 May 2019, Tate Modern)
• Franz West (20 Feb – 2 Jun 2019, Tate Modern)
• Dorothea Tanning (27 Feb – 9 Jun 2019, Tate Modern)
• The EY Exhibition: Van Gogh and Britain (27 Mar – 11 Aug 2019, Tate Britain)
• Frank Bowling (31 May – 28 Aug 2019, Tate Britain)
• Natalia Goncharova (6 Jun – 8 Sep 2019, Tate Modern)
• Keith Haring (14 Jun – 10 Nov 2019, Tate Liverpool)
• Olafur Eliasson (11 Jul 2019 – 5 Jan 2020, Tate Modern)
• William Blake (11 Sep 2019 – 2 Feb 2020, Tate Britain)
• Mark Leckey (24 Sep 2019 – 5 Jan 2020, Tate Britain)
• Otobong Nkanga (12 Oct 2019 – 5 Jan 2020, Tate St Ives)
• Nam June Paik: The Future Is Now (17 Oct 2019 – 9 Feb 2020, Tate Modern) …

The New Museum Announces Sarah Lucas Retrospective in New York:

• The New Museum is pleased to present “Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel,” on view from September 26, 2018 to January 20, 2019. The first major survey in the United States of the work of British artist Sarah Lucas (b. 1962, London, UK.)  Curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson, and Margot Norton, the show will bring together more than 150 works in photography, sculpture, and installation to reveal the breadth and ingenuity of her practice. The exhibition will address the ways in which Lucas’s works engage with crucial debates about gender and power, along with the legacy of surrealism—from her clever transformations of everyday objects to her exploration of sexual ambiguity and the tension between the familiar and the disorienting or absurd. …

Bloomberg Profiles a New Museum of Contemporary Art Planned for Moscow: Energy tycoon Leonid Mikhelson has emerged as one of Russia’s biggest buyers of contemporary art, something that would have seemed unfathomable less than a decade ago. His collection, worth an estimated $200 million, includes works by Gerhard Richter, Christopher Wool and Rudolf Stingel. Mikhelson, 62, is also building a $130 million center of contemporary art in Moscow.