Abu Dhabi Louvre Picture: Ateliers Jean Nouvel

Louisa Buck from Telegraph selects the standout exhibitions, museum openings and art events around the world in 2015

The global expansion of the art world shows no sign of slowing up in 2015. A slew of major museum exhibitions; the opening of new landmark spaces for art; art fairs continuing to jostle for calendar space with Biennales world wide: the year ahead looks set to be a busy one for art lovers. Be prepared to clock up those air miles…

Standout  Museum Shows

Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015
It may have been the ultimate abstract gesture, but Malevich’s iconic 1915 Black Square proved to be not an end point for art but a launch pad for a multitude of artists worldwide to explore geometric abstraction and its social and political implications. From the early avant-gardes of Russian Constructivism, Dutch De Stijl or the German Bauhaus, through to 1960s Brazilian Neo Concrete art and New York Minimalism and up to contemporary artists such as Rosemarie Trockel, Gabriel Orozco and David Batchelor, this rich and thought-provoking exhibition traces the complex lineage of abstract art and the way that it continues to intersect with architecture, technology, graphic design and branding......Continue Reading

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