SEE New Yorker art critic Peter
Schjeldahl has called sculptor
Rachel Harrison’s work “both the
zestiest and the least digestible in
contemporary art. It may also be the
most important.” Decide for yourself
when the Whitney Museum unveils
the first full-scale survey of her 25-
year career, which includes over 100
pieces, on October 25. (Through
January 12, 2020; whitney.org)CALENDAR ART
SEE Over the course of her
influential career, visionary Japanese
artist Yayoi Kusama—whose work
melds pop art with minimalism—has
produced more than 20 Infinity
Mirror Rooms. Each is a psychedelic
sensory installation so enveloping
that it’s possible to forget where you
end and the space begins. One of her
latest, Love Is Calling, opens at ICA
Boston on September 24 alongside
Beyond Infinity: Contemporary Art
After Kusama, which pairs her pieces
with work by contemporaries like
Louise Bourgeois, Tara Donovan,
and Ana Mendieta. (Through
February 7, 2021; icaboston.org)SEE Throughout legendary
93-year-old Betye Saar’s career,
she has produced assemblages,
collages, and installations that
subvert racist stereotypes and
touch on mysticism and memory,
black power and technology.
LACMA’s Betye Saar: Call and
Response takes a novel approach
to exploring her art, showcasing
preliminary drawings from
the sketchbooks she has kept
throughout her life alongside
finished works. (Through
April 5, 2020; lacma.org)SEE Since the 1979 Iranian
Revolution, Iranian-born artist Shirin
Neshat has lived in self-imposed
exile in the U.S. She didn’t have
her first solo show until 1993,
when she was 36, but she is now
acclaimed for films, videos, and
photographs that investigate,
among other concerns, how
political upheaval impacts interior
lives. On October 19, The Broad in
L.A. launches a career retrospective
with 150 of her works. (Through
February 16, 2020; thebroad.org)LOVE IS
CALLING
(2013)HOARDERS (2012)LAND OF
DREAMS
(2019)THE EDGE OF
ETHICS (2010)LOVE IS CALLING(2013) BY YAYOI KUSAMA: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND DAVID ZWIRNER, NEW YORK;HOARDERS(2012) BY RACHEL HARRISON: COURTESY OF THEARTIST AND GREENE NAFTALI/PHOTOGRAPHED BY JOHN BERENS;THE EDGE OF ETHICS(2010) BY BETYE SAAR: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND ROBERTS PROJECTS/PHOTOGRAPHED BY BERT JANSSENS; VIDEO STILL FROMLAND OF DREAMS(2019) BY SHIRIN NESHAT: COURTESY OF THE ARTIST.