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Rendering

of the newly

expanded Speed

Art Museum.

Courtesy Speed

Art Museum,

Louisville, Ky.

Vincent van Gogh:

Street in Auvers-sur-

Oise,1890,oilon

canvas,29by36⅜

inches. Courtesy

Ateneum Art

Museum, Finnish

National Gallery,

Helsinki.

WilliamH.Johnson:

Jitterbugs (II),

ca.1941,oilon

paperboard,

24 by 15⅜

inches. Courtesy

Smithsonian

American

Art Museum,

Washington, D.C.

A concise guide to some of the most
exciting new exhibitions, art fairs and
festivals opening in March.

(C&), have organized the Focus section of

the Armory called “African Perspectives,”

which features galleries from Ethiopia, the

Ivory Coast, Kenya and Nigeria. Also look

for a commissioned project by Paris-based

Kapwani Kiwanga.

Piers 92 and 94, New York, Mar. 3-6.

SPEED

ART MUSEUM

After a four-year, $51-million renovation,

the Speed Art Museum in Louisville unveils

its long-awaited makeover. Now double its

original size, the museum boasts a new

sculpture park and nearly triple the exhibi-

tion space. To celebrate the expansion, the

Speed remains open for 30 straight hours

following the ribbon cutting. Visitors can

take their time with the museum’s irst show,

“A Celebration of the Speed Collection,”

an overview spanning 6,000 years that also

boasts galleries devoted to contemporary

holdings and Kentucky artists.

Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Ky.,

opening Mar. 12.

FILM FESTS

Two concurrent programs of emerging

ilm take place this month. “New Direc-

tors/New Films” (Mar. 16-27) at MoMA

and Lincoln Center, now in its 45th year,

vaunts discovering ilmmakers like Spike

Lee, Kelly Reichardt and Steven Spielberg

at early stages in their careers. he 6th

Queens World Film Festival (Mar. 15-20)

returns to several venues in the borough,

including the Museum of the Moving

Image, the Secret heatre and PS 69. he

approximately 100 works included in

the festival come from over 30 countries,

mirroring the demographic diversity of

Queens itself.

Various venues, New York, Mar. 15-27.

THE BRIEF

MET BREUER

he iconic Marcel Breuer-designed former

home of the Whitney Museum of Ameri-

can Art reopens this month as the modern

and contemporary outpost of the Metro-

politan Museum of Art. he Met Breuer’s

two inaugural exhibitions set the stage for

broadly diverse programming to come. A

solo exhibition for Nasreen Mohamedi is

the largest exhibition of the Indian modern-

ist’s work to date in the U.S., comprising

more than 130 paintings, drawings and

photographs. Meanwhile, “Uninished:

houghts Left Visible” explores the age-old

question of when an artwork is complete.

Works that old masters like Titian and

Rembrandt leftnon finitoaccompany

intentionally incomplete pieces by 20th-

century igures such as Vincent van Gogh,

Louise Bourgeois and Alice Neel.

Met Breuer, New York, opening Mar. 18.

AMERICAN

BALLET

he history of American dance—from

sacred Native American rites to Harlem

jitterbugs—spans cultures and classes.

“Dance! American Art, 1830-1960” gathers

more than 90 works by U.S. artists such

as John Singer Sargent, William Johnson

and Andy Warhol. he exhibition also

includes both historic and recent footage of

American ballet and tap performances as

well as dance crazes like the foxtrot, black

bottom and cakewalk.

Detroit Institute of Arts, Mar. 20-June 12.

TECH STYLE

What’s a high-tech accessory like an

Apple Watch without the right clothes

to go with it? In “#techstyle” at the Bos-

ton MFA, digitally designed fabrics and

social-media-savvy dresses demonstrate

the inluence of emerging technologies

on contemporary fashion. Garments

from Alexander McQueen’s spring

2010 collection “Plato’s Atlantis,” which

combine computer-generated imagery

with couture craftsmanship, and Iris van

Herpen’s 3-D-printed attire, produced

in collaboration with the Massachusetts

Institute of Technology, forecast the

future of clothes. his show precedes

the Metropolitan Museum’s forthcom-

ing blockbuster “Manux X Machina:

Fashion in the Age of Technology”

opening this May in New York.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Mar. 6-July 10.

ARMORY

ARTS WEEK

Former Artnet News editor in chief

Benjamin Genocchio helms the 22nd

edition of the Armory Show. With over

200 galleries from 36 countries, the fair

anchors a week of art-buying in New

York, with satellite fairs like the ADAA

Art Show, VOLTA, Independent and

PULSE also open for business. Curators

Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba, found-

ers of the website Contemporary And