Art Top 5: February 2023

“Tecelar (Weaving),” 1959, Lygia Pape/Courtesy: Projeto Lygia Pape

1
Gray at 60
(Gray Gallery)
The preeminent dealer marks a milestone with the work, all on paper, of sixty artists, historical and living.
Through March 11

2
Lygia Pape: Tecelares
(Art Institute of Chicago)
Nearly one hundred rarely seen woodblock prints from the iconic Brazilian Neo-Concrete artist, made in the 1950s.
Opens February 11

3
Yayoi Kusama: Narcissus Garden
(Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis)
The Japanese artist’s celebrated immersive work of nearly 1,000 mirrored spheres, first exhibited during the Venice Biennale in 1966.
Opens February 11

4
Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears
(Art Institute of Chicago)
A sure-to-be-popular look at the iconic twentieth-century artist, focusing on the thirties, when he “emerged as the inventor of his own personal brand of Surrealism.”
Opens February 18

5
Aria Dean, Abattoir, U.S.A!
(Renaissance Society)
The writer and artist offers a new film considering the importance of the slaughterhouse in the development of Modernist architecture and urban design.
Opens February 25