This month, audiences in South Korea will once again encounter the haunting, layered world of the South African artist known for collapsing the boundaries between drawing, film, music and performance. William Kentridge, whose diverse works have previously been showcased at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, the Asia Culture Center and the Amorepacific Museum of Art, returns to Seoul with two of his recent works under the GS Arts Center’s Artists series: "Sibyl," and multimedia symphonic project “Shostakovich 10: Oh To Believe in Another World” (2024).

Oakville Galleries presents the exhibition Between Heaven and Earth and the project The Ship of Tolerance, by Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. This exhibition highlights a number of the artists’ works, including paintings, prints and installations, and spills out into the gardens with several larger artworks. The largest installation is The Ship of Tolerance, a 60-foot long, hand-crafted wooden ship with sails made from children’s paintings, presented lakeside in Gairloch Gardens for one year. Now, marking its 20th anniversary, its first appearance in Canada takes place at a critical time where a crossroads towards a new global order is visible. 

From March 28 to June 8, 2025, the Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea (PAC) in Milan will host Body of Evidence, the most extensive retrospective ever dedicated in Italy to Iranian artist Shirin Neshat. Her poetic vision delves into the duality of oppression and self-determination, memory and oblivion, and silence and protest. The biggest mistake one can make when visiting a Neshat exhibition is to assume that the artist speaks only about herself—as a woman, an Iranian, and a self-exiled American artist.

Red Brick Art Museum sets itself apart with its impressive, longer-term art showings, and this current exhibition is no different. I recently revisited the museum to see "Silent Emptiness," a fantastic showing of the work of the brilliant Japanese artist Chiharu Shiota. 

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is thrilled to announce Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind, opening October 2025. The MCA is the exclusive US venue for this comprehensive solo exhibition dedicated to artist, musician, and activist Yoko Ono (b. 1933, Tokyo, Japan; lives in New York). Traveling from Tate Modern in London, where it enjoyed record attendance, and in close collaboration with Ono’s studio, this groundbreaking retrospective covers seventy years of Ono’s trailblazing career, with over 200 works including participatory instruction pieces and scores, installations, a curated music room, films, music and photography, and archival materials. The exhibition reveals Ono’s innovative approach to language, art, and participation that continues to speak to the present moment.

Her art pieces are not the typical visual format of expression, rather Gupta’s installations often center around the act of listening as a basic gesture. From Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s poems to farmers’ songs, here moving sound acts as a form of defiance, turning it into an immersive process for the audience.

With three exhibitions running simultaneously this summer, the Japanese artist hovers over Berlin like a vast alien spacecraft, zapping us with cringeworthy one-liners, showering us with torrents of platitudes about peace and love. In a rare triple play, her Gropius Bau summer blockbuster coincides with the Neue Nationalgalerie’s exhibition and she’s even taken over the enormous Neue Berliner Kunstverein (n.b.k.) billboard.

The 20th century is a cruel farce performed by puppets in a cardboard museum in South African artist William Kentridge’s grotesquely funny, constantly disconcerting film interpretation of Shostakovich’s 10th Symphony. Lenin and Stalin, their faces’ photographs fixed on jerky figures made from scraps, transforming sporadically into living dancers hidden under collaged costumes, monstrously dominate a puppet cast that also includes the bullish-looking but revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky along with Trotsky and Shostakovich himself.