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Documenta, the legendary mega-exhibition, attracts serious attention in contemporary art circles but there isn’t an awful lot of love for it. For the 14th edition its Polish artistic director Adam Szymczyk is mounting a revolution, flying in the face of everything we’ve come to expect.

The exhibition at The Met Breuer, Ettore Sottsass: Design Radical, opening July 21, will reevaluate Sottsass’s career in a presentation of his key works in a range of media—including architectural drawings, interiors, furniture, machines, ceramics, glass, jewelry, textiles and pattern, painting, and photography.

The president of the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris from 1997 to 2000 and author of the catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures, Werner Spies recently donated 51 drawings to the Max Ernst Museum in Bruhl. Not long ago, however, Spies was also implicated in a modern art forgery scandal that made the headlines which involved forger Wolfgang Beltracchi.

On the centenary of the death of Auguste Rodin (1840–1917), The Metropolitan Museum of Art will celebrate its historic collection of the artist’s work in Rodin at The Met, opening September 16, 2017.

Opening September 13, 2017, Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950–1980 explores the embrace of incongruity, irrationality, and disorientation among artists living in Europe, South America, and the United States.

The first artworks have arrived for the exhibition in Bern: Dossier Gurlitt: “Degenerated Art” – confiscated and sold. The press event at the Kunstmuseum Bern presented a sampling of works by Otto Dix, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Franz Marc, August Macke, and Otto Mueller from the Gurlitt art trove and explained the necessary conservation measures.

Organized to commemorate the centennial of World War I, this exhibition will focus on the impact of the war on the visual arts

Opening July 25 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Cristóbal de Villalpando: Mexican Painter of the Baroque features his earliest masterpiece, a monumental painting depicting the biblical accounts of Moses and the brazen serpent and the Transfiguration of Jesus that was painted in 1683 for a chapel in Puebla Cathedral.

Opening July 3 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the exhibition Frederic Remington at The Met will present the artist’s legacy through some 20 paintings, sculptures, works on paper, and illustrated books from the late 1880s until his death.