By Vittoria Benzine & Richard Whiddington
Miami art week 2024 has officially kicked off, with visitors flocking to the Magic City for a dose of sunshine and stone crabs to round out the year. Alongside pop-up exhibitions, gallery shows, and of course a slew of mainstay art fairs, museums are showing off their wares with a spate of must-see exhibitions. Below, we’ve gathered six of the most exciting shows to see.
Jacqueline de Jong, the Dutch artist whose genre-defying practice challenged conflict and capitalism for six decades, is receiving her first U.S. exhibition, and it’s about time.
Building off its nation-leading collection of works by the avant-garde movement CoBrA, (named for the cities of Copenhagen, Brussels, and Amsterdam from which its members predominantly came), NSU Art Museum Fort Lauderdale introduces one of the group’s few female artists and shows how she adopted its radical tenets.
A painter, sculptor, and engraver with little formal training, de Jong joined the anti-capitalist group Situationist International in the late 1950s. She founded the periodical The Situationist Times, through which she platformed kindred artists (though she was eventually expelled by movement’s Guy Debord). Combining Dadaist, Abstract Expressionist, and Pop art elements, de Jong was forever channeling contemporary politics into her work. The paintings on show at “Vicious Circles” remain pressing, revealing that little has changed.
