The best global art exhibtions of 2013 (So far)

David Bowie @ V&A (Source: Complex Art+Design)

                            
The following are the best global exhibitions adjudged by the Complex Art+Design. (Source: Complex Art+Design)

1. Jean-Michel Basquiat, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2. James Turrell, Guggenheim
3. WS: Paul McCarthy, Park Avenue Armory
4. Jeff Koons, Gagosian Gallery, New York 
5. Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui, Brooklyn Museum
6. NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum
7. David Bowie, Victoria and Albert Museum, Lndon
8. LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital, Brooklyn Museum
9. Takashi Murakami: Arhat, Blum & Poe
10. Tracey Emin: I Followed You To The Sun, Lehmann Maupin
11. Yoshitomo Nara, Pace Gallery
12. Venice Biennale,  La Biennale di Venezia
13. Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, MoMA
14. Kenny Scharf: Kolors, Paul Kasmin Gallery
15. Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney, The Morgan Library and Museum
16. Gary Baseman: The Door Is Always Open, Skirball

 

  Venice Biennale (Source: Complex Art+Design)

 

The above list is quite US centric and hence Artwallaa has used discretion here to add a few more favourites from around the world. (Feedback welcomed, if you think we need to take notice of some really good exhibition):

1. The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi, The Met, New York
2. Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s at the V&A, London
3. Roy Lichtenstein, 'Une rétrospective', The Centre Pompidou, Paris
4. Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera : L'Art en fusion, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris
5. Labyrinth of Reflections: The Art of Rashid Rana 1992 - 2012, Mohatta Palace, Karachi
6. The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi's Miniature Paintings, (July 29, 2013–February 2, 2014), Gallery 916, The Met, NY)

 

Rashid Rana's Labyrinth of Reflections is by far the best ever contemporary art exhibition put up in Pakistan; in Artwallaa's view. (Photo Source: Mohatta Palace website)