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The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami will be presented at the Brooklyn Museum from April 5 through July 13, 2008. The exhibition © MURAKAMI, will include more than ninety works in various media that span the artist’s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space. 

China Design Now, will be the first in the UK to explore the recent explosion of new design in China and the first to attempt to understand the impact of rapid economic development on architecture and design in China’s major cities. From the 2008 Olympic stadium, and other significant architectural projects, to the latest in fashion and graphics, China Design Now captures a dynamic phase as China opens up to global influences and responds to the hopes and dreams of its new urban middle class.

The Albertina presents a comprehensive Paul Klee retrospective. The starting point of the exhibition will be Carl Djerassi’s important gift to the Albertina of works by Paul Klee. Additional exhibits from the holdings of the Albertina, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and other international collections and museums will show this important collection in the context of the exceptional creativity of Paul Klee.

Since the foundation of the Royal Academy of Arts in 1768, the annual Summer Exhibition has become the world’s largest open-submission contemporary art exhibition. The Summer Exhibition attracts a high volume of entrants each year with around 10,000 works submitted this year.

The American painter Mark Rothko (1903-1970) is one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism. Twenty years after the last retrospective in a German museum this show at the Hamburger Kunsthalle offers a unique opportunity to discover his outstanding oeuvre anew. 

One of the most influential British architects of our time, Richard Rogers has established himself and his practice at the forefront of today’s architectural culture through such high-profile projects as the Pompidou Centre, the headquarters for Lloyd’s of London, the Millennium Dome, the National Assembly for Wales and Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport.  

The Museum of Modern Art presents Bernd and Hilla Becher: Landscape/Typology, a focussed examination of the influential photographic work of the German husband-and-wife team. For nearly 50 years, the Bechers photographed water towers, gas tanks, cooling towers, and other large industrial structures, notably including the winding towers of coal mines and the blast furnaces that produce iron and steel.

As the highlight of the Hayward’s 40th anniversary season, ten artists from around the world will transform the entire gallery in PSYCHO BUILDINGS. The Hayward’s huge spaces will be filled with artist-designed architectural environments, which will spill onto the three outdoor sculpture terraces, radically altering the interior and exterior of the gallery. Inside a village made from over 200 dollhouses and a room frozen in a moment of explosive disaster are amongst the installations that will both enchant and disconcert visitors. 

Twenty years after Gary Hume emerged onto the British art scene with his large-scale paintings based on institutional doors, Modern Art Oxford presents the first-ever survey of this rich body of work. Hume showed his earliest Door Paintings in the now legendary Freeze exhibition in 1988, organised by Damien Hirst with fellow Goldsmiths students, which heralded a new generation of British artists. 

The extraordinary drawings of Philip Guston (1913–1980) are the subject of this major exhibition at The Morgan Library & Museum. Together with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Guston is recognized as one of the most influential American artists of the twentieth century. The exhibition marks the first retrospective of his drawings in twenty years and the Morgan is the only American venue.