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   ART
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The first few listings here are closing in January—Last chance if you’re in the right city or can be! For more, see HERE

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
Closes January 19
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
A major exhibit looking at the origins of the Impressionist movement and the milieu in which it arose. For more, see this TravelGumbo article.

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Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350
Closes January 26
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 examines an exceptional moment at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance and the pivotal role of Sienese artists—including Duccio, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini—in defining Western painting.

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Art in the Street
March 18-July 6th
Musee d’Orsay, Paris
Through a remarkable selection of almost 300 works, “Art in the Street” examines the spectacular rise of the illustrated poster in Paris in the second half of the 19th century. Designed as a captivating immersion in the 19th-century city’s visual world, the itinerary covers the artistic poster’s golden age, analysing the social and cultural changes that fostered its development and dialoguing with a unique selection of posters, paintings, photographs, costumes, sculptures and decorative art objects that evoke the effervescent world of the street at the turn of the century.

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Tamara de Lempicka
October 12, 2024—February 9, 2025
De Young Museum, San Francisco
With works that exuded cool elegance and transgressive sensuality, Tamara de Lempicka (1894–1980) helped define Art Deco. Her paintings captured the glamour and vitality of postwar Paris and the cosmopolitan sheen of Hollywood celebrity. This exhibition — the first major museum retrospective of Lempicka in the United States — explores the artist’s distinctive style and unconventional life through four major chapters.

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Tove Jansson—Paradise
November 16, 2024—April 6, 2025
Helsinki Art Museum
HAM’s major exhibition takes an in-depth look at Tove Jansson’s public paintings, through which she shared joy, beauty and windows into magical worlds of storytelling. Filling half of HAM’s exhibition space on two floors, it presents over 180 artworks and other exhibits, along with a notable collection of previously unexhibited sketches.

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The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture
through September 14, 2025
Smithsonian Museum of American Art
How does American sculpture intersect with the history of race in the United States? The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture examines the role of sculpture in understanding and constructing the concept of race in the United States.

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Amy Sherald: American Sublime
November 16, 2024—March 9, 2025
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Come and be taken in by the colors, shapes, and forms painted by one of America’s defining contemporary portraitists. This exhibition presents nearly 50 of Amy Sherald’s luminous paintings, including her iconic portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, poetic early works, and new works on view for the first time. Sherald’s artworks convey the quiet power in everyday people and invite viewers to participate in a more complex debate about accepted notions of American identity.

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Landscape and Labor: Dutch Works on Paper in Van Gogh’s Time

December 21, 2024—June 22, 2025
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Although Vincent van Gogh is today perhaps the most famous Dutch artist of all, in his own time he was relatively little known, especially when compared to artists of the Hague School. This group, named for the city where many of its members trained and worked, was comprised of those who had different styles but shared a devotion to the depiction of everyday life.

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Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200
February 28, 2025–February 22, 2026
Brooklyn Museum, New York City
From groundbreaking early acquisitions to striking new additions, the Brooklyn Museum’s collection has always championed artists and artworks that catalyze imaginative storytelling and brave conversations. As we ring in our 200th anniversary, Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200 celebrates this unique legacy.

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Following Space: Thaddeus Mosley & Alexander Calder
Nov 20 2024 – Jun 1 2025
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
Be moved by the sculptural visions of American artists Thaddeus Mosley (b. 1926) and Alexander Calder (1898–1976). Mosley, a contemporary sculptor inspired by modernist aesthetics and traditional African wood carvings by the Dogon, Senufo, Bamum, and Mossi people, is recognized for his innovative concept of “weight in space,” in which sculptural forms appear to defy gravity.

   PHOTOGRAPHY
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La mode en modèle
until January 26, 2025
Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris
Discover fashion and models of the 1920s-1930s through 120 photographs. Magnificent photographs, sometimes taken on the spot, testify to the talent of Paris’s greatest haute couture houses.

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Weegee: Society of the Spectacle
Jan 23, 2025 – May 05, 2025
International Center of Photography, New York City
The career of photographer Weegee is often divided into two distinct phases, one gritty, the other glamorous. Celebrated for his sensationalist images of crime scenes, fires, car crashes, and the onlookers who witnessed these harrowing events  in the 1930s and ‘40s, he also spent time documenting the joyful crowds, premieres, and celebrities of Hollywood. His documentary images gave way to experimental portraits late in his life, which were distorted using a kaleidoscope and other tricks from his technical toolbox.

   HISTORY & CULTURE
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Pets and the City
October 25, 2024 – April 20, 2025
New York Historical Society, New York City
Pets and the City explores the visual history of New Yorkers and their animal companions over the last two and a half centuries, tracing the ever-evolving relationship between Gotham’s people and its animals as the city grew increasingly urbanized and industrialized.

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Unveiled: Wedding Wear in New York, 1910s–1940s
November 18, 2024 to December 31, 2025
New York State Museum, Albany
Wedding clothing holds memories, and pieces—dresses, shoes, suits, and head wear—are often preserved and passed to subsequent generations. A couple’s choices reveal information about both the individuals who wore them and those who made them. Some garments, like those exhibited here from the 1910s to 1940s, find their way to museum collections.

 SCIENCE & NATURE
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Audubon’s Birds of America
through January 18, 2026
Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
Art and science intersect on the three-foot-tall pages of one of the world’s rarest books. Soar through the 12-year process of creating these masterpieces of printmaking. Learn about the life of John James Audubon.

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Portraits on Climate and Health: Dreams We Carry
until early 2025
American Museum of Natural History, New York
How is climate change reshaping our lives—and what are the stories of transformation and dreams of a healthier future we carry with us? The Inside Out Photobooth truck was stationed at the Museum, inviting the public to have their portrait taken and share their response to this question. Now, visitors can see more than 150 of these large-scale portraits and explore personal narratives of climate change in this physical installation at the Museum, which also features portraits of Indigenous land stewards and Museum scientists.

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