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ART
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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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The Illusionist. Samuel van Hoogstraten
February 1—May 4, 2025
Rembrandthuis Museum, Amsterdam
Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678), a name to remember. He learned and worked with Rembrandt, in the pupils’ studio of the Rembrandt House. Of all Rembrandt’s students, he became the most successful. During his lifetime, that is. Because, after the 17th century, he was forgotten by the general public, despite the fact that he was a learned artist who constantly experimented with different subjects and optical tricks. In this exhibition you will get to know Samuel van Hoogstraten, discover the art of illusion and get to try it out yourself: see past the trickery and create your own optical illusion.
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Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
April 5—September 2, 2025
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
This first posthumous retrospective presents the full range of Ruth Asawa’s work and its inspirations over six decades of her career. As an artist, Asawa forged a groundbreaking practice through her ceaseless exploration of materials and forms. As an educator and civic leader, Asawa’s impact on San Francisco can still be felt today. You’ll find many of her signature suspended looped- and tied-wire sculptures alongside lesser-known works, including a selection of her sculptural “miniatures” — the smallest measuring just over one inch in diameter. From vibrant drawings and paintings to clay masks and cast bronze sculptures, more than 300 works give insight into Asawa’s relentlessly experimental vision.
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Amy Sherald: American Sublime
April 9—August 10, 2025
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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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Venice and the Ottoman Empire
May 31, 2025—September 1, 2025
Frist Art Museum, Nashville
This ambitious cross-cultural exhibition explores the relationship between the Republic of Venice and the Ottoman Empire, two rival superpowers in the Mediterranean, over four centuries (1400–1800) and in multiple spheres: artistic, culinary, diplomatic, economic, political, and technological. The exhibition comes to a spectacular conclusion with a gallery dedicated to Mariano Fortuny’s Venetian- and Ottoman-inspired fashions and decorative arts created in his Venetian palace in the early twentieth century.
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Cartier
April 12, 2025—November 16, 2025
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
A major exhibition featuring more than 350 objects, including precious jewels, historic gemstones, iconic watches and clocks, that chart the evolution of Cartier’s legacy of art, design and craftsmanship since the turn of the 20th century.
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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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Louvre Couture—Art and Fashion: Statement Piece
January 24, 2025—July 21, 2025
Louvre, Paris
‘Louvre Couture’ offers a new perspective on decorative arts through the prism of contemporary fashion design.
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Sargent and Paris
April 27, 2025—August 3, 2025
Metropolitan Museum, New York City
Sargent and Paris explores the early career of American painter John Singer Sargent (1856–1925), from his arrival in Paris in 1874 as a precocious 18-year-old art student through the mid-1880s, when his infamous portrait Madame X was a scandalous success at the Paris Salon. Over the course of one extraordinary decade, Sargent achieved recognition by creating boldly ambitious portraits and figure paintings that pushed the boundaries of conventionality.
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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.
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In Transit: Art from Underground and Along the Tracks
Many of the world’s subways and other transit systems are adorned with exceptional art. In some cases, a few stations have received special treatment; in others there has been a commitment to provide every station with an artistic component. Below, links to catalogs provided by transit systems themselves, and TravelGumbo articles touching on them. Please let us know of any we haven’t found yet!
- Underground Art: A Times Square Subway Gallery A series of ceramic works scattered through a major subway junction
- New York’s New Year New Subway Party Opening of a new subway line, with extensive art in each of its stations
- Brussels Metro: An Underground Museum The system was built from the beginning with art in every station
Catalogs
- New York Metropolitan Transit Authority Web page and links t0 350 works in subway and commuter rail; there’s also an app available
- Brussels Metro and Tram System PDF booklet with full descriptions for each station and each artwork
PHOTOGRAPHY
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The Underground Camera
May 2, 2025—October 2, 2025
FOAM: Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
The exhibition The Underground Camera is inspired by the celebrations of Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary and 80 years of liberation. With their photographs, The Underground Camera group made a significant contribution to the image of the Second World War. The photographers were recruited by members of the resistance, with the aim of informing the Dutch government in London. They worked independently and under the dangerous conditions of an occupied city, with hard-to-obtain, often poor-quality equipment. The exhibition provides an impressive picture of the consequences of hunger and cold in the dismantled Amsterdam at the end of the war.
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Weegee: Society of the Spectacle
Jan 23, 2025 – May 5, 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.
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Picture Stories: Photographs by Arlene Gottfried
January 31, 2025—May 25, 2025
New York Historical Society
This exhibition of more than 30 works celebrates the recent acquisition of Gottfried’s photographs taken during the last decades of the 20th century and brings much deserved attention to this understudied photographer’s honest, sensitive, and sometimes searing images of New York City’s population.
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American Photography
February 7, 2025–June 9, 2025
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
The more than 200 works on display in American Photography reflect the rich and multifaceted history of photography in the United States. The exhibition presents the country as seen through the eyes of American photographers, and shows how the medium has permeated every aspect of our lives: in art, news, advertising and everyday life. This show includes iconic photographs by the likes of Sally Mann, Robert Frank, Lisette Model, Nan Goldin, Richard Avedon, Andy Warhol, Paul Strand, Diane Arbus and James Van Der Zee, as well as surprising images by unknown and anonymous photographers.
HISTORY & CULTURE
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The Underground Camera
May 2, 2025—October 2, 2025
FOAM: Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
The exhibition The Underground Camera is inspired by the celebrations of Amsterdam’s 750th anniversary and 80 years of liberation. With their photographs, The Underground Camera group made a significant contribution to the image of the Second World War. The photographers were recruited by members of the resistance, with the aim of informing the Dutch government in London. They worked independently and under the dangerous conditions of an occupied city, with hard-to-obtain, often poor-quality equipment. The exhibition provides an impressive picture of the consequences of hunger and cold in the dismantled Amsterdam at the end of the war.
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The Edwardians: The Age of Elegance
April 11, 2025-November 22, 2025
King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London
This major new exhibition will immerse visitors in the opulence and glamour of the Edwardian age – the period between the Victorian era and the First World War. Visitors will learn about the lives and tastes of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal couples – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and King George V and Queen Mary – from their family lives and personal collecting to their glittering social circles and spectacular royal events.
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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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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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