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ART
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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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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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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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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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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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