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A seasonal guide to the best special exhibitions and shows in museums in the United States and Europe.

 

USA & CANADA


ATLANTA

High Museum of Art
1280 Peachtree Street (b/w 15th & 16th Streets), Website

"The Sculpture of Grainger McKoy" - through January 8, 2012

"Picasso to Warhol" - 14 artists from the Museum of Modern Art in New York - October 15 - April 29, 2012

 

BOSTON

Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave, Website

"Ellsworth Kelly: Wood Sculpture" - through March 4, 2012

"Degas and the Nude" - exploring Degas' use of nudes throughout his career
October 9 - February 5, 2012

"Modernist Photography 1910 - 1950" - through April 1, 2012

 

CHICAGO

Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Website

"Chagall's America Windows" - ongoing

 

MONTREAL

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Sherbrooke Street, Website

"Lyonel Feininger: from Manhattan to the Bauhaus" - through May 13


Montreal Science Center
King Edward Pier, Website

"Dinosaurs Unearthed" - October 20 - March 11

 

NEW YORK

Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York, Website

"reOrder: An Architectural Environment by Situ Studio" - through January 15

"Sanford Biggers: Sweet Funk - An Introspective" - through January 8


Cooper Hewitt Museum
2 East 91st Street, Website

"Design with the Other 90%: Cities" - the second installment of a series begun in 2007
October 15 - January 9, 2012


Discovery Times Square Exposition

226 West 44th Street, Website

"CSI: The Experience" - opens October 1

"Dead Sea Scrolls - Life and Faith in Biblical Times" - opens October 28

 

The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, Website

"Renoir, Impressionism and Full-Length Painting" - February 7 - May 13

 

Guggenheim
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), NYC, Website

"Kandinsky at the Bauhaus 1922 - 1933" - ongoing

"Pop Objects and Icons from the Guggenheim Collection" - through February 12

"Maurizio Cattelan: All" - November 4 - January 22


Metropolitan Museum of Art

1000 Fifth Ave, NYC, Website

"Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levine" - through March 4


Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
11 West 53rd Street, NYC, Website

"Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art" - through May 14
Murals created for Rivera's 1931 MOMA show, many not exhibited in over 80 years


The Whitney

Madison Ave at East 75th Street, NYC, Website

"Real/Surreal" - American art from the 20s, 30s and 40s - through February 12

 

PHILADELPHIA

Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Website

"Van Gogh Up Close" - February 1 - May 6

 

ST. LOUIS, MO

Saint Louis Art Museum
1 Fine Arts Drive, Forest Park, St. Louis, Website

"Monet's Water Lillies" - through January 22

 

SAN FRANCISCO

DeYoung Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, Website

"Masters of Venice: Renaissance Painters of Passion and Power from the Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna"

October 29 - February 12, 2012


Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue, San Francisco, Website

"Pissarro's People" - through January 22

 

TACOMA

Tacoma Art Museum
1701 Pacific Avenue, Website

"Folk Treasures of Mexico: The Nelson A. Rockefeller Collection from the San Antonio Museum of Art" - through February 19

 

TORONTO

Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park (at Bloor Street West), Website

"Maya: Secrets of their Ancient World" - opens November 19

 

WASHINGTON, DC

Hirschorn Museum
Website

"Andy Warhol: Shadows" - through January 15, 2012

All 102 paintings from the series hung together for the first time


National Gallery of Art
Website

"Warhol: Headlines" - through January 2, 2012

 

The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street NW, Washington DC, Website

"Degas' Dancers at the Barre: Point & Counterpoint" - through January 8, 2012

30 works featuring ballet dancers from the 1860s to 1900

 

WILLIAMSTOWN, MA

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
225 South Street, Williamstown, MA, Website

"Rembrandt and Degas - Two Young Artists" - through February 5