2015-09-20



The New Whitney Museum

The Fall 2015 guide to the best art 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

“Sprawl! Drawing Outside the Lines” – October 4

“Habsburg Splendor: Masterpieces from Vienna’s Imperial Collections” – October 18 – January 17, 2016

BOSTON

Museum of Fine Arts

465 Huntington Ave, Website

“Herb Ritts” – through November 8

“Yours Sincerely, John S Sargent” – through November 15

“Class Distinctions – Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer” – October 11 – January 18, 2016

CHICAGO

Art Institute of Chicago

111 South Michigan Avenue, Website

“Alfred Stieglitz and the 19th Century” – October 31 – March 27, 2016

“Gates of the Lord: The Tradition of Krishna Paintings” – through January 3, 2016

“Charles Ray: Sculpture, 1997–2014″ – through October 24

DALLAS

Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street, Website

“International Pop” – October 11 – January 17, 2016

“Inca: Conquests of the Andes” – through November 15

MONTREAL

Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Sherbrooke Street, Website

“George S. Zimbel: A Humanist Photographer” – through January 3, 2016

“Metamorphoses in Rodin’s Studio” – through October 18

Montreal Science Center
King Edward Pier, Website

“Fabrik – Creativity Factory”

NEW YORK

Brooklyn Museum

Brooklyn, New York, Website

“Impressionism and the Caribbean: Francisco Oller and His Transatlantic World” – October 2 – January 3, 2016

“The Rise of Sneaker Culture” – through October 4

“Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence” – through November 1

Cooper Hewitt Museum

2 East 91st Street, Website

“How Posters Work” – through January 24, 2016

“Pixar: The Design of Story” – October 8 – August 7, 2016

Discovery Times Square Exposition
226 West 44th Street, Website

“The Hunger Games”

“Body Worlds: Pulse”

The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, Website

“From Sèvres to Fifth Avenue: French Porcelain at The Frick Collection” – through April 24, 2016

“Landscape Drawings in The Frick Collection” – June 9 – September 13

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

“Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting” – October 9 – January 6, 2016

“Doris Salcedo” – through October 12

Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave, NYC, Website

“Ancient Egypt Transformed – The Middle Kingdom” – October 12 – January 24, 2016

“Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends” – through October 4

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

“Picasso Sculpture” – through February 7, 2016

“Andy Warhol: Campbell’s Soup Cans and Other Works, 1953–1967″ – through October 12

The Whitney
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC, Website

“Frank Stella” – October 30 – February 7, 2016

“Archibald Motley: Jazz Age Modernist” – October 2 – January 17, 2016

PHILADELPHIA

Barnes Foundation
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Website

“Strength and Splendor: Wrought Iron from the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles, Rouen” – through January 4, 2016

Philadelphia Museum of Art

2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Website

“Audubon to Warhol: The Art of American Still Life” – October 27 – January 10, 2016

“The Wrath of the Gods” – Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo and Titian – through December 6

“Cy Twombly Sculptures” – through February 2016

SAN FRANCISCO

DeYoung Museum

50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, Website

“Prints at the Fair” – prints displayed at the San Francisco Panama-Pacific Exposition of 1915

October 10 – January 10, 2016

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

“Breguet: Art and Innovation in Watchmaking” – through January 10, 2016

SEATTLE

Seattle Art Museum

1300 First Avenue, Website

“Intimate Impressionism” – works from Cezanne, Monet, Degas, Renoir and more

October 1 – January 10, 2016

Pacific Science Center

200 Second Avenue North, Website

“GROSSOLOGY: The (Impolite) Science of the Human Body” – through January 3, 2016

TORONTO

Royal Ontario Museum

100 Queens Park (at Bloor Street West), Website

“Pompeii: In the Shadow of the Volcano” – ongoing

“Viva Mexico! Clothing & Culture” – through May 23, 2016

“Wildlife Photographer of the Year” – opens November 21

WASHINGTON, DC

National Gallery of Art
Website

“Louise Bourgeois: No Exit” – November 15 – May 15, 2016

“Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye” – through October 4

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

“Gauguin to Picasso: Masterworks from Switzerland, The Staechelin & Im Obersteg Collections”

October 10 – January 10, 2016

“Postwar Germanic Expressions” – through April 24, 2016

EUROPE & ASIA

AMSTERDAM

Rijksmuseum
Website

“Asia – Amsterdam” – October 17 – January 17, 2016

“Dick Bruna. Artist” – through November 15

Van Gogh Museum
Museumplein, Amsterdam, Website

“Van Gogh Year” – 125 years since the artist’s death

“‘When I Give, I Give Myself’, 23 contemporary artists respond to letters written by Van Gogh”

– through January 17, 2016

BILBAO

Guggenheim Bilbao
Website

“Jean-Michel Basquiat” – over 100 works from the artist – through November 1

BRUSSELS

Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Website

“Gao Xingjian” – ongoing

“2050 – A Brief History of the Future” – through January 24, 2016

LIVERPOOL

Tate Liverpool
Website

“Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots” – through October 18

LONDON

Barbican

Silk Street, London, Website

“The World of Charles and Ray Eames” – October 21 – February 14, 2016

National Gallery

Trafalgar Square, London, Website

“Goya: The Portraits” – October 7 – January 10, 2016

National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin’s Place, London, Website

“Giacometti: Pure Presence” – October 15 – January 10, 2016

“Audrey Hepburn: Portraits of an Icon” – through October 18

Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, Website

“Jean-Etienne Liotard” – October 24 – January 31

“Ai Weiwei” – through December 13

Tate Britain
Millbank, London, Website

“Barbara Hepworth – Sculpture for the Modern World” – through October 25

Tate Modern

Bankside, London, Website

“The World Goes Pop” – the story behind Pop Art – through January 24, 2016

“Agnes Martin” – through October 11

Victoria & Albert Museum
Website

“Shoes: Pleasure and Pain” – through January 31, 2016

“The Fabric of India” – October 3 – January 10, 2014

MADRID

Prado

Calle Ruiz de Alarcon 23, Website

“Ingres” – November 24 – March 27, 2016

Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum

Paseo del Prado 8, Website

“Edvard Munch: Archetypes” – October 6 – January 17, 2016

PARIS

Centre Pompidou
Website

“Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster” – through February 1, 2016

The Louvre
Website

“A Brief History of the Future” – a dialogue between contemporary artists and notable works from other eras

September 24 – January 4, 2016

Musee de l’Orangerie
Website

“Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? 1839 until 1845 – First Part: 1839-1919″

October 14 – January 25, 2016

Musee d’Orsay
Website

“Who’s Afraid of Women Photographers? 1839-1945 – Second Part: 1918-1945″

October 14 – January 25, 2016

TOKYO

The National Museum of Western Art

7-7 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Website

“The Golden Legend” – October 16 – January 11, 2016

VIENNA

Albertina
Albertinaplatz 1, Website

“Edvard Munch: Love, Death and Loneliness” – September 25 – January 24, 2016

“Monet to Picasso” – through March 10, 2017

Bank Austria Kunstforum
Freyung 8, Website

“Balthus” – through June 19, 2016

Belvedere – Lower Belvedere & Orangery
Rennweg 6, Website

“Rembrandt – Titian – Bellotto” – through October 26

“A Homage to Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller” – through October 26

Kunsthistoriches Museum
Maria-Theresien Platz, Website

“Caravaggio’s Cupid” – through December 1

Leopold Museum
Museums Quarter, Website

“A Rush of Color – Masterpieces of German Expressionism” – October 9 – January 11, 2016

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