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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