Rene Magritte’s The Menaced Assassin
The Summer 2014 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
“Dream Cars” – through September 7
“Wynn Bullock: Revelations” – through January 18, 2015
BOSTON
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave, Website
“Jamie Wyeth” – July 16 – December 28
“Jasper Johns: Picture Puzzles” – July 8 – January 4, 2015
CHICAGO
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Website
“Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926 – 1938″ – through October 13
DALLAS
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street, Website
“Mind’s Eye: Masterworks on Paper from David to Cezanne” – through October 26
MONTREAL
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Sherbrooke Street, Website
“Faberge” – through October 5
Montreal Science Center
King Edward Pier, Website
“The Cave of Lascaux – Prehistoric Masterpieces” - ongoing
NEW YORK
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York, Website
“Witness: Art and Civil Rights in the Sixties” – through July 13
“Ai Weiwei” – through August 10
Cooper Hewitt Museum
2 East 91st Street, Website
CLOSED for renovations until December 12, 2014
Discovery Times Square Exposition
226 West 44th Street, Website
“Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N” – ongoing
“Body Worlds: Pulse” - ongoing
“The Art of the Brick” – the world’s largest display of LEGO art – ongoing
The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, Website
“Men in Armor: El Greco and Pulzone Face to Face” – August 5 – October 26
Guggenheim
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), NYC, Website
“Italian Futurism, 1909 – 1944: Reconstructing the Universe” – through September 1
“Kandinsky Before Abstraction, 1901–1911″ – through Spring 2015
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave, NYC, Website
“Charles James Beyond Fashion” – through August 10
“Garry Winogrand” – through September 21
“Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century” – through July 27
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
11 West 53rd Street, NYC, Website
“Alibis: Sigma Polke 1963 – 2010″ – through August 3
“Jasper Johns: Regrets” – through September 1
“The Paris of Toulouse-Lautrec: Prints and Posters” – July 26 – March 1, 2015
The Whitney
Madison Ave at East 75th Street, NYC, Website
“Jeff Koons: A Retrospective” – October 19
“Edward Hopper and Photography” – July 17 – October 19
“Collecting Calder” – July 17 – October 19
PHILADELPHIA
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Website
“Patrick Kelly: Runway of Love” – through November 30
“Cy Twombly Sculptures” – through May 2015
“Picasso Prints: Myths, Minotaurs, and Muses” – through August 3
SAN FRANCISCO
DeYoung Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, Website
“Modernism from the National Gallery of Art” – through October 12
“Shaping Abstraction” – through January 4, 2015
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue, San Francisco, Website
“Matisse from SFMOMA”- through September 7
“Matisse from the Artist Book” – through October 12
“Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art” – through August 3
SEATTLE
Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Avenue, Website
“Modernism in the Pacific Northwest: The Mythic and the Mystical” – through September 7
Pacific Science Center
200 Second Avenue North, Website
“Spy – The Secret World of Espionage” - through September 1
TORONTO
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park (at Bloor Street West), Website
“The Forbidden City: Inside the Court of China’s Emperors” - through September 1
WASHINGTON, DC
National Gallery of Art
Website
“Degas/Cassatt” – the relationship between the works of Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt – through October 5
“Andrew Wyeth: Looking Out, Looking In” – through November 30
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street NW, Washington DC, Website
“Made in the USA” – through August 31
EUROPE & ASIA
AMSTERDAM
Rijksmuseum
Website
“Calder at the Rijksmuseum” – through October 5
Temporary showing of Rembrandt’s Claudius Civilis
Van Gogh Museum
Museumplein, Amsterdam, Website
“The world of Van Gogh: Photographs by Emmy Andriesse” – through October 5
BRUSSELS
Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Website
“Sculpture After 1945″ – through July 13
LIVERPOOL
Tate Liverpool
Website
“Mondrian and His Studios” – through October 5
“Nasreen Mohamedi” – through October 5
LONDON
Barbican
Silk Street, London, Website
“The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk”
- through August 25
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London, Website
“Building the Picture: Architecture in Italian Renaissance Painting” – through September 21
“Making Colour” – through September 7
National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin’s Place, London, Website
“Virginia Woolf – Art, Life and Vision” – July 10 – October 26
“BP Portrait Award 2014″ – September 21
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, Website
“Dennis Hopper The Lost Album” – through October 19
“Summer Exhibition 2014″ – through August 17
Tate Britain
Millbank, London, Website
“Kenneth Clark Looking for Civilisation” – through August 10
“British Folk Art” – through August 31
Tate Modern
Bankside, London, Website
“Henri Matisse – The Cut-Outs” – through September 7
“Malevich” – July 16 – October 26
“Louise Bourgeois: Works on Paper” – through April 12, 2015
Victoria & Albert Museum
Website
“The Glamour of Italian Fashion 1945 – 2014″ – through July 27
“Wedding Dresses 1775 – 2014″ – through March 15, 2015
MADRID
Prado
Calle Ruiz de Alarcon 23, Website
“El Greco and Modern Painting” - through October 5
Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Paseo del Prado 8, Website
“Pop Art Myths” – through September 14
PARIS
Centre Pompidou
Website
“Martial Raysse” – through September 22
“Bernard Tschumi” – through July 28
The Louvre
Website
“Birth of a Universal Museum: Louvre Abu Dhabi” – through July 28
Musee de l’Orangerie
Website
“Archives of Dreams” – drawings from the Musee d’Orsay – through June 30
Musee d’Orsay
Website
“Van Gogh/ Artaud” – through July 6
“Carpeaux” – through September 28
TOKYO
The National Museum of Western Art
7-7 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Website
“The Rings from the Hashimoto Collection of The National Museum of Western Art” – July 8 – September 15
VIENNA
Kunsthistoriches Museum
Maria-Theresien Platz, Website
“A Passion for Art: The Collections of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm” – through September 28
Leopold Museum
Museums Quarter, Website
“A Visual Memory of Viennese Society: Franz Xaver Setzer’s Portrait Photographs” – through January 2015
“And Yet There Was Art – Austria 1914 – 1918″ – through September 15