Monet the Early Years, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
The Winter 2017 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
“Arbus, Avedon, and Winogrand: Photographs from the Collection” – through February 19
“Cross Country: The Power of Place in American Art, 1915–1950” – February 12 – May 7
BOSTON
Museum of Fine Arts
465 Huntington Ave, Website
“UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015” – through January 29
CHICAGO
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue, Website
“The New Contemporary” – the reopening of the contemporary art galleries with 44 new works
“Provoke: Photography in Japan between Protest and Performance, 1960–75” – January 28 – April 30
DALLAS
Dallas Museum of Art
1717 North Harwood Street, Website
“Art and Nature in the Middle Ages” – through March 19
“Carey Young: The New Architecture” – February 2 – April 2
“Shaken, Stirred, Styled: The Art of the Cocktail” – through November 12
Chagall Colour & Music, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
MONTREAL
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Sherbrooke Street, Website
“Focus: Perfection Robert Mapplethorpe” – through January 22
“Chagall: Colour and Music” – January 28 – June 11
Montreal Science Center
King Edward Pier, Website
“Animal Inside Out: Body Worlds”
NEW YORK
Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn, New York, Website
“Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty” – through April 2
“Beverly Buchanan—Ruins and Rituals” – through March 5
Cooper Hewitt Museum
2 East 91st Street, Website
“By The People: Designing A Better America” – through February 26
Discovery Times Square Exposition
226 West 44th Street, Website
Temporarily Closed
The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, Website
“Porcelain, No Simple Matter: Arlene Shechet and the Arnhold Collection” – through April 2
“Turner’s Modern and Ancient Ports: Passages through Time” – February 23 – May 14
Guggenheim
1071 5th Avenue (at 89th Street), NYC, Website
“Tales of Our Time”- through March 10
Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave, NYC, Website
“Max Beckman New York” – through February 20
“Seurat’s Circus Sideshow” – February 17 – May 29
Met Breuer
945 Madison Ave, NYC, Website
“Kerry James Marshall” – through January 29
Museum of Modern Art (MOMA)
11 West 53rd Street, NYC, Website
“Francis Picabia: Our Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction” – through March 19
“The Shape of Things: Photographs from Robert B. Menschel” – through May 7
“Nan Goldin: The Ballad of Sexual Dependency” – through April 16
The Whitney
99 Gansevoort Street, NYC, Website
“Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016” – through February 5
“Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s” – January 27 – May 14
PHILADELPHIA
Barnes Foundation
2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Website
“Cher Matisse” – through March 6
“Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie” – February 25 – May 22
Philadelphia Museum of Art
2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Website
“Design Currents: Oki Sato, Faye Toogood, Zanini de Zanine” – through March 12
“American Watercolor in the Age of Homer and Sargent” – opens March 1
SAN FRANCISCO
DeYoung Museum
50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, Golden Gate Park, Website
“Frank Stella’s Prints” – through June 25
“Danny Lyon – Message to the Future” – through April 30
“On the Grid: Textiles and Minimalism” – through February 12
Legion of Honor
100 34th Avenue, San Francisco, Website
“The Brothers Le Nain: Painters of 17th-Century France” – through January 29
“Monet: The Early Years” – February 25 – May 29
“The Future of the Past – Mummies and Medicine” – through August 26, 2018
SEATTLE
Seattle Art Museum
1300 First Avenue, Website
“Jacob Lawrence: The Migration Series” – January 21 – April 23
Pacific Science Center
200 Second Avenue North, Website
“Terracotta Warriors” – coming Spring 2017
TORONTO
Royal Ontario Museum
100 Queens Park (at Bloor Street West), Website
“Wildlife Photographer of the Year” – ongoing
WASHINGTON, DC
National Gallery of Art
Website
“Stuart Davis: In Full Swing” – through March 5
“The Urban Scene: 1920–1950” – February 26 – August 6
The Phillips Collection
1600 21st Street NW, Washington DC, Website
“Intersections: Arlene Shechet” – through May 7
“Toulouse-Lautrec: Illustrates the Belle Époque” – February 4 – April 30
“The life of Toussaint L’Ouverture – Jacob Lawrence” – through April 23
EUROPE & ASIA
AMSTERDAM
Rijksmuseum
Website
“Music at Home” – through June 18
Van Gogh Museum
Museumplein, Amsterdam, Website
“Daubigny, Monet, Van Gogh: Impressions of Landscape” – through January 29
“Prints in Paris” – opens March 3
BILBAO
Guggenheim Bilbao
Website
“Abstract Expressionism” – February 3 – June 4
BRUSSELS
Royal Museum of Fine Arts
Website
“Bruegel Unseen Masterpieces” – ongoing until March 2020
“Rik Wouters” – opens March 10
LIVERPOOL
Tate Liverpool
Website
“Edward Krasiński” – through March 5
“Yves Klein” – through March 5
LONDON
Barbican
Silk Street, London, Website
“The Vulgar Fashion Redefined” – through February 5
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square, London, Website
“Australia’s Impressionists” – through March 26
National Portrait Gallery
St. Martin’s Place, London, Website
“Picasso Portraits” – through February 5
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House, Piccadilly, London, Website
“Intrigue: James Ensor by Luc Tuymans” – through January 29
“Revolution: Russian Art 1917 – 32” – February 11 – April 17
“America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s” – February 25 – June 4
Tate Britain
Millbank, London, Website
“Paul Nash” – through March 5
“David Hockney” – February 9 – May 29
Tate Modern
Bankside, London, Website
“Robert Rauschenberg” – through April 2
“The Radical Eye: Modern Photography from the Collection of Sir Elton John” – through May 7
Victoria & Albert Museum
Website
“You Say You Want a Revolution? Records and Rebels 1966-1970” – through February 26
“Undressed: A Brief History of Underwear” – through March 12
“Lockwood Kipling – Arts and Crafts in the Punjab and London” – through April 2
MADRID
Prado
Calle Ruiz de Alarcon 23, Website
“Meta Painting – A Journey to the Idea of Art” – through February 19
“Ribera: Master of Drawing” – through February 19
Carmen Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
Paseo del Prado 8, Website
“Renoir. Intimacy” – through January 22
“Bulgari and Rome” – through February 26
“Masterworks from Budapest. From the Renaissance to the Avant-Garde” – February 18 – May 28
PARIS
Centre Pompidou
Website
“Magritte – The Treachery of Images” – through January 23
“Jean-Luc Moulène” – through February 20
“Cy Twombly” – through April 24
The Louvre
Website
“The Body in Movement – Dance in the Museum” – through July 3
“Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting” – February 22 – May 22
Musee de l’Orangerie
Website
“American Painting in the 1930’s” – through- January 30
Musee d’Orsay
Website
“Frédéric Bazille (1841-1870). The Youth of Impressionism” – through March 5
TOKYO
The National Museum of Western Art
7-7 Ueno Koen, Taito-ku, Tokyo, Japan, Website
“Théodore Chassériau : Parfum exotique” – February 28 – May 28
VIENNA
Albertina
Albertinaplatz 1, Website
“Egon Schiele” – February 22 – June 18
“Contemporary Art – Andy Warhol to Anselm Kiefer” – through March 19
Bank Austria Kunstforum
Freyung 8, Website
“Georgia O’Keefe” – through March 26
Belvedere – Lower Belvedere & Orangery
Rennweg 6, Website
“Hubert Scheibl ‘Fly'” – through February 5
“Is that Biedermeier? Amerling, Waldmüller, and More” – through February 12
Kunsthistoriches Museum
Maria-Theresien Platz, Website
“The Emperor’s Gold” – through March 5
“Edmund de Waal meets Albrecht Dürer” – through January 29
Leopold Museum
Museums Quarter, Website
“The Magic of Landscapes” – early 20th century works from Carl Moll, Koloman Moser, Hans Böhler and more
– through February 6