Art Galleries & Museums

Sprawled across the Frick Collection’s Oval Room is an array of ancient architecture in miniature. Triumphal arches, obelisks, and temples—some inspired by real Roman ruins like the Arch of Trajan in Ancona and the Temple of Tivoli—are made from precious materials, with lapis lazuli columns, gilt-bronze Corinthian capitals, amethyst inlay, and amber bas-reliefs.

The magnificence of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the great repositories of the world’s cultures as expressed in its art and material objects, defies the limits of categorization. Its treasures reach across the millennia and around the globe in its effort to capture every type of art, in every medium, made by humans since before recorded history.  Now, in one exhibition, Jewelry, the Body Transformed, it has attempted to bring all of those disparate cultures together in one overarching exhibition.

The seams of high fashion, fine art and edgy architecture overlap at Denver Art Museum’s (DAM) recently unveiled exclusive exhibition: Dior: From Paris to the World. The first major House of Dior retrospective in the U.S. runs through March 3, spotlighting 70 years of Dior with more than 200 haute couture dresses, glamorous accessories, legendary fashion photography and coordinated paintings. 

The exceptionally surprising and thought-provoking exhibition Painting Is My Everything—Art from India’s Mithila Region is on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco until December 30, 2018. Thirty large-scale works from various artists, predominantly women, transport the visitors into a colorful and deeply meaningful world.

In the first Andy Warhol retrospective organized by a U.S. institution since 1989, the Whitney Museum of American Art offers a new perspective on one of the world's most recognizable artists.

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) explores how science and art inspired each other in Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein, the first exhibition to highlight the untold story of the Dimensionist Manifesto. 

Blending dance, music and performance art with existing works from the collection, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago is exploring various forms of motion in Groundings, their latest exhibition.

Offering rare and intimate portraits of life in a World War II ghetto, the photographic exhibition Memory Unearthed recently opened at the Portland Art Museum. The exhibition presents more than 100 photographs taken between 1940 and 1944 by the Warsaw-born Jewish photographer Henryk Ross (1910-1991). 

A leading figure in West Coast minimalism, Larry Bell is having his first major museum survey in four decades. Opening November 1 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami), Larry Bell: Time Machines showcases the work of one of the most renowned and influential artists to come out of the 1960s L.A. art scene. Bell achieved international recognition by the age of 30 through his perception-challenging exploration of light and pioneering work that includes painting, works on paper, glass sculptures and furniture design.

In a major survey encompassing over six decades of work, New York’s Pace Gallery is celebrating multi-media innovator Robert Whitman. 61 contains over thirty works, from 1957 through 2018.