Art Across America
| BOSTON
ARIZONA
Tucson
Tucson museum of Art
El Alma del Pueblo: Spanish Folk Art and Its Transformation in the Americas
Through Aug. 2.
CALIFORNIA
Los Angeles
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968
Through June 1.
Includes 80 installations, paintings, and other works by this post-minimalist Japanese artist, dating from her most influential years.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution
George Segal
Through May 17.
Monumental sculptures by the American artist.
www.si.edu
National Gallery of Art
Alexander Calder
Through July 12.
Works from one of the great innovators of the 20th century.
www.nga.gov
National Museum of Women in the Arts
Artists on the Road: Travel as a Source of Inspiration
Through May 23.
Artworks that capture the excitement and delight of vacation trips, scientific explorations, spiritual quests, and imaginary journeys.
The Phillips Collection
Richard Diebenkorn
Through Aug. 16.
The most comprehensive survey to date of the late contemporary American artist's career.
ILLINOIS
Chicago
Smart Museum of Art
Africa! A Sense of Wonder
May 14-July 12.
Sub-Saharan African art from the 16th to early 20th century.
MARYLAND
Baltimore
The Baltimore Museum of Art
The Great American Pop Art Store: Multiples of the Sixties
Through May 24.
Celebrates the delightful and witty world of Pop Art multiples and its influence on later object design, featuring 100 pieces by Jim Dine, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, others.
MASSACHUSETTS
Andover
Addison Gallery of American Art
Arthur Dove: a Retrospective
Through July 14.
Surveys the career of the 20th-century American Modernist.
Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
A Grand Design: the Art of the Victoria & Albert Museum
Through May 17.
Exhibition of 250 masterworks from the V&A's collections.
www.mfa.org
MICHIGAN
Detroit
The Detroit Institute of Arts
Claes Oldenburg:
Printed Stuff
Through June 14.
Examines more than 130 works created between 1959 and 1995 by this innovative American artist.
www.dia.org
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Hanover
Hood Museum of Art
Jasper Johns: Process and Printmaking
Through July 5.
Examines creative process behind the prints of this American artist.
NEW YORK
New York
Museum of Modern Art
Chuck Close
Through May 26.
Features a full spectrum of works from this American artist.
www.moma.org
Whitney Museum of American Art
Andrew Wyeth
May 28-Aug. 30.
Highlights the landscape paintings of this significant American artist.
www.echonyc.com/~whitney
OHIO
Columbus
Columbus Museum of Art
Gabriel Mnter: the Years of Expressionism, 1903-1920
Through June 21.
More than 100 works by one of the major artists of German Expressionism.
www.columbusart.mus.oh.us
OREGON
Portland
Portland Art Museum
Splendors of Ancient Egypt
Through Aug. 16.
One of the largest exhibits of ancient Egyptian art to visit the US.
www.pam.org
TEXAS
Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art
Claude Monet at Vetheuil: A Turning Point
Through May 17.
Examines a transitional series of paintings that Monet executed in the winter of 1880.
www.unt.edu/dfw/dma/www/dma.htm
Fort Worth
Kimbell Art Museum
King of the World: a Mughal Manuscript From the Royal Library, Windsor Castle
May 31-Aug. 23.
Rare exhibition of the illustrated manuscript the 'Padshahnama,' commissioned in 1639 by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan.
www.kimbellart.org
- From the '1998 Traveler's Guide to Art Museum Exhibitions: Tenth Anniversary Edition' (800-2-LOVE-ART)
