SEE & BE SEEN: The Beautiful Difference
- MARYAM MARNE ZAFAR
- Jun 5
- 3 min read
When Mia Guides travel throughout the U.S. or globally we look for exhibitions to explore art that is not usually seen. That's why local museums and cultural organizations are some of the best places to see artists are different. Here are current and future exhibitions, plus art book reads for those trips near and far.
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, NYC, NY
Sargent and Paris
Through August 2, 2025
The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York
Through May 26, 2026
DIA:BEACON, New York
Renée Green: The Equator Has Moved
Through Fall 2025
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NYC, NY
Jack Whitten: The Messenger
Through August 2, 2025
Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers
Through September 27, 2025
EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO, NYC, NY
Mestre Didi: Spiritual Form
Through July 13, 2025
CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM, Ridgefield, CT
Martin Bek: … for hours, days or weeks at a time
Through October 5, 2025
ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART, Andover, MA
June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart
Through July 31, 2025
HIRSHHORN MUSEUM and SCULPTURE GARDEN, Washington, D.C.
Adam Pendleton: Love, Queen
Through January 3, 2027
CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART, Pittsburgh, PA
Raymond Saunders: Flowers from a Black Garden
Through July 13, 225
PULITZER ARTS FOUNDATION, Saint Louis, MO
Veronica Ryan: Unruly Objects
Through July 27, 225
HIGH MUSEUM OF ART, Atlanta, GA
Kim Chong Hak, Painter of Seoraksan
Through November 2, 2025
MODERN ART MUSEUM, Fort Worth. TX
Alex da Corte: The Whale
Through September 7, 2025
DENVER ART MUSEUM, Denver, CO
Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors
Through August 17, 2025
NEVADA MUSEUM OF ART, Reno, NV
The Art of Judith Lowry
Through November 16, 2025
ICA MIAMI, Miami, FL
Mildren Thompson: Frequencies
Through October 12, 2025
SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
Through September 2, 2025
FONDATION LOUIS VUITTON, Paris, France
David Hockney 25
Through August 31, 2025
LEOPOLD MUSEUM, Vienna, Austria
Changing Times: Egon Schiele’s Last Years 1914-1918
Through July 13, 2025
PALAZZO BARBERINI, Rome, Italy
Caravaggio 2025
Through July 6, 2025
MMK FRANKFURT, Germany
Undermining the Immediacy
Through August 24, 2024
ISTANBUL MODERN, Istanbul, Turkey
Omer Uluc: Beyond the Horizon
Through December 12, 2025
INTERESTING READS:
Botanical Revolution: How Plants Changed the Course of Art
By Giovanni Aloi
Getty
Rogues and Scholars
By James Stourton
Pegasus
Poster Child
By David Edwards Byrd and Robert von Goeben
Abrams Books
Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape
Nicola Moorby
Yale University Press
What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory
By Bette Adriaanse and Brian Eno
Faber and Faber
Routed West: Twentieth-Century African American Quilts in CaliforniaForeword by Julie Rodrigues Widholm. Edited with text by Elaine Y. Yau. Text by Daphne A. Brooks, Bridget R. Cooks, Basil Kincaid, Eli Leon, Adia Millett, Matthew Villar Miranda, Wendy M. Thompson. Conversation with Sharbreon Plummer, Carolyn Mazloomi, A’donna Richardson.
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
And for those late night vacation reads …
This acclaimed series of novels by Iain Pears combines art and history, literature and mystery fiction.
The Art History Mystery Series:
Death and Restoration • Giotto’s Hand • The Last Judgement
The Bernini Bust • The Titan Committee • The Raphael Affair
By Ian Pears
Penguin / Random House
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