Summer vacations abound and Mia Guides are on the road checking out what's new at museums and cultural organizations in the U.S. and also, relaxing at the lake, at a cabin or enjoying a quiet staycation with a book (or two). Here's a list of some of the most interesting exhibitions that recently launched or are doing so soon and some good reads.

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York City, NY
Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion Through September 2 https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/sleeping-beauties-reawakening-fashion
GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM, New York City, NY
Jenny Holzer: Light Line
May 17 - September 29
BROOKLYN MUSEUM, Brooklyn, NY
Paul McCartney Photographs 1963-64: Eyes of The Storm
through August 18
BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, Boston, MA
Songs for a Modern Japan: Popular Music and Graphic Design, 1900-1950
through September 2
SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE, Washington, DC
Afrofuturism: A History of Black Futures
March 24 - August 18
BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART, Baltimore, MD
Finding Home
May 12 - December 1 https://artbma.org/exhibition/finding-home
ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO, Chicago, IL
Threaded Visions: Contemporary Weavings from the Collection Through August 26 https://www.artic.edu/exhibitions/10262/threaded-visions-contemporary-weavings-from-the-collection
ST. LOUIS ART MUSEUM, St. Louis, MO
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Through November 1 https://www.slam.org/exhibitions/jaune-quick-to-see-smith/
DALLAS MUSEUM OF ART, Dallas, TX
The Keir Collection of Islamic Art
Through December 31
PHOENIX ART MUSEUM, Phoenix, AZ
Multiple Realities: Experimental Art in the Eastern Bloc: 1960's - 1980's
Through Feb. 25, 2024
SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: Seattle, WA
Calder: In Motion • The Shirley Family Collection
Through August 2
SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA
Zanele Muholi: Eye Me
Through August 11
THE GETTY, Los Angeles, CA
Camille Claudel Through July 27
NATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA, Ottawa, CAN Radical Stitch Through September 30 https://www.gallery.ca/whats-on/exhibitions-and-galleries/radical-stitch
HONOLULU MUSEUM OF ART, Honolulu, HI
Fashioning Aloha
Through September 1
NATIONAL GALLERIES OF SCOTLAND, Edinburgh, Scotland
Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK 1970-1990
Through September 1
NATIONALMUSEUM, Stockholm, SW
Design = Memory, Akira Minagawa & Minä perhonen
Through August 18 https://www.nationalmuseum.se/en/exhibitions/design-memory
ON THE ROAD: Summertime and the reading is easy ...
Shame Shame, Go Away by Jess MacCormack
Canada Council for the Arts
The Art of Remembering: Essays on African-American Art and History
by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw Duke University Press
Still: The Art of Noticing
by Mary Jo Hoffman The Monacelli Press
The Book of Miracles
Edited by Till-Holfger Borchert and Joshua P. Waterman
Taschen A fantastical illustrated manuscipt from 1545 of supernatural phenomena of religious belief, mystery and visual imagination
Remaking Her Mark: A History of Women Artists in Europe, 1400-1800
by Theresa Kutasz Christensen Goose Lane Editions
The Museum of Lost Art
by Noah Charney Phaidon Press True tales of lost art, disappearance and recovery
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