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SEE & BE SEEN: What's New & Exciting at Museums

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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


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



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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