Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington
Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs
Ronald Feldman Gallery 31 Mercer Street, New York
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose
Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose
Soundings: Making Culture at Sea
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas 1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence
Iⁿ’zhúje’waxóbe: Return of the Sacred Red Rock
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas 1301 Mississippi St., Lawrence
Stitching Time: Social Justice Collaboration Quilts Project and Give Me Life: CPA Prison Arts Program
Quick Center for the Arts, Walsh Gallery 1073 North Benson Road, Fairfield
“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
Clyfford Still Museum 1250 Bannock St., Denver
Priscilla Dobler Dzul: Water Carries the Stories of Our Stars
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle
Week of Events
October – November Exhibits @ Art Works!
Now showing six new exhibits. The featured artists are Blake Seals, Felicia L. Reed, Adam Reinhard, Sorvino, and Tobi Holtslag. Also see 80+ working artist studios. Visit us Tuesdays through Sundays 11am- 5pm. Admission is free and open to the public. Convenient and free parking is available. The exhibits will continue through November 22nd 2025.
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass
Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through critical research, fictional reconstruction, and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition, and freedom that […]
Glenn Kaino: Bridge
Glenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. Each is a casting of the outstretched right arm of Tommie Smith, the American winner of the men’s 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. During the medal ceremony, Smith bowed his head […]
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process. […]
Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape
Pao Houa Her’s practice engages with the legacies, potentials, and aesthetics of landscape and portrait photography traditions, examining the complex intertwining of desire, homeland, and artifice. Rooted in the experience of her Hmong community and shaped by family experiences and lore passed down by her elders, Her’s work centers women as the knowledge bearers of […]
Pao Houa Her: The Imaginative Landscape
Pao Houa Her’s practice engages with the legacies, potentials, and aesthetics of landscape and portrait photography traditions, examining the complex intertwining of desire, homeland, and artifice. Rooted in the experience of her Hmong community and shaped by family experiences and lore passed down by her elders, Her’s work centers women as the knowledge bearers of […]
Soundings: Making Culture at Sea
Soundings: Making Culture at Sea explores how visual representations of oceans from different times and places across history have helped humans articulate questions and concerns that are political, cultural, and environmental. Soundings remains on view through December 14, 2025.
Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static
Celebrate a 20th-century artist whose innovative abstract drawings and paintings continue to inspire. Edna Andrade: Imagination Is Never Static offers a new look at the practice of acclaimed artist and educator Edna Andrade (1917–2008). Presenting a selection of drawings recently gifted to the Harvard Art Museums by the artist’s estate, this exhibition emphasizes the central role […]
Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs
Ronald Feldman Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition: Performance, Activist, and Existential Photographs A selection of photographs and photo-based works by: Vincenzo Agnetti, Elaine Angelopoulos, Eleanor Antin, Arakawa, Conrad Atkinson, Brandon Ballengée, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Cassils, Chuck Close, Keith Cottingham, Terry Fox, Tom Friedman, Rico Gatson, Helen & Newton Harrison, Komar & […]
Alfredo Gisholt: Gaze and Gesture
Catapult Gallery in collaboration with Deborah Colton Gallery is proud to present Gaze and Gesture, a solo exhibition of works on paper by Alfredo Gisholt. These compositions—created along the coast of Maine—capture an intuitive response to place. Using a deliberately minimal palette of black, white, and gray, Gisholt evokes a coastal landscape in flux: tides, […]
Iⁿ’zhúje’waxóbe: Return of the Sacred Red Rock
Return of the Sacred Red Rock tells the story of the rematriation of Iⁿ‘zhúje‘waxóbe, or the Sacred Red Rock, from the City of Lawrence, Kansas, to Kaw Nation through artwork created by local artists and Kaw tribal citizens. This exhibition is open through January 25.
Stitching Time: Social Justice Collaboration Quilts Project and Give Me Life: CPA Prison Arts Program
Stitching Time features 12 quilts created by men who are incarcerated in the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola Prison. These works of art, and accompanying recorded interviews, tell the story of a unique inside-outside quilt collaboration. The exhibition focuses our attention on the quilt creators, people often forgotten by society when discussing the […]
“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes
“Tell Clyfford I Said ‘Hi’”: An Exhibition Curated by Children of the Colville Confederated Tribes is a collaborative exhibition co-curated with youth from the Colville Confederated Tribes in Washington State, on view from September 19, 2025–May 10, 2026, at the Clyfford Still Museum. It highlights the perspectives of Colville children on Clyfford Still’s depictions of […]
Grant Johnson: RETROSPECTIVE
Amos Eno Gallery is proud to present RETROSPECTIVE, a landmark solo exhibition by artist Grant Johnson. Spanning more than five decades of work, the exhibition will be on view October 9 through November 9, 2025, at Amos Eno’s Lower East Side location. An opening reception to celebrate will be held on Friday, October 10, from 6 to 8 p.m.At […]
Katy Stone: Terrains
RYAN LEE is pleased to announce Terrains, a new body of work by artist Katy Stone, which contemplates the natural world as both a literal and poetic landscape. Through large-scale installations of layered forms, Stone reimagines forests, ponds, and rich-hued terrains as metaphors for emotional states and collective experience in the present age.
Lynne Drexler: A Painted Aria
Berry Campbell is pleased to announce Lynne Drexler: A Painted Aria. On view from October 9 through November 15, 2025, the exhibition celebrates one of the most impassioned periods in Drexler’s career, when her lifelong devotion to music became inseparable from her art. During the mid-1970s, Drexler visited the Metropolitan Opera as often as three […]
Boren Banner Series: Camille Trautman
Every photograph is a reminder that the act of framing is never neutral. In Camille Trautman’s first solo museum exhibition in their hometown, the Seattle-born Duwamish artist uses photography and video to challenge colonial narratives and counter Indigenous erasure. The exhibition presents selections from their ongoing series The North American LCD—spectral self-portraits staged in varied natural […]
Fran Shalom: Everyday Improvisations
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce Everyday Improvisations, an exhibition of new abstract paintings by Fran Shalom. This will be her fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. An opening reception will be held on October 23 from 6-8pm. Quirky, ambiguous figures inhabit Fran Shalom’s paintings. Their bright, cartoony colors and buoyant forms fill […]
ektor garcia: loose ends
In a materials-based practice that draws on Mexican handcraft traditions and a DIY sensibility, ektor garcia subtly challenges hierarchies of gendered and racialized labor while undermining notions of static identity. He draws from a unique vocabulary of materials—copper wire, cast metals, glass, clay, horsehair, seashells, and leather—which he weaves, knots, and crochets into objects at […]
Priscilla Dobler Dzul: Water Carries the Stories of Our Stars
Water Carries the Stories of our Stars is the expansive museum debut from artist Priscilla Dobler Dzul, who lives in Tacoma, Washington, and Yucatán, Mexico. The exhibition brings together an entirely new body of sculpture, textile, and video work to chart urgent stories of environmental harm and cultural justice. Drawing from her Maya and multicultural heritage […]
Erin O’Brien: Room Tone
Kathryn Markel Fine Arts is pleased to announce an upcoming exhibition of new paintings by Erin O’Brien titled, Room Tone. This is her second solo exhibition with the gallery and an artist reception will be held on October 23rd from 6-8pm. Erin O’Brien culls the forms in her tender abstract paintings from personal photographs and […]
Beau Dick: Insatiable Beings
Insatiable Beings is the first US museum survey of the late Beau Dick (1955–2017), Kwakwaka’wakw Hereditary Chief, activist, and master carver. Internationally celebrated for his powerful formline masks and sculptures, Dick’s work brings to life ancestral stories while offering a profound critique of capitalist systems. Featuring richly adorned carvings—many made to be danced in ceremonies—the exhibition […]
Frye Salon + Jonathan Lasker
Frye Salon is both a fixture and a living experiment—an ever-evolving installation that invites fresh perspectives on the museum’s founding-era collection. The gallery features more than one hundred paintings in a floor-to-ceiling presentation mode known as “salon style,” recalling the striking displays once found in Charles and Emma Frye’s First Hill home. In Frye Salon + […]
Jonathan Lasker: Drawings and Studies
For over five decades, American artist Jonathan Lasker has approached the elements of painting like a puzzle—taking it apart, turning the pieces, and putting it back together in new ways. Drawings and Studies offers a close look at how his ideas take shape, featuring works on paper that Lasker created from the 1980s to the 2020s, tracking […]
Jonathan Lasker: Drawings and Studies
For over five decades, American artist Jonathan Lasker has approached the elements of painting like a puzzle—taking it apart, turning the pieces, and putting it back together in new ways. Drawings and Studies offers a close look at how his ideas take shape, featuring works on paper that Lasker created from the 1980s to the 2020s, tracking […]
Richard Misrach: Rewind
With Richard Misrach: Rewind, Fraenkel Gallery presents a retrospective look at the artist’s career, spanning more than five decades. Organized in reverse chronological order, the exhibition ranges from Cargo, Misrach’s newest series exploring the impact of global trade, to Telegraph 3 A.M., his earliest project, documenting street culture in Berkeley, California in the early 1970s. […]
Betsy Eby | Chromatic Frequencies
Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present Chromatic Frequencies, a new body of encaustic paintings by Betsy Eby exploring the visualization of sound and harmonic connection. As both a painter and musician, Eby brings a rare sensitivity to her practice, drawing on her heightened perceptual gifts, creating correspondences between color, rhythms and sound. Chromatic Frequencies emerges […]
Paulette Tavormina | Portraits in Bloom
Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York is pleased to present Portraits in Bloom, a new series of photographs by Paulette Tavormina. In her second solo exhibition with the gallery, Tavormina takes inspiration from 17th-century Old Master still life paintings, transforming their rich symbolism into contemporary photographic portraits of flowers. Tavormina races against time to stage and […]
Gallery Talk: Gray Area— German Expressionism, German Colonialism
Gallery Talk: Gray Area— German Expressionism, German Colonialism
In 1913—the same year Emil Nolde painted Woman of Mixed Race—legislation was passed in Germany that made “German blood” the sole criterion for citizenship. This made it legal to exclude Germans of African descent, including the unnamed stage performer in Nolde’s painting. Focusing on the representation of race and gender in Nolde’s work, this talk by […]
Meet Me at the Museums: Diné Weaving in Edna Andrade’s Eight Studies Based on Navajo Designs
Meet Me at the Museums: Diné Weaving in Edna Andrade’s Eight Studies Based on Navajo Designs
Edna Andrade’s Eight Studies Based on Navajo Designs represents the artist’s interest in the geometric compositions of Diné (Navajo) weavers. Whether knowingly or not, Andrade was inspired by symbols, colors, and forms that reflect Diné cosmology, philosophy, and histories. This talk will focus on the creative transformations of Diné weavers across generations whose efforts embody Diné resilience […]
Decompress: Mindful Museum Musings
Decompress: Mindful Museum Musings
Fall is a busy, chaotic time. Come to the Harvard Art Museums to enjoy an afternoon of mindful interactions with works of art and relaxing, art-focused activities. Whether it’s by spending a sustained drawing session in a gallery or learning about a sculpture that has ties to meditative practices, we invite you to find time […]
Madison Gallery Presents “Four Seasons Interrupted” by Radenko Milak
Madison Gallery Presents “Four Seasons Interrupted” by Radenko Milak
Madison Gallery in Solana Beach will present Four Seasons Interrupted by internationally acclaimed Bosnian artist Radenko Milak, on view October 15 through December 15, 2025. Known for representing Bosnia and Herzegovina at the 57th Venice Biennale, Milak debuts a striking new series of 12–14 large-scale watercolors exploring climate disruption and the disappearance of seasonal rhythms. Set against […]
Consensus-making on New Art Now – Presented by the Curator Circle
Consensus-making on New Art Now – Presented by the Curator Circle
Date: Sunday, November 9, 2025 Time: 3 pm Price: Included with museum admission This panel, comprised of influential artists and arts professionals, looks at how the art ecosystem has evolved in South Florida. Panelists will discuss ways the consensus process is formed on new art and how the local and global art-world multiverses intersect. Moderated […]