The Medium Is the Message: Art since 1950

Cantor Arts Center 328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way, Stanford, CA, United States

Using works created since 1950, this exhibition explores the relationship between subject, content, and the materials that informed each object’s production.

Free

Sam Talks — Revealing Ruth Asawa, Artist And Advocate

Seattle Art Museum 1300 1st Ave, Seattle, WA, United States

Join us for a conversation on the remarkable life and work of Ruth Asawa (1926-2013), with curator Daniell Cornell and writer/curator Mayumi Tsutakawa.

$10

Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 5th Ave, New York, NY, United States

The first-ever artist-curated exhibition mounted at the Guggenheim celebrates the museum’s extensive collection of modern and contemporary art. Curated by Cai Guo-Qiang, Paul Chan, Jenny Holzer, Julie Mehretu, Richard Prince, and Carrie Mae Weems — artists who each have had influential solo shows at the museum — Artistic License brings together both well-known and rarely […]

$25

California Studio Craft

SFO Museum San Francisco Airport, San Francisco, CA, United States

SFO Terminal 2 Departures - Level 2 - Post-Security Featuring works from the Forrest L. Merrill collection Studio craft combines the characteristics of traditional, handmade craft with the refined qualities of fine art. Made by professional artist-craftspeople who work in a variety of media, studio craft includes both utilitarian items and more experimental pieces that […]

Masters of Modern Design Screening and Panel Discussion

deYoung Museum Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA, United States

Join us in the Koret Auditorium for a special screening of Masters of Modern Design: The Art of the Japanese American Experience and a panel conversation with Ruth Asawa's children, Aiko Cuneo, Addie Lanier, and Paul Lanier, Ruth Asawa's biographer, Marilyn Chase, Masters of Modern Design's director Akira Boch, KCET/PBS SoCal/LinkTV Chief Creative Officer and […]

Free

Specters of Disruption

deYoung Museum Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, CA, United States

Drawing from their historic holdings and re-contextualizing them with modern and contemporary art, Specters of Disruption connects the museums’ colonial and geological underpinnings to the current conditions of the Bay Area and the evolving trajectories of American art histories.

$15

In a Cloud, in a Wall, in a Chair: Six Modernists in Mexico at Midcentury

Art Institute of Chicago 111 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603, United States

Clara Porset, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Cynthia Sargent, and Sheila Hicks share one defining aspect: Mexico, a country in which they all lived or worked between the 1940s and 1970s. During this period they all realized projects that breached disciplinary boundaries and national divides. This exhibition is the first to explore Mexico's impact on these visionary artists and designers.

Women Take the Floor

Museum of Fine Arts Boston 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston

“Women Take the Floor” challenges the dominant history of American art by focusing on the overlooked and underrepresented work and stories of women artists. This reinstallation—or “takeover”—of Level 3 of the Art of the Americas Wing advocates for diversity, inclusion, and gender equity in museums, the art world, and beyond. With more than 250 works drawn primarily from the MFA’s collection, the exhibition is organized into seven thematic galleries.

$25

The Pencil Is a Key

The Drawing Center 35 Wooster Street, New York, NY, United States

The Pencil Is a Key is an exhibition of historical and contemporary drawings by incarcerated people from all over the globe. Works by artists who were or currently are prisoners will be juxtaposed with drawings by prisoners who became artists while incarcerated.

$5

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019

Whitney Museum of American Art 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, United States

Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019 foregrounds how visual artists have explored the materials, methods, and strategies of craft over the past seven decades. Some expand techniques with long histories, such as weaving, sewing, or pottery, while others experiment with textiles, thread, clay, beads, and glass, among other mediums. The traces of the artists’ hands-on engagement with their materials invite viewers to imagine how it might feel to make each work. At the Whitney Museum of American Art.

$25