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Milwaukee and St. Petersburg put Monet loans on the World Series
The losing team’s museum will lend a Monet to the winner’s city. Both paintings are on view now, with loan dates still to come.
October 26, 2026 · 2 min readTHE AMERICAN EDIT
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At MoMA’s Brancusi exhibition, look down at the base
MoMA’s October 25 opening brings sculpture together with the bases, furniture, photographs and tools of Brancusi’s studio.
October 25, 2026 · 2 min read
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Nick Cave's Mammoth at Smithsonian American Art: installation vs. performance
The Smithsonian installation combines sculpture, video and everyday objects. The October 24 performances had separate registration, while the exhibition continues into January.
October 24, 2026 · 2 min read
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Raven Chacon’s SFMOMA installation asks who gets to name a landscape
Archival travel footage meets a new soundtrack and drawings in Chacon’s seven-channel installation, opening October 24 at SFMOMA.
October 24, 2026 · 2 min read
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Beverly Pepper in Washington: compare a model with sculpture in the street
NMWA’s October 23 opening brings Pepper’s smaller works and models into dialogue with monumental sculpture on New York Avenue.
October 23, 2026 · 2 min read
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RM x SFMOMA pairs Korean art with a collector's notes and audio guide
Between You and Me puts a personal collection alongside the museum's works. Plan for the special-exhibition charge and give the audio guide some time.
October 16, 2026 · 3 min read
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Water's Edge brings Truman Lowe's sculpture to Washington
The Ho-Chunk artist's retrospective at the National Museum of the American Indian rewards attention to space, materials and water as a source of form.
October 12, 2026 · 4 min read
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From the Louvre brings 26 Islamic art objects to Washington
The National Museum of Asian Art's Islamic-art exhibition is a manageable place to look closely at materials, workmanship and the journeys objects take.
October 10, 2026 · 4 min read
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Draw from the Index of American Design, at home or in Washington
The Index of American Design turns shoes, toys and household objects into subjects worth a second look. A small library exhibition offers a way in.
October 1, 2026 · 4 min read
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Mary Cassatt: After Impressionism, from color prints to a lost Chicago mural
The Chicago exhibition follows Cassatt's later paintings, pastels and color prints, with surviving material connected to her lost 1893 mural Modern Woman.
September 30, 2026 · 3 min read
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Chasing Clouds at the Met follows painted skies into photography
Oil sketches, paintings and photographs trace the changing ways artists represented a sky that would not stay still.
September 24, 2026 · 3 min read
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Inside Getty's online Stendahl archive: the trade in Mexican antiquities
Getty’s online documents trace Earl Stendahl’s antiquities business, including correspondence about the removal of murals from Teotihuacan.
September 21, 2026 · 3 min read