A blockbuster meetup of Manet and Degas, an unprecedented retrospective for Ed Ruscha and a once-in-a-lifetime chance to see an 800-year-old ink painting that has never before left Asia — the new season of museum shows is full of heart-stoppers. A new gallery devoted to plaster is set to open at the Museum of Modern Art, too, and drawing shows are everywhere, from Hanne Darboven in Texas to Stéphane Mandelbaum in New York. A Whitney Museum of American Art show of works on paper by the sculptor Ruth Asawa joins “Drawing the Line: Michelangelo to Asawa,” already open at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor Museum. As always, remember that institutions sometimes change their plans, so please double check times and dates on websites.
September
ONLY THE YOUNG: EXPERIMENTAL ART IN KOREA, 1960s-1970s Coming of age in a rapidly changing country, postwar Korean artists innovated without fear. Organized with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, this show is slated to travel on to the Hammer in Los Angeles. (Sept. 1-Jan. 7, 2024; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
JA’TOVIA GARY: THE GIVERNY SUITE A Black feminist angle on art history — and on Monet’s famous gardens at Giverny, France — in a newly acquired video installation. (Opens Sept. 1; Museum of Modern Art)
HIDDEN HISTORIES Unconventional approaches to memory and history by a global, multigenerational group of artists make this incisive show into a gathering of “anti-monuments.” (Sept. 2-Sept. 27, 2025; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
LIFE CYCLES: THE MATERIALS OF CONTEMPORARY DESIGN Speaker casings made from Indonesian cow manure and vases constructed by bees are among the objects in this show of cutting-edge ecological design that highlights nature’s own cycles of obsolescence and decay. (Sep. 2-July 7, 2024; MoMA)
DAN FRIEDMAN: STAY RADICAL It’s the first museum retrospective for the Cleveland-born graphic designer (1945-1995) who used his skills to confront apartheid in South Africa and the AIDS…
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