May 18–October 27, 2024   One of the most renowned and enduring American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries, Jasper Johns (b. 1930) has had a career spanning many decades. This exhibition features 14 works on paper by Johns, ranging in date from 1960 to 2021, including six drawings on loan from the artist. Drawing has been an essential…

    Art of the Americas reveals the diverse creativity that has flourished within this expansive range of geographies and cultures in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Presenting select dialogues across time and place, the exhibition is organized according to three themes: Site, Spirit, and Self and Society. Showcasing works of art that delve into fundamental aspects of experience, this…

February 3–July 7, 2024 Body adornment amongst African peoples is rich and diverse, an essential aspect of cultural expression, identity, and heritage. Across the continent, different cultures use body art to communicate creativity and cultural identity through performance, sculpture, beadwork, and print form. Such elements collectively illustrate each group’s social status, spiritual support, military strength, and individual cultural aesthetic. Through…

December 16, 2023–June 16, 2024     See selections from Berenice Abbott’s monumental photography project Changing New York that capture the rapid transformation of New York City in the 1930s. When American-born Abbott (1898–1991) returned to the United States in 1929 after an eight-year sojourn in Europe, she observed her home with a fresh appreciation and a conviction to capture…

October 7, 2023–October 13, 2024 Featuring arts of the book from South Asia and the Persianate world, produced from the 12th through the 19th centuries, Pearls from the Ocean of Contentment explores new ways of presenting the Museum’s world-renowned Edwin Binney 3rd Collection of paintings, drawings, calligraphies, and manuscripts from South Asia, Iran, and Central Asia by focusing on the…

Now Touring Touring Schedule September 30–December 31, 2023 Albuquerque Museum February10–June 2, 2024 Montreal Museum of Fine Arts October 13, 2024–January 20, 2025 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston A one-of-a-kind exhibition, O’Keeffe and Moore compares the work of two iconic modernists: American painter Georgia O’Keeffe and British sculptor Henry Moore. While these artists worked on different continents, their careers and…

Now Touring Touring Schedule March 23–July 16, 2023 CentroCentro (Madrid, Spain) February 16–May 12, 2024 Speed Art Museum (Louisville, Kentucky)   The San Diego Museum of Art’s Edwin Binney 3rd Collection is one of the finest and most comprehensive collections of South Asian paintings outside of India. Numbering over 1,400 works, the collection was assembled by Edwin Binney 3rd (1925–1986),…

Emulation and Admiration: Two Stories of Collecting European Art European Master Paintings from San Diego Museum of Art and the National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo   Now Touring Touring Schedule March 11–June 8, 2025 National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, Japan) June 25–October 13, 2025 Kyoto City KYOCERA Museum of Art (Kyoto, Japan)   Emulation and Admiration: Two Stories…

October 28, 2023–March 3, 2024     The special exhibition Korea in Color: A Legacy of Auspicious Images sheds light on the use of color in Korean painting—known as polychrome painting (chaesaekhwa)—and its role in Korean art and culture. Polychrome painting flourished during the Joseon Dynasty (1392–1910) and the colorful artworks created during this era, featuring symbolic images from sacred…

June 3–December 3, 2023     In 1980, American photographer Bruce Davidson (b. 1933) spent a year traveling the tracks of New York City’s subway system, photographing a full spectrum of people on their rumbling and sometimes gritty journeys through the city. Celebrating a recent gift from the collection of Wanda and Cam Garner, this exhibition presents a range of…