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Tired of cookie-cutter museums with antiseptic white walls and uninspired exhibitions, we started our search in New York City, then traveled to the Midwest, and finally flew to California in order to find a special home for art lovers — one magical museum of art. We visited the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, SFMOMA, the Norton Simon Museum, the Getty Center, the Broad, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brooklyn Has One of the Best U.S. Museums<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Trinity Church and Wall Street<\/em>, 1929 (above left) by Bertram Hartman<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The Brooklyn Museum<\/a> was planned to be the largest museum of art in the world when it was founded in 1898. The original design called for a museum four times as large as what was created when the initial phase of construction ended in 1927. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the Brooklyn Museum possesses an art collection with 500,000 objects, New York City’s second largest after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Thanks to major renovations near the end of the 20th century the Brooklyn Museum is now revitalized, and since 2007 “The Dinner Party” by Judy Chicago has been on permanent display as the centerpiece for the museum’s Center for Feminist Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The COVID-19 pandemic, with its negative impact on museum revenue, led the museum to sell dozens of paintings including works by Corot, Courbet and Lucas Cranach the Elder in order to care for its expansive collections of African, Egyptian and American art. Committed to presenting vibrant temporary exhibitions — from traditional to challenging, and perhaps edgy<\/em> — the Brooklyn Museum remains popular within the local community and far beyond the borough.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Outskirts of Cairo<\/em>, 1872 by Louis Comfort Tiffany<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Starting at the Colonial period, art created in the USA is well represented at the Brooklyn Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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On the Heights<\/em>, 1909 by Charles Courtney Curran<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Summer Showers<\/em>, circa 1865 by Martin Johnson Heade<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie<\/em>, 1866 by Albert Bierstadt<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Woman in Gray<\/em>, 1942 by Pablo Picasso<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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With 90 paintings on display from its permanent collection, the presentation entitled “MONET TO MORISOT — The Real and Imagined in European Art” illustrates the depth of fine art possessed by the Brooklyn Museum and its willingness as an institution to question how the traditional canon for collecting European art was constructed through the narrow lens of gender, class and colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Portrait of Mlle Fiocre in the Ballet “La Source,”<\/em> 1867 by Edgar Degas<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Head of a Woman of Hedjaz<\/em>, 1860 by Gerome & The Order of the Grand Vizier<\/em>, circa 1875 by Jean-Joseph-Benjamin Constant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The Doge’s Palace<\/em>, 1908 by Claude Monet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Mme Boursier and Her Daughter<\/em>, 1873 by Berthe Morisot & Breton Peasant Woman Holding a Taper<\/em>, 1869 by Jules Breton<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

MONET TO MORISOT will be displayed through November 12, 2023<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Portrait of Madame L\u00e9on Ma\u00eetre<\/em>, 1882 by Henri Fantin-Latour<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The ceremonial banquet table by Judy Chicago is a long-term installation at the Brooklyn Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Place settings for Virginia Woolf and Georgia O’Keeffe above a tiled floor with the names (inscribed in gold) of 999 other women <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party”<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Brooklyn Museum describes “The Dinner Party” as “an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art.” This groundbreaking and influential work of art, created between 1974 and 1979 by Judy Chicago, is set on a gigantic triangular banquet table with 39 place settings. Each setting — complete with utensils, a gold chalice and a painted porcelain plate containing vulvar\/butterfly motifs — commemorates the achievements of a distinguished woman from history. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Embroidered runners honoring Eleanor of Aquitaine and Hildegarde of Bingen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Inside the Brooklyn Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Amarna carving in limestone, circa 1352-1336 B.C.E., showing Nefertiti & a male, possibly Tutankhamun<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

A Special Exhibition About Queer \/ Asian Identity & Culture<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Coolieisms, aka: Sly Son Goku turns 23<\/em>, 2021 by Oscar yi Hou<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The Brooklyn Museum presented the exhibit EAST OF SUN, WEST OF MOON in its Gallery of Contemporary Art during the summer of 2023. This fantastic show featuring 11 paintings by Oscar yi Hou marked his first museum solo in the United States. These works of art are purposefully anachronistic, and yi Hou often casts himself and his friends as masculine East Asian figures from Western popular culture and history. The cranes shown in the background, above and below, indicate that these paintings may also be considered self-portraits by yi Hou, since his given Chinese name refers to an idiom involving a bird. Born in Liverpool in 1998, and now a Brooklyn resident, Oscar yi Hou chooses complex iconography to challenge long-standing stereotypes of the queer, Asian creative community. This fantastic show closed in September 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Leather Daddy’s Highbinder Odalisque<\/em>, 2022 by Oscar yi Hou<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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The Arm Wrestle of Chip and Spike<\/em>, 2020 & Cowboy Kato Coolie, aka: Bruce’s Bitch<\/em>, 2021 by Oscar yi Hou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Gold Mountain Cruiser (The Mineshaft’s after-hours trade)<\/em>, 2022 by Oscar yi Hou<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Old Gloried Hole, aka: Ends of Empire<\/em>, 2022 by Oscar yi Hou<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Enjoy the beauty of Lincoln Park as you head up to the Legion of Honor by foot, car or Bus # 18 <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Legion of Honor, San Francisco<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Court of the Lions<\/em> (detail), 1895 & The Loggia, View at the Generalife<\/em>, circa 1912 by John Singer Sargent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Alhambra, Patio de los Leones<\/em>, 1895 by John Singer Sargent<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Alhambra, Patio de los Arrayanes<\/em>, 1879 by John Singer Sargent<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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St. Teresa of \u00c1vila<\/em>, circa 1903 & La Carmencita<\/em>, 1890 by John Singer Sargent<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The Reply (The Letter)<\/em>, 1874 by James Tissot<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Chrysanthemums<\/em>, 1876 & The Stairs<\/em>, 1869 by James Tissot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Gallery of the HMS Calcutta<\/em>, 1876 by James Tissot<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Waiting (In the Shallows)<\/em>, 1873 by James Tissot<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Mavourneen (Kathleen Newton)<\/em>, 1877 & Evening<\/em>, 1878 by James Tissot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The Last Evening<\/em>, 1873 by James Tissot<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

The Legion of Honor is known for its classy exhibitions of fine art and fashion. If you did not get a chance to see the show “James Tissot: Fashion + Faith” (2019-2020) organized with the Mus\u00e9es d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie<\/a>, or the collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. entitled “Sargent and Spain” (2023), we hope you were able to take in “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” which closed on September 24, 2023 at the Legion of Honor. We present highlights from these three exhibits for your pleasure.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Elizabeth I (The Rainbow Portrait)<\/em>, circa 1602 attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts The Younger<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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More than 100 objects (including the iconic portraits shown below) are on view here tracing the emergence of a distinctly English style through the artistic patronage of the Tudor courts in the 1500s. <\/p>\n\n\n

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ABOVE: Hermann von Wedigh III<\/em>, 1532 by Hans Holbein the Younger. BELOW LEFT: Queen Elizabeth I<\/em>, 1575 by an unknown artist. BELOW RIGHT: Mary Tudor, Later Queen of France<\/em>, 1514 by Michel Sittow<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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ABOVE: Henry VII<\/em>, 1505 by an unknown artist. BELOW: Edward VI<\/em>, 1547-50 by Guillim Scrots<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Sultan of Morocco<\/em>, 1600 by an unknown artist<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Having already been seen at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Cleveland Museum of Art, the presentation of “The Tudors” at the Legion of Honor represented your final opportunity to appreciate this exhibition in person. The show entitled “Botticelli Drawings” is being displayed at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco from November 19 through February 11, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco includes 50 objects in bronze, marble & plaster created by Auguste Rodin, which are on view at the Legion of Honor.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Virgin and Child<\/em>, circa 1460 by Dieric Bouts & The Meeting of St. Francis and St. Dominic<\/em>, circa 1430 by Fra Angelico<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Thalia, Muse of Comedy<\/em>, 1739 by Jean-Marc Nattier (left) & Madonna Enthroned<\/em>, 1502 (center, at right) by Raffaellino del Garbo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Banks of the Loing<\/em>, 1891 by Alfred Sisley<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The Grand Canal, Venice<\/em>, 1908 by Claude Monet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Heading North from San Francisco<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Should you want to take a break from museums and city life, we recommend you visit wine country in Napa Valley, the redwood forest at Muir Woods and the charming waterfront in Sausalito — all of which can be accomplished in a one-day trip north of San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Sausalito waterfront is in Marin County north of the Golden Gate Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Harbor in Sausalito<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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A perfect destination for lunch on a sunny afternoon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The journey from Sausalito into San Francisco offers a fantastic view of the Bay<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Dedicated to modern & contemporary art, SFMOMA has been at 151 Third Street since 1995<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Sunset Streets<\/em>, 1985 by Wayne Thiebaud & Cityscape #1<\/em>, 1963 by Richard Diebenkorn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Founded in 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) underwent a major three-year-long expansion from 2013 to 2016 which doubled the museum’s gallery space, and provided almost six times as much public space — perfect for exhibiting large-scale sculpture, contemporary art, and spacious retrospectives such as the previous show devoted to Frank Bowling.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Throwback<\/em>, 1976 by Tony Smith<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Delusions<\/em>, 2000 by Richard Mayhew<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Good Morning<\/em>, 2000 & Pamela’s Aura<\/em>, 2004 by Richard Mayhew<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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A Portrait of the Artist — Indoors<\/em>, 2012 by Paulina Olowska<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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I am a Rainbow Too<\/em>, 2018 by Jeffrey Gibson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Qusuquzah<\/em>, 2011 by Mickalene Thomas & Untitled (Mother’s House)<\/em>, 1966 by Frank Bowling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Tambernic Tumbles<\/em>, 1975 by Frank Bowling<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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“Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966 — 1975” closed on September 10, 2023<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Several journeys across the Atlantic Ocean affected the life and art of Frank Bowling, who was born in British Guiana in 1934 and lived in London from 1953 until 1965. This exhibition at SFMOMA explored Bowling’s innovative movement toward abstraction during the decade he lived in New York. His cross-cultural paintings exploring transformative techniques are imbued with historical awareness and personal significance.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Night Journey<\/em>, 1969-70 by Frank Bowling<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Trois Disques<\/em>, 1967 (far left) & Big Crinkly<\/em>, 1969 (center) by Alexander Calder. Tony Smith’s Throwback<\/em> (right)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A detail of One-way Colour Tunnel<\/em>, 2007 by Olafur Eliasson<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Eliasson’s One-way Colour Tunnel<\/em> was used as a passageway for museum-goers in 2021-22<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Before leaving San Francisco & heading south, explore the Art Deco homes in the Marina District<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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Palace of Fine Arts<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District, San Francisco<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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A 2-hour drive by car or bus south leads to the lovely white sand at Carmel-by-the-Sea, a small beach city<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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While the drive is scenic all along the Pacific Coast Highway, the “17-Mile Drive” through Pacific Grove & Pebble Beach on the Monterey Peninsula is memorable, as is the famous Monterey Bay Aquarium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Norton Simon’s collection is unique among U.S. Museums<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Autumn: The Chestnut Gatherers<\/em>, 1894 by Georges Lacombe<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Lady Hamilton as Medea<\/em>, 1786 by George Romney & Bearded Man in a Wide-Brimmed Hat<\/em>, 1633 by Rembrandt van Rijn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In Southern California, the pleasant city of Pasadena with 136,000 residents is a perfect place for art lovers to relax for a few days. In fact, you might find the Victorian and art deco buildings located in the center of Old Pasadena so attractive that you will decide to use Pasadena as a base for exploring Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pasadena is the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley due in large part to the Norton Simon Museum, where a $5,000,000 renovation in 1995 by Frank Gehry resulted in more intimate galleries and improved lighting to house the 11,000 objects in the collection of European and Asian art.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Holy Women at the Sepulchre<\/em>, circa 1611 by Peter Paul Rubens<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Abduction of Psyche by Zephyrus to the Palace of Eros<\/em>, circa 1808-20 by Pierre-Paul Prud’hon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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AL 3<\/em>, 1926 by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Moholy-Nagy<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Brittany Landscape<\/em>, circa 1888 by Emile Bernard<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Young Woman in Black<\/em>, circa 1875 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Exotic Landscape<\/em>, 1910 by Henri Rousseau<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Madame Manet<\/em>, 1874-76 by \u00c9douard Manet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The gardens at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena contain sculpture by Rodin, Maillol, Brancusi, Moore, Hepworth & Noguchi<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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The Flower Vendor<\/em>, 1941 by Diego Rivera & Nosegay on a Marble Plinth<\/em>, 1695 by Rachel Ruysch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The Approaching Storm<\/em>, 1870 by Narcisse-Virgile Diaz de la Pe\u00f1a<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Portrait of a Boy<\/em>, 1655-60 by Rembrandt van Rijn<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Thatched Cottage in Normandy<\/em>, circa 1872 by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Still Life with Lemons, Oranges and a Rose<\/em>, 1633 by Francisco de Zurbar\u00e1n<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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St. Ignatius of Loyola<\/em>, circa 1620 by Peter Paul Rubens<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Liberation of St. Peter<\/em>, 1618 by Hendrick van Steenwijck the Younger<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Madonna and Child with Book<\/em>, circa 1502 by Raphael<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Portrait of a Lady<\/em>, 1641 by Johannes Corneliszoon Verspronck & The Artist’s Garden at V\u00e9theuil<\/em>, 1881 by Claude Monet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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White and Pink Mallows in a Vase<\/em>, 1895 by Henri Fantin-Latour<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Patrons admiring paintings by Courbet and Mouth of the Seine at Honfleur<\/em>, 1865 (above right) by Claude Monet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Pont des Arts, Paris<\/em>, 1867-68 by Pierre-Auguste Renoir<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Star: Dancer on Pointe<\/em>, circa 1878 by Edgar Degas<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Portrait of the Artist’s Mother<\/em>, 1888 by Vincent van Gogh at the Norton Simon Museum<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Los Angeles City Hall (completed 1928) houses the offices of the Mayor & L.A. City Council<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Eiko Ishioka was posthumously nominated for an Oscar in 2012 for the film Mirror, Mirror<\/em>. Born in Tokyo, Japan, Eiko Ishioka won the Academy Award for Best Costume Design in 1992 for Bram Stoker’s Dracula<\/em>.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

Art Lovers TIP<\/strong>: By car or train, travel from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles takes about 30 minutes. Film lovers should visit the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, located next to LACMA, to see the costume (above) designed for Julia Roberts in Mirror, Mirror<\/em>. An exhibit on Casablanca<\/em> continues through March 17, 2024. An immersive film experience created by Pedro Almod\u00f3var can be seen until April 7, 2024. The Godfather<\/em> exhibition may be enjoyed through January 5, 2025. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has grown enormously since its founding in 1961 to become the largest art museum in the western United States, and receives 1,000,000 visitors each year.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I.B.M. Disc Pack<\/em>, 1965 (oil on canvas, above) by Lowell Nesbitt & Untitled<\/em>, 1962 (below) by Desmond Paul Henry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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These portraits from the “Afro-Atlantic Histories” exhibit were on view until September 2023<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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While the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is closed for extensive renovations, “The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA” building on the same site (5905 Wilshire Boulevard) remains open, presenting works of art from the permanent collection plus focused exhibitions such as “Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone” through February 11, 2024. This exhibit demonstrates the impressive use of stone, especially richly patterned and vividly colored stone, as a diverse medium for the creation of art. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Woman with Blue Veil<\/em>, 1923 by Pablo Picasso on display at LACMA<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Broad Museum<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Liz<\/em>, 1963 by Andy Warhol<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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River Valley<\/em>, 1985 by Roy Lichtenstein<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This past year, the Broad presented the first-ever museum exhibition in Los Angeles devoted to the oeuvre created by the American Keith Haring (1958 — 1990). Featuring 120 works, including drawing, video, sculpture, painting and other mediums, this expansive overview entitled “Art Is for Everybody” was seen in L.A. through October 8, 2023 and is now at the AGO in Toronto until March 17, 2024. The Haring show is scheduled to travel to Minneapolis, where it will be on view from April through September 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Untitled<\/em>, 1984 by Keith Haring<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

From November 18 through April 7, 2024, the Broad is presenting “Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog)” to showcase works of art created by Los Angeles-based artists. This exhibit will include several artists new to the Broad’s collection, including Sayre Gomez, Joe Ray and Njideka Akunyili Crosby.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Head of a Bacchante<\/em>, 1741 by Charles-Joseph Natoire & St. Sebastian Tended by St. Irene<\/em>, circa 1795 by Vicente L\u00f3pez y Porta\u00f1a<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n
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The Getty Center has five Pavilions, one of which is devoted to Special Exhibitions<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Still Life with Flowers and Fruit<\/em>, 1869 by Claude Monet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Portrait of Princess Leonilla<\/em>, 1843 by Franz Xaver Winterhalter<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Dedication<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

We owe special thanks to Alberto Uribe<\/strong> for his depth of knowledge about the arts scene in California. Alberto Uribe<\/strong> is a true lover of the arts, and this article was made possible through Alberto’s generosity, command of history, and kindness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cleveland Museum of Art<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Cleveland Museum is a knock-out and, like the Brooklyn Museum, offers programs, artwork and exhibitions that speak eloquently to both the local community and to a larger audience of art lovers at the national and international levels. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We feel we have found our magical destination for culture in Cleveland. We returned to Ohio for a second visit in October 2023 in order to continue our exploration of everything the Cleveland Museum of Art has to offer visitors who make the effort to venture inland from the coasts — beyond more established big-city institutions. Two special exhibitions, described below, will be on view until January 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Why Born Enslaved!<\/em>, 1868 sculpture by Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux & Apollo and the Muses<\/em>, 1800 by Charles Meynier<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Twilight in the Wilderness<\/em>, 1860 by Frederic Edwin Church<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Thousand Buddha Hall & the Pagoda of the “Cloudy Cliff” Monastery<\/em>, 1490 by Shen Zhou<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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The Qianlong Emperor<\/em>, 1736-70 (detail) by Giuseppe Castiglione and others<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

This large exhibition features more than 200 objects from the region of China called Jiangnan. The lush, green scenery of Jiangnan has inspired artists to create the heavenly images in jade, porcelain and lacquer presently on display. In addition, bamboo carvings, prints and paintings from Neolithic times to the 18th century help convey the wealth and importance of this fertile and populous land in the coastal area south of the Yangzi River. This picturesque region has defined the image of traditional China around the world for millennia, and this vast presentation of fine art from the CMA’s substantial holdings is glorious!<\/p>\n\n\n

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View of Huzhou, Baoyang Lake<\/em>, circa 1588 by Song Xu<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

“Degas and the Laundress” Will Close on January 14, 2024<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

The Cleveland Museum of Art, one of the 10 best U.S. art museums, is also presenting an exhibition entitled “Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism” from October 8, 2023 through January 14, 2024. We had high hopes for this landmark exhibit; however, with only five oil paintings on canvas by Edgar Degas on view, we were disappointed. There are paintings by a number of other artists on display, such as the Vuillard shown below from the CMA’s permanent collection, plus a handful of pastels, charcoal drawings and one oil on paper by Degas. This show is way too small to be significant and does not warrant your travel to Cleveland at this time. The CMA should have sought additional loans from American and international collections, such as the Norton Simon Museum. <\/p>\n\n\n

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The Laundresses<\/em>, circa 1884 by Edgar Degas<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Highlights from the Permanent Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art<\/h4>\n\n\n
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The Large Plane Trees<\/em>, 1889 by Vincent van Gogh<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Rose and Blue Period Picassos & Portrait of a Woman<\/em>, 1917 (right) by Amedeo Modigliani<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Bull Skull, Fruit, Pitcher<\/em>, 1939 by Pablo Picasso<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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View of Florence<\/em>, 1837 by Thomas Cole<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Portrait of a Novice of San Secondo<\/em>, 1490 by Jacometto Veneziano<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Early Morning After a Storm at Sea<\/em>, 1900-03 by Winslow Homer<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Fifth Avenue<\/em>, 1919 by Childe Hassam<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Head of a Boy<\/em>, 1905-06 by Picasso<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Summer<\/em>, 1891 by Pierre Puvis de Chavannes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Portrait of Machtelt Suijs<\/em>, circa 1540 by Maerten van Heemskerck<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Sunny Autumn Day<\/em>, 1892 by George Inness<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Mme L<\/em>, 1863 by Gustave Courbet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Spring Flowers<\/em>, 1864 by Claude Monet<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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The Dessert<\/em>, 1921 & Fruit and Fruit Dishes<\/em>, 1930 by Pierre Bonnard<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Maddie, Ocracoke Island, North Carolina<\/em>, 2020 by Matt Eich<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Gray and Gold<\/em>, 1942 by John Rogers Cox<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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View of Rome<\/em>, circa 1782 by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Deer in the Undergrowth<\/em>, 1908 by Pierre Bonnard<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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Fishmarket<\/em>, 1902 by Camille Pissarro<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n
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There are a number of cultural attractions to be found in Cleveland, Ohio, and you agenda should also include a visit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tired of cookie-cutter museums with antiseptic white walls and uninspired exhibitions, we started our search in New York City, then traveled to the Midwest, and finally flew to California in order to find a special home for art lovers — one magical museum of art. We visited the Brooklyn Museum, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, SFMOMA, the Norton Simon Museum, the Getty Center, the Broad, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Brooklyn Has One of the Best U.S. Museums The Brooklyn Museum was planned to be the largest museum of art in the world when it was founded in 1898. The original design called for a museum four times as large as what was created when the initial phase of construction ended in 1927. Today, the Brooklyn Museum possesses an art collection with 500,000 objects, New York City’s second largest after the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan. Thanks to major renovations near the end of the 20th century the Brooklyn Museum is now revitalized, and since 2007 “The Dinner Party” by Judy Chicago has been on permanent display as the centerpiece for the museum’s Center for Feminist Art. The COVID-19 pandemic, with its negative impact on museum revenue, led the museum to sell dozens of paintings including works by Corot, Courbet and Lucas Cranach the Elder in order to care for its expansive collections of African, Egyptian and American art. Committed to presenting vibrant temporary exhibitions — from traditional to challenging, and perhaps edgy — the Brooklyn Museum remains popular within the local community and far beyond the borough. With 90 paintings on display from its permanent collection, the presentation entitled “MONET TO MORISOT — The Real and Imagined in European Art” illustrates the depth of fine art possessed by the Brooklyn Museum and its willingness as an institution to question how the traditional canon for collecting European art was constructed through the narrow lens of gender, class and colonialism. MONET TO MORISOT will be displayed through November 12, 2023 Judy Chicago’s “The Dinner Party” The Brooklyn Museum describes “The Dinner Party” as “an important icon of 1970s feminist art and a milestone in twentieth-century art.” This groundbreaking and influential work of art, created between 1974 and 1979 by Judy Chicago, is set on a gigantic triangular banquet table with 39 place settings. Each setting — complete with utensils, a gold chalice and a painted porcelain plate containing vulvar\/butterfly motifs — commemorates the achievements of a distinguished woman from history. A Special Exhibition About Queer \/ Asian Identity & Culture The Brooklyn Museum presented the exhibit EAST OF SUN, WEST OF MOON in its Gallery of Contemporary Art during the summer of 2023. This fantastic show featuring 11 paintings by Oscar yi Hou marked his first museum solo in the United States. These works of art are purposefully anachronistic, and yi Hou often casts himself and his friends as masculine East Asian figures from Western popular culture and history. The cranes shown in the background, above and below, indicate that these paintings may also be considered self-portraits by yi Hou, since his given Chinese name refers to an idiom involving a bird. Born in Liverpool in 1998, and now a Brooklyn resident, Oscar yi Hou chooses complex iconography to challenge long-standing stereotypes of the queer, Asian creative community. This fantastic show closed in September 2023. The Legion of Honor, San Francisco The Legion of Honor is known for its classy exhibitions of fine art and fashion. If you did not get a chance to see the show “James Tissot: Fashion + Faith” (2019-2020) organized with the Mus\u00e9es d’Orsay et de l’Orangerie, or the collaboration with the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. entitled “Sargent and Spain” (2023), we hope you were able to take in “The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England” which closed on September 24, 2023 at the Legion of Honor. We present highlights from these three exhibits for your pleasure. More than 100 objects (including the iconic portraits shown below) are on view here tracing the emergence of a distinctly English style through the artistic patronage of the Tudor courts in the 1500s. Having already been seen at the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Cleveland Museum of Art, the presentation of “The Tudors” at the Legion of Honor represented your final opportunity to appreciate this exhibition in person. The show entitled “Botticelli Drawings” is being displayed at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco from November 19 through February 11, 2024. Heading North from San Francisco Should you want to take a break from museums and city life, we recommend you visit wine country in Napa Valley, the redwood forest at Muir Woods and the charming waterfront in Sausalito — all of which can be accomplished in a one-day trip north of San Francisco. Founded in 1935, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) underwent a major three-year-long expansion from 2013 to 2016 which doubled the museum’s gallery space, and provided almost six times as much public space — perfect for exhibiting large-scale sculpture, contemporary art, and spacious retrospectives such as the previous show devoted to Frank Bowling. “Frank Bowling: The New York Years 1966 — 1975” closed on September 10, 2023 Several journeys across the Atlantic Ocean affected the life and art of Frank Bowling, who was born in British Guiana in 1934 and lived in London from 1953 until 1965. This exhibition at SFMOMA explored Bowling’s innovative movement toward abstraction during the decade he lived in New York. His cross-cultural paintings exploring transformative techniques are imbued with historical awareness and personal significance. Norton Simon’s collection is unique among U.S. Museums In Southern California, the pleasant city of Pasadena with 136,000 residents is a perfect place for art lovers to relax for a few days. In fact, you might find the Victorian and art deco buildings located in the center of Old Pasadena so attractive that you will decide to use Pasadena as a base for exploring Los Angeles. Pasadena is the primary cultural center of the San Gabriel Valley due in large part to the Norton Simon Museum, where a $5,000,000 renovation in 1995 by Frank Gehry resulted in more intimate galleries and improved lighting to house the 11,000 objects in the collection of European and Asian art. Art Lovers TIP: By car or train, travel from Pasadena to downtown Los Angeles takes about 30 minutes. Film lovers should visit the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, located next to LACMA, to see the costume (above) designed for Julia Roberts in Mirror, Mirror. An exhibit on Casablanca continues through March 17, 2024. An immersive film experience created by Pedro Almod\u00f3var can be seen until April 7, 2024. The Godfather exhibition may be enjoyed through January 5, 2025. Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) has grown enormously since its founding in 1961 to become the largest art museum in the western United States, and receives 1,000,000 visitors each year. While the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is closed for extensive renovations, “The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA” building on the same site (5905 Wilshire Boulevard) remains open, presenting works of art from the permanent collection plus focused exhibitions such as “Eternal Medium: Seeing the World in Stone” through February 11, 2024. This exhibit demonstrates the impressive use of stone, especially richly patterned and vividly colored stone, as a diverse medium for the creation of art. The Broad Museum Keith Haring: Art Is for Everybody This past year, the Broad presented the first-ever museum exhibition in Los Angeles devoted to the oeuvre created by the American Keith Haring (1958 — 1990). Featuring 120 works, including drawing, video, sculpture, painting and other mediums, this expansive overview entitled “Art Is for Everybody” was seen in L.A. through October 8, 2023 and is now at the AGO in Toronto until March 17, 2024. The Haring show is scheduled to travel to Minneapolis, where it will be on view from April through September 2024. From November 18 through April 7, 2024, the Broad is presenting “Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog)” to showcase works of art created by Los Angeles-based artists. This exhibit will include several artists new to the Broad’s collection, including Sayre Gomez, Joe Ray and Njideka Akunyili Crosby. Yayoi Kusama The Getty Center Dedication We owe special thanks to Alberto Uribe for his depth of knowledge about the arts scene in California. Alberto Uribe is a true lover of the arts, and this article was made possible through Alberto’s generosity, command of history, and kindness. The Cleveland Museum of Art The Cleveland Museum is a knock-out and, like the Brooklyn Museum, offers programs, artwork and exhibitions that speak eloquently to both the local community and to a larger audience of art lovers at the national and international levels. We feel we have found our magical destination for culture in Cleveland. We returned to Ohio for a second visit in October 2023 in order to continue our exploration of everything the Cleveland Museum of Art has to offer visitors who make the effort to venture inland from the coasts — beyond more established big-city institutions. Two special exhibitions, described below, will be on view until January 2024. Temporary Exhibitions at the Cleveland Museum of Art China’s Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta September 10, 2023 — January 7, 2024 This large exhibition features more than 200 objects from the region of China called Jiangnan. The lush, green scenery of Jiangnan has inspired artists to create the heavenly images in jade, porcelain and lacquer presently on display. In addition, bamboo carvings, prints and paintings from Neolithic times to the 18th century help convey the wealth and importance of this fertile and populous land in the coastal area south of the Yangzi River. This picturesque region has defined the image of traditional China around the world for millennia, and this vast presentation of fine art from the CMA’s substantial holdings is glorious! “Degas and the Laundress” Will Close on January 14, 2024 The Cleveland Museum of Art, one of the 10 best U.S. art museums, is also presenting an exhibition entitled “Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism” from October 8, 2023 through January 14, 2024. We had high hopes for this landmark exhibit; however, with only five oil paintings on canvas by Edgar Degas on view, we were disappointed. There are paintings by a number of other artists on display, such as the Vuillard shown below from the CMA’s permanent collection, plus a handful of pastels, charcoal drawings and one oil on paper by Degas. This show is way too small to be significant and does not warrant your travel to Cleveland at this time. The CMA should have sought additional loans from American and international collections, such as the Norton Simon Museum. 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