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Some of the summer’s best U.S. museum exhibitions are on view beyond the art capitals of New York and Los Angeles.
“Chakaia Booker: Surface Pressure” @ Sarasota Art Museum, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Fla. | July 16-Oct. 29, 2023. Multimedia artist Chakaia Booker (1953) is renowned for her complex sculptural works composed of recycled tires.

Starting June 2023, the skyline of downtown Columbus in Ohio becomes an artistic touchstone for Janet Echelman’s famed wispy, floating sculpture, guarding the metropolis with its lucid, multi-colored fiber tapestry. Forming web-like twine filaments as the sculptural skeleton, 78 miles of twine and more than 500,000 knots of blue and red cloudlike abstraction make up the longest piece of public art in Columbus and the first of Echelman’s permanent sculptures to be suspended over a street.

Animals in art are rarely just animals. They are often rich in cultural associations that reveal as much about human society as the natural world. “Animals in Japanese Art,” on view at the Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) through July 23, showcases a menagerie of paintings and sculptures from the museum’s permanent collection that date from the Fifteenth Century.

In 2020, as statues of Confederate generals and other contentious historical images were being taken down in many cities, Sanford Biggers, the acclaimed New York-based contemporary artist, and Amy Gilman, the director of the Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, were watching with keen interest.

In a new project at the Chazen Museum of Art, relinquishing authority and embracing vulnerability has borne considerable fruit.

Mirror Shadow Shape is comprised of roughly 40 Gina Osterloh artworks created between 2005-2020, showcasing large-scale photographs and video. Camouflage, erasure, assimilation and replication are recurring themes across Osterloh’s work.

The enigmatic designs in the American University Museum show conjure a vastness that contrasts with the smallness of the area in which the artworks were made: the eastern side of Arnhem Land, a craggy peninsula that juts from Australia’s northern coast.

Next November, the University of Notre Dame in Indiana is scheduled to open the first phase of Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, a 70,000-sf cultural facility that will eventually replace the campus’ venerable Snite Museum of Art and double the exhibit space available for Notre Dame’s 31,000-item art collection.

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…Sendak had long been a prolific artist. In the first retrospective since his death in 2012, more than 150 works are at the Columbus Museum in Ohio.

Forget the glass slipper fantasy — this glass-spun dress is the real deal! At the Toledo Museum of Art (TMA), one of only two dresses designed by the Libbey Glass Company is now on view as part of the exhibition State of the Art: Revealing Works from the Conservation Vault.