TheCollector recently had the pleasure of speaking with curator Adriano Marinazzo about “Michelangelo: The Genesis of the Sistine,” an exciting new exhibition held at the Muscarelle Museum of Art at William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. On view from March 6 to May 28, 2025, the exhibition brings together Michelangelo’s rarely seen initial studies and early drawings for the world-renowned frescoes he completed in the Sistine Chapel. As a leading scholar on the oeuvre of Michelangelo, Marinazzo has also used this once-in-a-lifetime show to introduce several discoveries in Michelangelo’s work that have not previously been presented to the public.

“Blanche Lazzell: Becoming an American Modernist,” the first major exhibition in nearly two decades devoted to this artist, will soon grace the Bruce Museum. On view will be more than 60 paintings, prints, and other works on paper, most characterized by Lazzell’s bold colors and flattened forms.

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Rasquachismo goes high class through March 30, 2025, at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio during “Rasquachismo: 35 Years of a Chicano Sensibility,” a special exhibition celebrating the 35th anniversary Ybarra-Frausto’s essay. “Rasquachismo is not a cohesive movement, but instead an ethos or aesthetic,” Mia Lopez, the McNay Art Museum’s inaugural curator of Latinx art said when announcing the exhibition. A vibe. Distinctly San Antonio.

The next 12 months offers a wide range of challenging and unusual exhibitions from artists such as Ruth Asawa and Rashid Johnson By Veronica Esposito

The works of established and emerging contemporary photographers from across the U.S. exhibited together in You Belong Here address Latinx visibility and belonging through depictions of home, community, and the literal or figurative state of “in-between.” The Chazen Museum of Art at the University of Wisconsin in Madison presents You Belong Here: Place, People, and Purpose in Latinx Photography, curated by Pilar Tompkins Rivas, the Chief Curator and Deputy Director of Curatorial and Collections at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.

Larry Fink, the late photojournalist and art photographer whose work often depicted the glamour of the rich and famous, will have his photographs shown alongside the sculptures and paintings of his wife, Martha Posner, for the first time.

Dec. 1 | Joe Fig has produced a broad range of paintings, sculpture, photography and drawings that explore the creative process—his own and that of others. There are three-dimensional models of artists’ studios, photographs of them and paintings of people experiencing art in galleries and museums.

Figura­tive imagery, abstract forms, tropical vegetation and symbol­ic motifs descend upon a gallery of music-infused works in Tammy Nguyen’s new solo exhi­bition “Timaeus and the Nations,” on view now through January 19 at Sarasota Art Museum. The exhibition marks the debut of new paintings, embroidered tapestries and an artist book.

IG: What was the process of going through all the work and working with Peter Barberie (the curator) like?

MP: Peter Barberie is a friend of Larry’s and mine and the show was initiated when Larry was still alive. It was initially going to be a show for Larry. It was very bittersweet and very mixed. We picked Larry’s work first.

Nov. 18 | After the first season of the Ballets Russes began in 1909, the world of ballet was never the same. Formed by Serge Pavlovich Diaghilev, Ballets Russes performances brought an avant-garde rethinking of classical and new ballets through the dances they performed and the artistic materials (sets, props, and costumes) used to tell these stories.