Oct. 17, 2024 | The Ballets Russes’ revolutionary costume and set designs, innovative choreography and music and captivating themes transformed ballet in the early 20th century, and their groundbreaking work continues to influence the art form today. McNay Art Museum celebrates the dance company’s seldomly recognized contributors in “Women Artists of the Ballets Russes: Designing the Legacy,” on view Oct. 12, 2024-Jan. 12, 2025.

Oct. 17, 2024 | Tammy Nguyen will debut new paintings, embroidered tapestries and an artist book in “Timaeus and the Nations,” on view October 20, 2024, through January 19, 2025, at Sarasota Art Museum. She is renowned for her densely layered, complex paintings that merge figures, abstract shapes, symbols and lush tropical vegetation. Her sculptural artist books, in turn, investigate the intricacies of her research-based approach to artmaking.

Oct. 16, 2024 | A LEGO exhibition featuring a million LEGO bricks is coming to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture (VMHC) in Richmond on Saturday, and 8News got an inside look at what attendees can expect. The “Traveling Bricks” exhibition will open at VMHC on Saturday, Oct. 19 and showcase LEGO models of land, air, sea and space vehicles constructed from nearly one million LEGO bricks.

Oct. 10, 2024 | As the 2024 U.S. presidential election approaches, the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State has unveiled a timely exhibition that intertwines art and politics in a way that encourages civic engagement, dialogue, and reflection. Open through December 15, Politics and Daily Life highlights the intersection of politics, art, and society, aiming to spark conversations around democracy, empowerment, propaganda, patriotism, and protest.

Oct. 9, 2024 | Eight exhibitions are on view through Dec. 8: “Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing,” “Joseph Holston: Call and Response,” “Endless Transformations: The Alchemy of Connie Imboden,” “Faces of the Republican Party,” “New American Landscapes,” “Mira Hecht: In the Center Thereof Rose a Fountain,” “Pegan Brooke: Flux II, Light on Water,” and “A Sight to Behold: The Corcoran Legacy Collection of Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century American Landscape Paintings.” 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW.

Ethiopia’s long history as an important but often overlooked center of world art is getting a sweeping survey in the Toledo Museum of Art’s newly opened exhibition, “Ethiopia at the Crossroads.” From now until November 10, images and objects from the horn of east Africa illustrate the region’s importance as a point of contact for trade and cultural exchange beginning in the 7th Century BCE.

Oct. 8, 2024 | Coyne’s work sits between abundance and suffocation, uses seductive materials to serve uncomfortable truths about the barriers that face women. Throughout history, women have been swaddled in satins, velvets, and crinkly chiffons with adornments so excessive that they curtail movement. Elaborate hairstyles and high heels — expressions of a culture’s fickle notions of beauty — might seem innocuous, but they too constrict women.

Oct. 7, 2024 | Another place worth visiting is Shangri La, Doris Duke’s former home which has been converted into a museum. The house itself—Islamic art and design in a modernist setting—is breathtaking, as is the location. Book a private tour.

Oct. 5, 2024 | The Ballets Russes’ revolutionary costume and set designs, innovative choreography and music, and captivating themes transformed ballet in the early 20th century, and their groundbreaking work continues to influence the art form today. McNay Art Museum celebrates the dance company’s seldomly recognized contributors in “Women Artists of the Ballets Russes: Designing the Legacy,” on view October 10, 2024 through January 12, 2025.

Oct. 2, 2024 | Ralph Steadman’s last retrospective was cut short by COVID-19. But luckily his work is a moveable feast, and now Ralph Steadman: And Another Thing—a collection of 149 artworks and memorabilia chronicling the artist, satirist and Gonzo illustrator’s prolific and culture-shifting career—is debuting at the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center.

October 2, 2024 | To My Friends at Horn is a reminder that artists do not exist in a vacuum and context illuminates the impact of the artist and activist.

Oct. 1, 2024 | The creation of engagement-focused roles reflects “a more expansive view that museums have taken in recent history that includes community partnerships, collaboration and education.”