MUSEUMS

Artists’ works confront the modern movement’s exclusions of race, gender and sexuality.

This masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, at the Met, captures the heat of summer — and the complexity of life.

In a deal with Nigeria to be signed this spring, the Smithsonian creates a partnership for future exhibitions and programs.

Buzzed-about exhibitions include Alberto Giacometti in Cleveland, "Afro-Atlantic Histories" at the NGA, Winslow Homer at the Met and Cézanne in Chicago.

"Entrance to an Inn in the Praestegarden at Hillested” captures an extended moment of Zen-like stillness.

Two group shows at the American University Museum celebrate female artists.

Los Angeles's oldest Jewish congregation adds a new event space, designed by the international architecture behemoth OMA.

Bilingual exhibition combines elements of pop art, surrealism and post-modern architecture.

Celebrating art that starts conversations with the 100th installment of the Sebastian Smee series.

Edward Hopper's beloved painting of an usher in a movie theater is the subject of the 100th piece in Sebastian Smee's "Great Works, in Focus" series.

A trio of DMV exhibitions spotlight the work of Baltimore artist Hoesy Corona.

Unique works reveal hyper-realistic pictorials of paint strokes against the sound of a computerized piano.

One of the leading members of the Young British Artists generation, Wearing has been exploring the pleasures and perils of hiding behind masks for three decades.

The degradation of a tortured prisoner in this Goya etching, made during the Spanish Inquisition, is still too familiar.

He worked on covert operations during the Cold War before serving as the Washington museum's founding executive director.

The Cuban-born painter sold her first painting at age 89 and won the admiration of critics and collectors with the intensity of her work, which she achieved by juxtaposing geometric shapes in contrasting colors.

The 20th-century married artists created otherworldly landscapes that capture both the anxieties and harmonies of partnership.