NEW YORK

Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
On view through October 4, 2015
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John Singer Sargent (American, Florence 1856-1925 London) "Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau)," 1883-84. Oil on canvas, 82 1/8 x 43 1/4 inches. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Arthur Hoppock Hearn Fund (1916; 16.53). Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

While you’re at the Cloisters, make a stop at the Met to catch Sargent: Portraits of Artists and Friends. The seminal exhibition presents an array of John Singer Sargent’s exceptional portraits of actors, artists, dancers, musicians, and writer -- many of whom were his friends. From a dazzling painting of Sargent’s comrades asleep in an Alpine meadow to a dramatic portrait of the French socialite Virginie Avegno Gautreau, the works on view at the Met are among the Sargent’s most daring and unconventional portraits.

Andy Warhol: Campbell’s Soup Cans and Other Works, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
On view through October 18, 2015
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Installation view of Andy Warhol: Campbell’s Soup Cans and Other Works, 1953–1967 at The Museum of Modern Art, April 25–October 12, 2015. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar. © 2015 The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

The Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) current Andy Warhol exhibition focuses on the Pop artist’s output between 1953 and 1967. The pivotal period included the creation of Warhol’s signature Campbell’s Soup Cans series (1962), which is part of MoMA’s seminal collection. In keeping with how they were first exhibited at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles, MoMA has hung all thirty-two Soup Cans in a line rather than in a grid. In addition to the Soup Cans, the show includes drawings and illustrated books from the 1950s, when Warhol was working as a commercial artist, as well as paintings and prints from the 1960s, when he emerged as Pop Art's leading figure.

Treasures and Talismans: Rings from the Griffin Collection, The Cloisters, New York, NY
On view through October 18, 2015
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Renaissance Gimmel Ring with Memento Mori, Germany, dated 1631. Griffin Collection. Photograph by Richard Goodbody. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

A monumental collection of rings made during the ancient, medieval, and Renaissance periods is currently on view at the Cloisters -- the branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe. Encompassing a variety of styles, Treasures and Talismans explores the ring as both a physical object and a work of art, touching on the form’s connection to religion, superstition, love, marriage, and identity. An added bonus: the show also features related paintings, metalworks, and illuminated manuscripts from the Met’s inimitable collection.

Jasmina Danowski: Signs and Wonder, Gerald Peters Gallery, New York, NY
September 24-October 23, 2015
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Jasmina Danowski "Taking in the Obscenery V," 2013. Ink, gesso on paper, 40 x 40 inches. Courtesy of Gerald Peters Gallery.

Gerald Peters Gallery will kick off its pop-up exhibition Jasmina Danowski: Signs and Wonder with an opening reception on Thursday, September 24. A devotee of process art, Jasmina Danowski allows her actions and their consequences to determine the outcome of her sumptuous works. Fascinated with the physicality of her materials, Danowski makes her own inks and paints, which she often applies directly to paper laid on the ground. The resulting compositions are vibrant and poetic, bursting with rich colors and luxuriant textures.  

LOOT: MAD About Jewelry, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
September 28-October 3, 2015
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Presented by the Museum of Arts and Design, LOOT: MAD About Jewelry is the ultimate pop-up shop for contemporary artist-made jewelry. Now in its 15th year, the annual exhibition and sale features designs from over fifty established and emerging international jewelry artists, providing collectors and enthusiasts with the rare opportunity to meet and acquire pieces from some of the most innovative creators in the field. Proceeds from LOOT, which kicks off with an opening benefit on Monday, September 28, go toward the institution’s exhibitions and education programs.

Catch It While You Can:

Folk Art and American Modernism, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY
On view through September 27, 2015
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Unidentified artist "Winter Sunday in Norway, Maine," probably Maine, ca. 1860. Oil on canvas, 20⅝ x 26⅝ inches. Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, N.Y. Photography by Richard Walker Ex collection Jean and Howard Lipman.

Folk Art and American Modernism pays homage to the pioneering early twentieth-century artists and art world figures who drew inspiration from folk art’s cutting edge forms, bold colors, and  independent spirit. Organized by the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, the exhibition highlights folk art owned, collected, and exhibited by such luminaries as curator Holger Cahill, dealer Edith Halpert, and the first director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Juliana Force, as well as artists Elie Nadelman, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Charles Sheeler. The show, which charts folk art’s rise from anonymity to art world legitimacy, also presents Modernist works alongside the folk objects that inspired them.

LONDON

LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair, London, UK
September 22-27, 2015
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The LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair 2014.

Founded in 2009, the prestigious LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair quickly emerged as one of the leading international showcases for art and antiques. Held in historic Berkeley Square in the heart of London, the fair features 100 exhibitors offering everything from fine art and furniture to jewelry, tapestries, clocks, ceramics, and silver. Known for its gracious atmosphere and  wide range of exceptional offerings, the LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair draws collectors, enthusiasts, and industry professionals from across the globe. Exhibitors at this year’s fair include Trinity House Paintings Ltd., Mark J. West, Holly Johnson, and Sandra Cronan Ltd. The show also boasts an impressive lecture series, which will feature such talks as Insights into the Ashmolean Museum’s Titian to Canaletto: Drawing in Venice Exhibition  and Future Areas of Jewelry Collecting.

PHILADELPHIA

Northern Lights: Scandinavian Design, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
On view through October 4, 2015
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PH Artichoke Lamp, Designed 1957, Designed by Poul Henningsen, Danish, 1894‑1967, Brushed copper, chrome‑plated steel, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Gift of Collab: The Group for Modern and Contemporary Design at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Incredibly Beautiful and practical, Scandinavian design has had a profound impact on how the world looks and functions. Northern Lights, which features an array of objects from the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s permanent collection, explores the innovative concepts and techniques that have come to define Scandinavian design as well as the figures who helped shape it. Works on view range in date from the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris to the present day and include furniture by Hans Wegner, ceramics by Axel Salto, and flatware by Ergonomi Design Gruppen.

ATLANTA

American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
September 26, 2015-January 31, 2016
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William Michael Harnett (American, 1848–1892), "Still Life with Bust of Dante," 1883. Oil on panel, 105⁄16 x 1313⁄16 inches. Courtesy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Ga., gift of Mr. and Mrs. James M. Dyer and Mr. and Mrs. Truman Bragg in memory of Mrs. Mary Newcomb Bull and Robert Scott Newcomb (67.27). Image courtesy, High Museum of Art.

American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life brings together a selection of late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century paintings that illustrate how American artists adapted the European still-life tradition to American taste, character, and experience. The final installation in the American Encounters series, a multi-year collaboration between the High Museum of Art, the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Musée du Louvre, and the Terra Foundation for American Art, Simple Pleasures features works from the four partnering institutions spanning from the genre’s tentative beginnings to its full blossoming. Among the works on view are simple tabletop presentations byRaphaelle Peale, Martin Johnson Heade, Joseph Biays Ord, and William Sidney Mount; trompe-l'œil compositions by De Scott Evans, John Haberle, William Michael Harnett and George Cope; and European still-lifes by John-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and Abraham Mignon.