Peter Plagens

The artist, who died in 1989 and whose tactile, substantial artworks frequently double as utilitarian objects, receives a superbly installed exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis.

A show at the Palm Springs Art Museum makes a convincing case that the perennial outsider, who died in 2007, was a major California painter.

In a retrospective at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the French-born American artist and MacArthur ‘genius’ assumes her place at the forefront of the movement to revive figurative painting.

The American painter, who died in 1995 and is now the subject of an arresting exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, suffused her crisply executed canvases with subversive commentary on sex, style and femininity.

This show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis includes work from the 1960s to the 1980s in its exploration of artists living behind the Iron Curtain in Central and Eastern Europe.

Reopened after a renovation and expansion, the museum has a lively assortment of contemporary and modern art—including a breathtaking display of paintings by Clyfford Still—and a strong collection of recent acquisitions.

The Hammer Museum’s sixth iteration of its survey show includes painting, sculpture, weaving and even a tour of Los Angeles neighborhoods in an old Volvo.

The ever-creative Californian, who died last week at age 95, abandoned painting early on in favor of the pioneering installations and site-specific works that defined ‘light and space’ art.

A retrospective at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art tracks the Bay Area artist’s shifting style, from her thickly painted early works to the flat, insouciant aesthetic for which she is best known.

A pair of shows, one intimate and one expansive, look at the painter’s pioneering work in the genre.