Vermeer in Madrid, Barbara Kruger in Paris, Indigenous abstraction in Seattle

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Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum has opened Mauritshuis ♥ Thyssen-Bornemisza: Masterpieces from The Hague, presenting 17th-century masterpieces from the Netherlands. The exhibition includes Johannes Vermeer’s View of Delft, painted circa 1660–1661. The work is among the best-known details in an exhibition built around the collections of the Mauritshuis and the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. The announcement describes the presentation as an exceptional group of Dutch Golden Age works, bringing Vermeer’s carefully observed cityscape into a Madrid setting.

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At the Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection in Paris, Barbara Kruger presents The History of Tears, an installation conceived specifically for the museum’s Rotunda and twenty-four display cases. Words, images and voices move through the space via filmed sequences, audio clips and lightboxes carrying Kruger’s messages. Tadao Ando’s curved walls feature quotations from George Orwell’s 1984 and Aimé Césaire’s Journal of a Homecoming. The installation also includes Kruger’s video Power, Pleasure, Desire, Disgust, first created at the Wexner Center for the Arts in 1996.

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The Frye Art Museum will host the only West Coast presentation of An Indigenous Present from November 7, 2026, through February 14, 2027. Organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, the exhibition brings together fifteen Indigenous artists, from elders to emerging makers, across a century of work. Jeffrey Gibson and independent curator Jenelle Porter curated the exhibition, which examines abstraction as a way to hold personal and collective narratives, imagined and specific places, and cultural traditions. Artists represented include Teresa Baker, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Kimowan Metchewais and George Morrison.