
500 Years of Earth: A Survey of Landscapes at the Portland Art Museum
A traveling exhibition presents the changing way artists have approached nature over the past half millennium.

The Shadows in Plato’s Cave: Drawings by Joan Tanner
on view at Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, through January 30.

Incarnated Curves: Ornamental Ironwork at the Barnes Foundation
Strength and Splendor, works from Rouen, on view in Philadelphia through January 3.

An Art of Plenitude: American Still Life in Philadelphia
From Audubon to Warhol, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through January 10

The Veil and Vault: The Broad Museum in Los Angeles
A report on its architecture and its inaugural exhibition.

Painting the Town Red: Wasserman Projects, Detroit
Gary Wasserman is one of Detroit’s most enthusiastic boosters

Looking Back: A Retrospective of German Figure Painting
A show at the historic Städel Museum catalogues German painting from a breakout era.

A William Eggleston Retrospective on Tropical Soil
One of America’s greatest photographers has his first major retrospective in Brazil.

Plugging in and Moving on: Okwui Enwezor’s All the World’s Futures
The second of artcritical’s 2015 dispatches from Venice

A Complete Eye of Water: A Summer Show at Ampersand Gallery
Sea, sky, air, and space meet in the respectively trippy, geometric, and photorealist images of three artists.