Exhibition Review

A new exhibit hall and theater at the National WWII Museum in New Orleans focuses on the conclusion of World War II and the ensuing efforts to promote peace and freedom around the world.

A wide-ranging show at the New-York Historical Society explores the ways different faiths and communities both shaped and were shaped by the nation’s westward expansion.

An exhibition at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation gives a close-up view of carved and cast creations that once decorated many of the city’s structures.

The oft-overlooked black designer, who created Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding gown, is the subject of a sumptuous show at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library.

The abolitionist icon gets an intriguing if overly broad examination at a show in Washington.

The Museum at FIT gathers some 80 garments and accessories in a playful exhibition on the relationships between what we wear and what we eat.

Located in Shillington, Pa., this museum devoted to the literary giant—who always felt a nostalgic warmth for the house—makes for a worthy literary pilgrimage.

A show at the Country Music Hall of Fame & Museum follows the singer and 2023 inductee from her Kentucky roots to her early performances and later Nashville success.

The vast museum, which opened in Madrid in June, tells a four-century dynastic epic of imperial Spain and its patronage through hundreds of artworks and artifacts, highlighting both imported taste and local talent.

The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum examines the role of race in the FDR administration—and reveals shocking prejudices—in this gripping if overly revisionist exhibition.

The designer, who wove a colorful signature look in her textiles and collaborated with mid-century luminaries like Frank Lloyd Wright and Henry Dreyfuss, is the focus of an exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

At Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, an exhibition examines the legacy of designer Henry Dreyfuss and the fascinating histories behind many of the everyday symbols that connect people throughout the world.

A show of manuscripts at the Getty Center depicting medieval puzzles, games and jousts reveals diversions that, like chess, span our radically different lives and times.

The center, which opened across from the Louis Armstrong House Museum, preserves the trumpeter’s legacy with a performance space and a permanent 60,000-item archive of personal items.

An exhibition at the Pompidou Center follows the futuristic architect’s stylistic and technical evolution, between factories and bridges, airports and skyscrapers.

An exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum recounts the varied postcolonial histories of dozens of nations through the diversity and vibrancy of their arts, from clothing and textiles to poetry and photography.

An exhibition at the Palladio Museum in Vicenza, Italy, highlights a lesser-known side of the great Renaissance painter’s career and its impact on his artistry.

A delightful exhibition at the Frist Art Museum explores the Victorian author’s life, from the progress of her artistic skill to research and conservation.

A show at the Yeshiva University Museum in New York focuses on the 12th-century physician, jurist, philosopher, rabbi and teacher and his reach from his own times to today.

A show at the British Museum traces the web of stylistic influences between dueling ancient empires.