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Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery November 3, 2017 – September 3, 2018    The Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery opens this week “The Sweat of Their Face: Portraying American Workers,” which brings together nearly 100 representations of laborers to explore the role of working people in the formation, self-definition and development of the United States. Featuring paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs, prints and time-based media, the multifaceted exhibition offers a powerful visual history of American labor. Historic images of mill girls in factories, newsboys on city streets and proud artisans and craftsmen appear alongside contemporary images of working-class men and women. Spanning the course of American history, “The Sweat of Their Face” encourages viewers to reflect on the conditions and repercussions of labor, particularly with regard to evolving relationships between those who work and those who benefit from work.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) has announced that Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo and Susan and Matthew Weatherbie have made a commitment to give their exceptional collections of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish art to the Museum—a donation that will constitute the largest gift of European paintings in MFA history. The Boston-area collectors plan to give the MFA not only their art collections, but also a major research library and funding to establish a Center for Netherlandish Art at the MFA, the first of its kind in the U.S. The donation of 113 works by 76 artists—including one of the finest Rembrandt portraits in private hands—will elevate the Museum’s holdings into one of the country’s foremost collections of Dutch art from the Golden Age and significantly strengthen its representation of Flemish paintings from the time. The Center for Netherlandish Art will encourage sharing works of art with wide audiences through collaborative study, generous loans and a commitment to ment

Getty Museum, Getty Center November 21, 2017 – February 18, 2018 The J. Paul Getty Museum has announceda rare exhibition of three celebrated works by the great Italian painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610), on loan from the Galleria Borghese in Rome, home to the largest collection of Caravaggio’s paintings in the world. Caravaggio: Masterpieces from the Galleria Borghese will be on view at the Getty Center from November 21, 2017 through February 18, 2018.    According to Timothy Potts, director of the J. Paul Getty Museum, “These three masterpieces are among Caravaggio’s best-known paintings, and we are extremely grateful to the Galleria Borghese for sharing them with our public. Caravaggio’s revolutionary genius made him one of the most important and beloved figures in European art history. The opportunity to see three of his most renowned works alongside the exceptional 17 th -century Italian masterpieces in our own collection is an event not to be missed.” O

  Delaware Art Museum   March 10 – May 27, 2018 “Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating,” wrote British critic and artist John Ruskin. Nearly one hundred years later, Brandywine Valley artist Andrew Wyeth advised artists to simply, “hold a mirror up to nature. Don’t overdo it, don’t underdo it.” Even though Ruskin came of age during the Industrial Revolution, and Wyeth after the World Wars, the two artists shared a life-long obsession with the close observation of nature. The exhibition Eye on Nature: Andrew Wyeth and John Ruskin , on view at the Delaware Art Museum from March 10 – May 27, 2018, explores how both artists portrayed nature and the environment during tumultuous eras in human history. Eye on Nature , organized by Margaretta S. Frederick, the Annette Woolard-Provine Curator of the Bancroft Collection at the Delaware Art Museum, presents approximately 30 rare watercolors by John Ruskin between 1838 and 1883, the larg

Crocker Art Museum  October 29, 2017 – February 4, 2018 This fall, the Crocker Art Museum brings to Sacramento an exhibition of master drawings by two of 18 th -century Italy’s most famous draftsmen, the father and son Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo. Masters of Venice: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo from the Anthony J. Moravec Collection offers an engaging experience of luminous compositions, as the Tiepolos’ splendid drawings — and the works of other Venetian artists — provide a unique view into the distinctive art of Italy’s lagoon city. On view from October 29, 2017 – February 4, 2018, Masters of Venice provides new insight into two of the city's most important artists. Eighteenth-century Venice was not only home to a lively community of artists and the finest publishing and printmaking industry in Europe, but its unique architecture and traditions also made it a cultural destination for artists, aristocrats, and royalty. Giambattista Tiepolo (1696–177

Norwich Castle 21 October 2017 – 7 January 2018 Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1606-1669) is one of the most revered artists of the European tradition. Rembrandt: Lightening the Darkness focuses specifically on one of the less well-known aspects of Rembrandt’s output, namely his fascination with print-making. During his lifetime, Rembrandt was as famed for his etchings as for his paintings. In Britain, for example, he was far better known as a printmaker producing evocative Dutch landscapes, biblical scenes and sensitive portraits, including many introspective self-portraits. Rembrandt produced 290 etchings during his life and in his hand the etching became a true works of art in its own right. To this day he is widely considered to be the most accomplished etcher of all time. Rembrandt: Lightening the Darkness showcases Norwich Castle’s extraordinary collection of 93 prints and 1 drawing by Rembrandt alongside select loans from the British Museum, Nati

Albertina   25 October 2017 – 21 January  2018 Robert Frank, one of the most influential photographers  of the 20th century’s postwar years, revolutionized classic reportage and street photography. Over a period spanning six decades,  this Swiss - American artist created photographs, experimental montages, books, and films.  The Albertina is showing selected works and series that trace Robert Frank’s development: from his early photojournalistic images created on trips through Europe to the pioneering work group  The Americans and on to his later, more introspective projects, over 100 works will serve to illuminate central aspects of his oeuvre, which has never before seen  presentation in Austria. Dynamism and Contrasts Born in Zurich in 1924 to a German - Jewish family, Robert Frank was granted Swiss citizenship only just before the end of the Second World War. He began his training as a photographer in 1941 and received thorough schooling in the profession’s tools and techn