Listed below are the partner museum shows we're most excited about this season, which are always free for you and a guest with your Cultivist Card in hand.

ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN at LACMA (7 April - 6 October 2024) This exhibition will feature over 250 objects—in mediums including painting, drawing, prints, photography, artist’s books, film, and installation—that use everything from gunpowder to chocolate. Exploring Ruscha’s landmark contributions to postwar American art as well as lesser-known aspects of his six-decade career, the exhibition will offer new perspectives on a body of work that has influenced generations of artists, architects, designers, and writers.

Gary Simmons: Public Enemy at SFMoMA (until 28 April 2024) This is the first comprehensive career survey of the work of multidisciplinary artist Gary Simmons (b. 1964, New York; lives in Los Angeles). The exhibition covers thirty years of the artist's career, encompassing approximately seventy works, the most in-depth presentation of Simmons's work to date.

Klimt Landscapes at Neue Galerie (until 6 May 2024) This exhibition showcases Gustav Klimt's idyllic landscape paintings, created during his summer vacations in the Austrian countryside. The presentation explores the evolution of Klimt's style, from historicism and Symbolism to the Golden Style and influences from French artists. It places Klimt's landscapes within the context of his larger oeuvre and examines his relationships, techniques, and contributions to Viennese avant-garde culture.

The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure at the National Portrait Gallery in London (until 19 May 2024) Curated by Ekow Eshun, the exhibition features contemporary artists from the African diaspora, such as Michael Armitage, Lubaina Himid, Kerry James Marshall, Toyin Ojih Odutola, and Amy Sherald. It explores the representation of the Black figure in Western art history, shedding light on both its presence and absence, unravelling a narrative of representation within various social, psychological, and cultural contexts. The artworks delve into the richness and complexity of Black life through figures.

LÉONCE ROSENBERG’S APARTMENT. DE CHIRICO, ERNST, LÉGER, PICABIA... at Musee Picasso (until 19 May 2024) Léonce Rosenberg's unique living space, created in 1928-1929 at 75 rue Longchamp in Paris, combined paintings by inter-war artists with antique and modern furniture, reflecting a modern lifestyle. The exhibition at the Musée Picasso-Paris reunites paintings and sculptures from this venue, showcasing the coherence of the extraordinary space designed by the art dealer, whose financial downfall in 1929 led to the dispersal of the decor.

Kehinde Wiley: An Archaeology of Silence at MFA Houston (until 27 May 2024) Kehinde Wiley is showcasing his new monumental body of work, An Archaeology of Silence, in Houston. The exhibition features large-scale paintings and sculptures that confront systemic violence and injustice, using the visual language of Western European historical art to explore the iconography of repose and sacrifice. Created against the backdrop of the pandemic and the Black Lives Matter movement, the works served as elegies and monuments, addressing how Black people were perceived and heard. 

Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism at MFA Houston (until 27 May 2024) In the transformative summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and André Derain collaborated, birthing the revolutionary art movement of Fauvism. Vertigo of Color unveils this legacy through a collection of iconic works on loan from various institutions, capturing the essence of their experimentation with vibrant colour and form during their stay in the French fishing village of Collioure.

Yayoi Kusama: Infinite Love at SFMoMA (until 28 May 2024) Step into the mesmerizing world of Yayoi Kusama, a globally celebrated artist. Encounter her iconic Infinity Mirror Rooms, including the newest addition, Dreaming of Earth’s Sphericity, I Would Offer My Love, and immerse yourself in the expansive and vivid environment of LOVE IS CALLING, one of Kusama's largest and most immersive works.

Simone Leigh at LACMA and CAAM (26 May 2024 - 20 January 2025) Simone Leigh's traveling exhibition, organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston and co-presented at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the California African American Museum, is the first comprehensive survey of the artist's diverse work spanning 20 years. Featuring ceramics, bronze, video, and installations, the exhibit explores Black femme subjectivity and knowledge production, referencing African diaspora processes and traditions. 

Georgia O’Keeffe: My NewWorks at The Art Institute of Chicago (2 June - 22 September 2024) Renowned for her floral and Southwestern landscape paintings, Georgia O’Keeffe turned her attention to New York City's built environment in the 1920s. Residing in the Shelton Hotel, the city's tallest residential skyscraper at the time, she embarked on a five-year period of experimental artwork, capturing monumental skyscrapers from street-level and suspended views from her 30th-floor apartment, exploring the dynamic interplay between the organic and inorganic elements of New York's cityscape.