Uptown: Cooper Hewitt & Design

Carol Bove will be the first museum survey and largest presentation to date of the work of American artist Carol Bove. The exhibition will trace pivotal shifts across Bove’s 25-year career, ranging from her early drawings to a new, monumental series of her scrap metal and steel tubing compositions known as “collage sculptures.” The artist will also orchestrate a series of design interventions that subtly inflect the experience of navigating Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic rotunda, reflecting her longstanding interest in the way objects and images are transformed by their surroundings. Bove’s inventive practice spans many mediums and formal approaches but is unified by an exacting play of material, scale, color, and space. She places these elements in dialogue with cultural histories and the viewer’s imagination to create the conditions for a resonant perceptual encounter—one that will function, in the words of the artist, as “a way of opening the world.”

Mar 5 - Aug 2

HiFi Pursuit Listening Room Dream No. 3 presents a large handmade audio system by Devon Turnbull, also known as OJAS. Designed as an immersive listening environment, the installation will host curated sonic programs by collectors, archivists, audiophiles, and musicians throughout the exhibition’s run.

Dec 12 - Aug 16

After a celebrated decade at the Bauhaus, Paul Klee was dismissed from his teaching post by the Nazis, labeled a "Galician Jew," and forced into exile in his own country of birth. Other Possible Worlds at the Jewish Museum—the first American show focused on Klee's late work—presents 100 paintings and drawings from his final decade, when fascism and a fatal autoimmune disease drove him to abandon his luminous style for something far darker and more urgent.

Mar 20 - Jul 26

Among the final works of Saint Phalle's career, Ω / Omega was created in 2001 in collaboration with artist Pierre Marie Lejeune. It's one of her most cosmologically charged pieces. The monumental toroidal form — nearly seven feet tall and constructed in mirrored glass, inlaid glass, corten steel, and an integrated electric light — distills the full iconographic vocabulary of her late practice into a grand, luminous whole. Across its mosaic surface, Saint Phalle's signature cast of creatures animate the composition: birds and serpents, flowers and faces, a crescent moon. The work's title invokes the last letter of the Greek alphabet, signaling not an ending but a culmination or resolution. A summation of the mythic, matriarchal world Saint Phalle spent decades constructing. It's the punctuation mark to a storied career.

Jun 25 - Jul 31

Organized by SFMOMA, Art of Noise celebrates 100 years of design for music — from concert posters and record albums to phonographs, boomboxes, and digital players. Featuring 300+ artworks from Cooper Hewitt and SFMOMA collections, plus teenage engineering's interactive installation and Devon Turnbull's immersive listening room.

Feb 13 - Aug 16