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Hokusai National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne, Australia July 21, 2017 to October 15, 2017

Undoubtedly one of the most influential artists in the history of Japanese art, Katsushika Hokusai (b. 1760, d. 1849) was a ukiyo-e printmaker and painter of the Edo period known most for his woodblock prints. This Hokusai exhibition will feature 129 of his prints, four paintings and ten rare books on loan from the Japan Ukiyo-e Museum, Matsumoto. Some of Hokusai’s most celebrated works will also be on view, including his series of landscape prints titled Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the NGV collection, including its timeless iconic image, The Great Wave off Kanagawa .

Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa c. 1830 from the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji series 1826–33.

IMAGE COURTESY NATIONAL GALLERY OF VICTORIA, MELBOURNE, FELTON BEQUEST, 1909 (426-2)

Yayoi Kusama: Infinity Mirrors The Broad Museum Los Angeles, California October 2017 to January 2018

The most talked about art show of 2017 is Yayoi Kusama’s traveling exhibition Infinity Mirrors, where the 88-year-old, Japanese-born artist (b. 1929) displays her series of mirror-lined chambers and kaleidoscopic environments alongside other key works. The show also brings the North American debut of All the Eternal Love I Have for the Pumpkins (2016), a whimsical room featuring yellow, dotted pumpkins. A single-installation version of Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room , has been on view at The Broad since 2015 and features endless LED flickering lights in total dark- ness, conceiving an extension of space and a disorientating experience for viewers. If you can’t catch the impressive exhibition at The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden (Feb. 26 to May 14), or The Seattle Art Museum (June 30 to Sept. 10), then head to The Broad this October.

Yayoi Kusama, Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away , 2013.

COURTESY THE BROAD MUSEUM

The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, Ohio September 30, 2017 to January 14, 2018 This unique exhibition will be the first major museum display regarding American style and taste in art and design during the 1920s. “Against a backdrop of traditional historicist styles, a new language of design emerged to define an era of innovation and modernity — the Jazz Age — capturing the pulse and rhythm of the American spirit,” states the Cleveland Museum of Art. This multi-media experience will show more than 400 examples of interior design, decorative art, jewelry, fashion, art, architecture, music and film. Co-organized by Cooper Hewitt and the Cleveland Museum of Art, The Jazz Age can also be seen at New York City’s Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum (April 7 to Aug. 20).

Actaeon, 1925. Paul Manship (American, 1885–1966).

IMAGE COURTESY DAVID OWSLEY MUSEUM OF ART FRANK C. BALL COLLECTION, GIFT OF THE BALL BROTHERS FOUNDATION

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