This season, the nation’s museums and galleries are inviting visitors to meditate on collective experience, with exhibitions that explore interconnectedness and collaboration.
In Palo Alto, Calif., a collection chronicles the long friendship between Alexander Calder and Georgia O’Keeffe, tracing their influence on each other. “Shared Ground: Art and Animals,” an exhibition in Idaho Falls, Idaho, examines the ways in which humans are inextricably bound to animals, while “Mountain—Hour—Face,” in San Antonio, draws out the connection between people and art with sculptures that gently shift in response to viewers’ movements through the space.
In Washington, Chinese textiles from the Ming and Qing dynasties are placed alongside contemporary Japanese metalwork to illuminate connections across time and place. In Seattle, the sculptor Karon Davis deploys the metaphor of a circus to confront the complicated feelings inherent in performing for others.
Here is a selection of exhibitions from around the country.
SAN ANTONIO
“Suki Seokyeong Kang: Mountain—Hour—Face”
This exhibition brings viewers inside the rolling, rhythmic terrain of the working life of Suki Seokyeong Kang, the South Korean artist who died in 2025. Showcasing nearly 40 pieces created from 2014 to 2024, the show includes two of Kang’s hwamunseok mats, which are handwoven from dried plants, as well as pieces from her “Mountain — hours” series, which shift in response to visitors’ movements.
—Morgan Malget and Abby McCarter
