• Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  

• Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977
  The Art Institute of Chicago
  

• Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960 - 1980
  The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
  

• Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface
  Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
  

• The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  

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• Edward Hopper's Maine
  Bowdoin College Museum of Art

• It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973
  Pomona College Museum of Art  
  
  
• The Life and Death of Buildings
  Princeton University Art Museum

• Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
  Harvard Art Museums
  

• The Weir Family, 1820-1920: Expanding the Traditions of American Art
  Brigham Young University Museum of Art
  

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• A New View: European, American and Decorative Arts
  Saint Louis Museum of Art
  

• African Innovations
  Brooklyn Museum

• Artist's Eye, Artist's Hand: American Indian Art Gallery Reinstallation
  Denver Art Museum
  

• Expansion and re-installation of Asian art galleries
  Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University
  

• Painting & Sculpture II
  The Museum of Modern Art
  

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• A Divine Light: Northern Renaissance Paintings from the Bob Jones University Museum & Gallery
  Frist Center for the Visual Arts
  

• Antico: The Golden Age of Renaissance Bronzes
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  

• The Art of Daily Life: Portable Objects from Southeast Africa
  Cleveland Museum of Art
  
  

• In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre-Civil War New Orleans
  Worcester Art Museum
  

• Potters of Precision: The Coors Porcelain Company
  Denver Art Museum