Another month, another Arts Digest. This meaty resource I’ve researched, curated, and written (no AI used in this process, ever) aims to connect you with exhibitions, events, jobs, and opportunities in the art world that are actually worth your time.
Pay tribute to the late artist Betye Saar this month by visiting her current shows in Los Angeles and New York. In the Bay Area, living woman artist GaHee Park gets a solo show this month at YBCA and an opening party you’ll want to attend. Plus, a reminder to visit the final weeks of shows by acclaimed contemporary artists Amy Sherald and Suzanne Jackson, two of my favorite exhibition I’ve seen in the past twelve months.
In addition to see lots of great art, I want you to stop scrolling for hours on LinkedIn looking for your dream job this month, and let me do the work for you. Below the paywall, explore over 50+ very cool arts/writing/music/history/publishing-adjacent jobs at some of the most respected arts institutions and brands in the world. If a 9-5 isn’t on your vision board, submit your art and writing to one of the galleries and publications I found sharing open calls in throughout the month.
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*indicate exhibitions showing work by living women artists
Through August 22: Let’s Get It On: The Wearable Art of Betye Saar at Roberts Projects, Los Angeles
*August 23 - January 3: Eileen Cowin: Between Panic and Paradise at LACMA
Through October 11: Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind at The Broad (free every Thursday evening 5-8pm)
August 8 - October 3: Ruth Asawa: Endless Variations at Ruth Asawa Lanier Inc. at Minnesota Street Project
Through July 25, 2027: Joan Miró: Proof Against All at Legion of Honor
August 1: Treasures of the Pharaohs at de Young Museum, San Francisco
*August 15 - February 28: A Gallery of Their Own: Women Artists from the Carr and Goldblum Gift at de Young Museum, San Francisco (free on Saturdays)
*August 7-1/3/2027: GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (free on Wednesdays)
Through August 23: Diedrick Brackens: gather tender night at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
Through October 11: Arch Connelly: Straighten Your Wig and Pray at Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
*Through November 29: Gleefully Askew: A Gladys Nilsson Retrospective at Sacramento’s Crocker Art Museum
*August 6: No Place at Silver Lens Gallery, New York featuring Marigold Santos and other early- to mid-career painters in the Southeast Asian diaspora (free)
Through September 29: Yves Saint Laurent and Photography at International Center of Photography, New York
*Through October 4: Betye Saar’s Black Dolls at The New York Historical
Through October 18: Betty Parsons: An Expanded World at Hessel Museum of Art
*August 27 - January 18: Leilah Babirye at ICA Boston
Through August 2: Subvert, Repair, Reclaim: Contemporary Artists Take Back the Nude at MFA Boston
Through August 2: Isamu Noguchi: “I am not a designer” at High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Through August 23: Suzanne Jackson: What Is Love at Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis (then travels to MFA Boston! read my review of its SF run)
Through August 30: Abstract Expressionists: The Women (Joan Mitchell, Vivian Springford, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner) at Speed Art Museum, Louisville KY
*Through September 6: Drawing in Thread: Olga de Amaral and Anne Wilson at Cranbrook Art Museum, Michigan
*Through September 27: Amy Sherald: American Sublime at High Museum of Art, Atlanta
*Through 9/27: Maria A. Guzmán Capron: New Works at Sarasota Art Museum, Florida
*Through Winter 2027: Yayoi Kusama: “Aftermath of Obliteration of Eternity” at Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
August 1 - January 4: Gwen John: Strange Beauties at National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Through January 17: Ana Mendieta at Tate Modern, London
*Though August 31: Tracey Emin: A Second Life at Tate Modern, London
Through August 16: Alexander Calder at Fondation Louis Vuitton
*Through October 4: Carolina Caycedo: Confluences at Museu de Art de Sao Paulo
*Through October 19: Marina Abramović: Transforming Energy at Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia
*Through October 18: Michaela Yearwood-Dan at The Whitworth, Manchester, UK
Through November 1: Mariuccia Secol: Unraveling at Muzeum Susch, Switzerland
Aspen, August 1: The Aspen Art Fair
Sante Fe, August 6-9: Whitehawk Antique Indian & Ethnographic Art Show
San Francisco, August 7: Opening Night Celebration for GaHee Park: Behind the Curtain with artist and curator in attendance (free)
Los Angeles, August 7-9: TRYST Independent Alternative Art Fair
Los Angeles, August 8: A Night Celebrating The Music of Yoko Ono at The Broad ($65)
San Francisco, August 15: SCRAP (secondhand art supply store founded by Ruth Asawa) new location grand opening
San Francisco, August 20: Late Night Editions: Treasures of the Pharaohs at the de Young Museum
San Francisco, August 20-22: Creativity Explored Studio Sale
New York: 7th AIM Biennial Culminating Artist Open House at the Bronx Museum (free)
Melbourne, Australia, August 27-30: Affordable Art Fair (all works under $10,000AUD)
Marseille, France, August 28-30: ART-O-RAMA Art Fair
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