Getty Center
Feb. 2-June 6, 2010
Exploring the pioneering work of British photographer Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853–1943), from his famous pictures of cathedrals to his less-known explorations of photomicrography (photography made using a microscope)
Curator: Anne Lyden

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Feb. 2, 2010-May 9, 2010
Forty-eight works from the 1850s and 1860s, focusing on the phenomenon of collages made by aristocratic Victorian women
Curators: Elizabeth Siegel, Malcolm Daniel
Catalogue: 200 pp., $45
Funding: Hite Foundation
Tour: This show has already been seen at the Art Institute of Chicago

Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University
Feb. 4-May 16, 2010
Exploring the history of political caricature from Daumier and his contemporaries to cartoonists working under the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush presidencies
Curator: Neil McWilliam

Museum of Modern Art
Feb. 5, 2010-ongoing
Exploring the "overlooked dimension of temporality" in design, via objects like Ingo Maurer’s Porca Miseria! chandelier, Ammar Eloueini’s CoReFab chair, Christien Meindertsma’s book PIG 05049, and many other objects
Curators: Paola Antonelli, Patricia Juncosa-Vecchierini

MIT List Visual Art Center
Feb. 5, 2010-Apr. 4, 2010
Videos, installations, photographs, and performances exploring cross-dressing as a part of contemporary art practice, from Charles Atlas, Matthew Barney, Claude Cahun, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn, Marcel Duchamp, Michelle Handelman, John Kelly, Katarzyna Kozyra, Kalup Linzy, Ma Liuming, Manon, Pierre Molinier, Yasumasa Morimura, Brian O’Doherty, Ryan Trecartin, and Andy Warhol
Curator: Michael Rush
Funding: Council for the Arts at MIT, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and Martin E. Zimmerman. Media sponsor: Phoenix Media/Communications Group

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Feb. 6-May 2, 2010
ca. 75 key paintings from 1985 to the present by the Belgian painter of photographs
Curators: Madeleine Grynsztejn, Helen Molesworth
Catalogue: 228 pp., $60
Funding: Bruce and Martha Atwater, Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein, Flanders House, SFMOMA's Collectors Forum
Tour: Wexner Center for the Arts, Sept. 17, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Feb. 6-May 30, 2010
Exploring the idea of the artist’s studio as an art subject, via multi-channel video projections, photographic light-boxes and installations and life-sized fabrications of artists' studios
Curator: Dominic Molon

Parrish Art Museum
Feb. 7-Apr. 4, 2010
Fifty figurative works and landscapes in a wide range of materials and media including pencil, ink, oil stick, and charcoal, drawings, prints and paintings
Curator: David Moos
Catalogue: 104 pp., $45
Funding: Stacy and Douglas Polley, Marcia and Jonathan Sobel
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Gallery at the Windsor, Vero Beach, Fla.

China Institute
Feb. 11-June 13, 2010
Paintings, bronzes, clothes, other objects associated with Confucius, exploring the life, teachings, and posthumous veneration of the great Chinese philosopher
Curators: Lu Wensheng, Julia Murray

Guggenheim Museum
Feb. 12-Apr. 28, 2010
Proposals for "dream interventions" into the Frank Lloyd Wright’s Guggenheim Museum space by 200+ artists, architects and designers, solicited for the occasion of the building’s 50th anniversary
Curators: Nancy Spector, David van der Leer
Funding: Leadership Committee for "Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum"

Brooklyn Museum
Feb. 12-May 2, 2010
100+ artifacts exploring how ancient Egyptians prepared for the afterlife: the Bird Lady; a painted limestone relief of Queen Neferu; a gilded mummy cartonnage of a woman; the shroud of Neferhotep; a gilded mummy mask of a man; and a gold amulet representing the human soul
Curator: Edward Bleiberg
Catalogue: contributions by Edward Bleiberg, Kathlyn M. Cooney
Fund: Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, Fred and Diana Elghanayan, Magda Saleh and Jack Josephson

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Feb. 14-various dates
The MFAH opens five exhibitions simultaneously, focusing on four greats of American art: "Prendergast in Italy" (closes May 9, 2010); "Sargent and the Sea," (closes May 23, 2010); "Houston´s Sargents" (closes May 9, 2010); "Alice Neel: Painted Truths" (closes June 13, 2010); "The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture" (closes August 29, 2010)

Clark Art Institute
Feb. 14-Apr. 25, 2010
The early life and work of Italian portraitist Giovanni Boldini (1842–1931)
Curator: Sarah Lees
Catalogue: 232 pp., $60
Tour: This show has already been seen at the Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, Italy, Sept. 20, 2009-Jan. 10, 2010

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Feb. 14-May 9, 2010
Focusing on Renoir’s late paintings, which were "decorative, classical, and informed by a highly personal interpretation of the Great Tradition"
Curators: J. Patrice Marandel, Claudia Einecke, Sylvie Patry
Catalogue:  480 pp., $85
Funding: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Foundation
Tour: This show has already been seen at the Grand Palais, Paris; it continues to the Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 12-Sept. 5, 2010

Yale Center for British Art
Feb. 18-May 30, 2010
Exploring "the role of mathematics in the transformation of both architectural design and the role of the architect" during the English Renaissance, via Inigo Jones, Sir Christopher Wren, and a cast of less-familiar characters
Curator: Elisabeth Fairman
Catalogue: 192 pp., $65
Tour: This show has already appeared at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Works by Pablo Picasso from the years 1905 and 1945, alongside pieces by Marc Chagall, Jacques Lipchitz, Patrick Henry Bruce and Man Ray
Curator: Michael Taylor
Funding: GlaxoSmithKline, others

Whitney Museum of American Art
Feb. 25-May 30, 2010
The always controversial survey of American art features just 55 artists this year, more than half of them women
Curators: Francesco Bonami, Gary Carrion-Murayari
Catlogue: 256 pp., $45
Funding: Deutsche Bank, Sotheby’s

Walker Art Center
Feb. 27-May 23, 2010
Works from the early 1950s to brand-new commissions by "artists who revolted against the esthetic orthodoxies of their time": Francis Bacon, Lynda Benglis, Anthony Caro, John Chamberlain, Sarah Charlesworth, Bruce Conner, Willem de Kooning, Hollis Frampton, Lucio Fontana, Robert Gober, Philip Guston, Rachel Harrison, Thomas Hirschhorn, Ellsworth Kelly, Yayoi Kusama, Paul McCarthy, Robert Motherwell, Otto Mühl, Cady Noland, Gedi Sibony, Paul Sietsema, Kara Walker, Andro Wekua and Cathy Wilkes
Curator: Yasmil Raymond
Funding: Michael Peel, Lisa and Pat Denzer, Leni and David Moore, Jr., Robert Lehman Foundation

Hammer Museum, UCLA
Feb. 27-June 13, 2010
Photographs by Italian artist Luisa Lambri (b. 1969), focusing on details of the houses of Southern California architect John Lautner – specifically, the windows
Curator: Douglas Fogle

National Gallery of Art
Feb. 28-May 31, 2010
Seventieth-century masterpieces by painters Diego Velázquez, Francisco de Zurbarán and Francisco Pacheco, alongside painted and gilded sculptures by Gregorio Fernández, Juan Martínez Montañés, Pedro de Mena, others
Curator: Xavier Bray
Catalogue: 224 pp., $65
Funding: Robert H. Smith, Charles Engelhard Foundation, anonymous donor
Tour: This show has already been seen at the National Gallery, London