Museum Events: "Don't Miss: May 19-25"

    May 18, 2012, 5:13 p.m. ET
    [DONT MISS]Barnes Foundation

    Dr. Albert C. Barnes's treasure trove of art

    Barnes Raising

    Philadelphia; opens to public Saturday

    Dr. Albert C. Barnes's treasure trove includes 181 Renoirs, 46 Picassos and 59 Matisses (the doctor himself commissioned "The Dance"). These works and more have relocated from the Barnes Foundation campus in the Philadelphia suburb of Merion to a new 93,000-square-foot home downtown, not far from the city's main art museum.

    DONT MISS
    Harvard Art Museums

    'Scent' (1976) Jasper Johns

    A Technique Triptych

    Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, Mass., Tuesday-Aug. 18

    The 20-plus work show "Jasper Johns/In Press" explores the artist as printmaker, featuring many of his "crosshatch" works like "Scent" (1976). Lithograph (left portion), linocut (center portion) and woodcut techniques (right portion) are used in the work.

    DONT MISS
    Morgan Library/Graham S. Haber

    The map of the world showing Magellan's Route

    Venice Before Google Maps

    The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, through Sept. 23

    The map of the world showing Magellan's Route from "Portolan Atlas" by Battista Agnese will be among the 74 works in "Renaissance Venice: Drawings from the Morgan." The exhibition includes portraiture, landscape and religious imagery like Titian's drawing "Landscape with St. Theodore Overcoming the Dragon."

    A version of this article appeared May 19, 2012, on page C14 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Don't Miss: May 19-25.

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