Artworthy

Artworthy is a recurring feature that calls out exhibitions, fairs, and/or other art world events worth your precious free time. This weekend's pick:

It's last call for a host of exhibitions at museums around the country. (Here at Figure Painting, we are trying to become less New York City-centered.) Improve your cultural IQ and check out one of these shows in a city near you before it's packed up and put back in storage (or shipped to the next stop on its tour circuit).

What: Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode
Where: Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
When: Through January 6th
Why: As New Orleans rebuilds its streets, the city's center for contemporary art presents work inspired by those of metropolises from Los Angeles to Lima.

What: Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
When: Through January 6th
Why: When this exhibition of art inspired by that most American musical genre opened in the fall, Dorothy Spears of the New York Times wrote that it "promises to be one of the more entertaining, informative — and raucous — museum visits of the fall season."

What: Roman Art From the Louvre
Where: Indianapolis Museum of Art
When: Through January 6th
Why: The Louvre seems to be everywhere these day — Atlanta, Abu Dhabi...and the Midwestern plains of Indiana. What makes this exhibition special is that the plus-or-minus 180 objects crafted between the first century B.C. and the fourth century A.D. have never been seen in the U.S. before.

What: Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination
Where: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
When: Through January 6th
Why: Launch this elegant interactive feature designed to highlight the major themes in this retrospective, and you'll no doubt be convinced to go see the real thing for yourself.

What: The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Where: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
When: Through January 6th
Why: This blockbuster kicked up some dust for being organized according to donor as opposed to, say, chronologically or thematically. Go to see what Rembrandt, Vermeer, and van Ruisdael painted. Or what Vanderbilt, Wrightsman, and Marquand bought.

Joseph Cornell, Untitled (Cockatoo with Watch Faces), ©The Joseph and Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, New York, Photo Credit: Michael Tropea