Visual Art | JACQUELINE HOUTON 

Exhibits Close to Home…

Gift of Robert Bradford Wheaton and Barbara Ketcham Wheaton © ’67 Neon Rose, photo © Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Fifty years ago, flower children flocked to San Francisco for the Summer of Love. Now Haight-Ashbury is hitting Boston for The Summer of Love: Photography and Graphic Design, on display at the MFA from July 6 through Oct. 22. Exploring the era’s psychedelic aesthetic and eye-straining typography through album covers and concert posters (like Victor Moscoso’s Neon Rose 12), the exhibit also includes more than 30 photos by Herb Greene, who captured everyday life in the Haight and music icons like Jefferson Airplane, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead. mfa.org

DTR Modern Galleries is inviting street art inside from June 9 through July 28 for its Summer Street Art Show, highlighting work by mystery man Banksy, his alleged protege Mr. Brainwash, RISD alum Shepard Fairey, Miami painter Flore, Tokyo stencil wielder Campbell La Pun and LA-based artist Dan Monteavaro, aka Moncho1929, whose piece Gossip is pictured here. dtrmodern.com

ICA/Boston, The Barbara Lee Collection of Art by Women. Courtesy the artist and Petzel, New York. © Dana Schutz

Fresh off her showing at the Whitney Biennial—where her painting of Emmett Till, Open Casket, drew controversy—the ICA presents an exhibition of works by Dana Schutz, the New York-based artist known for her frenetic compositions and often surreal subject matter. On view from July 26 through Nov. 26, it features five charcoal drawings and 16 paintings, including 2016 work Big Wave, a 10-by-13-foot painting acquired by the ICA in December that’s never before been displayed in the U.S. icaboston.org

And Farther Afield…

Courtesy of Mary Lum, photo by Jason Reinhold

Head west, young (and old) art lovers, because on May 28, North Adams’ MASS MoCA unveils Building 6, a 130,000-square-foot expansion that doubles the museum’s elbow room. Its inaugural exhibitions include trenchant text art by Jenny Holzer, multimedia installations by former artist in residence Laurie Anderson, marble sculptures by Louise Bourgeois (including one that weighs 15 tons) and Mary Lum’s Assembly (Lorem Ipsum), a large-scale wall work that adorns the new indoor bike path. massmoca.org

Museum Works of Art Fund. RISD Museum, Providence, RI

Paris is just a commuter rail ride away thanks to Altered States: Etching in Late 19th-Century Paris. On view at Providence’s RISD Museum from June 30 through Dec. 3, the exhibit examines a period when prints became a medium for original art in their own right, gathering works on paper by major figures like Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt and lesser-known names such as Félix Bracquemond, who was only 19 when he created The Top of a Door, this creepy 1852 work depicting birds and a bat nailed to a barn door. risdmuseum.org

Photo by James Zimmerman

Edward Hopper and his wife Josephine spent nearly 40 summers on Cape Cod, and now their work has a permanent home at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, which recently acquired 96 of his drawings and 69 of her drawings and watercolors—like the one shown here—along with 22 diaries chronicling their lives from 1933 to 1956. Hop on the ferry to check them out in Edward and Josephine Hopper from the Permanent Collection, on display from Aug. 25 through Oct. 15. paam.org