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WIFREDO LAM: IMAGINING NEW WORLDS More than 40 paintings and many works on paper by Wifredo Lam, who was born in Cuba to parents of Chinese and African-Spanish descent and became a prominent modern artist. Through Dec. 14. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. 617-552-8100, www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/artmuseum

MAKE IT NEW: ABSTRACT PAINTINGS FROM THE NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, 1950-1975 Prestigious, mostly large-scale works by Abstract Expressionist, Color Field, and other postwar artists such as Jackson Pollock, Lee Bontecou, Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns, Yayoi Kusama, and Cy Twombly, all from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. Through Oct. 13. The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 413-458-2303. www.clarkart.edu

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MARK BRADFORD: SEA MONSTERS This exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by the widely admired artist and MacArthur Award winner will include a mural more than 100 feet in length, scaled to match the museum’s glass-fronted Lois Foster wing. The new works reveal the influence of 16th- and 17th-century decorated maps of the sea. Through Dec. 21. Rose Art Museum, Waltham. 781-736-3434, www.brandeis.edu/rose.

BERNARD LANGLAIS An impressive and thoroughly endearing overview of the career of the inventive sculptor, whose works
can also be seen all over Maine. (Pictured: “Auk.”) Through Jan. 4. Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine. 207-859-5600, www.colby.edu/academics_cs/museum


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