Kubrick, Bel Geddes, Cyprus, and more

“Stanley Kubrick”

Los Angeles County

Museum of Art

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Through June 30

Are Kubrick’s films cold, calculated, and controlling? Brilliant, ambitious, and groundbreaking? Or all of the above? This extensive retrospective offers support for each of those views. It begins with Kubrick’s career as a photojournalist at Look magazine, then surveys his filmography: 16 films, starting in 1951, with two documentary short subjects, and ending in 1999, the year he died, with “Eyes Wide Shut.” On display are annotated scripts, production stills, lenses and cameras, set models, costumes, and props. The exhibition also looks at Kubrick projects that never got made, including his biopic about Napoloeon Bonaparte, which at one time was to have starred Jack Nicholson. 5905 Wilshire Blvd., 323-857-6000, www.lacma.org

“I Have Seen the Future:
Norman Bel Geddes Designs America”

Harry Ransom Center

Austin, Texas

Through Jan. 6

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Norman Bel Geddes designed everything from automobiles and stage lighting to nightclub interiors and household appliances. Photographs, diagrams, and sketches from the Ransom collection illustrate the extent and impact of Bel Geddes’s work. 300 West 21st St., 512-471-8944, www.hrc.utexas.edu/

“Heartland: The Photographs of Terry Evans”

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Kansas City, Mo.

Through Jan. 20

This is Evans’s first career retrospective. Comprising 100 photographs, it spans more than four decades and shows why she has has come to be regarded as one of the foremost contemporary practitioners of landscape photography. 4525 Oak St., 816-751-1278, www.nelson-atkins.org

“Hollywood Costume”

Victoria & Albert Museum

London

Through Jan. 27

The title is self-explanatory. Among the more than 100 outfits on display are those worn by such screen characters as Jack Sparrow, Indiana Jones, Scarlett O’Hara, Darth Vader, and Holly Golightly. Cromwell Road, 011-44-20-7942-2000

“Cyprus Between Byzantium and the West”

Louvre Museum

Paris

Through Jan. 28

The eastern Mediterranean island has been a crossroads of multiple cultures for at least three millennia. This wide-ranging show focuses on the centuries between the founding of Constantinople, in the 4th century, and the island’s conquest by the Turks, in 1571. 36 Rue du Louvre, 011-33-1-40-20-53-17, www.louvre.fr

“The Civil War and
American Art”

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Washington, D.C.

Nov. 16-May 28

Using both paintings and photographs, this exhibition looks at how artists depicted both the war itself and its aftermath. Special attention is paid to the work of Winslow Homer, Eastman Johnson, Frederic Church, and Sanford Gifford. 8th and F Sts. NW, 202-633-7970, americanart.si.edu

“Jasper Johns: Seeing
With the Mind’s Eye”

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Through Feb. 3

This career survey of the artist who is perhaps America’s most esteemed living master includes paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints covering his six-decade-long career. 151 Third St., 415-357-4000, www.sfmoma.org

“War/Photography: Images
of Armed Conflict and
Its Aftermath”

Houston Museum of Fine Arts

Through Feb. 3

For more than a century and a half the camera has recorded warfare. This sprawling overview of the subject contains more than 500 items. In addition to photographs, they include books, magazines, and photographic equipment. 1001 Bissonet, 713-639-7300, www.mfah.org

“Claes Oldenburg:
The Sixties”

Through Feb. 13

Guggenheim Museum

Bilbao, Spain

This is the largest exhibition devoted to the decade that established Oldenburg’s reputation. Works on display include his groundbreaking installations “The Street” and “The Store.” Avenida Adandoibarra, 2, 011-34-944-35-90-00, www.guggenheim-bilbao.es

“The Young Van Dyck”

Prado Museum

Madrid

Nov. 20-March 3

This exhibition focuses on the years 1613-21. when the young artist was in Antwerp establishing himself before departing for England. On display are 90 paintings and drawings. Calle Ruiz de Alarcon, 011-34-91-330-2800, www.museodelprado.es/en

MARK FEENEY