The New Season: Fall 2025 - Art, from Calder sculptures to Impressionist masters

The New Season: Fall 2025 - Art exhibits across the U.S.

The New Season: Fall 2025 - Art exhibits across the U.S. 03:26

In Philadelphia this fall, a new oasis awaits: Welcome to Calder Gardens, named for the famed sculptor Alexander Calder.

"I'm hoping that Calder Gardens will really actually be a place for introspection," said Sandy Rower, president of the Calder Foundation (and grandson of the sculptor).

Calder Gardens in Philadelphia is an indoor/outdoor sanctuary filled with 31 works by sculpture Alexander Calder. CBS News

Beneath the garden, 31 Calder works fill an indoor/outdoor sanctuary. The space is meant for reflection and contemplation. "We really want you to be able to have an unmitigated experience. We want nobody between you and the art," Rower said.

As the seasons change, some of the art will, too, complementing the evolving landscape.

"The gardens themselves have this own kind of cyclical nature, rather like a Calder sculpture," said Rower.

Calder is best known for transforming the way we interpret art forms. Rower said, "My grandfather realized you could draw a figure in a wire – like, a two-dimensional drawing but expanded in three dimensions. Make a volumetric drawing of a person, a portrait, or an acrobat, or an animal, or some scene, and creating something that was experienced by people in a very different way than you would a solid mass."

Just like the garden's namesake, the space embraces the unconventional.

An interview view of Calder Gardens in Philadelphia.  Calder Gardens

"I'm trying to work with my grandfather's own idea, where he doesn't predispose you to a certain outcome," Rower said. "He'd like to create a forum where there's an object in space, and you enter that space. The space is part of the work of art. For some people these kind of subtle things can happen, and you can have an experience. Hopefully it's an uplifting one."

Also on display

The Calder Gardens aren't the only place in Philadelphia to immerse yourself in art and nature. The Barnes Foundation this season presents the wild workings of Henri Rousseau.

• "Henri Rousseau: A Painter's Secrets," at the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia (Oct. 19, 2025-Feb. 22, 2026)

Other art world highlights this fall include a host of Impressionist works on display coast-to-coast. Take in Monet's illustrations of Venice in Brooklyn. Look out at Camille Pissarro's landscapes in Denver.  Or say aloha to Mary Cassatt portraits in Hawaii.

• "Monet and Venice," at Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. (Oct. 11, 2025-Feb. 1, 2026)
• "The Honest Eye: Camille Pissarro's Impressionism," at Denver Art Museum (Oct. 26, 2025-Feb. 8, 2026)
• "Mary Cassatt at Work," at Honolulu Museum of Art (through Oct. 12)

"The Church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice," by Claude Monet. 1908. Oil on canvas. Part of the Brooklyn Museum exhibition "Monet and Venice." Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, The Lockton Collection.

Meanwhile, the Baltimore Museum of Art is filled with personalized pastel portraits of Amy Sherald; and the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Northern California celebrates 75 years of Peanuts.

• "Amy Sherald: American Sublime," at Baltimore Museum of Art (Nov. 2, 2025-April 5, 2026)
• "HA! HA! HA! HA! 75 Years of Humor in Peanuts," at the Charles M. Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa, Calif. (through March 18, 2026)

And things are larger than life in Los Angeles, with Robert Therrien's visual tribute to everyday objects – a fresh perspective for a fresh season.

• "Robert Therrien: This is a Story," at the Broad, Los Angeles (Nov. 22, 2025-April 5, 2026)

One of Robert Therrien's oversized constructions, on display in "Robert Therrien: This is a Story," at the Broad, Los Angeles. The Broad

Other exhibitions this fall

Northeast:

• "Northern Lights," at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum in Buffalo, N.Y. (through Jan. 12, 2026)
• "Man Ray: When Objects Dream," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (through Feb. 1, 2026)
• "Grace Hartigan: The Gift of Attention," at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Me. (Oct. 10, 2025-Jan. 11, 2026)
• "Helen Frankenthaler: A Grand Sweep," at the Museum of Modern Art, New York City (Nov. 18, 2025-Feb. 8, 2026)

Left: "Der Rhein (The Rhine)" (2024) by Anselm Kiefer. Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, gold leaf, sediment of electrolysis and charcoal on canvas. At the Saint Louis Art Museum. Right: "Drift, 2020–22" by Jenny Saville. Oil and oil stick on canvas. At the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Private collection/© Anselm Kiefer; Prudence Cuming Associates Ltd., courtesy Gagosian/© Jenny Saville. All rights reserved, DACS 2024.

Midwest:

• "Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea," at the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Mo (Oct. 18, 2025-Jan. 25, 2026)

Southwest: 

• "Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting," at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (Oct. 12, 2025-Jan. 18, 2026)  

West: 

• "Manet and Morisot," at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco (Oct. 11, 2025-March 1, 2026)
• "Monuments," at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (Oct. 23, 2025-May 3, 2026)

International: 

• "Gerhard Richter," at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris (Oct. 17, 2025-March 2, 2026)
• Museo Frida Kahlo opens in Mexico City

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Photos courtesy of:

• Calder Gardens, 2025. Photograph by Tom Powel. Artwork by Alexander Calder © 2025 Calder
• Calder installing Le Guichet (1963) with grandson Alexander S. C. Rower, Lincoln Center, New York, 1965. Photograph by Bob Serating. © 2025 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
• Mary Cassatt: Honolulu Museum of Art
• The Broad, The Broad Art Foundation, The Glenstone Museum, and Mike Kelley
• Charles M. Schulz, 1969. Photo: Tom Vano. © Charles M. Schulz Museum, Santa Rosa, Calif.
• Denver Art Museum: bpk/Philadelphia Museum of Art/Art Resource, N.Y.
• akg-images/Laurent Lecat

      
Story produced by Julie Kracov. Editor: Carol Ross.