Don't Miss: Dec. 22-28

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@ Artists Rights Society (ARS)/Museum of Modern Art

Giacomo Balla's 'Abstract Speed + Sound'

A FAREWELL TO FIGURES

Museum of Modern Art, New York,

Sunday through April 15

"Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925" has over 350 multidisciplinary works made during the birth of the movement, including Giacomo Balla's "Abstract Speed + Sound", poetry readings and a video of German dancer Mary Wigman performing.

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Thomas Struth/The National Gallery, London

Family portrait by the German photographer Thomas Struth

LENS MEETS PALETTE

The National Gallery, London, through Jan. 20

The 90-photo "Seduced by Art" focuses on the relationships among early 19th-century photography, contemporary photos and the tradition of painting. The family portrait, pictured here, is by the German photographer Thomas Struth.

Dallas Museum of Art

Théophile Steinlen's ad for sterilized milk

ADS WITH STAYING POWER

Dallas Museum of Art, through Jan. 20

"Posters in Paris" features classics by such artists as Jules Chéret, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Leonetto Cappiello (sometimes called the father of modern advertising). Here, Théophile Steinlen's ad for sterilized milk. A few were stolen from turn-of-the-century billboards.