Mid-Atlantic

PRINCETON, N.J.

“Cézanne: The Rock and Quarry Paintings”

Through June 14

When a renowned curator like John Elderfield, formerly of the Museum of Modern Art, asks us to look again at a hyper-specific part of a great artist’s oeuvre, it is best to follow his lead. Mr. Elderfield, now a curator at the Princeton University Art Museum, has trained his eye on the rock formations painted by Paul Cézanne, and he has gathered about 15 paintings in the genre, some of them major loans. He demonstrates how the artist’s longtime interest in geology helped turn him into the master we know today. Princeton University Art Museum, artmuseum.princeton.edu

New York

CORNING

“In Sparkling Company: Glass and Social Life in Britain During the 1700s”

May 9 to Jan. 3

The early 20th-century world of “Downton Abbey” is appealingly lavish, but it looks positively threadbare compared to the splendor of 18th-century Britain, as presented in this show in upstate New York. Buffeted by economic and intellectual tailwinds, the craftsmanship of tableware and other decorative items was at a high point in the period. Visitors will see some remaining elements of the famous “glass drawing room,” designed by the acclaimed architect Robert Adam for the duke of Northumberland; it once featured green glass pilasters. Corning Museum of Glass, cmog.org

NEW YORK CITY

“Studio 54: Night Magic”

Through July 5

The louche and licentious world of the short-lived nightclub Studio 54 might seem a slender reed on which to hang a museum show, but the Brooklyn Museum is going all out to prove that suspicion wrong. The exhibition ranges over documentation of the club itself to the fashion, art and photography of the era. And it even goes back to earlier iterations of cocktail and nightlife culture, finding room for 1930s glassware in its very eclectic mix. Brooklyn Museum, brooklynmuseum.org

“Gerhard Richter: Painting

After All”

Through July 5

Routinely listed as one of the greatest living painters and producer of works garnering record-setting auction sales, the German artist Gerhard Richter is 88 and is only now getting his biggest New York museum show. Spanning 60 years via more than 100 works, the exhibition will present his seminal “blur” works like “Uncle Rudi” (1965) as well as his splattery, painterly and colorful compositions like “Abstract Painting” (2016). He has had many styles and periods, all of them suffused to differing degrees with Germany’s painful and complicated 20th-century history. Met Breuer, metmuseum.org

“Other Points of View”

Through May 17

The motto of the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art is “the future is queer,” but for this show it looks to the past for illumination. The independent curator Tirza True Latimer uses a short-lived magazine— View (1940-47), founded by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler — as the prism to examine mid-20th-century art from an L.B.G.T.Q. perspective. The more than 100 works include cover art from the magazine; several works by Mr. Ford himself, and some that depict him; and other works of the time that may take on new meaning in a new context, by the likes of Georgia O’Keeffe, Isamu Noguchi and others. Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, leslielohman.org

“Nam June Paik: Art in Process”

May 5 to July 3

Gagosian has represented the estate of the video art pioneer Nam June Paik since 2015 but has not shown his work in New York, other than at fairs, until now. So the gallery is giving over two of its exhibition spaces to the Korean-American artist, and the show will include pieces that have never been on display, including painted sections of the “Berlin Wall” (2005), as well as the acclaimed video work “One Candle, Candle Projection” (1988-2000). For anyone who missed the just-closed show of his work at the Tate Modern — or even for those who caught it — this exhibition will be a must-see. Gagosian, gagosian.com