Through the popularity of his smiling flowers and collaborations with Kanye West and fashion empire Louis Vuitton, Japanese artist Takashi Murakami’s work has become part of contemporary culture. A survey of the artist’s career, The Octopus Eats Its Own Leg, is on view through September 16 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Mural-sized works make for excellent Instagram fodder. themodern.org 

For the next five years, on the night of the full moon, the grasslands east of Marfa will come alive with sound and light. Stone circle by Haroon Mirza—recognized for his mystical experiments with technology—is Ballroom Marfa’s biggest public commission since Elmgreen & Dragset built their perpetually closed Prada store in 2005. The circle of black boulders is inspired by megalith contractions like Stonehenge, with embedded LEDs and speakers powered by solar patterns and the adjacent “mother stone” responding during the full moon. A series of events are planned at the installation, drawing visitors out to the futuristic experience with ancient ritual. ballroommarfa.org

With paper and paint, Belgian artist Isabelle de Borchgrave sculpts tributes to historical fashion. This survey is the first to unite her four main collections: Papiers à la Mode, which contrasts the ruffs of Elizabeth I with the simple elegance of Coco Chanel; the World of Mariano Fortuny, on twentieth-century Venice; Splendor of the Medici, on the ceremonial garb of Florence; and Les Ballets Russes, on the ballet company’s costume designs. Kaftans based on Silk Road textiles will join the assembly, but don’t be fooled by their tactile appearance: every single textile is a trompe l’oeil of paper. okcmoa.com

Long overlooked compared to her male contemporaries in the West Coast Light and Space movement, Mary Corse is finally getting her due. This first solo museum survey showcases the breadth of her career going back to the 1960s, when she started experimenting with the qualities of light through reflecting and refracting materials like plexiglass, ceramic tiles, and metallic flakes. Visitors to the Whitney may want to complement this exhibition with a brief train ride up to Beacon, New York, where Dia: Beacon opened a focused gallery on her paintings in May. whitney.org

The mires, the silk stoles, the pope’s red shoes—the Catholic Church has style. And that pomp has, in turn, influenced haute couture. This exhibition is spread across two of the Met’s Manhattan branches, the main museum on Fifth Avenue and the medieval gardens and Gothic chapels of the Cloisters, uptown. It contrasts medieval art with high fashion, such as the gilt radiance of a Byzantine processional cross with the ornamentation on a 1990s Versace evening dress, and features loans of papal robes and accessories, some on view for the first time outside the Vatican. metmuseum.org

In her labyrinthine installations, Los Angeles native Lauren Halsey uses architecture and an excess of found objects to celebrate working-class neighborhoods. Over her six-month residency at MOCA Grand Avenue, she is building and constantly altering a series of explorable caves, creating an exuberant three-dimensional archive of black life in South Central Los Angeles. As with the artist’s recent Hieroglyph Project, with Egyptian-like hieroglyphics that visitors could carve into blank walls, the sculptural caverns grandly commemorate local stories and history. moca.org