When Margaret Kilgallen died in 2001 at the age of thirty-three, she was beginning to receive acclaim for her paintings and murals. In this first posthumous museum exhibition, the Aspen Art Museum explores her vibrant experimentation, with influences that ranged from letterpress and printmaking to folk art and freight-train graffiti. Along with her husband, artist Barry McGee, she was a central fi gure in the Bay Area Mission School art movement, based in San Francisco. Through found paper and illustrations that frequently featured ordinary people doing everyday things, she discovered beauty in the most humble of places. aspenartmuseum.org

In Kambui Olujimi’s solo show, a group of chandeliers are piled on a makeshift raft . Although marooned, they are still illuminated, still dignified as beautiful objects. Through elegant works like this, the Brooklynbased artist evokes the failures of global systems of power, whether in the refugee crisis, incarceration, or public housing, as expressed in huge images of the imploding Pruitt-Igoe housing project in St. Louis. On one wall, thirteen flags have their nationalistic symbols replaced with photographs of rocket catastrophes, the fiery scenes a reminder of the potential for collapse in our modern empires. blantonmuseum.org

Ansel Adams didn’t just capture the majesty of American landscapes—he recognized the importance of protecting them. He advocated for the establishment of national parks, and for limitations on development in the country’s surviving wilderness. This exhibition joins Adams’ images with those by fellow twentieth-century landscape photographers like Edward Weston, Laura Gilpin, and Eliot Porter, revealing the diverse ways they promoted environmental advocacy in their art. okcmoa.com

Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin are on a journey to chronicle the unsung LGBTQ histories in all fifty states. This exhibition concentrates on their work

in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and Wyoming. The Houston-based artists—and married couple—use hand-cut maps, installations, video, and other media

to reveal pre-Stonewall stories like the literary career of the Oklahoma-born Lynn Riggs, a 1895 Texas novel featuring a lesbian heroine, and a gay Scottish lord’s 1840s travels west to Wyoming. museum.okstate.edu

Berthe Morisot was a respected figure in the French Impressionist movement of the late nineteenth century. So why is her work often neglected compared to her male contemporaries like Monet, Manet, and Pissarro? This exhibition reevaluates her career and how the domestic nature of many of her scenes, such as women at work in the home or dressing to go out on the Parisian streets, also caused them to be dismissed. Yet in her loose brushstrokes and sensitive portrayals of women is an evocative vision of the fleetingness of time, which so embodied this transitional moment in art. dma.org

Among the American modernists of the early twentieth century, Agnes Pelton was one of the most enigmatic. Born in Germany and later studying art in New York, she distilled desert skies and atmospheric topographies into biomorphic shapes and abstract landscapes. She also wrote poems that accompanied her canvases, which reflected her interest in the esoteric, such as astrology and numerology. Despite her distinctive style, and the attention her work received in her lifetime, Pelton is now obscure in art history. This exhibition is the first in more than twenty-four years to survey and shed light on her often overlooked career. phxart.org