Guadalupe Maravilla elevates cast-off objects into elaborate sculptures imagined as tools and spaces for healing, a response to his own experiences with illness and immigration. Mariposa Relámpago is his largest piece yet in his Disease Throwers sculptural series. He turned a whole school bus into a dazzling assemblage of chandeliers, gongs, and imagery related to Maya cosmology and contemporary medicine. This Austin stop on its ongoing journey will include several sound ceremonies, some led by Maravilla and others by sound healers, to sonically immerse visitors in the work.

Starting this spring, the Baltimore Museum of Art is presenting a series of nine exhibitions highlighting contemporary Native American artists. The initiative coincides with an overall reexamination of how Indigenous people are represented in museum spaces that have been shaped by colonial perspectives. The series of shows includes solo presentations like Dyani White Hawk joining her art with Lakota objects from the collections and group exhibitions engaging with themes such as the buffalo and relationships with home.

The phonograph records that NASA launched into space in 1977 on two Voyager spacecraft were cut with sound and images intended to convey what it meant to live on Earth. It almost included the first audio of warfare, a sonic artifact that Houston-based artist Dario Robleto puts at the center of this multimedia investigation of the Golden Record. The eclectic show, which features objects examining our ongoing attempts to record and understand the universe, involves a collaboration with astronaut John Herrington, who helped organize drawings based on Robleto’s heartbeats.

Hauser & Wirth is devoting a year of rotating exhibitions in its downtown Los Angeles space to the late artist Jason Rhoades, for whom the city’s car culture. was a regular subject and muse. This included convincing a museum to go in with him on buying a car for a 1996 exhibition, a vehicle he later traded in for a Ferrari. This summer, Hauser & Wirth will showcase work related to racing life on the speedways, while in the fall, it will examine how he created thoughtful works on paper in addition to his large-scale provocative installations.

Painter Allison Katz works across a range of styles, from trompe l’oeils of open elevators to still lifes of cabbages, all playing with the idea of an artist’s signature aesthetic and transforming her work to respond to a specific time and place. This has manifested as Murano glass octopuses gleaming on a canvas at the 2022 Venice Biennale and motifs of the American West in surreal paintings earlier this year at LA’s Hauser & Wirth. Now she is engaging with the full expanse of the Aspen Art Museum, further drawing attention to the act of exhibition-making.

Twin street artists Gustavo and Otavio Pandolfo—known collectively as OSGEMEOS—have adorned walls around the world with distinctive long-limbed yellow figures, from their hometown of São Paulo to a piece spanning six industrial silos in Vancouver. Now they’re receiving their first major US museum survey with a sprawling assembly of around 1,000 works and objects. These will take visitors to their beginnings in Brazil, where they were influenced by 1980s hip-hop and local folklore, all the way to the present, where their painted characters are global sensations.