Any visitor to Alex Katz: New Paintings at Richard Gray Gallery is primed for spring, not because Katz employs colors that evoke spring—bright pinks, blues, violets, and greens—but because his paintings possess a freshness and youthful vigor, an amazing feat given that Katz will celebrate his seventy-ninth birthday in July.

Returning to school this fall, you may have looked up and over at The Art Institute of Chicago’s front facade and noticed that instead of the usual three exhibition banners there is one three-sectioned banner advertising a single exhibition: Toulouse-Lautrec and Montmartre.