Don't miss these exciting events in early 2008:

Dallas, Texas
Dallas Museum of Art’s exhibition,  J.M.W. Turner, features approximately 140 works, divided almost evenly between oils and works on paper—the most comprehensive retrospective presented in the United States of the artist’s career. February 10-May 18.

Los Angeles
The Geffen Contemporary at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles reopens with © Murakami, a 90-plus piece retrospective of the artist’s career. Through February 11.

Washington, D.C.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum presents Color as Field: American Painting, 1950–1975, a full-scale examination of the sources, meaning and impact of the Color Field movement, with 40 paintings by artists such as Gene Davis, Larry Poons, Frank Stella, Helen Frankenthaler (her painting Small's Paradise is at right) and more. February 29-May 26.

Find more must-see shows in our February issue.