The Denver Art Museum (DAM) kicks off the month’s final Friday night with its mixed-media event series Untitled, where visitors can expect local music, DJs, detours, art making and munchies. On Friday, August 28, from 6 to 10 p.m., Untitled #24 (Crossbones) goes to the dark side with Ouija boards, bedazzled bone art and creepy tales.

Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged at the beginning of the 1990s as one of the most intriguing and original artists of his generation and one of the last to come of age in the twentieth century, with a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor.

The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art - This group exhibition takes its title from the infamous 1962 book by St Ives artist Sven Berlin. It will explore the influence of folklore, mysticism, mythology and the occult on the development of art in Britain. Focusing on works from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present day it will consider, in particular, the relationship they have to the landscape and legends of the British Isles.

Tacoma Art Museum, Washington will run an exhibition named 'Joe Feddersen: Vital Signs' from September 26, 2009 to January 10, 2010.

Kandinsky, a full-scale retrospective of the paintings of Vasily Kandinsky—the visionary artist, theorist, and pioneer of abstraction—will be presented at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum from September 18, 2009, through January 13, 2010.

Frick Collection, New York will run an exhibition named 'Exuberant Grotesques: Renaissance Maiolica from the Fontana Workshop' from September 15, 2009 through January 17, 2010.

Experience Music Project, Seattle will run an exhibition named 'Spaced Out: The Final Frontier in Album Covers' from August 15, 2009 to January 3, 2010.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the first exhibition to examine the genesis, construction, and reception of Etant donnes: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’eclairage (Given: 1° The Waterfall, 2° The Illuminating Gas), Marcel Duchamp’s enigmatic final masterwork. Duchamp (1887-1968) constructed Etant donnes in complete secrecy over a period of twenty years, from 1946 to 1966, during which he publicly claimed to have gone “underground” and given up art for chess.

Gagosian Gallery will run an exhibition named 'Alec Soth: Black Line of Woods' on view from August 8, 2009 to January 3, 2010. High commissions, 12 new works by photographer Alec Soth for "Picturing the South" series.

Dallas Museum Of Art will run an exhibition The Life of Toussaint L’Ouverture by Jacob Lawrence from December 6, 2009 to April 11, 2010, at Focus Gallery II.

A major exhibition bringing together over 150 works by Picasso from across the world will be presented at Tate Liverpool from 21 May to 30 August 2010. Picasso: Peace and Freedom will reveal a fascinating new insight into the artist’s life as a tireless political activist and campaigner for peace, challenging the widely-held view of the artist as creative genius, playboy and compulsive extrovert.

Gagosian Gallery runs an exhibition named 'Franz West: The Ego and the Id' on view through March 2010. The Ego and the Id is internationally acclaimed artist Franz West's newest and largest aluminum sculpture to date. Soaring 20 feet high, the piece consists of two similar but distinct, brightly colored, looping abstract forms, one bubble gum pink and the other alternating blocks of blue, green, orange, and yellow.