Lines, Grids, Stains, Words brings together 57 drawings and one series of prints from the Museum's collection, many on view at Museum of Modern Art for the first time, that share the seemingly simple and impersonal characteristics of Minimal art.

Once described as "the most beautiful painter's drawings in existence," Georges Seurat's mysterious and luminous works on paper played a crucial role in his short, vibrant career. This comprehensive exhibition- the first in almost 25 years to focus exclusively on Seurat's drawings- will present over 135 works, primarily the artist's incomparable conté drawings along with a small selection of oil sketches and paintings.

Boston Museum will present an exhibition named Drawing: A Broader Definition, on view from October 27, 2007 to May 4, 2008, at Trustman Galleries.

Over the years, renowned Santa Fe collector Sandy Besser has assembled a number of collections that transcend the traditional barrier between art and craft. This fall, from October 27, 2007 to January 13, 2008, the de Young Museum showcases the best of three of his collections: teapots, African beadwork, and contemporary drawings.

Human interaction with the environment is the focus of an exhibition featuring new work by two Minnesota artists. Drawings in Light: Jantje Visscher and Anastylosis: Drawings by Mary Griep are two exhibitions presented by the Minnesota Artists Exhibition Program, an artist-run curatorial department at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.

Hidden Cities (2006-2007) is a new series of drawings by veteran Israeli artist Yemima Ergas. In these works, cities rise out of charcoal strokes and smudges, creating familiar-looking, yet unidentifiable places: a building, a street, a bridge, a stadium. These hidden, anonymous cities contain structures that are repeated again and again in the various drawings, sometimes in the foreground and sometimes fading into the distance.

The career of William H. Johnson (1901-1970) was one of the most brilliant yet tragic of any early 20th-century American artist. Best known for his lively paintings of the African American experience in the rural South and urban North, Johnson was also an accomplished printmaker and watercolorist whose style shifted from dramatic expressionism to what he termed a more "primitive" approach using bright and contrasting colors and flattened, two-dimensional forms.