It’s easy to romanticize autumn. It signals the start of an annual culture shift, ushering chic style, signature flavors and an urge to embrace slow living. The season’s crisp air and colorful foliage provide the perfect backdrop for unplugging and enjoying the finer experiences in life, like getting lost in a museum. This year, Mia has curated a lineup of must-see exhibitions to help you slow down and make most of the season. From José Maria Velasco’s exquisite landscape paintings to Cambodia’s masterful Khmer bronze craftsmanship, here are 4 must-see exhibitions coming to Mia this fall.
Egon Schiele. The Sawmill, 1913. Oil on canvas. Kallir Family Foundation, New York
Timber! Art and Woodwork at the Fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
August 30, 2025–January 4, 2026
Free admission
This exhibit centers on Egon Schiele’s haunting and rarely seen masterpiece “Sawmill (1913),” on loan from a private collection. Set on the boundary of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the painting features a mill surrounded by piles of freshly cut timber. The mill itself seems to be in a process of collapse and can be read as a symbol of the empire, which in 1913 was in a precarious state as its provinces demanded autonomy. This show explores two outcomes for the sawmill’s timber: a wooden bridge in another painting by Schiele and avant-garde wooden furniture, created mostly by Schiele’s friend and mentor, designer Josef Hoffmann.
Ernesto García Cabral, Hastio, June 7, 1925, color lithograph. Gift of Mr. Anthony M. Clark, 1964.
Gatsby at 100
September 13, 2025 – March 22, 2026
Free admission
Discover how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby shaped and was shaped by the visual art of his time in Gatsby at 100. Bringing together works from Mia’s collection that embody the decadence, excess and social upheaval reflected in Fitzgerald’s prolific novel, this exhibit highlights books, paintings and works on paper that are rarely on view. Like Fitzgerald, artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Fernand Léger and Henri Matisse, as well as regional artists like Wanda Gág and Clement Haupers, endeavored to capture the contradictions of the Jazz Age — a term coined by Fitzgerald himself. And don’t miss the first edition The Great Gatsby book jacket on display — on loan from Princeton University Library.
José María Velasco. Cardón, State of Oaxaca, 1887. Oil on canvas. Museo Nacional de Arte, INBAL, Mexico City. © Reproducción autorizada por el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura | Photography by Francisco Kochen
José María Velasco: A View of Mexico
September 27, 2025 – January 4, 2026
Free admission
Experience the stunning work of one of the greatest 19th-century landscape painters in the Americas during José María Velasco: A View of Mexico. Trained at the prestigious Academia de San Carlos, Velasco became an influential figure in his home country of Mexico thanks to the artist’s panoramic views of the Valley of Mexico — home of modern-day Mexico City. Painted with exquisite detail, these stunning landscapes honor both the country’s rich historical heritage and the rapid modernization during the late 1800s. Organized in collaboration with the National Gallery, London, the exhibition showcases paintings from renowned museums in Mexico and the Czech Republic — many of which have seldom been displayed outside their home countries.
Mebon Reclining Vishnu, National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia © National Museum of Cambodia, Phnom Penh / Photography by Thierry Ollivier for the Guimet Museum
Royal Bronzes: Cambodian Art of the Divine
October 25, 2025 – January 18, 2026
General admission $20
Step into Cambodia’s Khmer Empire in Royal Bronzes: Cambodian Art of the Divine, a groundbreaking exhibition in collaboration with France’s Musée Guimet and the National Museum of Cambodia. While Angkor’s monumental stone temples are world renowned, this show highlights the empire’s bronze artistry across more than 200 objects. These artifacts, ritual objects and statues reveal a fascinating blend of artistic mastery, religious devotion and royal power. The exhibition will give visitors an unprecedented look at Khmer bronze craftsmanship brought to light through recent archaeological discoveries. Witness the enduring legacy of Cambodia’s sacred metallurgical traditions and their profound cultural significance.
Feature image provided by Mia / José María Velasco, 1840-1912. The Valley of Mexico from the Hill of Santa Isabel. 1877. Oil on canvas, 161 × 228.5 cm. Museo Nacional de Arte, Inbal, Mexico City.
