Munson in Utica, NY: a truly amazing small US art museum. In addition to owning the original version of Thomas Cole’s Voyage of Life (The National Gallery has a later version) this gem of a museum has an impressive collection of 20th century masterpieces. Featured here are works by Mark Rothko, Milton Avery, Edward Hopper, Piet Mondrian, and Gino Severini.

Top things to do in Buffalo, NY include the Northern Lights exhibition of Scandinavian and Canadian landscape painters at the Buffalo AKG museum. These 71 paintings capture the ever-shifting light and the majestic beauty of the unspoiled North, particularly the boreal forests, and are some of the most beautiful landscape paintings ever. Through sweeping forest vistas, icy lakes, and glowing skies, Northern Lights immerses viewers in the shared visual language of northern modernism — a luminous dialogue between European and Canadian artists that is both unexpected and breathtaking. For anyone interested in modern art, landscape painting, or cross-cultural artistic influences, this is a must-see exhibition.