Any discussion of Helen Frankenthaler’s achievement as a painter includes a few caveats about her privilege and the beauty of her work. Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao provides a broad if shallow look at her career.

The British artist and writer Celia Paul has called herself an autobiographer rather than a painter of portraits. Her latest exhibit, Colony of Ghosts, is a deepening encounter with an artist seizing hold of her narrative with rare clarity and ferocity.

Curators Jill Lloyd of the Neue Galerie and Jay Clarke of the Art Institute of Chicago have expertly organized Ich Bin Ich / I Am Me, celebrating the achievement, range and depth of Paula Modersohn-Becker’s brief but prolific career.