Closing this week and worth a quick visit is the Salon de la Rose + Croix at the Guggenheim which highlights a little remembered Parisian series of exhibitions with a Rosicrucian underpinning. The paintings now mostly seem pedantic and overly symbolic, but at the time the movement countered the 19th century realism that was ascendant in the arts.

Instead, followers of the Rose + Croix dabbled in the spiritual power of art. What is most striking is the way women were portrayed: the animalistic femme fatale, lower on the evolutionary scale, aggressively sexual, ferocious and uncivilized, Orpheus dismembered by wild female followers of Dionysus, for example.