“Uranus and Its Rings” Multi-Frame Mosaic, Voyager, January 24, 1986. Credit: NASA; JPL; Calvin Hamilton; Kinetikon Pictures

Last weekend marked the unofficial beginning of the new art season, so expect lots of new events every week for awhile. Keep reading for this week’s take.

>> The Art Museum of the Americas has back-to-back openings this week. Tonight, the artwork of two generations comes together in Argentina in Focus: Visualizing the Concept—Cristian Segura/Sergio Vega. The 17-year difference between the two artists, along with their geographic location and cultural history, is highlighted in both their styles and subject matters. Dismayed by personal experience involving museums, Segura’s work challenges traditional museum function and highlights the fragility of art, even in the hands of professionals. Vega, on the other hand, explores the outsider view of Latin America as an exotic place.

Then, stay for the double-header and see Emilia Gutierrez’ ghostly Drawings and Paintings of contemplative children in pensive, hunched-over positions mirroring the sometimes lonely phases of childhood. Tonight, 6 p.m.

>> On Thursday, our friends over at Long View Gallery host the opening reception for artist Michael Benson’s Images from….Beyond: Visions of Our Solar System. You may have seen Benson’s work at the National Air and Space Museum in an exhibit with the same name that opened last May. His amazing photos were made by first hunting through 25 years of NASA archives for images of photographic significance. The photographs, taken by interplanetary probes traveling through space, have been digitally perfected and enhanced by Benson to achieve a composite image of our solar system. Thursday, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.