Critic's picks - visual arts
TITIAN, TINTORETTO, VERONESE: RIVALS IN RENAISSANCE VENICE
A stunning show matching up masterpieces by Titian with wonderful works by the two leading artists of the next generation, Tintoretto and Veronese. A collaboration with the Louvre, the show was instigated by Museum of Fine Arts curator Frederick Ilchman, and is too good to miss. Through Aug. 16. Museum of Fine Arts. 617-267-9300, www.mfa.org
MAHJONG: CONTEMPORARY CHINESE ART FROM THE SIGG COLLECTION
The only East Coast venue for this selection of 100 works from Ulli Sigg's widely admired collection of Chinese art made over the last 40 years. The show includes works by such stars as Ai Weiwei and Zhang Huan. Through May 17. Peabody Essex Museum, Salem. 978-745-9500, www.pem.org
SIDNEY HURWITZ: FIVE DECADES
A career-spanning survey of prints, ranging from early figure studies and woodcuts to fastidiously rendered aquatints and watercolors of industrial architecture in and around Boston, by this professor emeritus of art at Boston University. Through March 29. Boston University Art Gallery. 617-353-3329, www.bu.edu/art
SEBASTIAN SMEE 