“An intimate collection of American masterworks from the Old Jail Art Center (OJAC) in Albany, TX, Modern Masters, Contemporary Icons includes works by the most highly acclaimed American artists in history. Work by American greats like Grant Wood, Alexander Calder, and Thomas Hart-Benton will be presented for the… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “In the 1980s, painting recaptured the imagination of the contemporary art world against a backdrop of expansive change. During this explosive period, an unprecedented number of galleries appeared on the scene, particularly in downtown New York. Groundbreaking exhibitions that blurred distinctions between high and low… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Over her extraordinary fifty-year career, Marisa Merz (born 1926) has created a deeply personal body of work that exists in the interstices between life and art. In Turin in the 1960s, Merz gained prominence as part of the circle of artists… Read More
“Inspired by the vernacular architecture, design, and urban landscape of Buenos Aires, photographer Facundo de Zuviría (b. 1954) captures the intimate and often unnoticed details of daily life in his images of the Argentine capital. Curated by Alexis Fabry and Gabriela Rangel, the exhibition centers on the photo-essay, Siesta… Read More
“Perpetual Revolution examines the relation between the overwhelming image world that confronts us, and the volatile, provocative, and often-violent world it mirrors. The exhibition proposes that an ongoing revolution is taking place politically, socially, and technologically, and that new digital methods of image production, display,… Read More
“Emily Dickinson, long acknowledged as one of the most important poets of the nineteenth century, remains an enigmatic figure. Often remembered as a reclusive genius, Dickinson was in fact deeply connected to her world. Her reputation for solitude stands in sharp contrast to the evidence… Read More
“The Symbolist movement coalesced during the second half of the nineteenth century amidst the era’s artistic emphasis on representing objective reality. Writers in France and Belgium sought a new form of art—one that invoked the visible world purely as symbols that correlate to the ineffable… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “Here at the National Museum of African American History and Culture, visual art plays a vital role. Paintings, sculptures, and works on paper allow the visitor to see how artists viewed and interpreted their world, beginning in the early years of… Read More
“The National Building Museum is the only U.S. venue for Small Stories: At Home in a Dollhouse, which features a stunning selection of 12 historical dollhouses spanning the past 300 years from the Victoria & Albert Museum of Childhood in London. As a contemporary update, the exhibition also… Read More
“The Night Illuminates The Night features works that began in 2010 and was completed in 2016. During this period Herman established a dialogue with the great masters of the western tradition who have depicted the Holy Land across the centuries without ever having been there,… Read More
Photographs by Corrado Serra. “A Universe of Fragile Mirrors is a solo exhibition on the work of Beatriz Santiago-Muñoz, born in 1972 in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where she lives and works today. Through a series of films and videos, A Universe of Fragile Mirrors captures the ironies of… Read More
“The ancient Egyptians believed that to make rebirth possible for a deceased woman, she briefly had to turn into a man. In A Woman’s Afterlife: Gender Transformation in Ancient Egypt, the Brooklyn Museum presents new research—inspired in part by feminist scholarship—to tell this remarkable story… Read More
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