December 1, 2015 - November 21, 2016 - The display will include a rotating selection of Giving Pledge letters and a kiosk to make all of the letters on loan to the Smithsonian available to visitors. By the turn of the 20th century, a new generation of wealthy Americans increasingly supported secular as well as religious-based institutions, creating some of the nation’s most important an...

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December 4, 2015-November 6, 2016 - The three films on view were produced in collaboration with choreographer and performer Erin Ellen Kelly, with whom Ghani has been working since 2006, and feature scores by composer and musician Qasim Naqvi. This exhibition will feature a trilogy of her video work over a period of 11 months.

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December 9, 2015 – August 22, 2016 - The Tucker car in this exhibition passed through numerous owners and had been repainted and reupholstered. It was seized in 1992 by the U.S. Marshals Service following a narcotics investigation by the Drug Enforcement Administration and transferred to NMAH the next year.  The Tucker never entered full production, but its design epitomized automotive ...

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December 9, 2015 - July 31, 2016 - This comprehensive exhibition brings together six decades of Robert Ryman’s vital paintings, ranging in date from the 1950s through the 2000s. Since the 1950s, Ryman’s works have been both readily identified and identifiable by their achromatic surfaces. Viewers see and experience these painted frequencies of light as the color white, but Ryman’...

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December 10, 2015 - March 13, 2017 - This exhibition of original artwork explores the diversity of topics highlighting the cultural heritage of New York City. The exhibition provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the Postmaster General’s Art Collection which the museum has acquired through a long-term agreement with the United States Postal Service. Thirty pieces of original artw...

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December 11, 2015–August 7, 2016 - The exhibition connects contemporary art devoted to social change with historic moments in creative activism, highlighting activities that seek to motivate broad and diverse publics. Exploring the complexity, range, and impact of these artistic practices including photography, film, prints, banners, street actions, songs, digital files, and web platforms th...

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December 12, 2015 - August 14, 2016 - This chronological survey contains approximately 30 works spanning Block’s career from the 1950s into the 1990s––drawing from the MFA’s repository of Block’s extensive archive of drawings. Including examples of fashion illustrations and society portraits, works range from early black-and-white drawings in charcoal to later works i...

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December 12, 2015 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition focuses on a selection of Hiro’s fashion images that demonstrate how he applied his unique visual aesthetic to the work of fashion and jewelry designers such as Halston, Pierre Cardin, Harry Winston, and Elsa Peretti, among others. This will be the first solo exhibition of Hiro’s work to be held in a major American museum. Wed...

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December 12, 2015 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibition debuts the Gerald W. McNeely Collection, one of the largest private collections of Pewabic Pottery recently donated to Cranbrook Art Museum and never before seen in its entirety. The Collection includes over 117 works including a Revelation Pottery Vase, which pre-dates the founding of Pewabic, and includes works from throughout the career of M...

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December 14, 2015 - October 23, 2016 - This exhibition focuses on events, people and challenges that transformed the city between 1963 and 1975.Change was in the air, some of it unsettling and threatening. Against a national background of Lyndon Johnson’s “great society,” anti-war protests, black power, feminism, and emerging gay rights.

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