Archived - Shows And Events

September 2, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - This exhibition brings together the scattered elements of the famous triptych, reuniting the Morgan inner wings with the central panel now owned by the Musei Civici in Vicenza, Italy, and the outer wings from the Groeningemuseum in Bruges, Belgium. The exhibition also highlights links between panel painting and manuscript painting in fifteenth-century Flemish ...

September 2 - December 18, 2016 - This exhibition​ describes how the 1930s and 1940s were a golden age for murals in America where the everyday worker rose to the status of a primary hero. The Great Depression forged a renewed belief in the centrality of the laborer, and the federal government sponsored numerous work programs, including those for visual artists. Wall paintings about larger-than-li...

August 31 - Deember 11, 2106 - This exhibition surveys the past decade of work by Myra Mimlitsch-Gray, internationally renowned metalsmith and head of the Metal Program at SUNY New Paltz. Curated by author Akiko Busch, the exhibition explores a variety of artistic processes using iron, copper, brass, silver, and enameled steel. Mimlitsch-Gray’s domestic artifacts suggest a coalescence of body and ...

August 31 - December 11, 2016 - This exhibition will include over 40 paintings, works on paper, and printed materials, charting Tomlin’s development from art nouveau illustrations of the 1920s to large-scale Abstract Expressionist paintings of the 1950s. The exhibition explores his formative years in Syracuse, early patronage by Condé Nast, and the important role played by the Woodstock art colony...

August 29, 2016 - February 13, 2017 - This exhibition, featuring some 30 works from The Met collection, will examine the role of text and image in the construction and function of arms and armor in the Islamic world. Qur'anic verses; prayers that invoke Allah, the Asma al-Husna (99 Beautiful Names of Allah), as well as the Prophet Muhammad, his family, and companions; and mystical symbols were all...

August 27 - December 18, 2016 - This exhibition will be focusing on Japan’s place in major international expositions held in the Americas from 1876 onward, and finishing with a look at Japan’s first world’s fair held in Osaka in 1970, JapanAmerica will explore the roles of art, design, and display in Japanese-American relations through a carefully selected group of objects, multimedia components, ...

August 27 - December 18, 2016 - In conjunction with JapanAmerica: Points of Contact, 1876–1970, works now in the Johnson’s collection that were included in international expositions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries will be on view.

August 25, 2016 - July 25, 2017 - Rudy Shepherd will bring to this exhibition the most recent of the artist’s series of sculptures created to dispel people’s feelings of racial prejudice, violence or ordinary disdain by opening them to more compassionate aspects of their personalities. Created from wood, metal and colored concrete at larger-than-human scale, Black Rock Negative Energy Absorber wil...

August 25, 2016 - July 25, 2017 - During this exhibition the artist will transform one of the iconic sets of steps in St. Nicholas Park into the site of a ceremonial procession. Untitled (St. Nicholas Park) will frame the steps rising from St. Nicholas Avenue with reflective fringe curtains. Formally similar to the artist’s well-known beaded curtains, and reflecting a landscape reminiscent of the ...

August 25, 2016 - July 25, 2017 - Simone Leigh synthesizes the multimedia artist’s recent forays into the public realm with her longstanding interest in African and African-American material culture and female identity. The exhibition, a particularly elaborate imba yokubikira, or kitchen house, stands locked up while its owners live in diaspora, will insert three structures, reminiscent of imba yo...