Archived - Shows And Events

June 28, 2016 - July 17, 2016 - This exhibition will bring together some 264 artworks that were created through the patronage of the royal courts of the Hellenistic kingdoms, with an emphasis on the ancient city of Pergamon. Examples in diverse media from marble, bronze, and terracotta sculptures to gold jewelry, vessels of glass and engraved gems, and precious metals and coins reveal the enduring...

June 25 - December 18, 2016 - This exhibition will explore how American collectors in Japan impacted the Johnson’s collection. American tourism in Japan during the Meiji period (1868–1912) spurred the collecting of Japanese art and design. Another upsurge at the end of World War II spawned a new generation of collectors, whose enthusiasm for Japanese art and culture impacted American museum collec...

June 24, 2016 - December 31, 2016 - This exhibition will take visitors on a tour of the decade when Long Island stood at the precipice of transformations that still hold legacies for our present. In short, Long Island held both a uniquely privileged status of growth during the 1960s, and a status of vulnerability, experiencing the same dilemmas locally that shook the rest of the nation.

June 24 – September 11, 2016 - Howard Terpning finds inspiration in traditions of the Plains Indians of the American West, capturing their stories through vibrant oil paintings. Terpning’s historical accuracy and technical prowess have earned him the respect of fellow artists, collectors, and the native peoples he depicts.

June 23, 2016 -January 08, 2017 - The Public, Private, Secret exhibition website is an integral part of the show experience, home to interviews with artists and curators and essays related to the exhibition’s themes, as well as images of works in the exhibition, a schedule of upcoming events, transcripts of past events, and press. Additionally, Public, Private, Secret is complemented by a curated ...

June 22 - September 18, 2016 - The exhibiton references a wide range of care environments and opportunities from herbalist apothecaries and muthi [medicine] markets in Durban, South Africa, to meditation rooms and movement studios and involves a variety of public and private workshops and healing treatments that the artist refers to as “care sessions.” Blurring the distinction between bodily and s...

June 21–September 18, 2016 - The art of Ronald Lockett speaks to the universality of the human condition through the lens of lived experience in the American South. This exhibition, the first retrospective on the artist, emphasizes the themes Lockett explored over the course of his decade-long artistic career. Working within the artistic traditions of found materials, he addressed subjects of raci...

June 21–September 18, 2016 - In the exhibition, ten of Lockett’s artworks representing different phases of his career are paired with more than eighty small and portable works made by both known and unidentified artists from various eras and geographical regions, all of whom are situated outside the art mainstream. It includes eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Native American effigies, Brazilian ...

June 19–September 18, 2016 - VITO ACCONCI: WHERE WE ARE NOW (WHO ARE WE ANYWAY?), 1976 is a solo exhibition of early works by the unconventional writer, poet, performance, video and conceptual artist, and designer/architect. The exhibition presents Acconci as he developed his radical and subversive explorations of the human condition, sexuality, voyeurism, identity and physicality up to the moment...

June 19–August 28, 2016 - The exhibition features work by over 40 artists who were key participants in the 1970s alternative art spaces movement and the early years of P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Listening stations throughout the exhibition highlight a series of audio conversations between Alanna Heiss and participating artists.