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June 14 - November 26, 2016 - This exhibition will explore various aspects of the work of this important artist, developing thematic sections that focus on high fashion illustration, his relationship to particular models, his shoe and jewelry designs, and images of people he came to know and love from the streets of New York City. A selection of works in the exhibition come from the Estate of Anto...

June 12 – September 4, 2016 - The exhibition incorporates some new symbolism in his own image of Cossack Mamai. His Mamai is not only evolution of the established iconographic style, but also enriched and very sensitive interpretation of the traditional theme, as well as the tribute to the contemporary time and contemporary challenges currently faced by Ukraine and its artists. In Orest Skop's pai...

June 12 - December 31, 2016 - This is an exhibition of more than 60 large-scale photographs by renowned National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry (famous for his cover image Afghan Girl). The MWPAI Museum of Art is the only venue for this exhibition. Organized around universal themes of personal adornment, place, and ritual, exhibition will include unforgettable images from across six contine...

June 11, 2016 - January 16, 2017 - This exhibition features nearly 75 ornament prints and drawings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The exhibition highlights rarely seen works on paper from Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection, as well as several books from Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library’s rare book collection.

June 10–August 28, 2016 - This exhibition describes after a few high-profile commissions, his iconic imagery was appearing on everything from posters and T-shirts to coffee mugs and wine labels. His stated ambition was to break down the barriers between high and low art, much as his friend Andy Warhol had done. Always politically conscious, Haring used his fame and talent to heighten awareness of ...

June 10–September 25, 2016 - For the second commissioned project on the Whitney’s fifth-floor terrace, New York-based artist Virginia Overton explores the contrast between the concepts of the "sculpture garden" as a cultivated setting for contemplating artworks and the "garden sculpture" as a vernacular ornamental object. Taking inspiration from the Museum's windy rooftop site, situated between th...

June 10 - September 25, 2016 - The exhibition is unusual in its focus on Davis’s mature career and on his working method of using preexisting motifs as springboards for new compositions. From 1939 on, Davis rarely painted a work that did not make reference, however hidden, to one or more of his earlier compositions. Such “appropriation” is a distinctive aspect of his mature art. This presentation ...

June 10, 2016 - January 16, 2017 - The exhibition features nearly 70 rarely seen ornament prints and drawings from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that are part of Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Library. Within the confines of ornamental designs, artists turned elements from nature into otherworldly beings. Creatures, fearsome or playful, gracefu...

July 10 - October 02, 2016 - This exhibition will feature a selection of superb engravings and woodcuts. Dr. Dorrance Kelly has assembled one of the most distinguished private collections of prints in the country. The exhibition will feature more than 70 works from his collection. It provides an unparalleled opportunity for visitors to observe both the religious and secular works of these great ma...

June 6 - July 29, 2016 - ​A Painter's Journey is a retrospective exhibition of the vigorous, energetic paintings of Moro, a largely unknown twentieth century artist. This retrospective covers the entirety of his 45 year painting career, with most exhibited works owned by his descendants, an exception being a painting from the collection of the Hirshhorn Art Museum and Sculpture Garden. Many of the...