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April 1 - December 31, 2016 - Contemporary painter Robert Schneider embodies the traditions of the American Tonalist School, incorporating loose brushwork and muted colors into his rural landscapes of New York State. The work recalls many late 19th and early 20th century American landscape paintings and reveals a uniquely personal view of our region.

April 1 - December 31, 2016 - In this exhibition, see over 50 art objects from the Thaw Collection created by Native American men and women for specific rituals and ceremonies. Discover the arts associated with fundamental aspects of Native American life – the hunt and harvest, feasting, warfare, adornment, and shamanism.

April 1 - September 18, 2016 - Several singular examples are included in this exhibition, including an extraordinarily rare print of Moonrise, Hernandez. It is one of the earliest extant; with its light gray (rather than deep black) sky with wispy clouds, it is almost “day and night” when compared to his much more common, much darker, printings from the 1970s and 1980s.

March 22 to August 21, 2016 - This exhibition will feature a variety of media and forms, including art objects, furniture, sculpture, lighting, interiors, and wall and floor coverings in an immersive installation conceived by the artists uniquely for MAD.

March 20 - October 2, 2016 - The exhibition features artists using unconventional research methodologies and experimental media to contextualize the sociopolitical and cultural factors that determine the demarcation of land, its occupation, use, and succession. The artists in Landed consider the layered histories below land and the soaring space above. They challenge our quotidian perception of la...

March 20, 2015 to July 10, 2016 - The inaugural installation of the space spotlights the recent acquisition Constellation by Kiki Smith. This exhibition is a room-size installation on the theme of the heavens, inspired by images drawn from an early 19th-century celestial atlas. Twenty-six hot-sculpted glass animals of different sizes represent different animal-themed star patterns, some well-known...

March 18 - August 14, 2016 - The latest iteration of the essay-style exhibition series studies two companion portraits in the Jewish Museum’s collection, revealing a tale far different from what has been assumed for almost a century.

March 18 - August 14, 2016 - The exhibition features clips from programs spanning the last 60 years, works of art, and ephemera and reveals anti-Semitism as a persistent issue in American society of the past and present. As the second installment in The Television Project series, Some of My Best Friends examines anti-Semitism through the lens of television and pop culture. Culled from the over 4,0...

March 18 - August 7, 2016 - Isaac Mizrahi: An Unruly History is the first museum exhibition to focus on the influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur. The exhibition explores Isaac Mizrahi’s unique position at the intersection of high style and popular culture. While best known for his clothing designs, Mizrahi’s creativity has expanded over a nearly three decade career to em...

This exhibit is the first museum exhibition to focus on the influential American fashion designer, artist, and entrepreneur. On view from March 18 to August 7, 2016, the exhibition explores Isaac Mizrahi’s unique position at the intersection of high style and popular culture. While best known for his clothing designs, Mizrahi’s creativity has expanded over a nearly three decade career to embrace a...