Archived - Shows And Events

September 16, 2016 - January 9, 2017 - Monumental Lhasa: Fortress, Palace, Temple is the first exhibition of its kind to explore rare images of central Tibet’s most iconic monuments as they were seen by Tibetans and Westerners prior to the mid-twentieth century. The exhibition explores how image-making relates to placemaking and how the production and transmission of images contributes to the icon...

September 16, 2016–January 2, 2017 - The exhibition will include a selection of abstractions from Paris, a rare gathering of her important Blanco y Verde series, as well as a selection of later paintings, drawings, and several of her rare three-dimensional works. The show, Herrera’s first solo museum presentation in New York since the 1998 exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, will be accompanied by ...

September 16, 2016 - February 12, 2017 - This exhibition series focuses on designer and artist Peter Shire’s Menorah #7 (1986), and presents an opportunity to visually sketch the connection between the Los Angeles native’s history to the history and resonance of Memphis design. Elaborating these two stories opens up a larger and multilayered conversation about the relationships and dissonances bet...

September 16, 2016 - February 12, 2017 - The third installment in The Television Project exhibition series, You Don’t Have to Be Jewish, explores advertising produced for Jewish audiences or with Jewish content, and examines the way religion, ethnicity, and identity play out on American television. Television commercials have been fertile ground for aesthetic invention, with sponsors and advertisi...

September 16, 2016 - February 5, 2017 - In this highly unconventional exhibition, visitors are encouraged to participate, touch, and even take home works of art by 40 international and intergenerational artists, many of whom are creating new and site-specific works for the exhibition. The exhibition ms to construct a democratic space for all visitors to participate in the creation and ownership of...

September 16, 2016 - Februsry 5, 2017 - This exhibition depicts Adele Meyer with her children Elsie Charlotte and Frank Cecil. This remarkable work of art is one of Sargent’s most beloved portraits. When it was first shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1897 it was both praised and disparaged. Henry James reviewed the painting in Harper’s Weekly writing, “Of these elements Mr. Sargent has made a ...

September 15, 2016 to February 5, 2017 - This exhibition consists of three main “habitats.” A giant Coral Forest and a collection of miniature Pod Worlds represent the diversity of living corals through the varying textures, colors, and forms of crocheted yarn and beads. Two Bleached Crochet Reefs serve as invocations of dying corals, while The Midden four years’ worth of the Wertheims’ own plasti...

September 11 - December 23, 2016 - This exhibition, including over forty paintings and drawings dating from the artist’s Black Mountain College days to the late 1960s, reveals Spillenger’s deep commitment to abstraction and his passionate love of color. This is the first exhibition to examine this unseen body of work and to assess the artist’s contribution to the history of mid-twentieth-century A...

September 11 - December 23, 2016 - This multi-media group exhibition features seven international artists who explore a contemporary archaeological aesthetic, making art on urban walls in which the wall itself becomes an integral part of the work. They often search for a particular surface, location, or history that directly speaks to them, places where the interaction between individuals and mate...

September 11, 2015 to August 21, 2016 - The pew exhibited shows damage and distress caused by the heavy equipment worn by workers as they sought a place to sit or lie down, and is symbolic of the long, difficult days recovery workers endured. Photographs and an excerpt from the film The Spirit of St. Paul's provide additional context to show how the chapel operated as a relief site. Located just a...