February 12 - August 21, 2016 - The exhibition features more than 250 works by 63 designers and teams from around the globe, and is organized around seven themes: extravagant, intricate, ethereal, transgressive, emergent, elemental, and transformative.  Beauty—Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial  is the fifth installment of the museum’s signature contemporary design exhi...

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February 12 - December 31, 2016 - This exhibition of the artifact was originally a splitting maul used by Lincoln to drive iron wedges into logs creating split-rails for fencing. The maul head, made from a tree root-ball, eventually split in half. Rather than discard the tool, Lincoln repurposed it into a bench mallet he used to drive pegs into furniture and other fixtures. Lincoln discarded the o...

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February 12, 2016 - September 25, 2016 - Both Sides Now is a first-time creative collaboration by sibling artists Lexa and Dan Walsh. Dan, a minimalist abstract painter, and Lexa, a socially engaged artist, come together to merge their practices around a shared interest in spectacle, perception, and encounters among objects and people. The result is a series of interactive sculptural stations, nod...

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February 12 - July 3, 2016 - This special exhibition brings together major works from the collection by modern artists including Jean (Hans) Arp, Marcel Duchamp, George Grosz, Francis Picabia, Man Ray, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, and Beatrice Wood. In 1916 a group of young men and women from across Europe came together in Zurich and shook the foundations of the art world. The exhibition i...

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February 12 - June 19, 2016 - This exhibition includes 25,000 sketches, more than 10,000 pages of journal entries, thousands of pages of correspondence, hundreds of doodles, the exhibition history of his works, and painting indexes created by the artist. This exhibition cannot incorporate the full scope or impact of Charles E. Burchfield’s Archive.

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February 12 - August 21, 2016 - Cooper Hewitt’s renowned Triennial exhibition series showcases some of the most exciting, provocative, and innovative design created around the globe during the previous three years. The 2016 presentation will include a range of works from all areas of design including fashion, product design, interactive design, architecture, scent design, graphics and c...

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February 12 - July 31, 2016 - Last Days of Village Wen is the focus of this exhibition in the Chinese painting gallery. Village Wen depicts a fictional story addressing environmental issues and mass human migration in contemporary China. Other works in the show include traditional paintings from the collection articulating two recurring themes in Chinese art history and the relationships between p...

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February 12 - May 8, 2016 - Drawn from Native American art collected by Charles and Valerie Diker, Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection features more than 120 masterworks representing cultures across the North American continent. This superb Native American art collection is renowned as one of the largest, most comprehensive and most exquisite in pr...

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February 12 - May 29, 2016 - The over 80 objects on view in Ten/Forty are the account of how a local historic house, loved by visitors, members, and the community alike, becomes, through thoughtful stewardship by trustees and staff, a leading regional museum of American art. Many of the stories behind the paintings, works on paper, photos, and artifacts tell of deeply pers...

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February 12, 2016 - February 12, 2017 - The exhibition features a selection of lush, vibrantly colored video animations by Dutch artist Jacco Olivier. Olivier’s painterly videos depict a variety of subject matter, ranging from intimate scenes of daily life to captivating landscapes and abstract visions. For many of the videos in this exhibition, Olivier photographs his actual paintings, doc...

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