April 18 - May 27, 2016 - Enter the mysterious world of one of nature’s most awe-inspiring marine mammals. Narrated by Ewan McGregor and set in the spectacular waters of Alaska, Hawaii and the remote islands of Tonga, this ocean adventure offers an up-close look at how these whales communicate, sing, feed, play and take care of their young. Join a team of researchers as they unlock the secr...

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April 19 - October 31, 2016 - This exhibition is nearly 30 feet high, the sculpture is fabricated from a deconstructed red barn and seems at first to be a genuine house, but is in fact a scaled-down structure consisting of two facades propped up from behind with scaffolding. A large-scale sculpture by acclaimed British artist Cornelia Parker, inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper and by two e...

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April 21 - August 07, 2016 - In this exhibition Shotz has created a large tapestry-like sculpture composed of thousands of pieces of punched aluminum and stainless steel rings of the artist’s design that are connected by hand. A deep investigation into the work of light and gravity on the way that materials function in space, this new work also reflects upon the repeating patterns found in nat...

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April 21 - August 21, 2016 - This exhibition describes how Tony Oursler titled his collaborative work about Tony Conrad TC: The Most Interesting Man Alive. Conrad did not live to see the April 21 Chrysler premiere. He died April 9 in Buffalo, N.Y., where he had taught art and media for decades. He had been fighting prostate cancer and pneumonia.

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April 21–August 14, 2016 - The exhibition features eighteen works that highlight the artist’s ability to inventively transform ordinary, everyday materials into art. With wit and ingenuity, he creates boom box sculptures that play music and activate the space, turning it into an immersive sound environment. The work is programmed with playlists that go on sequentially throughout our pu...

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April 22 - June 11, 2016 - This special loan exhibition surveys Danziger’s work from his student days in the late 1960s to his mature canvases of the 2010s. Featuring nearly 60 spectacular paintings, The Light in Nature and Time is the result of a collaborative effort on the part of the artist, his many collectors, the James Gallery in Pittsburgh, and SAMA. Personally assembled by Danziger,...

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April 22 - August 14, 2016 -  Sequel is an exhibition about sustainability developed as part of an ongoing series of exhibitions that reflect the Burchfield Penney Art Center’s role to stimulate community engagement on social issues through aesthetics and discussion.

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April 22 - August 14, 2016 - In this exhibition, Aho presents a suite of recent works–some on public view for the first time–that extend his painterly explorations. Approach (2012), from Aho’s Mountain Series, portrays an image of a looming mountain, which for the artist represents an impending journey and ambiguous goal that relates both to the process of painting, as well as to...

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April 22, 2016 – May 31, 2016 ​- The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery recognizes the life and accomplishments of Prince Nelson with a photograph by Lynn Goldsmith. The image was taken in 1993. Prince’s music fused soul and rock ’n’ roll with incandescent showmanship and virtuoso guitar work. From the unlikely outpost of Minneapolis, his first club hits featu...

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April 22 – August 21, 2016 - In this exhibition, the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art reveals how artists find inspiration. The Archives’ collections hold a kaleidoscopic array of source materials; many of these materials are somewhat ordinary: comic- strip panels, newspaper clippings, and snapshots of mundane scenes. Yet the ways in which artists draw on them provides a gl...

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