The exhibition argues that BMC was as an important historical precedent for thinking about relationships between art, democracy, and globalism. This is the first comprehensive museum exhibition on the subject of Black Mountain College to take place in the United States. The exhibition features individual works by more than ninety artists, student work, archival materials, a soundscape, as well as ...

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This exhibition in PEM's Art & Nature Center explores the concept of scale – from the nano-sized to the galactic – challenging our perception of perspective, relative size and proportion. Featured works include miniatures, sculptures, photography and installations loaned from regional, national and international contemporary artists, as well as works from PE...

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This groundbreaking exhibition proposes a new approach to understanding 17th-century Dutch painting. Through 75 carefully selected, beautifully preserved portraits, genre scenes, landscapes and seascapes borrowed from European and American public and private collections—including masterpieces never before seen in the United States—the show reflects, for the first time, the ways in whic...

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October 11,2015 - While European Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism formed a critical jumping-off point for Oller’s aesthetic, his most important source of inspiration was Puerto Rico, where he painted tropical landscapes, still lifes with indigenous fruits and vegetables, and portraits of distinguished artists and intellectuals. This is the first U.S. exhibition to present Oller&rsquo...

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Curator: Valérie Rousseau, PhD, Curator, self-taught art and art brut, American Folk Art Museum. An exhibition catalog will be available. Images: Heinrich Anton Müller (1869, Versailles, France–1930, Bern, Switzerland).  Francis Palanc (1928, Vence, France–2015, Vence, France), Jeanne Tripier (1869, Paris, France–1944, Neuilly-sur-Marne, France). Closed Monday

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Jacob Riis  was a pioneering newspaper reporter and social reformer in New York at the turn of the 20th century. His then-novel idea of using photographs to illustrate the plight of the city’s poor—New York’s “other half”—established Riis as a forerunner of modern photojournalism. His photography was effective, and his work spurred legislation and new organ...

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Join legendary Spanish fashion designer Sybilla for a lively conversation with MFIT director Valerie Steele. An apprentice to Yves Saint Laurent, Sybilla launched her first collection in 1983. She debuted in Milan in 1987, and continues to show in Tokyo and Paris today. Her style—exquisite, cosmopolitan, and refined—is guided by feminine sensuality and elegance. Location: Katie Murphy...

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The first dual museum exhibition to feature these two visionary artists, Guise & Dolls will include the artists’ portraits of each other, self-portraits and a selection of iconic portraits of sitters that address role-playing and gender roles–masculinity, femininity and androgyny.  Focusing on New York in the 1970s and early 80s, Warhol & Mapplethorpe will explore the vibr...

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The exhibition will be the first US survey of the art of China-born, Queens-based artist Zhang Hongtu. Zhang Hongtu left China in 1982 to find greater artistic freedom and is perhaps best known for his “Mao” series, a group of works responding to the ubiquitous images of Mao Ze Dong. Spanning the late 1950s to the present, the exhibition will unite more than fifty pieces, including pi...

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The Mary Griggs Burke Collection - This tribute to a great collector reveals the distinctive features of Japanese art as viewed through the lens of fifty years of collecting: the sublime spirituality of Buddhist and Shinto art; the boldness of Zen ink painting; the imaginary world conjured up by the Tale of Genji and classical Japanese literature; the sumptuous colors of bird-and-flower painting; ...

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