Exhibitions

The sinuous elegance and innovative freshness of Trisha Brown’s choreography was apparent in this retrospective look at the postmodern legend’s celebrated career. Beginning in the early 1960s at the Judson Dance Theater, Trisha Brown started working in an interdisciplinary mode, uniting dancers with musicians,... See more 

Selecting works from the span of the artist’s career, Kara Walker: Narratives of a Negress featured anti-racist parodies depicting powerful images of race, sex, slavery, and violence. Widely exhibited and internationally acclaimed, Walker creates a distinct disconnect between the delicate beauty of her chosen... See more 

Defying the boundaries between artwork and display wall, Paul Henry Ramirez: Elevatious Transcendsualistic expanded a series of fourteen large-scale abstract paintings into a plurality of experiences. Curvaceous forms, heavy drips, flying squirts, and waving hairs painted directly onto gallery surfaces emanated from... See more 

Issues of racial bias, gender, class, politics and aesthetics feature prominently in Fred Wilson’s inquiries into the complex relationship between the art object and the museum. The museum itself is Wilson’s medium and muse: his oeuvre consists of faux museum installations and finely wrought mock art objects that use... See more 

Honoring the prescience of Ileana Sonnabend, one of the late twentieth century’s most influential dealers and collectors of contemporary art, Robert Rauschenberg said, "I've never finished a painting without wondering what Ileana would think of it." The Sonnabend Galleries have been both catalyst and incubator for... See more 

Early twentieth-century photographer and amateur anthropologist Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952), convinced the American Indian was doomed to extinction, made it his lifelong goal to create an exhaustive document of memories of this “disappearing race.” Between 1900 and 1930, he traveled the Western half of North... See more 

Chain Reaction looked to the influential early twentieth-century cartoonist Rube Goldberg to set the stage for contemporary artists engaged with humorous explorations of mechanical devices and functions. Goldberg's critique of the industrial era at the turn of the century includes a cache of drawings describing... See more 

As scientific breakthroughs continue to affect every aspect of our lives, an increasing number of artists—as creators and investigators themselves—have been examining the meaning and urgent implications of genetic research. Some work on their own, while others collaborate with scientists, but in either case, these... See more 

The Shakers believed all labor was worship that would bring them closer to God and that simplicity is the embodiment of purity and unity. We see the fruits of their labor in such diverse objects as an oval box, a staircase, a chair, or even a ladder. They lived, worked, and worshiped in communal villages, and... See more 

David Miller communicates complex narratives with his Abstract Expressionist-influenced paintings, creating a tension between the conscious and the subconscious, reality and unreality. David Miller: A Retrospective featured a selection of paintings from the artist’s entire career. His focus on contour and line, his... See more