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Opener 2
Paul Henry Ramirez: Elevatious Transcendsualistic
November 2 - December 31, 2002
Curvaceous forms, heavy drips, and flying squirts painted directly onto gallery surfaces emanated from painted panels and flowed onto adjoining walls and floors, creating a multivalent dialogue between architectural lines, painted shapes, and sculptural forms. See More
Filed Under: Opener Series, Solo Exhibitions
Fred Wilson: Objects and Installations 1979- 2000
October 26 - December 31, 2002
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. See More
Filed Under: Solo Exhibitions
The Tumultuous Fifties: A View from the New York Times Photo Archives
October 12 - December 16, 2002
Approximately two hundred vintage news photographs from the New York Times photo archives focus on a decade distinguished by such transforming cultural phenomena as McCarthyism, space travel, the civil rights movement, bebop and cool jazz, and Beat poetry. See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
Theodore Coulombe and Alan Krathaus: On the Trail of Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne
October 1 - December 1, 2002
In observation of the 225th anniversary of the Battle of Saratoga, a turning point of the American Revolutionary War, Theodore Coulombe and Alan Krathaus present a photographic vision of the Battle of Saratoga. See More
Filed Under: Solo Exhibitions
From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection
June 22 - September 29, 2002
Featuring approximately one hundred works by more than forty-five artists, "From Pop to Now" offered the most comprehensive survey to date of works collected by international gallery owners Ileana and Michael Sonnabend. See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
April 27 - June 9, 2002
This exhibition of over twenty large-scale sculptures and installations by Toshiko Takaezu challenges traditional boundaries between craft and fine art, and reveals the pivotal role that Takaezu has played in redefining ceramic art in the 20th century. See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
Dressed to Express: Costume in Victorian Illustration
March 19 - April 14, 2002
The phrase “clothes make the man” was a truth universally acknowledged in Victorian Britain. Dress expressed one’s place in a hierarchical society with limited opportunity for social mobility. This exhibition includes nineteenth-century novels, periodicals, and memoirs that illustrate how dress tran... See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Student Curated
Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation
February 2 - April 2, 2002
For this exhibition, the Tang invited six contemporary North American Indian artists to make works that would respond to Edward Curtis's controversial photographic representations of American Indians . See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
Chain Reaction: Rube Goldberg and Contemporary Art
January 26 - April 14, 2002
"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. See More
Filed Under: Group Exhibitions
October 13, 2001 - January 6, 2002
Eminent in China as a decorative art form, and, more importantly, as a scholarly foundation for learning, calligraphy is the art of the written word. Power of the Word presents the work of nine contemporary Chinese artists who both celebrate and critique the conventions of Chinese calligraphy, prese... See More
Filed Under: Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
Paradise Now: Picturing the Genetic Revolution
September 16, 2001 - January 6, 2002
The artworks featured in "Paradise Now" explore the possibilities for health and human improvement generated by the decoding of the human genome, as well as the impact of biotechnology on animal and plant life. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions