©2013 Tang Teaching Museum.
September 7, 2013 - March 9, 2014
Classless Society will explore class in America today from various social and economic perspectives, through contemporary art, popular culture, music, film, literature, and advertising. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
September 8, 2012 - April 7, 2013
We the People is an exhibition exploring the U.S. Constitution as a document, a concept, a contract, and a locus for action. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
Environment and Object
Recent African Art
February 5 - July 31, 2011
This exhibition examines the broad impact of the environment on recent African art, and the use of found objects and materials as media. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Traveling Exhibitions, Group Exhibitions
February 5 - April 17, 2011
Unstable Ground pairs two complementary projects that visually present landscape changes over time. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Traveling Exhibitions, Student Curated
July 18, 2009 - March 14, 2010
Lives of the Hudson explores the long history of one of America’s greatest rivers, surveying the natural river, the imagined river, the human river, and the working river. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated
September 8, 2007 - April 13, 2008
Molecules That Matter showcases ten organic molecules that profoundly altered our world in the twentieth century. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Traveling Exhibitions
October 23, 2004 - June 5, 2005
Through historical artifacts, star charts, maps, globes, and contemporary art, this exhibition poses questions regarding the nature of time, the constancy of experience, and the human perception of change. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions
Hair: Untangling a Social History
January 24 - June 6, 2004
From a hirsute Beasty Girl to a lock of George Washington’s hair, this project explores the significance of facial, head, and body hair in western society from the Renaissance to the present. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated
Containing Culture: West African Pottery and Tradition
March 15 - April 20, 2003
This exhibition features a range of ceramic traditions from West Africa. exploring the cultural significance of pottery's production and use in the Nupe, Lobi, Yoruba, and Igbo societies. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Student Curated
Trisha Brown: Dance and Art in Dialogue 1961 - 2001
February 1 - June 1, 2003
The sinuous elegance and innovative freshness of Trisha Brown’s choreography is explored in this retrospective look at the postmodern legend’s celebrated career. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Traveling Exhibitions, Solo Exhibitions
February 1 - March 2, 2003
Dreaming of Timbuctoo tells the story of a visionary and pragmatic response to the harsh political and social climate in antebellum New York State. The show includes a range of artifacts and objects that illustrate Gerrit Smith’s land reform and voting rights plan, an arrangement that led to ... See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Traveling 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
Africa Embodied: The Language of Adornment
November 29 - December 21, 2001
This exhibition focuses on how various African cultures use body art to communicate ideas and beliefs related to social organization, spirituality, gender roles, and nonverbal expression. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Student Curated
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
The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations: Mapping Art and Science
March 3 - June 3, 2001
Focusing on two specific domains, the human body and northeastern North America, this exhibition examined how we depict realms inaccessible to our senses. See More
Filed Under: Interdisciplinary Exhibitions, Faculty Curated, Group Exhibitions