Environment and Object Recent African Art
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
Unstable Ground pairs two complementary projects that visually present landscape changes over time. See More
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
Molecules That Matter showcases ten organic molecules that profoundly altered our world in the twentieth century. See More
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
Hair: Untangling a Social History
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
Containing Culture: West African Pottery and Tradition
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
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 the set... See More
Dressed to Express: Costume in Victorian Illustration
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
Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation
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
Africa Embodied: The Language of Adornment
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
The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations: Mapping Art and Science
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