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Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Symposium | Picture Ecology: Art and Ecocriticism in Planetary Perspective

Convened in conjunction with the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment , this two-day symposium extends the exhibition’s focus and approach to the visual cultures of diverse times and places. Seventeen international speakers offer compelling ecocritical analysis of a...
Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Recent Acquisition | Post Commodity's Repellent Fence/Valla Repelente

Postcommodity’s time at the Museum as the 2017 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artists-in-Residence resulted in a sound art performance and the acquisition of N13: 31°20'50.88"N; 109°29'47.62"W , one of twenty-six large-scale balloons from their 2015 land art...
Printing without Limits: Frank Stella, Ken Tyler, and the Making of Juam

Printing without Limits: Frank Stella, Ken Tyler, and the Making of Juam

Collaborating as artist and craftsman, Stella and Tyler embraced the challenge of expanding the technical capabilities of modern printmaking with each series they made. The result was the development of multimedia prints of unprecedented scale and breathtaking complexity.
Exhibition | Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

Exhibition | Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment tells a new environmental history of North American art, tracing evolving ideas about the environment from colonial encounters between Indigenous beliefs and European natural theology through nineteenth-century notions of progress and Manifest Destiny to...
Hanne Darboven's Address Place and Time

Hanne Darboven's Address Place and Time

The work of the German artist Hanne Darboven (1941–2009), an important figure in the history of Conceptual art, is the subject of a focused exhibition at the Museum.
Exhibition | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Exhibition | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Can an abstract painting tell a story with the same persuasive power and expressive drama as a narrative scene? What is the future for abstract painting—following the artistic brilliance of Pablo Picasso, El Lissitzky, and Jackson Pollock, can it continue...
Exhibition Preview | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Exhibition Preview | Frank Stella Unbound: Literature and Printmaking

Featuring forty-one works from four major print series, the exhibition is the first to focus on the vital role that literature played in the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of the print medium.
2018 Reunions Programming

2018 Reunions Programming

Programming highlights from the 2018 Reunions programming at the Art Museum
New on View | Nelson’s Jacket and Fanny’s Dress

New on View | Nelson’s Jacket and Fanny’s Dress

A new acquisition by the acclaimed British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare debuted in the Museum’s central gallery this spring, on view through the summer.
Migration and Material Alchemy

Migration and Material Alchemy

Working from positions of personal or political vulnerability, the artists in this exhibition provide a human context for matters of immense scope and imbue humble materials with spiritual or metaphorical resonance.