Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Exhibition | Colony / Dor Guez
    An intricate blue, white, and gray rendering of a flowering plant against a black background

    Exhibition | Colony / Dor Guez

    Colony / Dor Guez presents work by the Jerusalem-born artist Dor Guez that explores the layered identities of the city of his birth.
  • Exhibition | Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks

    Exhibition | Alexis Rockman: Shipwrecks

    Alexis Rockman’s work focuses on the malign effects of human development on the natural world—particularly for those without agency—and conjures possible futures should we continue to ignore them.
  • Mario Moore’s The Great Reckoning | Installed in Robertson Hall
    Strong horizontal with a white rearing horse on the left and a medium skinned soldier on right

    Mario Moore’s The Great Reckoning | Installed in Robertson Hall

    In Mario Moore’s monumental work The Great Reckoning (2020–21), which was recently installed in the lobby of Robertson Hall, the artist calls on the familiar symbolism of history painting to expand the presence of Black narratives in public spaces.
  • Exhibition | Witness / Rose B. Simpson
    Clay sculpture of a head with black tears streaming down from both eyes.

    Exhibition | Witness / Rose B. Simpson

    The following text is excerpted from an interview with the artist, Rose B. Simpson, conducted by Curator Bryan R. Just.
  • Exhibition | Body Matters / Martha Friedman

    Exhibition | Body Matters / Martha Friedman

    Body Matters presents two new series of sculptures by the artist Martha Friedman, whose multimedia practice incorporates choreography, printmaking, drawing, poured and cast rubber, mold-blown glass, plaster, wax, and concrete into works that encompass her interdisciplinary interests.
  • Exhibition | Native America: In Translation

    Exhibition | Native America: In Translation

    H istorical representations of Native North Americans by non-Native artists, often reflecting ethnographic stereotypes and tainted by histories of scientific racism, have long saturated the visual field while failing to offer accurate and nuanced portraits of Indigeneity in American history...
  • Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections
    Light skinned woman leaning up against a wall

    Artist-in-Residence Program: Bringing International Perspectives to Campus and the Collections

    Each year the Museum’s Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artist-in-Residence program welcomes an artist to campus for class visits and public presentations. Created in 2010 through an endowment established by Sarah Lee Elson—a collector, writer, and art adviser...
  • Exhibition: Native America: In Translation

    Exhibition: Native America: In Translation

    Native America: In Translation , curated by the artist Wendy Red Star, considers the wide-ranging work of photographers and lens-based artists who pose challenging questions about land rights, identity and heritage, and histories of colonialism.
  • Exhibition: Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang

    Exhibition: Between Heartlands / Kelly Wang

    Kelly Wang combines contemporary and ancient influences, as well as American and Asian traditions, to create multimedia works infused with elements of cultural identity and personal sorrow.