Best known as a core member of Fluxus, the avant-garde art group founded in 1962, Alison Knowles (1933–2025) created groundbreaking experiments that have influenced contemporary art for over fifty years. Organized by the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA) and curated by Karen Moss, by Alison Knowles: A Retrospective (1960–2022) is the first comprehensive exhibition of […]
Robert Rauschenberg believed that artists have both the imperative and power to promote responsible stewardship of the planet. The simultaneous expansion of the U.S. print market offered him an ideal vehicle to communicate timely messages regarding the precarity of the world’s habitats and inhabitants. Drawn from the NYU Art Collection, the eight works on view coincide with the rise of the American environmental movement in the 1970s and similarly impart concern for vulnerable people, animals, and habitats, at home and abroad. A concurrent boom in the American print market also allowed Rauschenberg to fundraise for environmental and humanitarian causes by creating special edition prints with a range of sponsors.
This major exhibition devoted to the artist June Leaf (1929–2024), whose enigmatic, beguiling, and often irreverent work is both endlessly experimental and uncategorizable, will draw from the artist’s vast archive along with loans from select private and institutional collections. The most comprehensive exhibition of the artist’s work in more than three decades, June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart will consider the breadth of Leaf’s 75-year career.
Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography rediscovers and celebrates the work of a pioneering and radical American artist. Anne Brigman (1869–1950)—a photographer, poet, and mountaineer—is best known for her iconic landscape images from the early 1900s, which depict herself and other female nudes outdoors in the Sierra Nevada.
"Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962" is the first major exhibition to examine the historical impact of the expatriate art scene in Paris after World War II, and delves into the various circles of artists who made France their home during an era of intense geopolitical realignment. This international loan exhibition showcases some 130 works by approximately 70 artists, providing a fresh perspective on a moment of creative ferment too often overshadowed by the contemporaneous ascendancy of the New York City art scene.
Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt is the largest solo museum exhibition of this New York-based octogenarian artist. Since the 1980s, Reinhardt has exclusively depicted scenes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, creating vivid, whimsical illustrations in colored pencil, watercolor, and gouache that recount the Roman poet’s time-honored myths.
Criminal Files In the 1930s, Franklin D. Roosevelt gave J. Edgar Hoover unprecedented powers to fight the kidnappings, killings, crime bosses, and criminals that flourished at that time. Hoover countered the magnetism of such crime figures as “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, John Dillinger, “Machine Gun” Kelly, and “Baby Face” Nelson with […]
John Singer Sargent, Draughtsmanfeatures more than 90 works on paper from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., which has one of the most comprehensive collections of Sargent's works on paper.
Rudy Burckhardt and Friends: New York Artists of the 1950s and '60s provides an insider's glimpse into the downtown Manhattan scene during these two decades central to the development of postwar American art.
Cosmopolitan and erudite, Albert Eugene Gallatin, George L.K. Morris, Suzy Frelinghuysen, and Charles B. Shaw were committed artists, passionate patrons, and close friends.