American Art

June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart<br>September 9–December 13, 2025

June Leaf: Shooting from the Heart
September 9–December 13, 2025

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.

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CANCELED<br>Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography

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Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography

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.

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Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962<br>March 2, 2024–July 20, 2024

Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962
March 2, 2024–July 20, 2024

"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.

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Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt

Metamorphoses: Ovid According to Wally Reinhardt

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.

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Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence

Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence

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 […]

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