Past
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Avoiding the Collapse into a Series of Isms
Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson 7 Nov 2019 - 6 Sep 2020 Since the late 18th century, European art has dominated the focus of museums in the United States. America’s founding families, such as the Rockefellers, Vanderbilts, Carnegies, and Gettys, often traveled to Europe acquiring large amounts of artworks. These “masterpieces” eventually found their way into museum collections in the institutions they... Read more -
Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars, 1991-2011
MoMA PS1, Queens, NY 3 Nov 2019 - 1 Mar 2020 Read more -
Art Since 1948
Krannert Art Museum at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, IL 29 Aug 2019 - 31 Jul 2023 With strengths in American and European surrealism, abstract painting, mid-century kinetic and light works, and art addressing powerful themes of history, land use, and identity, Art Since 1948 surveys the collection and encourages formal and conceptual connections across six decades. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has long prioritized the... Read more -
Beneath the Surface: Prints by Köllwitz, Catlett, Coe, Kurniashih
York College of Pennsylvania Galleries, York, PA 29 Aug - 23 Nov 2019 Read more
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Emphatic: American Painting From The Collection
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 28 Feb - 12 May 2019 For example, “The Assassins” – by Sue Coe, an artist whose work stems from political activism and social protest – is a dark, ominous depiction of the assassination of Malcolm X, with hooded figures holding guns behind their backs in the foreground. Read more -
Sue Coe: Print Retrospective
Lore Degenstein Gallery, Susquehanna University, Selinsgrove, PA 26 Jan - 6 Mar 2019 Sue Coe is a contemporary English artist noted for her intensely political graphic illustrations and activism. Born in 1951 in Staffordshire, England, she grew up near a slaughterhouse, which helped instill a lifelong passion for animal rights activism. This political sensibility characterizes Coe’s work, which often explicitly makes animal rights... Read more -
East Village, New York City
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea 13 Dec 2018 - 24 Feb 2019 Read more -
Women Power Protest
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, London, UK 10 Nov 2018 - 31 Mar 2019 An Arts Council Collection National Partners Exhibition Marking a century since the first women won the right to vote, 'Women Power Protest' brings together modern and contemporary artworks from the Arts Council Collection and Birmingham’s own collection to celebrate female artists who have explored protest, social commentary and identity in... Read more
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Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment
Traveling Exhibition 13 Oct 2018 - 9 Sep 2019 This sweeping exhibition engages a wide range of genres and historical contexts—from colonial furniture to the art of Jeffersonian natural science, from Hudson River landscape painting to Native American basketry, from Dust Bowl regionalism to modernist abstraction and postwar environmental activism—highlighting the evolving ecological implications of subjects and contexts of... Read more -
Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY 23 Aug 2018 - 31 Mar 2019 Read more
