Frye Salon
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United StatesFrye Salon features over one-hundred paintings from the Frye Art Museum’s Founding Collection hung floor to ceiling—a display mode referred to as a salon-style hang. The installation approximates the dramatic viewing experience enjoyed by visitors to Charles and Emma Frye’s Seattle home in the first decades of the twentieth century. The Fryes developed their passion for […]
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesSir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through critical research, fictional reconstruction, and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition, and freedom that […]
Mad Dash: 50 Years of Arts/Industry
John Michael Kohler Arts Center 608 New York Avenue, Sheboygan, WI, United StatesJack Earl, one of the first Arts/Industry artists-in-residence, said the Arts/Industry residency in the Kohler Co. factory felt like a “mad dash at something.” Mad Dash: 50 Years of Arts/Industry is a chronological installation of artworks, letters, photographs, and promotional materials dating from 1974 to the present. It reveals the origin and history of Arts/Industry through […]
Year of the Dragon
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT, United StatesA celebration of the dragon across media from the past 500 years, coinciding with the 2024 Chinese Lunar New Year March 15–November 10, 2024 The Yale University Art Gallery is pleased to present Year of the Dragon, an exhibition coinciding with the 2024 Chinese Lunar New Year that celebrates this mythical beast through nearly 30 artworks spanning from […]
Year of the Dragon
Yale University Art Gallery 1111 Chapel St, New Haven, CT, United StatesThis exhibition celebrates 2024, the Year of the Dragon, with a presentation of nearly 30 artworks spanning from the 17th century to the present day. In the West, the dragon has historically been characterized as an evil creature, flying through the air while breathing fire from its mouth, but in the East, the dragon is […]