Glenn Kaino: Bridge
2024-07-26 08:00 - 2028-07-26 17:00 (America/New_York) | Smithsonian American Art Museum, 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Glenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. Each is a casting of the outstretched right arm of Tommie Smith, the American winner of the men’s 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. During the medal ceremony, Smith bowed his head and raised his black-gloved fist in a symbolic act of protest. Coming at a moment of turmoil in the United States, where public unrest flared over the war in Vietnam, racial discrimination and inequality, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy, his gesture was an assertion of Black solidarity in the fight for human rights. Echoed by the American bronze medalist John Carlos, it inspired social causes around the world and irrevocably changed Smith’s own life.
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Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
2025-03-07 11:00 - 2027-12-31 18:00 | San Jose Museum of Art, 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process.
Organized into thematic groupings, Tending and Dreaming offers poetic starting points for engaging with ideas woven through the works of almost fifty artists from the Bay Area and beyond, including Ruth Asawa, Martha Atienza, Shilpa Gupta, Yolanda López, and Elias Sime, among many others.
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