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Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass
Sir 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 […]
Glenn Kaino: Bridge
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 […]
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
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. […]
Frye Salon + Jonathan Lasker
Frye Salon is both a fixture and a living experiment—an ever-evolving installation that invites fresh perspectives on the museum’s founding-era collection. The gallery features more than one hundred paintings in a floor-to-ceiling presentation mode known as “salon style,” recalling the striking displays once found in Charles and Emma Frye’s First Hill home. In Frye Salon + […]
Jonathan Lasker: Drawings and Studies
For over five decades, American artist Jonathan Lasker has approached the elements of painting like a puzzle—taking it apart, turning the pieces, and putting it back together in new ways. Drawings and Studies offers a close look at how his ideas take shape, featuring works on paper that Lasker created from the 1980s to the 2020s, tracking […]
Sarah Smelser: Sandia
Sarah Smelser's "Sandia" images filter her experience of the desert environments of the American Southwest, its particular qualities of light, heat, emptiness and expansive spaces of the landscape through an abstract sensibility.
Inner Vision: Judy Ledgerwood’s Monotypes
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes. Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and […]
Inner Vision: Judy Ledgerwood’s Monotypes
In 2020 Judy Ledgerwood produced a significant body of unique prints with Manneken Press. a project that continued over a period of months and resulted in more than thirty monotypes. Using watercolor, rather tan traditional printing inks, the aqueous media flowed, allowing the colors to pool, run together, settle and dry in unique patterns and […]
Array: A Woodcut Opus by Rupert Deese
"Array" are twenty circular woodcuts by Rupert Deese, the series unfolded over seven years: Array 700 appeared in 2005, followed by Array 350 and Array 500 in 2006, with the project culminating in Array 1000 in 2012. Each print divides the circular field into a distinct tiling system. Beginning with nine equal radial divisions, Deese further organizes the space through additional radial lines and […]
Celtic Art Across the Ages
Discover the many forms of Celtic creativity and their artistic legacies in this sweeping story that spans ancient to modern times. When you think of the word “Celtic,” what do you picture? Perhaps intricate knotwork designs, legendary warriors, or mystical spirituality? Maybe even a certain NBA team? Celtic Art Across the Ages will introduce visitors to the worlds of […]
Motherboards
Not simply users of technology, women have played vital roles as inventors and makers across the history of technology. Yet their contributions aren’t always acknowledged in popular and official histories of technological innovation. Motherboards brings together artists whose work foregrounds the many ways that women have shaped the technology industry. Motherboards highlights the central role of women in […]
Boren Banner Series: Chloe King
Chloe King’s vividly layered, monumental compositions project a surreal vision of contemporary existence. For their Boren Banner—the artist’s first museum presentation in Seattle—King extends their ongoing inquiry into the politics of the dance floor, exploring Queer nightlife as a site of both refuge and risk. Drawing on the dilapidated, improvised, and occasionally illicit spaces that […]
Benny Andrews: Migrants
Michael Rosenfeld Gallery is pleased to present Benny Andrews: Migrants, the gallery’s fourth solo exhibition celebrating the work of Benny Andrews (1930–2006). Created between 2004 and 2006, The Migrant Series is the artist’s last body of work created before his death in November 2006. In the series, Andrews traced three historical migration routes that connected to his own […]
Tom Lloyd
Artist, activist, and community organizer Tom Lloyd (1929–1996) was an early pioneer of using electric light as an artistic medium. Working in collaboration with an engineer at the Radio Corporation of America (RCA), Lloyd developed a radically experimental practice in the 1960s that fused art and technology to dazzling effect. His electronically programmed sculptures—featuring rhythmic […]
Hiromitsu Morimoto, 1942–2026
JHB Gallery is saddened to mark the passing of artist Hiromitsu Morimoto. Over a career of more than five decades, the New York–based photographer cast his compellingly lyrical eye over a range of subjects: from portraits and the human body to commonplace architectural details, domestic interiors, flowers and landscapes. Engaging with traditional photographic processes including […]
Entangled
Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present Entangled, an exhibition featuring works by Carolina Ponte, Dinorá Justice and Livia Mourao. In this group exhibition, the artists have come together to present a kaleidoscopic perspective of the ways in which the natural systems that we live in are enmeshed. Carolina Ponte works in a variety […]
Lotus L. Kang: I hear the hollow boom of time
Lotus L. Kang creates installations that respond to the spaces they inhabit and reveal the surprising possibilities of ‘misusing’ materials—specifically, the tools of photography. In her largest museum exhibition to date, she presents two major new installations alongside a series of works on paper, all developed in dialogue with the Frye Art Museum’s distinctive architecture. […]
Artists’ Choice
See selections from the Frye’s collection in a new light. For Artists’ Choice, we opened the vault to five local creatives working across music, dance, poetry, theater, and beyond—asking which objects resonated with them from their diverse artistic perspectives. Their selections gather around themes of representation and identity, grief and love, solitude and isolation, and even […]
Miguel A. Aragón & Eddy A. López: Echoes of Absence
Reception: Friday, June 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. Echoes of Absence presents the works of Miguel A. Aragón and Eddy A. López, artists who explore collective memory and trauma through print media. Aragón, born in Ciudad Juarez, uses erasure as language to examine the US-Mexico border with a lens of violence, memory, and perception […]
Tulu Bayar: What Remains, What Connects: Stories in Assembly
Reception: Friday, June 12, from 6 to 8 p.m. Amos Eno Gallery is pleased to present What Remains, What Connects: Stories in Assembly, a solo exhibition by Tulu Bayar. On view from June 11 through July 19, 2026, the exhibition brings together two of the Turkish-American artist’s recent bodies of work that examine how memory, […]
WAYSON R. JONES: The Full Moon Is My Girlfriend
Washington, DC - HEMPHILL is pleased to announce the virtual exhibition WAYSON R. JONES: The Full Moon Is My Girlfriend, beginning on Monday, June 15, 2026. The virtual exhibition will be viewable on hemphillartworks.com, Artsy & Artnet from June 15 - July 25, 2026. Wayson R. Jones often found himself outside in his backyard this […]
Niu Systems
Including work by Kaili Chun, Sean Connelly, Pier Fichefeux, Kainoa Gruspe, Amber Khan, John Koga, Roland Longstreet, Nicole Parente-Lopez, Nanea Lum, Dane Nakama, Enoka Phillips, Nalani Sato, and Lawrence Seward RYAN LEE Gallery is pleased to present Niu Systems, a group exhibition of contemporary artists from Hawai‘i. Niu is not a coconut. This distinction is […]
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Free First Thursday
Free First Thursday
Enjoy FREE Museum admission and 2-for-1 All Day Happy Hour on the first Thursday of every month from 11 am to 7 pm during Free First Thursday. MINI MUSE - 4:30 – 6:30 pm - Get creative with us during Mini Muse for our free drop-in art-making project offered from 4:30 – 6:30 pm. This drop-in […]
Free First Thursday
Free First Thursday
FREE FIRST THURSDAY Thursday, May 7, 2026 11 am – 7 pm Enjoy FREE Museum admission and 2-for-1 All Day Happy Hour on the first Thursday of every month from 11 am to 7 pm during Free First Thursday. NEW! Free public tours at Noon. MINI MUSE 4 – 6:30 pm Get creative with us […]
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FREE Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Day
FREE Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Day
Every LAST Sunday of every month, Fort Lauderdale residents receive FREE admission to NSU Art Museum as part of Fort Lauderdale Neighbor Days. Fort Lauderdale Residents Receive: 2-for-1 Wine in the Museum Café FREE admission, residents must show a photo ID, driver’s license, or residential utility bill with proof of Fort Lauderdale address. Visit the […]