Past Exhibitions
PAST EXHIBITION
September 6, 2009 – January 24, 2010
These beautiful, ingenious works are mostly examples of basketry not created as containers, but rather serving myriad other functions in African life. See hats, masks, shields, elegant screens, sleeping mats, and other household items...
PAST EXHIBITION
August 16 – November 29, 2009
Hot or iced, bagged or loose, black or green—whatever form it takes, enjoying a cup of tea is an act performed at least three billion times a day. Tea has played many profound roles on the world scene—as an ancient health remedy, an...
PAST EXHIBITION
March 1, 2009 to August 30, 2009
Brightly painted wooden masks transform Sri Lankan dancers into specific characters that appear in curing rituals or popular entertainment. Ranging from comical to fierce, these unusual masks have long played an important role in performance genres...
PAST EXHIBITION
October 4, 2009 to January 10, 2010
In Grass Roots: African Origins of an American Art humble yet exquisitely crafted coiled baskets demonstrate one of the enduring contributions of African peoples and cultures to American life. Featuring more than two hundred objects...
PAST EXHIBITION
September 20, 2009 – January 3, 2010
In the 1970s, photographer Greg Day lived in the African American basket-making communities along the Gullah/Geechee Coast, documenting a way of life on the verge of change....
PAST EXHIBITION
March 29 – September 13, 2009
For a country as vast and paradoxical as India, it is impossible to generalize about the role of women in society. Worshiped as shakti, oppressed as chattel—these seeming contradictions have left many Western observers stumbling into...
PAST EXHIBITION
May 3 – August 2, 2009
"An unparalleled object lesson in a particular moment of art history, a breathtaking display of human visual invention, and one of the most moving and aesthetically revolutionary painting shows, Western, non-Western, whatever—I've ever...
PAST EXHIBITION
May 3, 2009 – August 2, 2009
The spectacular flourishing of Australian Aboriginal painting after the mid 1970s is one of the most important developments of twentieth century art. Innovations in Western Desert Painting, 1972-1999: Selections from The Kelton Foundation ...
PAST EXHIBITION
February 22, 2009 to June 14, 2009
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PAST EXHIBITION
February 22, 2009 – June 14, 2009
Transformations features two spectacular, large-scale metal “tapestries” by celebrated artist El Anatsui, as well as important paintings, prints and sculptures by Viyé Diba, Yelimane Fall, Norman Kaplan, Wosene Kosrof,...
