Upcoming Exhibitions
Maurizio Cattelan
February 12–August 15, 2010
Contemporary Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan (b. 1960) is known for his witty embrace of semantic shifts that result from imaginative plays with materials, objects, and actions...
Leaps into the Void: Documents of Nouveau Realist Performance
March 19–August 8, 2010
Pyrotechnics, exploding pigment, blowtorches, lacerated décollage, and found materials, define the radical gestures of the avant-garde movement, Nouveau Réalisme....
Steve Wolfe on Paper
April 2–July 25, 2010
Steve Wolfe was born in Pisa, Italy in 1955 and lives and works in San Francisco, California. For the last twenty years, Wolfe has created objects and drawings of astounding craft and visual presence that investigate intersections among material culture, intellectual history, and personal and collective memory...
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Kurt Schwitters: Color and Collage
October 22, 2010– January 30, 2011
The German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) remains one of the most influential figures of the international avant-garde. In the years following the First World War he coined the term “Merz,” in reference to his ambition to “make connections …between everything in the world.”...
Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1968
Novemeber 12, 2010–April 10, 2011
Painter Vija Celmins, born in 1938 in Riga, Latvia, has lived and worked primarily in New York since 1981.
She immigrated to the United States at the age of ten with her family, settling in Indiana. After attending the John Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, Celmins completed her MFA at the UCLA in 1965...
Richard Serra: Drawing in Retrospect
March 1, 2012–June 17, 2012
The first-ever retrospective of the artist’s drawings, Richard Serra: Drawing in Retrospect, will be the first major one-person exhibition organized by the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center.
Ancestors of the Lake: Art from Lake Sentani and Humboldt Bay
Spring 2011
European navigators began traveling to the coastal areas of New Guinea in the sixteenth century, but it was not until 1858 that the Dutch Etna Expedition reached Humboldt Bay and Lake Sentani island (situated on the north coast of the island in the present-day Indonesian province of Papua)...