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'Rethinking Monuments: American Sculpture in its Time, 1850 – 2000' explores the development of the artists' relationship to the monument, its communication of narrative, and in turn the viewer's perception of these.

More than 50 years since the historic '5+1' exhibition at Stony Brook University, 'Revisiting 5+1' reflects and builds on the work and impact of its artists.

'Juan Francisco Elso: Por América' investigates the brief yet significant career of the late Cuban artist Juan Francisco Elso. Based in Havana, Elso was part of the first generation of artists born and educated in post-revolutionary Cuba, who gained international recognition in the early 1980’s. The exhibition explores crosscurrents between Elso’s art and the creative output of both close colleagues and artists who demonstrate parallel affinities, featuring 45 works by more than 30 artists.

Over the course of his nearly 50-year career, Melvin Edwards has explored materiality to confront social injustice. The title of this exhibition, ‘Wire(d) and Chain(ed)’, alludes to two of the artist's signature industrial media. Tracing the breadth of the artist’s life and work, the solo presentation showcases Edwards’ ability to formulate his distinct visual language in both two and three dimensions.

Featuring fifty-one artworks by thirty-six prominent artists, group exhibition ‘51 @ 51’ is rennie museum’s final presentation in the historic Wing Sang building. Breaking the museum’s self-imposed rule of not titling its shows, ‘51 @ 51’ references the number of artworks in the exhibition as well as the address of the museum, 51 East Pender Street.

New York: 1962-1964 explores a pivotal three-year period in the history of art and culture in New York City, examining how artists living and working in New York responded to their rapidly changing world, through more than 180 works of art—all made or seen in New York between 1962-1964.

Group exhibition ‘Future Bodies from a Recent Past’ brings together more than 100 works and several large-scale installations by 58 artists. Featuring artists primarily from Europe, the United States, and Japan, the exhibition focuses on the major technological changes since World War II and their influence on our ideas of the body.

This exhibition presents a group of previously unrealized installations from one of sculptor Melvin Edwards' most dynamic bodies of work. 

Group exhibition, ‘A Site of Struggle’ explores how artists have engaged with the reality of anti-Black violence and its accompanying challenges of representation in the United States over a period of 100 years.

'Sarah Maldoror: Tricontinental Cinema' is the first exhibition dedicated to the work of French filmmaker, Sarah Maldoror (1929-2020). The exhibition focusses on the artist's cinematographic work and her involvement with theatre, poetry and politics.

Harvard Business School announces new pieces added to the Public Art Exhibition supported by the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection.

In collaboration with Ana Beatriz Almeida, Transmission co-curates an international group exhibition that centres on Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe’s analysis of necropolitics – the ways in which death and violence may be...

The ‘Spring Print Sale: 2021’ features artists whose work crosses the boundaries of gender, race, politics, and class. Proceeds will fund educational internship and professional opportunities for emerging artists.

'Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America' is a group exhibition conceived by curator Okwui Enwezor and presented at New Museum, New York. The show brings together works made in the past decade by thirty-seven artists who have addressed the concept of mourning, commemoration, and loss in response to racist violence experienced by Black communities in America. 

 

'Nasher Mixtape' is a group exhibition compiled of 'tracks', micro-exhibitions focused on the Nasher’s permanent collection installed throughout the museum. Curated by Catherine Craft, each 'track' contains further content including interviews with artists, inspiration playlists, and insights from curators, educators, and living artists to accompany the exhibition.

‘Melvin Edwards: The Sculptor of Resistance’ is a touring solo exhibition which was initiated at Auroras, São Paulo in 2019 and travelled to Museu Afro Brasil, São Paulo, Brazil in November 2020. Spanning sixty-years' of Edwards' practice, the show revisits significant moments within the African-American artist's expansive career.

'Museum for Preventive Imagination' is the title of the three-year programme of interdisciplinary exhibitions and events envisioned by Luca Lo Pinto, the new Artistic Director of Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome (MACRO) that will evolve organically until the end of 2022. 

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is the final venue to present 'Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power', a group exhibition organised by Tate, London. Bringing together a wide range of works, the exhibition explores what it means to be a Black artist during two revolutionary decades in American history. 

Melvin Edwards is included in 'Future Food. Essen für die Welt von morgen', a group exhibition curated by Viktoria Krason, at the Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany. 

We are delighted to congratulate Melvin Edwards on receiving the coveted United States Artists Fellowship. The US Artists Fellowship 2020 has been awarded to fifty artists working across ten creative disciplines, each...