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Josiah McElheny: Island Universe

September 12, 2024
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Ongoing
Resnick Pavilion
Josiah McElheny’s dramatic Island Universe, installed in the center of the Resnick Pavilion, embodies the concept of the multiverse, or multiple coexisting universes. Now a key…
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We Live in Painting: The Nature of Color in Mesoamerican Art

September 15, 2024
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September 1, 2025
Resnick Pavilion
Mesoamerican artists held a cosmic responsibility: as they adorned the surfaces of buildings, clay vessels, textiles, bark-paper pages, and sculptures with color, they (quite…
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Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures

October 20, 2024
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March 2, 2025
Resnick Pavilion
Mapping the Infinite: Cosmologies Across Cultures, created in collaboration with scientists at the Carnegie Observatories and the Griffith Observatory, presents a group of rare…
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American Artist: The Monophobic Response

November 1
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November 4, 2024
BCAM, Level 2
American Artist: The Monophobic Response documents a meticulously crafted yet poetically altered re-creation of a pivotal 1936 static rocket engine test that initiated the United…
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Digital Witness: Revolutions in Design, Photography, and Film

November 24, 2024
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July 13, 2025
BCAM
Over the last four decades, image-editing software has radically transformed our visual world.  The ease with which images and text can be digitally generated and altered has…
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Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics

December 15, 2024
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August 3, 2025
BCAM, Level 2
Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st-Century Art and Poetics finds aesthetic connections among 60 artists working in Africa, Europe, and the Americas. The exhibition and its catalogue…