Maria Martins & Emilie Gossiaux (virtual)
Join us for a Pairings featuring the work of Maria Martins and Emilie Gossiaux. The two works in this Pairings address ideas of interspecies relationships, hybridity, and the possibility and impossibility of communication.
Wifredo Lam & Daniel Lind-Ramos (virtual)
Join us for a Pairings featuring the work of Wifredo Lam and Daniel Lind-Ramos, two artists whose work speaks to Afro-Caribbean and diasporic histories, traditions, and cultures.
Crossing the Delaware (virtual)
Join us for a special Pairings featuring the work of three artists: Robert Colescott & Kent Monkman & Roger Shimomura. These three artists with distinctly different practices reimagine the same art historical painting: Washington crossing the Delaware (1851) by Emanuel Leutze. Luetze’s iconic depiction of Washington as a Revolutionary War hero contributes to the myth-making of American history—told from the dominant perspective. Colescott, Monkman, and Shimomura each reimagine this painting from a satirical, critical perspective to confront racial bias, settler colonization, and historical oppression.
Melvin Edwards Brighter Days (in-person)
Join us for an in-person art outing! We’ll visit Melvin Edwards: Brighter Days (May 4—November 28, 2021) installation at City Hall Park, New York City. Edwards exhibits six sculptures that transform the urban landscape into a sobering reminder of the city’s dark history.
Pairings: Melvin Edwards & Howardena Pindell (virtual)
Pair your favorite drink with a lively and informative one-hour conversation on the work of Melvin Edwards and Howardena Pindell, two artists who address the dark and sometimes unknown history of slavery in New York City.
Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest (in-person)
Join us for our first in-person art outing! We’ll visit Maya Lin’s Ghost Forest (May 10—November 14, 2021) installation at Madison Square Park. Lin has replanted 49 towering Atlantic white cedar trees from the region of the Pine Barrens of New Jersey which has been subject to climate change, transforming the urban landscape.
Pairings: Maya Lin & Agnes Denes (virtual)
Pair your favorite drink with a lively and informative one-hour conversation on two works of land art by Maya Lin and Agnes Denes, two artists concerned about climate change, sustainability, and the way we live.
Pairings: Georgia O’Keeffe & Yayoi Kusama (virtual)
Pair your favorite drink with a lively and informative one-hour conversation on Georgia O’Keeffe and Yayoi Kusama, two women artists who formed an unlikely mentorship in a male-dominated American art world of the 1950s—60s.
Pairings: Georgia O’Keeffe & Yayoi Kusama (virtual)
Pair your favorite drink with a lively and informative one-hour conversation on Georgia O’Keeffe and Yayoi Kusama, two women artists who formed an unlikely mentorship in a male-dominated American art world of the 1950s—60s.
Pairings: The Obama Portraits (virtual)
Pair your favorite drink with a lively and informative one-hour conversation on the official portraits of President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and former First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald. These portraits belong in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s collection of U.S. presidential portraits and are currently on tour across various American museums
Pairings: The Obama Portraits (virtual)
Pair your favorite drink with a lively and informative one-hour conversation on the official portraits of President Barack Obama by Kehinde Wiley and former First Lady Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama by Amy Sherald. These portraits belong in the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s collection of U.S. presidential portraits and are currently on tour across various American museums.