Friday, July 17             Dan Graham: Beyond
Dan Graham has been a central figure in contemporary art since the 1960s. This
exhibition, Graham’s first American retrospective, traces the evolution of his art
from his early conceptual projects and performances, to his films and videos,
architectural projects and pavilions, and sculptures as well as his collaborations
with musicians and rock bands such as Sonic Youth and Japanther.

Friday, August 21       Claes Oldenburg: Early Sculpture, Drawings,                                      and Happenings Films
                                     Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen:
                                     The Music Room
One of the most innovative artists of the postwar period, Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929)
is best known for sculptures and drawings that disrupt our expectations of how ordinary
objects “behave.” In 1976, he began an extraordinary creative partnership with the art
historian and curator Coosje van Bruggen (1942-2009) that continued for more than thirty
years. Drawn primarily from the museum’s extensive holdings of drawings, sculpture, film,
and archival material, this presentation illuminates the themes of metamorphosis and artistic collaboration that are at the heart of their practice.

Friday, September 25             Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction
Although Georgia O'Keeffe (1887–1986) has long been celebrated as a central figure in twentieth-century art, the abstract works she created throughout her career have remained overlooked by critics and the public in favor of her representational subjects. By devoting itself to this largely unexplored area of her work, Georgia O'Keeffe: Abstraction is an overdue acknowledgment of her place as one of America's first abstract artists. The exhibition includes more than 130 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and sculptures by O'Keeffe as well as selected examples of Alfred Stieglitz's famous photographic portrait series of O'Keeffe.

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