Last Chance

This is your last chance to visit a trio of exhibitions in the museum’s Learning Commons:

• Hung Liu: Making History: “Weeping” paintings and prints by Hung Liu (1948 to 2021) feature signature paint drips, layers of color, and cultural symbols. Her works pay homage to overlooked figures in history, predominantly vulnerable women and children from the artist’s native China. Liu lived through Mao Zedong’s totalitarian regime during the Cultural Revolution before immigrating to the US, and her work reveals boundless empathy for the plights of the working class.
• Holding Ground: Artists’ Books for the National Museum of Women in the Arts: Nine new works by celebrated book artists inaugurate NMWA’s Learning Commons and its reinvigorated Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center. Some of the artists reflect on NMWA as a special place for art by women. Others remind viewers that creativity is expressed in other environs, from small interiors to vast outdoor geographies. Above all, the artists’ books celebrate the varied spaces where women’s creativity blooms.
• Impressive: Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella: Exhibited at NMWA for the first time in almost 15 years, The Entrance of the Emperor Sigismond into Mantua is an extraordinary series of 25 prints by 17th-century French artist Antoinette Bouzonnet-Stella (1641 to1676). The exhibition explores the circumstances of the work’s creation and focuses on Bouzonnet-Stella’s life in Paris, where she lived and worked with her uncle, artist Jacques Stella, in his prestigious lodgings in the Louvre.