Nmwa Exhibitions

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Artist Spotlight: The Magical Erasure of Michal Rovner

Posted: July 22, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Learn more about artist Michal Rovner, whose work is featured in the NMWA exhibition Total Art: Contemporary Videoand in the NMWA collection.
Four long, white, cloudy-looking wisps against a cyan navy background.

Judy’s Diamond Jubilee

Posted: July 20, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Today is a very special day for the legendary Judy Chicago—her 75th birthday! Over her 75 years, Judy Chicago has made a prominent name for herself as an artist, author,...
Installation view of a gallery space with purple walls. Several colorful art pieces are hanging on the wall. On one wall, the text says: Judy Chicago, circa '75.

Meret Oppenheim’s “Schoolgirl’s Notebook”

Posted: July 15, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
On view in Meret Oppenheim: Tender Friendships, the artist’s early work Schoolgirl’s Notebook (Cahier d’une Écoliere) provides insight into her spirit and ambition as a young artist, as well as...
An open book into whose pages the shapes of hands have been cut. Gray gloves painted with red veins are visible through the cutouts. An identical pair of gloves rest next to the book.

Artist Spotlight: The Collaboration of Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter

Posted: July 8, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
In 2005, spouses Ingrid Mwangi (b. 1975, Nairobi, Kenya) and Robert Hutter (b. 1964, Ludwigshafen, Germany) began working as a collaborative artistic force. Today, they exhibit their joint works under...
View of a gallery space. In a dark room, the title of the exhibition, "Total Art: Contemporary Video", is projected on a wall.

Artist Spotlight: Pipilotti Rist’s Red Room and Blue Bodily Letter

Posted: July 1, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
One of the nine gallery spaces in Total Art: Contemporary Video is vividly painted with an oblong white space centered on a red wall. This was not a random design...
View of a gallery space. In a dark room, the title of the exhibition, "Total Art: Contemporary Video", is projected on a wall.

Artist Spotlight: Dara Birnbaum—Video as Subject and Form

Posted: June 24, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
On view in Total Art: Contemporary Video, Dara Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978–79) opens with several minutes of footage showing intense explosions, transformations, and sampled disco tunes. Just as a...
View of a gallery space. In a dark room, the title of the exhibition, "Total Art: Contemporary Video", is projected on a wall.

NMWA’s New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Magdalena Abakanowicz

Posted: June 20, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
To honor Magdalena Abakanowicz on her 84th birthday, NMWA anticipates the upcoming public installation of her work on New York Avenue as the third artist in the New York Avenue...
Ten larger-than-life bronze sculptures of human bodies are installed in the middle of a city street. The bodies have no heads or arms, and are striding forward in five rows of two. While they are not naked, their wrinkled body-tight clothing makes no distinction between shirt and pants.

Now on View: The Compelling Worlds of “Total Art: Contemporary Video” at NMWA

Posted: June 6, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Why does the moniker “total art” apply to the medium of video? What elements can be incorporated, and how does the genre blur traditional lines between “fine art” and other...
View of a gallery space. In a dark room, the title of the exhibition, "Total Art: Contemporary Video", is projected on a wall.

One is Silver and the Other’s Gold: Meret Oppenheim’s Friendships at NMWA

Posted: April 28, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Now on view at NMWA, a selection of Meret Oppenheim’s art, correspondence, and archival materials provide insight into this prolific artist. Meret Oppenheim: Tender Friendships documents friendship as a source...
An open book into whose pages the shapes of hands have been cut. Gray gloves painted with red veins are visible through the cutouts. An identical pair of gloves rest next to the book.

Controversial Representations of Sexuality in Feminist Art

Posted: April 18, 2014
Category: Nmwa Exhibitions
Judy Chicago’s installation The Dinner Party premiered in San Francisco on March 1979. Soon after, it received backlash from the public because the recurring “butterfly” motif in Chicago’s dinner plates...
Installation view of a gallery space with purple walls. Several colorful art pieces are hanging on the wall. On one wall, the text says: Judy Chicago, circa '75.