Traveling Exhibitions

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene

Venues:
University of Michigan Museum of Art
April 27 – July 28, 2019 | University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
DePaul Art Museum
March 19 – August 16, 2020 | DePaul University, Chicago, IL

The World to Come: Art in the Age of the Anthropocene chronicles an era of rapid, radical and irrevocable ecological change through works of art by 45 contemporary international artists. We live in a world of imminent extinctions, runaway climate change and the depletion of biodiversity and resources. Our age has been identified as the Anthropocene, a controversial term used to name a new geological epoch defined by human impact. While geological epochs are known as products of slow change, the Anthropocene has been characterized by speed.  Rising water, surging population and new technologies that compress our breathless sense of space and time. Philosopher Santiago Zabala, echoing Heidegger, warns, “The greatest emergency is the absence of emergency.”

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Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection

Venues:
Crocker Art Museum 
January 22 – May 7, 2017 | Sacramento, CA
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
August 5, 2017 – Sept. 1, 2019 | Kansas City, MO

Into the Fold: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics from the Horvitz Collection highlights the diversity, creativity, and technical virtuosity of 20th- and 21st-century ceramic artists working in Japan.

The exhibition features both artists whose work is inspired by traditional themes and those who work in (or are influenced by aspects of) the avant-garde. Tensions between form and functionality, traditional and modern, national and international are often evident across works in the exhibition and within individual works.

Groupings of objects suggest particular elements associated with the medium’s development, including tea vessels, biomorphic forms, geometric design, monumental and sculptural art, and works that exemplify the Mingei and Sōdeisha movements. More than 30 artists are represented, including many of Japan’s greatest living ceramicists. Among them are historical master potter pioneers such as Hamada Shōji, Kiatoji Rosanjin, Yamada Hikaru, and Kazuo Yagi and contemporary leaders such as Nakaigawa Yuki, Katsumata Chieko, Hoshino Kayoko, and Akiyama Yo.

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Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from the Horvitz Collection

Venues:
Harn Museum of Art
October 6, 2017 – December 31, 2017 | Gainesville, FL
Ackland Art Museum
January 26, 2018 – April 8, 2018 | Chapel Hill, NC
Crocker Art Museum
May 13, 2018 – August 19, 2018 | Sacramento, CA
Smith College Museum of Art
September 28, 2018 – January 6, 2019 | Northampton, MA

Becoming a Woman in the Age of Enlightenment: French Art from The Horvitz Collection is primarily an exhibition of drawings, but includes pastels, paintings and sculptures selected from one of the world’s best private collections of French drawings. The exhibition features more than 150 works by many of the most prominent artists of the eighteenth and early nineteenth-centuries, including Antoine Watteau, Nicolas Lancret, François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, as well as lesser-known artists both male and female, such as Anne Vallayer-Coster, Gabrielle Capet, François-André Vincent, Philibert-Louis Debucourt. Ranging from spirited, improvisational sketches and figural studies, to highly finished drawings of exquisite beauty, the works included in the exhibition variy in terms of style, genre and period.

Becoming a Woman was curated by Melissa Hyde, Professor of Art History and Research Foundation Professor, University of Florida, and the late Mary D. Sheriff, W.R. Kenan J. Distinguished Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and was organized by Alvin L. Clark, Jr, Curator, The Horvitz Collection and The J.E. Horvitz Research Curator, Harvard Art Museums/Fogg.

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Aftermath: The Fallout of War—America and the Middle East

Venues:
Harn Museum of Art
August 16 – December 31, 2016  |  Gainesville, FL
Gund Gallery at Kenyon College
January 20 – April 20, 2017  |  Gambier, OH
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
October 6, 2017 – January 21, 2018  |  Sarasota, FL

Aftermath: The Fallout of War—America and the Middle East, organized by the Harn Museum of Art, brought together the work of twelve international photographers and artists offering a closer look at armed conflict through images of refugees, loss, history, environmental dangers, and veterans from the U.S. and Middle East. Artists in the exhibition were Lynsey Addario, Jananne Al-Ani, Jennifer Karady, Gloriann Liu, Rania Matar, Eman Mohammed, Farah Nosh, Suzanne Opton, Michal Rovner, Stephen Dupont, Ben Lowy, and Simon Norfolk.

The exhibition included ninety photographs, two videos and an educational touch table, each depicting the conditions, and voices, of people and environments caught in war’s wake, from Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Palestine, Israel and America. Together the images in Aftermath urged a reflection on loss, offered a comparison of the past in relation to the present, and encouraged visitors to ask what the future may hold.

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Monet and American Impressionism

Venues:
Harn Museum of Art
February 3, 2015 – May 24, 2015  |  Gainesville, FL
Hunter Museum of American Art
June 25, 2015 – September 20, 2015  |  Chattanooga, TN
Telfair Museums
October 16, 2015 – January 24, 2016  |  Savannah, GA

Organized by the Harn Museum of Art in partnership with Telfair Museums and Hunter Museum of American Art, Monet and American Impressionism highlighted twenty-five artists who launched a new way of painting in response to Monet and the influence of French Impressionism. The exhibition presented roughly fifty paintings and twenty prints dated between 1880 and 1920 by many of the leading figures in American Impressionism.

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Kongo across the Waters

Venues
Harn Museum of Art
October 22, 2013 – March 23, 2014  |  Gainesville, FL
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
May 15, 2014 – September 21, 2014  |  Atlanta, GA
Princeton University Art Museum
October 25, 2014 – January 25, 2015  |  Princeton, NJ
New Orleans Museum of Art
February 27, 2015 – May 25, 2015  |  New Orleans, LA

Co-organized by the Harn Museum of Art and the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren, Belgium, the exhibition includes a broad range of media including sculpture, drawings, engravings, paintings, baskets, textiles, and musical instruments to illuminate the rich heritage of the Kongo peoples and to trace the transformations of Kongo cultural production from the colonial and post-colonial periods through the modern era.