Film, Visual Culture, and Performing Arts
Sara Greenberger Rafferty
Presents recent work by the Brooklyn-based artist known for unsettling works that contend with such topics as domesticity, the body, consumer culture, fashion, and violence.
Chaekgeori
The first major exhibition in the United States of chaekgeori painting, including on view for the first time many screens from private collections and various Korean institutions.
Carl Walters and Woodstock Ceramic Art
Surveys the forty-year career of Carl Walters (1883-1955), a pioneer of modern ceramic art in the United States.
Intimately Unfamiliar
Showcases the latest trends in art and design, from painting and sculpture to photography, printmaking, and metals.
Text/ures of Iraq
Presents work by Halahmy and eight other contemporary artists from Iraq: Hayder Ali, Amal Alwan, Mohammed al Hamadany, Ismail Khayat, Hanaa Malallah, Hassan Massoudy, Naziha Rashid, and Qasim Sabti.
Doing Time
Proposes that cinematic time is not a fixed idea, but a dynamic exchange between film and viewer.
Ghost Faces
Combines psychoanalysis, queer theory, masculinity studies, and cultural studies to explore contemporary manhood in film.
Invented Lives, Imagined Communities
How Hollywood biopics both showcase and modify various notions of what it means to be an American.
Diversity of Sacrifice
Explores sacrificial practices across a range of contexts from prehistory to the present.
Libre Acceso
Analyzes the diverse roles and pervasive presence of disability in Latin American literature and film.
Encounters with Godard
A wide-ranging and accessible approach to Godard’s later work, and a major intervention in the study of film and ethics.
Anarchism and Art
Interprets popular art forms as exhibiting core anarchist values and presaging a more democratic world.
American Chartres
Documents the city’s surviving grain elevators and their profound influence on twentieth-century architecture.
Looking with Robert Gardner
Assesses the range and magnitude of Robert Gardner’s achievements as a filmmaker, photographer, writer, educator, and champion of independent cinema.
In/Animate
Documents the groundbreaking art of nationally renowned metalsmith Myra Mimlitsch-Gray.
Bradley Walker Tomlin
Presents new scholarship, images, and primary sources that explore the art and legacy of a critical yet under-recognized figure in Abstract Expressionism and twentieth-century American art.
Lessons Learned from Popular Culture
Informative and entertaining introduction to the study of popular culture.
A Very Old Machine
Argues that Indian cinema’s deep nineteenth-century past continues to play a vital role in its twenty-first-century present.
Despite All Adversities
Provides sophisticated theoretical approaches to Latin American cinema and sexual culture.
The Spike Lee Brand
A rare look at Spike Lee’s creative appropriation of the documentary film genre.
The Flesh of Images
Highlights Merleau-Ponty’s interest in film and connects it to his aesthetic theory.
Selling War, Selling Hope
Details how presidents utilize mass media to justify foreign policy objectives in the aftermath of 9/11.
The Sitcom Reader, Second Edition
Updated version of an engaging overview of the television situation comedy.
On the Street and in the Studio
The catalogue for a two-part exhibition that presents more than sixty compelling photographs—including prints by Eugène Atget and Berenice Abbott—exploring major themes in modern photography, donated by leading photography specialist and dealer Howard Greenberg.
Andrew Lyght
Documents the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art’s exhibition of work by Guyana-born contemporary artist Andrew Lyght and provides new scholarship contextualizing Lyght’s work within the history and culture of Guyana and modern art.