Sep. 3, 2024 TO
Jan. 5, 2025
This exhibition delves into the various circles of American artists who made France their home during the post-World War II era, and investigates the academies where many studied, the spaces where their work was exhibited, their interactions with European artists, and the overarching issue of what it meant to be an American abroad.
Sep. 14, 2024 TO
Feb. 2, 2025
The exhibition celebrates a shared reverence for nature while engaging crucial questions about land dispossession and its reclamation by Indigenous peoples and nations and exploring the relationship between Indigenous art and American art history, placing landscape paintings by the renowned contemporary Cherokee artist Kay WalkingStick in conversation with highlights from New-York Historical Society’s collection of 19th-century Hudson River School paintings.
Sep. 14, 2024 TO
Mar. 2, 2025
Featuring works from the museum’s collection, Figure/Ground examines the interconnection between individuals and their environments, offering a multifaceted view of the human experience in relation to the spaces we inhabit. The varied scenes, from urban landscapes to pastoral countrysides, invite narrative and prompt reflection on the ways we relate to our own environments.
A collection of 25 models of American sailing ships, permanently on display in the museum’s lower level
Sep. 7, 2024 TO
Dec. 31, 2024
An American artist, publisher, collector, and gallerist, William N. Copley worked in Paris is the decades following World War II, where he developed his signature style of narrative painting infused with eroticism, symbolism, social satire, and political humor. In response to the increasingly nationalistic Cold War-era geopolitical climate the early 1960s, Copley designed an fabricated his ‘Imaginary Flags,’ which have been installed in the Addison’s stairwell, adjacent to Americans in Paris.
