Organized by the Carter, Classically Trained: The Gentlings and Music explores Scott and Stuart Gentling’s artistic engagement with the Age of Enlightenment, and features over 20 artworks by the Gentlings, including paintings, drawings, and music inspired by the intellectual and cultural ideals of this era.

Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation presents the evolution of Tamayo’s artistic technique through his works on paper, experimenting with ways to add volume and texture to a traditionally two-dimensional medium.

Drawn from the Carter's collection, Richard Hunt: From Paper to Metal highlights the artist’s prints produced at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in 1965 and a newly-acquired sculpture, Natural Form, created in Hunt’s signature direct-welded metal technique. 

Cowboy reexamines the popular mythologies surrounding the image and concept of the cowboy. Through the work of 28 artists, which includes Asian American, Black, Indigenous, and Latino perspectives, the exhibition explores perceptions of masculinity and gender, assumptions about cowboys’ relationship to land, and the lived experiences of contemporary cowboys.

Organized by the Carter, Drawn to Nature highlights depictions of nature from the Carter’s works on paper holdings from the 18th through the 21st centuries.

Dario Robleto: The Signal highlights the artist’s multiyear exploration of the Golden Record, and features Robleto’s newly commissioned work Ancient Beacons Long for Notice, an immersive, 70-minute film based on a rare and forgotten document—the first audio recording of warfare—which was considered for inclusion on the Golden Record.

A multimedia examination of photographer and cinematographer Karl Struss, Moving Pictures: Karl Struss and the Rise of Hollywood celebrates his storied career and influence on American cinematography during Hollywood’s Golden Age.

Trespassers: James Prosek and the Texas Prairie features more than 20 new works, including a new large-scale silhouette painting; watercolor portraits of plants collected during his travels across the state of Texas; and trompe l’oeil clay and bronze sculptures of wildflowers.

Drawn exclusively from the Carter’s Fred and Jo Mazzulla Collection, this exhibition showcases 19th-century photographs about the history of Colorado that document settlement and the promotion of the area as an outdoor playground, and the growth of the mining industry.

The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury, a Carter-organized exhibition, illuminates Nevelson’s multidimensional mastery of form and dialogue with postwar American culture and features over 50 defining artworks by Nevelson on view together for the first time.

This site-specific commission from sculptor Leonardo Drew will explore the interconnectedness of sculptural pieces that Drew calls “planets” with hundreds of smaller objects in the gallery.

As part of the Carter's outdoor sculpture program, Elizabeth Turk’s The Tipping Point: Echoes of Extinction comprises vertical sound sculptures of bird species that are endangered or extinct. Each work is a sculptural visualization of the call of a bird that has reached, or surpassed, a tipping point.

Drawn primarily from the Carter’s collection, Arthur Dove: Miniature Laboratories examines a selection of small works created when Dove was confined in his home and the surrounding area in Long Island, NY, due to health issues.

2023 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Richard Avedon, renowned fashion and portrait photographer. As part of a national celebration, the Carter is showcasing 13 works from the acclaimed series In the American West, which the Museum commissioned in 1979 and premiered in 1985.

Emancipation: The Unfinished Project of Liberation visualizes what freedom looks like for Black Americans today and the legacy of the Civil War in 2023 and beyond from the perspectives of contemporary Black artists.