Procession is the first comprehensive museum exhibition on Norman Lewis, a pivotal figure in the Harlem art community. Lewis’ masterful ability to integrate social issues with abstraction creates an exhibition that is as intellectually stimulating as it is beautiful.

Discarded explores Americans’ penchant for discarding what we no longer want using the evocative photographs of renowned photographer Anthony Hernandez. Focusing on the buildings, people, and land in Southern California, these meticulous photographs lure us into this challenging subject.

Though Louise Nevelson is known for her sculpture, Prints explores a series of lithographs she created in the 1960s. These prints share with her sculpture an interest in silhouetted forms, but her use of vivid color sets them apart.

In this exhibition, specially made for the Carter’s Atrium, Esther Pearl Watson explores her own personal identity through motifs and narratives that incorporate her childhood memories and Texas folklore into a deeply expressive canvas.

American Epics explores the previously overlooked relationship between Thomas Hart Benton’s artwork and movie making. The first major exhibition to feature his life and works in 25 years, it highlights Benton’s unique style and way of storytelling.

Focal Points highlights new holdings of the Carter’s photography collection, displaying works from contemporary artists and classical artists alike. All of these exciting acquisitions explore the way that artists have embraced and questioned the concept of America as a land of opportunity.

Tales from the American West is the first museum exhibition to feature Trevor Rees-Jones’ exceptional collection of art of the American West. Including stately portraits, accurate renditions of daily life, and majestic landscapes, the Rees-Jones Collection contributes to our understanding of the West today.

Laura Wilson takes us into a West defined by diverse communities outside the suburban middle-class through her exhibition of 72 photographs. Framed equally by beauty and violence, the images reflect the artist’s challenge to the image of an homogenized America.

This exhibition highlights the role of folk and self-taught artists as figures who are central to the shared history of the United States and as active participants in the shaping of American visual culture through a variety of mediums.

This exhibition showcases approximately 120 masterworks from tribes across the North American continent, providing rare access to one of the most comprehensive and diverse collections of American Indian art in private hands.

Featuring 23 prints, this exhibition offers an unusual opportunity to compare the visions of photographers Edward Weston and his son Brett to see how each balanced recording the world’s direct appearance with a sense of abstraction.

This exhibition highlights Samuel F.B. Morse’s iconic painting Gallery of the Louvre. Filled with miniature reproductions of the Louvre’s finest treasures, this painting is a signal work of transatlantic exchange intended to connect American audiences with great European artworks.

Organized in celebration of a recent acquisition, American Still Life highlights the ability of 19th and 20th-century American artists to celebrate the ordinary through their paintings, whether trompe l’oeil masters or modernist photographers.

This exhibition features some of Audubon’s greatest depictions of North America’s animals; his delightful images of friendly and frightening quadrupeds are evidence not only of his artistic dedication but of the range of beasts with whom we share our land.

This exhibition explores presidential representation, delving into the enduring image of George and Martha Washington and the artistic decisions that America’s first great generation of artists made in order to remember these national icons.