Ruth Asawa: Organic Meditations features an elegant series of lithographs created during the artist’s fellowship at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop in the mid-1960s that invite viewers to contemplate her unique vision of the natural world’s beauty and wonders.

This exhibition provides a poignant glimpse into the life and art of Texas during the Great Depression, showcasing local artists who use their own unique styles to interpret the state’s people and landscapes during this pivotal moment in history.

This exhibition features the lithographs of Ed Ruscha, who, adding his own Pop Art flair to words suspended in space, created works reflective of his own experiences and the recurring themes from his paintings and screenprints.

This exhibition includes prints from In the American West, the result of the Carter commissioning renowned portrait photographer Richard Avedon. It focuses on working-class people, whom Avedon described as the hidden strength of the country.

Trace features 10 fragmented marble tablets carved with phrases from a variety of founding documents and manifestos, uniting mottos intended for entirely different purposes to obscure their original meaning and call into question the objectivity of history.

Benito Huerta’s elaborate work addresses the mythical notion of an axis mundi—or center of the world that connects heaven and earth—through spiritual, earthly, and autobiographical emblems that draw broader connections to political and global concerns.

Animal is a lively film that takes you on an exhilarating journey through David Ellis’ spontaneous creative process. The rhythmic time-lapse shows the artist creating creatures, landscapes, and abstractions to an accompanying soundtrack.

This exhibition focuses on the evolution of Cosindas’s career, from textile designer to abstract painter to renowned photographer. Her use of instant-developing color film proved instrumental in revealing the artistic potential of color photography for future artists in the medium.

Horizon Lines uses visual perspective to remind us that our experience of space and our relationship to our environment—whether the sea, land, or constructed urban landscape—shifts depending on our different points of view.

This exhibition focuses on nocturnes, or rendered night scenes, from the Carter’s works-on-paper collection, highlighting the night as a constant source of artistic inspiration from the still quiet of abandoned places to the bright lights of the bustling city.

In the 1960s, activist Chicano artists forged a remarkable history of printmaking that remains vital today. ¡Printing the Revolution!, organized by the Smithsonian American Art Museum, explores the rise of Chicano graphics within these early social movements and the ways in which Chicanx artists have since advanced innovative printmaking practices attuned to social justice.

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.

This exhibition of drawings spanning the 19th and 20th centuries represents the evolution of the medium from preliminary outlines for other artistic media to a modern means of self-expression in its own right.

This display of rare large-format photogravures by Alfred Stieglitz reveals how the artist tested inks and papers in his efforts to best relay the beauty of the world and his vision to create exquisite versions of some of his most important photographs.

This exhibition, built from the exquisite collection of Jeanne and Rex Sinquefield, highlighted the work of Midwestern artists between the World Wars and their interpretation of the region as vital to the national story of American art.

A New American Sculpture investigates the integral relationships between modernism, classicism, and popular imagery in the sculpture of these four immigrant artists, showing how they redefined sculpture’s expressive potential during this rapidly changing time.  

Commanding Space celebrates the work of five contemporary female sculptors who have driven the traditional medium into new directions and have breathed new life into old materials to create sculptures that connect the diverse themes of history, myth, and memory.

This landmark exhibition features masterworks from The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C., tracing American art from the birth of the modern spirit to postwar painting through some of the finest examples of late 19th and 20th century art.

Fluid Expressions celebrates the work of Helen Frankenthaler, an inventive and whimsical printmaker who infused a sense of spontaneity and immediacy into a methodically worked medium not often used by abstract expressionists.