Gallery + Artist News

Jonathan Calm
To Wherever, Forever: Archives of Absence & Sites of Passage

Santa Clara University
de Saisset Museum: January 24 - June 15, 2026

Rupert García + Amalia Mesa-Bains
Frida: The Making of an Icon

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
January 19th - May 17, 2026

Traveling toTate Modern, London | Opening June 25, 2026

Dawoud Bey
Current & Upcoming

"(Re)Constructing History," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (through May 3)

"Faces in the Crowd: Street Photography," Museum of Fine Arts Boston (through July 13)

"From Now: A Collection in Context," Studio Museum in Harlem (through August 16)

"Containing Multitudes," Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota (through August 2)

"Modern and Contemporary," The Menil Collection, Houston (through September 6)

"60 Seconds: Polaroids form the Collection," Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (through August 16)

"Poetics of Blackness," Tate Modern, London (ongoing)

"Counter History: Contemporary Art from the Collection," Museum of Fine Arts Boston (ongoing)

"Big Tent," FotoFocus Center, Cincinnati (May 29 - August 22)

Rupert García
Current & Upcoming

"Dear America: Artists Explore the American Experience," National Gallery of Art (through September 20, 2026)

"Photography and the Black Arts Movement, 1955–1985," The J. Paul Getty Museum (through June 14) Travels to Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson

"Frida: The Making of an Icon," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (through May 17) Travels to Tate Modern, London

"Carmen Lomas Garza: Picturing the Familiar," Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (May 2 - September 6) Travels to The Cheech, Riverside

RBG is Reimagining
A New Remote Model

Our gallery at 1275 Minnesota Street is now closed to the public

Published by Rutgers University Press

Discussion with the author
February 28 | 6PM
Et al. Books | 2831A Mission Street, San Francisco

Rodney Ewing Unbound: Art, Blackness, & the Universe

Museum of the African Diaspora (MoAD), San Francisco
Curated by Key Jo Lee

Through August 16, 2026

"...the show invites visitors to reimagine Blackness not as fixed or earthbound, but as infinite—expansive, unknowable, and cosmically rich."

Rupert García Museum Acquisition Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Rupert García, "Prometheus Under Fire," 1984

Hung Liu Happy and Gay

Bowdoin College Museum of Art
December 11, 2025 - May 31, 2026

Organized by Georgetown University Art Galleries, and curated by Dr. Dorothy Moss and Georgetown graduate students, Hung Liu: Happy and Gay features works by Hung Liu which adapt and subvert Maoist propaganda cartoons that were published during the 1950s.

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