Dawoud Bey: Elegy
New Orleans Museum of Art
Through the interweaving of three photographic series—"Stony the Road "(2023), "In This Here Place" (2019), and "Night Coming Tenderly, Black" (2017)—Bey offers a framework through which to conceptualize the landscapes of Virginia, Louisiana, and Ohio (respectively) not merely as sites of a troubled history, but also as places that still hold the memories of our shared American past. The exhibition also includes two films: "Evergreen" (2019) and "350,000" (2023).
Amalia Mesa-Bains Emblems of the Decade: Borders
On view in the exhibition "As Above, So Below"
The Flag Art Foundation, NY
September 18, 2025-January 17, 2026
A group exhibition amassing artworks and ritual objects to explore frameworks of faith, uncertainty, death, remembrance, and transcendence.
Amalia Mesa-Bains Recent Museum Acquisition + Exhibition: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Amalia Mesa-Bains, "Cihuateotl with Hand Mirror from Venus Envy Chapter III: Cihuatlampa, the Place of the Giant Women," 1997–2022, mixed media installation, 180 inches (diameter)
This piece is currently on view in the exhibition "Shifting Landscapes" at the Whitney, through January 25, 2026.
Rupert Garcia
"Sixties Surreal"
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
On view September 24, 2025–January 19, 2026
"Sixties Surreal" is an ambitious, scholarly reappraisal of American art from 1958 to 1972, encompassing the work of more than 100 artists. This revisionist survey looks beyond now canonical movements to focus instead on the era’s most fundamental, if underrecognized, aesthetic current—an efflorescence of psychosexual, fantastical, and revolutionary tendencies, undergirded by the imprint of historical Surrealism and its broad dissemination. Image: "Unfinished Man," 1968, acrylic on canvas, 48 x 48 inches. Collection of MoMA, NY. Photo by John Janca
