Volta Basel 2026
Returning this June to Basel, Switzerland, The Contemporary Art Modern Project is pleased to announce its booth C13 at Volta. Joining us are: Karola Pezarro, Molly Gambardella, Aurora Molina, Silvia Trappa, Giulia Ronchetti, Dominik Schmitt and Stefano Ogliari Badessi each offering a artworks brimming in color and imagination in our exhibition entitled: The Real, The […]
Isaac Julien: Lessons of the Hour — Frederick Douglass
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesSir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through critical research, fictional reconstruction, and a marriage of poetic image and sound, Julien asserts Douglass’ enduring lessons of justice, abolition, and freedom that […]
Glenn Kaino: Bridge
Smithsonian American Art Museum 750 9th St. N.W., Washington, DC, United StatesGlenn Kaino’s powerful aerial sculpture Bridge is comprised of 200 golden arms hanging from the ceiling of SAAM’s Luce Foundation Center. Each is a casting of the outstretched right arm of Tommie Smith, the American winner of the men’s 200-meter race at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City. During the medal ceremony, Smith bowed his head […]
Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
San Jose Museum of Art 110 S. Market Street, San Jose, CA, United StatesTending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection launches the first dedicated collection galleries at the Museum. Providing unprecedented access to core works in San José’s only publicly held art collection, SJMA’s collection galleries position artists as storytellers to imagine the Museum as a space where culture and meaning are actively made and always in process. […]
Frye Salon + Jonathan Lasker
Frye Art Museum 704 Terry Ave, Seattle, WA, United StatesFrye Salon is both a fixture and a living experiment—an ever-evolving installation that invites fresh perspectives on the museum’s founding-era collection. The gallery features more than one hundred paintings in a floor-to-ceiling presentation mode known as “salon style,” recalling the striking displays once found in Charles and Emma Frye’s First Hill home. In Frye Salon + […]