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Unsettled

August 26, 2017–January 21, 2018
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
www.nevadaart.org

Unsettled, co-curated by JoAnne Northrup and Ed Ruscha, amasses two hundred artworks by eighty artists spanning two thousand years to explore the geography of frontiers characterized by vast expanses of open land, rich natural resources, diverse indigenous peoples, colonialism, and the ongoing conflicts that inevitably arise when these factors coexist. Work by Chris Burden and Ed Ruscha is included.

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The Arcades:
Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin

March 17–August 6, 2017
Jewish Museum, New York
thejewishmuseum.org

Walter Benjamin’s The Arcades Project is about Paris’s nineteenth-century vaulted iron-and-glass shopping passages. With their labyrinthine architecture and surrealistic juxtapositions, the arcades offer an ideal prism through which to examine the era’s capitalist metropolis. This exhibition will explore The Arcades Project and its ongoing relevance through works of contemporary art representing the subjects of each of the book’s thirty-six chapters. Work by Chris Burden, Andreas Gursky, Cindy Sherman, and Taryn Simon is included.

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That Was Then, This Is Now

June 22–October 5, 2008
MoMA PS1, New York
www.moma.org

Inspired by the artistic and sociopolitical climate of the late 1960s, this group exhibition features work by artists united by the desire to mobilize art as a means of change. Focusing on three iconographic themes—flags, weapons, and dreams—That Was Then, This Is Now places these representations as central to artists’ collective aspiration toward progress. Work by Chris Burden, Adam McEwen, Spencer Sweeney, and Andy Warhol is included.