Abelardo Morell: In the Company of Monet and Constable
The Clark Institute, Williamstown, MA
On View November 23, 2024 - February 17, 2025
Opening Lecture November 23rd, 11am
This exhibition showcases thirteen recent large-scale photographs by Abelardo Morell. Taking inspiration from John Constable and Claude Monet and using his signature tent-camera technology, Morell photographed in the actual places where these leading nineteenth-century landscape painters made their iconic works. Combining picturesque vistas with ground-level natural details, Morell’s luscious color photographs reflect on our relation to art as well as nature through their complex fusion of the historical and contemporary, the transitory and the lasting, the pictorial and the photographic.
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Room-Like: Contemporary Art from the Collection
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Ongoing from March 20th, 2025
Immerse yourself in works that reimagine room-like spaces. This installation brings us to familiar places—a bathtub, a kitchen, a laundromat—and surprises us with unexpected viewpoints. Liza Lou’s beaded closet transforms everyday household items into art. Mel Chin turns a museum gallery into a microcosm of the globe. Abelardo Morell and Carrie Mae Weems create intimate moments in their photographs that invite close looking.
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Photography's New Vision: Experiments in Seeing
The High Museum, Atlanta, GA
On View June 13th - January 4th, 2026
This exhibition, uniting more than 100 works from the High’s robust photography collection, will trace the impact of the New Vision movement from its origins in the 1920s to today. Photographs from that era by Ilse Bing, Alexander Rodchenko, Imogen Cunningham and Moholy-Nagy will be complemented by works by a multitude of photographs by modern and contemporary artists such as Barbara Kasten, Jerry Uelsmann, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and Abelardo Morell to demonstrate the long-standing impact of the movement on subsequent generations.
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Heatwave
Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York, NY
On View June 19th - August 1st, 2025
Edwynn Houk Gallery is pleased to present Heatwave, a group exhibition on view from June 19 – August 1. The show brings together works by Lillian Bassman, Elliott Erwitt, Lalla Essaydi, Robert Heinecken, Sally Mann, Joel Meyerowitz, Abelardo Morell, Erwin Olaf, and Herb Ritts. The exhibition explores heat not simply as temperature, but as sensation, atmosphere, and memory. In several works, its physical effects are rendered with immediacy and sensual intensity. The works in Heatwave come together to show that photography, like heat, is not neutral. It has the power to shape, reveal, distort, and intensify. Across the exhibition, each artist uses the medium to transform perception into form, whether capturing atmosphere, reframing cultural narratives, or reimagining surface and space. Taken together, they reflect the sensory richness of photography and its ability to convey not only how the world looks, but how it feels.
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Object Lessons
Concord Art, Concord, MA
On View June 12th - August 10th, 2025
The vases, bowls, pitchers, and other containers that we use everyday have always held significance beyond utility. Artists have been depicting and making vessels since time began. There are a number of reasons why this might be so: a desire to reinterpret the work of artists who have come before; an interest in adding universality to an otherwise personal perspective; a love of shape and form; a focus on material culture and the politics of objects. Bringing together paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, textile art, collage, and ceramics, this exhibition explores the enduring appeal of the vessel for modern and contemporary artists.
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Counter History: Contemporary Art from the Collection
Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Ongoing
How do we remember the past, and how does it inform the present? Artists often question our shared history as they frame ways for us to understand it differently. This new installation of works from the MFA’s collection of contemporary art—including many new acquisitions—offers multiple possibilities to reconsider the past through the art of our time.