Exhibitions
![Jerome Ellis, wearing blue sweater and jeans, stands back to the viewer, in a clearing of snow with green trees in the background.](/sites/default/files/styles/16x9_one_third_default_1x/public/2024-05/jjjjjerome_ellis__impediment_is_information%2C_with_open_captions%20%28Original%29%20%281%29%20-%20frame%20at%208m29s.jpg?h=e9f2d050&itok=bghDiZBE)
Opening September 4, the major exhibition Smoke & Mirrors features work from across the globe by artists who conceptualize access through humor, antagonism, transparency, and invisibility. Organized by guest curator Dr. Amanda Cachia, a prominent disability arts activist and scholar, this unprecedented exhibition showcases work by artists with disabilities, who are underrepresented in museums. It also encourages visitors with disabilities and their allies to become active participants in telling their own stories. (6/27/24)
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Featuring more than 100 objects—painting, drawing, assemblage, video, sculpture, photography—The Body Implied: The Vanishing Figure in Soviet Art presents works of art made between 1970 and the present, by 22 artists from Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Russia, and Ukraine. The imagery features partially obscured or hidden figures, as well as instances where the human form is implied, but not visible. (4/4/24)
![James Baldwin seated and leaning on left elbow at a table surrounded by people listening to him](/sites/default/files/styles/16x9_one_third_default_1x/public/2024-02/artx_agins_baldwin_exh.jpg?h=e74c922e&itok=xWK8Yv6t)
A New York Times staff photographer and Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, Agins's images tell unforgettable stories about life in America. The second Black woman ever hired as a staff photographer at The New York Times, her groundbreaking assignments offer some of the most important documentation of race relations, celebrity culture, sports, spirituality, and economic disparity in America. (2/22/24)
![Black and white photo of George Segal seated with bus stop figures](/sites/default/files/styles/16x9_one_third_default_1x/public/2024-01/artx_l2023.048.013_loan_desaturated.jpg?h=aeeb4931&itok=mQZorwQ1)
Marking the centennial of George Segal’s birth in 1924, the Zimmerli welcomes visitors to experience more than 60 works: some familiar, others rarely seen. With works drawn from the museum’s collection, as well as loans from the George and Helen Segal Foundation and private collections, the exhibition offers the unique opportunity to view Segal’s less well-known paintings, drawings, and photographs alongside his renowned life-sized plaster cast figures. In addition, photographs by Arnold Newman and Donald Lokuta capture Segal in his studio. (1/12/24)