What’s New: Curatorial Conversations

As a follow-up to 2018’s popular collections exhibition A Decade of Collecting, JSMA’s curators present newly acquired works as well as recent and planned gifts in honor of Jill Hartz. This special exhibition doesn’t just unveil many exciting recent acquisitions. We’ve installed these works to instigate thematic dialogues between cultures and across time, both for our own curatorial explorations and for you.

We invite you to explore such questions as: How might art be used to celebrate differences or entrench biases? Does language help us communicate or create confusion?  What meanings can be ascribed to the female body and do they change depending on their American, Asian, European, or Latin American contexts? Can the pull of religion remain powerful even when it is not your own or when treated with humor? What does it feel like to be made complicit in an act of war? Listen to the Guide-by-Cell conversations between our curators and hear what we are questioning and why.