Foundation News


Posted: October 1, 2019

Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power at MCA Chicago

Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power at MCA Chicago looks at the ways artists since the 1960s have used words to challenge our ideas about all of the messages we read, write, ...

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Posted: September 14, 2019

Federico Solmi’s Solo Exhibition at the Tarble Arts Center

The Grand Masquerade, Federico Solmi’s first solo exhibition in the United States, takes place from August 17 – October 6, 2019, at the Tarble Arts Center at Eastern Illinois University. This exhibition ...

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Posted: September 10, 2019

Little Nemo’s Progress: Animation and Contemporary Art at OSU Museum of Art

Little Nemo’s Progress: Animation and Contemporary Art at Oklahoma State University Museum of Art highlights the processes (and creative possibilities) involved in crafting animated spatial environments, and illuminates a broad range of ...

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Posted: August 15, 2019

Kota Ezawa: The Crime of Art

Traveling exhibition The Crime of Art, now on view at the Cummer Museum of Art, centers on Kota Ezawa’s study of a major museum heist that remains unsolved. On loan from the ...

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Posted: August 7, 2019

Art & Empire: The Golden Age of Spain at San Diego Museum of Art

The Thoma Foundation is proud to provide support for the San Diego Museum of Art’s exhibition Art & Empire: The Golden Age of Spain, the first exhibition in the United States to ...

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Posted: July 26, 2019

Art House Chosen as a “Best of Santa Fe”

Art House, the public exhibition venue of the digital art collection of the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, has been chosen by the staff of the Santa Fe Reporter as the ...

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Posted: July 20, 2019

Tanabe Chikuunsai IV at TAI Modern

On view from July 26 – August 24: a solo exhibition at TAI Modern of Tanabe Chikuunsai IV’s bamboo sculptures, both small- and large scale. His free-standing sculptures, made from tiger bamboo ...

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Posted: July 5, 2019

Mapping Memory: Space and History in 16th-Century Mexico

Exactly 500 years ago, in August of 1519, an expedition led by the Spanish explorer Hernando Cortés began marching inland into Mexican territory. Just two years later, what today is Mexico City ...

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Posted: May 24, 2019

Applications Open For Marilynn Thoma Fellowship And Research & Travel Awards

Applications are now open for the Marilynn Thoma Fellowship and the Thoma Foundation Research and Travel Awards. Pre-doctoral and Post-doctoral fellowships are offered to scholars in support of projects and research initiatives that will advance the field of ...

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Posted: May 15, 2019

Symposium on Viceregal Art Organized By 2019-20 Marilynn Thoma Fellows

Organized by 2019-20 Marilynn Thoma Fellows Katherine Moore McAllen and Verónica Muñoz-Nájar, the upcoming symposium Congreso de Arte Virreinal: El Futuro del Arte del Pasado seeks to trace the continuum and disruptions of visual characteristics throughout viceregal ...

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