Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection Fall 2010
This exhibition is made up of two complementary and interweaving narratives—the history of photography as told through the collection's imagery, and the history of the collection's formation and methodology. The Gernsheims assembled a peerless collection, most predominantly in the area of nineteenth-century British photography, and many highlights will be on display alongside works by unknown or lesser-known artists who used various means to improve or to exploit the relatively new invention of photography. The exhibition will highlight key moments in the history of photography, important technological and ideological shifts in the act of picture making, and narratives that served the Gernsheims as key points of collecting.
The Plays of Tennessee Williams Spring 2011
This centenary exhibition will approach the plays of Tennessee Williams from their production and performance aspect. The focal play of the exhibition will be A Streetcar Named Desire. It is the most familiar of his plays, and it originated one of the most iconic stage and film performances in 20th-century American theater—Marlon Brando's Stanley Kowalski.
