Fredrick Sommer: Circumnavigation

In 1990 the National Gallery launched an initiative to acquire the finest examples of the art of photography and to mount photography exhibitions of the...

Exploring an unparalleled period in American art, this long-awaited exhibition reveals the full breadth of a movement that will forever be associated with the boundless...

The exhibition Songs and the Sky at the Bruce Silverstein Gallery offers an original way of presenting certain works in the gallery’s collection by associating...

This exhibition explores the history of the medium as a lucid, literate—but not always literal—tool of persuasion. A collaboration with the George Eastman Museum, the...

Soldier, Spectre, Shaman, a noteworthy and all too rare exhibition on view on the museum’s third floor, offers a vital corrective to the gospel of...

Frederick Sommer (1905–1999) is most famous for his photographs from the 1940s that combine Surrealism’s uncanniness with taut formalism: abstracted horizonless, pictures of the American...

The primary goal of the surrealist movement was to liberate the modern mind by demonstrating how deep psychological impulses could be explored, depicted, and fused...