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Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art

In the past five to ten years, humor has turned up with increasing frequency in contemporary art, perhaps satisfying an urgent need among artists and audiences alike to reflect upon the absurdity of daily existence.

Thin Skin: The Fickle Nature of Bubbles, Spheres, and Inflatable Structures

Thin Skin brings together some of the most interesting recent work involving malleable, inflatable materials.

Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art

Various views of childhood a mix of innocence and nostalgia, comic-strip heroes and science fiction, fairy tales and computer games are explored in this exhibitions combining approximately forty thought-provoking works by contemporary artists and artists groups from the United States and abroad.

At the Threshold of the Visible

This exhibition examines the uses and the value of tininess in contemporary art practices during the past thirty years. It focuses on artworks that embody specific qualities and issues associated with the extremely small, in particular, intimacy, a problematic accessibility, and a conception of the sublime that is playfully paradoxical.

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