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Voices in Print: New Jersey Black Women Printmakers Shaping the American Narrative
The exhibition at Morven Museum & Garden in Princeton focuses on the contributions of Black women artists across generations.
USA 250
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Looking for History: MoCA\CT's New Exhibition Explores Memory, Landscape, and the American Story
Rick Shaefer, Ellen Harvey, and Michael Borders question how history is created, remembered, and reimagined. On view through November 15, 2026.
Guide
8 Art Books to Reframe America’s 250th
The real story of the Declaration of Independence, the rise and fall of monuments, contemporary Indigenous artists, drag queens on Fire Island, and other titles for the year’s reading list.
Opinion
The Hudson River School’s American Apocalypse
One of the United States’s first major art movements registered anxieties about industrialization, empire, and environmental ruin.
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Museum of Fine Arts Boston Reimagines America on Its 250th Birthday
A Mohawk artist’s bust of George Washington, a matrilineal home altar, and a Dunkin’ cup are among the 400 objects in a new major reinstallation.
Guide
10 Art Shows to See in DC This Summer
As the nation marks 250 years, exhibitions explore artists’ interpretations of the American flag, Joan Miró’s printmaking, collage as critique, Black design, Pueblo pottery, and more.
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25 Art Shows Reckoning With the US at 250
From Indigenous survivance to quilting to modernism, these exhibitions and projects reframe and challenge the story of the United States.