February 27–June 14, 2025

Main Gallery

Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy

Opening reception: 5:00 – 7:00 pm, Thursday, February 27

Organized by The New York Historical, the exhibition explores public monuments and their representations as points of debate over national identity, politics, and race. Monuments offers a historical foundation for understanding recent controversies, featuring fragments of a torn-down statue of King George III, a replica of a bulldozed monument by Harlem Renaissance sculptor Augusta Savage, and a maquette of New York City’s first public monument to a Black woman (Harriet Tubman), among others.

Monuments: Commemoration and Controversy is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art. Additional support is provided at Binghamton University by the Office of the Provost, the Division of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, the Harpur College Dean’s Office, the Binghamton Fund for Excellence, the Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls, and Rebecca Moshief and Harris Tilevitz ’78.

^{Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, Pulling Down the Statue of King George III, New York City, 1852–53, oil on canvas, 44 1⁄8 × 53 1⁄ 16 in. (112 × 135 cm), gift of Samuel V. Hoffman, collection of The New York Historical (1925.6)}

Other exhibitions on view

Existential Color: Photography from the Permanent Collection

Organized by John Tagg, SUNY Distinguished Professor of Art History and Luisa Casella, Photograph Conservator, Fellow of American Institute for Conservation. 

Barry Anderson, Salt Flat Pool, Camargue, Arles, France, 2013, printed 2017, inkjet print, gift of the artist (2017.12.1)
 

Chiura Obata: Japanese Art in America

Curated by Yao Shen He ’27

Chiura Obata, Death's Grave Pass, High Sierra, USA, from World Landscape Series, 1930, polychrome woodcut, museum purchase with funds donated by John C. Copoulos ’73, 2024.1.11

History and Myth: Violence in Early Modern Prints

Curated by Leah Dascoli ’26

Jacques Callot, "The Wheel" (La Roue) (detail) from The Miseries and Misfortunes of War (Les Misères et les Mal-Heures de la Guerre), 1633, etching, Museum purchase with funds donated by Lucie G. Nelson '77 PhD in memory of Lucie and Hugh Grant (2021.11.n)

Japanese Design and the Arts and Crafts Movement in New York

Curated by Joseph Leach, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions

Kamisaka Sekka, Branches in the Wind, 1899, polychrome woodcut, gift of John C. Copoulos ’73 (2018.6.3)

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Paintings and sculpture between the 15th and 20th centuries

Jan H. Weissenbruch, Untitled (River Scene), ca. 1850, gift of Walter Oberlander (2017.14.10)