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Tote Hosen

36 Photographs and 12 Diagrams

Big Green

The World as It Really Is

Sinjerli Variation IV

Impending

Montauk

Number 9

Untitled #112

groundspeed (Rose Petal) #17

Garden of Music

Retroactive I

Sunbather

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Contemporary Art
Since its founding in 1844, the Wadsworth Atheneum has presented the artists of its own time, from Thomas Cole and Frederic Church to Salvador Dalí, Piet Mondrian, Andy Warhol and Sol LeWitt.

The museums renowned MATRIX program is a continuation of this artistic tradition and provides a forum for art that is challenging, current and sometimes controversial.

Through clear explanation and thoughtful engagement with the viewer, MATRIX exhibitions call into question preconceptions about art and increase understanding of its possibilities. More...

The first of its kind, MATRIX has since inspired more than fifty programs across the country, including: the MATRIX Program at the UC Berkeley Art Museum; Gallery One at the Corcoran Gallery of Art; Investigations at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania; Options at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Centric at the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach; Art at the Edge at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Directions at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
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