"As the United States prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday amid attacks on civil liberties and marginalized communities, museums and galleries in the nation's capital are opening exhibitions that question what it means to be an American.The National Gallery of Art presents 115 works in Dear America while other shows focus on individual artists such as Mary Cassatt and Nick Cave, all in the pursuit of exploring "Americanism" as a facet of education, expression, and aesthetics."
"Meanwhile, exhibitions like Making Their Mark at National Museum of Women in the Arts complicate the idea that "American" is a uniform, monolithic identity, instead critiquing it as a social, racial, and gendered construction. Amid an urgent moment in American art and culture, art in the capital city this spring asks us to look at ourselves as works of cultural creation - and in doing so, to complicate our attachment to and belief in national identity."
Washington museums and galleries stage exhibitions that interrogate American identity amid the nation’s 250th birthday and rising attacks on civil liberties and marginalized communities. The National Gallery of Art mounts Dear America with 115 works, while solo shows spotlight artists including Mary Cassatt and Nick Cave. Exhibitions such as Making Their Mark at the National Museum of Women in the Arts critique American identity as a constructed, racialized, and gendered phenomenon rather than a singular ideal. Diana Al-Hadid’s unbecoming confronts purity culture and racist beauty standards, and Joan Danziger presents her largest exhibition to date in the DC area.
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