Marie Watt’s Companion Species (Speech Bubble) serves as the central installation around which works from a diverse group of artists from multiple times and in various media celebrate the web of relationships among humans, animals, and nature. Companion Species is organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in collaboration with the Museum of Native American History, Bentonville, Arkansas.

not but nothing other: African-American Portrayals, 1930 to Today presented depictions of and by Black Americans, providing a wide-ranging survey of how artists over the last 80 years have responded to the challenge of representing African-American selfhood.

Comprised of over one hundred works across all media dating from the 1920s to the present, Black Refractions surveys creative achievements by artists of African descent.

This exhibition features groupings that explore the human impact on the environment, the ways place informs identity, and how people build their own personas and sense of self.

This exhibition speaks to the ways artists orient themselves through relationships – either to people or places – and how other artists use their work to locate truths typically hidden from view. 

This exhibition brings together artists exploring the slippery task of tangling with history, the ways in which art can express concepts when words fail, and how some artists apply rationality to the random.

A collective portrait of the Eastern United States during a decade of profound transformation.

An interdisciplinary project exploring the concept of pollination and interconnection between art and science from the 19th into the 21st century.

Drawn exclusively from the Whitney’s permanent collection, this exhibition highlights how photography has been used to represent individuals, places, and narratives.