This year, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation celebrates its 25th anniversary with an exhibition organized by its Founder and Board Chair, Emily Rauh Pulitzer. Dialogues & Conversations explores the nature of artistic exchange, both within Mrs. Pulitzer’s life and across the broader arc of art history. The presentation highlights relationships among artistic peers and across generations of artists, as well as the significant, long-term engagements that have shaped Mrs. Pulitzer as a curator and collector.
Dialogues & Conversations features work by over 35 artists, including Edgar Degas, Willem de Kooning, Dan Flavin, Alberto Giacometti, David Hammons, Jasper Johns, Bruce Nauman, Medardo Rosso, and Doris Salcedo, among others. These include around 90 sculptures, drawings, paintings, prints, and photographs dating from the late 19th century to the present. Works of art from Mrs. Pulitzer’s collection, which she assembled over many decades independently and with her late husband, Joseph Pulitzer Jr. are placed in conversation with masterworks that she helped to acquire as a curator for the Harvard Art Museums and the Saint Louis Art Museum and artworks from The Museum of Modern Art. The exhibition also reflects on the Pulitzer Arts Foundation’s own history. Works featured in past shows are once more on view, marking a quarter century of exhibitions, collaborations, and scholarship.
