The Calumet, 1961. Artwork: © The Robert Indiana Legacy Initiative/Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Robert Indiana: The American Dream is a major exhibition including seminal examples of paintings and sculpture created by the artist beginning in the early 1960s and developed throughout subsequent decades of his artistic career. It examines Indiana’s critique of the duality of the American Dream—both its promise and its privations—highlighting the connections between the artist’s personal history and the social, political, and cultural realities of postwar America. The exhiibtion reflects on the critical and political underpinnings of Indiana’s work, as well as his enduring impact as an artist, and includes loans from several prominent institutions.