A Swiftly Tilting Planet brings together a selection of works by seminal artists, expressing the potential energy of a teeming stillness and the promise of a future world.

The works in the exhibition capture slowness, inwardness, and reflection as techniques of insuppressible vitality, anointing every ending as a new beginning and celebrating art’s enduring power—and its salutary presence—in our topsy-turvy lives. A Swiftly Tilting Planet features works by Lynda Benglis, Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Eric Fischl, Peter Hujar, Alex Katz, Sol LeWitt, Maya Lin, Brice Marden, Elizabeth Murray, Lucas Samaras, Arlene Shechet, Kiki Smith, and Richard Tuttle.

Even as everyday life frays at the seams, spring heralds its usual arrival. Crocuses bloom, the stars fade, and morning comes. Beauty persists as a beacon to guide our daily rituals even in times of tumult. Think of Senlin in Conrad Aiken’s 1918 poem, who gazes out his window at a world ravaged by a World War and a worsening pandemic, but who finds instead the beauty of the morning sun’s arrival as it turns the mist a saffron hue in the new light of day. Art and poetry anchor us to our daily rituals, Senlin reminds us, promising the eternal return of the morning after the long night. This possibility of renewal endures, despite the uncertainties that come to pass on the “swiftly tilting planet” that we occupy together.

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