Special Features
From time to time, the Sandor Family Collection will feature matters of public and artistic interest, including International Women’s Day and Black History Month.
Please tap here to explore the virtual exhibition, ‘Celebrating Women in Photography’.
Please enjoy below, selected archived posts from social media.
Happy Mother’s Day! Celebrating all Women and Trailblazers in the Arts!
Please enjoy from left to right: Dorothea Lange, Lucille Ball (by Cindy Sherman), Julia Jackson (Virginia Woolf’s mother by Julia Margaret Cameron; Michalene Thomas, Natalie Portman (by Annie Leibovitz), Dora Maar (center), Rosa Parks, Margaret Bourke White, Ellen Sandor (by Michelle Litvin), Nina Simone (by Sandra Bridges), Faith Ringgold, Carla Gannis, and Frida Kahlo (by Nickolas Muray).
Related, recent exhibitions featuring works from the Sandor Family Collection include:
Dora Maar Traveling Exhibition, Centre Pompidou, Paris; TATE Modern, London; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 2019-2020
Happy International Women’s Month!
Please enjoy selected art historical references included in 'New Media Futures’ from the Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection, celebrating trailblazing women artists and women’s empowerment, as important co-creators of our world.
From left to right: Cindy Sherman (by Richard Prince), Julia Margaret Cameron, Dennis Stock, Margaret Bourke-White, Nancy Burson, Frida Kahlo (by Nickolas Muray), Betty Friedan (by Garry Winogrand), Lynn Hershman Lesson, Georgia O’Keeffe (by Alfred Stieglitz), Lee Godie, Vivian Maier, and Laurie Simmons.
Related, recent exhibitions featuring works from the Sandor Family Collection include:
Yayoi Kusama: A Letter to Georgia O’Keeffe, Jean & Alfred Goldstein Exhibition Series, Tropical Conservatory, Gardens, The Museum of Botany & the Arts, Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, Sarasota, FL, February 11 – June 30, 2024
Happy Women’s Month! Celebrating all Women and Trailblazers in the Arts!
From left to right: Ayana V. Jackson, Xiali Xiang, Kara Walker, Frida Kahlo (by Nickolas Muray), Sandra Eleta, Faith Ringgold (center), Hassan Hajjaj, The Pointer Sisters (by Herb Greene), Adrian Piper, Mickalene Thomas, Hailong Xie, Snow Fu and Diane Arbus.
Related, recent exhibitions featuring works from the Sandor Family Collection include:
Adrian Piper: Retrospective, PAC, Milano, 2024
Faith Ringgold: American People, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, November 18, 2023-February 25, 2024
Faith Ringgold: American People, New Museum, New York, February 17, 2022-June 5, 2022
Happy Women’s Month! Celebrating all Trailblazing Women in the Arts!
From left to right: Claude Cahun, Greta Garbo (by Edward Steichen), Carrie Schneider, Dorothea Lange, (untitled by Dennis Stock), Gertrude Stein (by Man Ray), Dora Maar, Michaklene Thomas, Carrie Mae Weems, (Montage by Jaroslav Rossler), Selma Hayak as Frida Kahlo (by Afanador Ruven), Faith Ringgold and Carla Gannis.
Related, recent exhibitions featuring works from the Sandor Family Collection include:
Faith Ringgold: American People, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, November 18, 2023-February 25, 2024
Faith Ringgold: American People, New Museum, New York, February 17, 2022-June 5, 2022
Happy February and Black History Month: Celebrating all African American trailblazers in the arts and beyond!
Please enjoy this homage montage, from left to right:
Sandra Bridges, Marian Anderson (by Yousef Karsh); Faith Ringgold, Nina Simone (by Sandra Bridges);
Jimi Hendrix (by Valerie McCune); Center: Eldridge Cleaver and Wife, with Portrait of Huey Newton (by Gordon Parks); The Supremes (by Art Shay); Gordon Parks, Josephine Baker (by James Amos Porter); Kara Walker, Diana Ross (by Victor Skrebneski); Billie Holiday (by Herman Leonard); and The Pointer Sisters (by Herb Greene).
Related, recent exhibitions featuring works from the Sandor Family Collection include:
Enduring Light: Photographs by Roy DeCarava and Danny Lyon from the Sandor Family Collection, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, September 21, 2024 - February 9, 2025.
Adrian Piper: Retrospective, PAC, Milano, 2024
Faith Ringgold: American People, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, November 18, 2023-February 25, 2024
Faith Ringgold: American People, New Museum, New York, February 17, 2022-June 5, 2022
Happy Memorial Week!
Celebrate (art)n’s 40th Anniversary with our 'Space Exploration' montage of Vintage NASA b&w photos; Annie Leibovitz’s 'Star Wars Episode I' cast photos from 1999 juxtaposed with (art)n’s NASA, JPL and Fermilab collaborations; and a commissioned sculpture '’The Promise of Things Yet to Be,' inspired by astrophotography of David Malin and Robert Gendler’s ''The Faint Nebula' and 'Pillars of Creation - Eagle Nebula’.
From left to right:
'’The Promise of Things Yet to Be (2005)’; 'Natalie Portman as Queen Amidala, 1999,’ by Annie Leibvovitz; 'Supernova Spectacle, 2016,' by (art)n and Fermlilab; 'Group Portrait from Star Wars: 'The Phantom Menace, Tunisia, 1999,' by Annie Leibvovitz; 'Captain Gus Grissom, Commander Alan Shepherd, Lt. Col. John Glenn, 1961' by Richard Avedon; 'Astronaut Buzz Aldrin, Jr., walking near the lunar module, 1969,' by Neil Armstrong; ‘Mars, 1990’ NASA JPL and (art)n; 'Space Station Freedom, 1993, by NASA Langley and (art)n; ‘V/STOL, 1989' by NASA Ames and (art)n; 'Bubble Chamber Beginnings: Revisiting the Vintage, Panel 2,’ 2016, by (art)n and Fermlilab; 'Binary Bypass: Neutrinos for Data Communication, Panel 1, 2016, by (art)n and Fermilab. All vintage photos: Richard and Ellen Sandor Family Collection, PHSColograms courtesy of (art)n.