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Members' Preview: "Alex Katz: Theater and Dance"
members' preview at mcasd

August 20, 2025 at 5:00 pm

5 – 7PM

Free for Members

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MCASD Members: We are thrilled to welcome you to our next exhibition preview of Alex Katz: Theater and Dance before it opens to the public!

Step behind the curtain and into a world where a decades-long entanglement with movement meets canvas.

Experience the California debut of the Theater and Dance, the first major exhibition exploring Katz’s prolific collaborations with choreographers, dancers, poets and avant-garde performers. Enjoy exclusive access to an evening filled with theatrical sentiment, backstage intimacy, and insight into some of the artist’s most daring ideas.

Widely regarded as one of America’s most iconic painters, this exhibition invites you to take center stage, see never-before-shown sketches, bold set designs, and iconic portraits.

RSVP by August 13.

Funders

MCASD’s presentation is generously supported by Barbara Arledge and Nancy and Matthew Browar. The accompanying Members’ Preview is sponsored by Northern Trust.

Alex Katz: Theater and Dance is co-organized by the American Federation of Arts and Colby College Museum of Art. This exhibition is curated by Levi Prombaum, former Katz Consulting Curator, Colby College Museum of Art. The 2022 presentation of Alex Katz: Theater and Dance was organized by the Colby Museum with curatorial guidance from Robert Storr.

The American Federation of Arts is the leader in traveling exhibitions internationally. A nonprofit organization founded in 1909, the AFA is dedicated to enriching the public’s experience and understanding of the visual arts through organizing and touring art exhibitions for presentation in museums around the world, publishing exhibition catalogues featuring important scholarly research, and developing educational programs.

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