In this first exhibition cycle, AMERICANA includes art produced in South America, North America, and the Caribbean presented in the form of six short visual essays, each offering a critical perspective on a set of related issues in modern culture and society of particular interest to progressive artists.

Joan Didion: What She Means is an exhibition as portrait, an examination of the life of the great American artist Joan Didion by curator Hilton Als, critically acclaimed writer and New Yorker contributor.

MY BODY, MY RULES is a group exhibition that examines the mainstream portrayal of women, confronting the stereotypes, violence, limitations, and ideals imposed on the disputed image of the female body.

This exhibition brings together women artists from PAMM’s collection who work in photography and printmaking to reflect on memory and the subtle imprints left by lived experience.

Informed by these interests in art history, the current presentation of the permanent collection— which was installed thematically within two rooms on the first floor and four rooms on the second—is organized around the historical criteria of genres within Western painting and the traditional hierarchy of genres that developed out of the Renaissance period and was promoted…