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how the light gets in

how the
light gets in

Sep 7, 2019–Dec 8, 2019
Three images of the Johnson Museum show outdoor installations in the morning, twilight, and sunset

Throughout the Museum

In 2016, the Pew Research Center reported “nearly 1 in 100 people worldwide are now displaced from their homes.”

how the light gets in is an exhibition about the movement of people across the globe and the welcome cracks that develop in our notions of borders and nation states—“that’s how the light gets in,” Leonard Cohen sang in his 1992 song “Anthem”:

Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in

A brick wall is balanced on a book with a spine reading Amerika

This exhibition was curated by Andrea Inselmann, curator of modern and contemporary art at the Johnson, and funded in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, Engaged Cornell, and the Cornell Council for the Arts. It has been supported by generous gifts from Younghee Kim-Wait, Ronni Lacroute ’66, and Jodi Dady and Andrew Dady ’86. Additional support was provided by the Ames Exhibition Endowment.

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