Exhibitions
Current and Forthcoming Exhibitions
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AMERICA ABROAD: Art, Architecture, and Diplomacy - Works from the FAPE Collection
On view July 1, 2026 – December 31, 2026
The exhibition offers rare public access to artworks typically seen only at US embassies—spaces not generally open to the public—and explores how art and architecture have shaped the United States’ diplomatic presence abroad from the Cold War to today.
Image credit: Ed Ruscha, Column with Speed Lines, 2003
Traveling and Past Exhibitions
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Treaties on De-Fences by Jorge Otero-Pailos
October 1, 2025 - June 13, 2026
Onera Foundation’s inaugural exhibition, Treaties on De-Fences, explored Jorge Otero-Pailos’s work centered on the Eero Saarinen-designed Cold War-era US Embassy in Oslo, Norway.
Curated and produced by the Onera Foundation in close collaboration with Otero-Pailos Studio and the National Museum of American Diplomacy, Treaties on De-Fences spanned five galleries across the first two floors of 63 Park Street.
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The Cold War-Era US Embassy Program & Modern New Canaan
October 1, 2025 - June 13, 2026
This exhibition highlighted the midcentury embassies built in The Hague and Dublin by architects Marcel Breuer and John Johansen, respectively.
The exhibition examined how the architects’ early experiments in domestic architecture informed the modern architectural language they later brought to their embassy commissions.