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November 16, 2025

Paintings from The Johnson Collection Featured in Ken Burns’s “The American Revolution” Documentary

Two paintings from The Johnson Collection (TJC) are featured in The American Revolution, the six-part, twelve-hour documentary from acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns and co-directors Sarah Botstein and David Schmidt. Premiering on PBS in November 2025, the documentary examines the Revolutionary War and the founding of the United States through the experiences of people from a wide range of backgrounds, while exploring the conflict’s enduring impact on the nation and the world.

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October 9, 2026

Memento Mori Opens on October 28

Last chance to view Yellow is October 17.

Experience Josef Albers’s Interaction of Color with our ArtWalk workshop on October 15.

Spend Halloween with TJC and decorate skull and gravestone cookies.

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October 1, 2026

Southern Gothic Now Open at LSU Museum of Art

The core group of artwork has been increased to engage Louisiana’s distinctive cultural environments, layered histories, and enduring traditions. Thirty-six objects from The Johnson Collection are placed in conversation with selections from Louisiana State University Museum of Art’s permanent collection and other works on loan. This expanded framework creates a dynamic dialogue between regional voices and the broader scope of Southern art history. Together, the objects illuminate how artists have negotiated myth and memory, confronting the South’s romanticized imagery with its difficult, contradictory realities.

Southern Gothic: Literary Intersections with Art from the Johnson Collection is on view at the LSU Museum of Art October 1, 2026–January 3, 2027

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September 2, 2026

TJC’s New Website Now Live!

Minnie Evans on Loan to the Whitney Museum of American Art, A Soldier’s View on view now at Wofford College. Watch the guided walk through of the website in the partner link above.