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Cunning Folk considers magical practice, practitioners, and their persecution in early modern European artwork and material culture (c.1500–1750). The term “cunning folk” typically describes wise people who knew traditional spells and remedies believed to cure and protect. The works on paper, painting, and personal items on view in this intimate, single gallery exhibition more broadly explore the historical concept of “cunning” in connection to many forms of secret magical rites and knowledge, from folk charms to occult natural philosophy to diabolic witchcraft. Early modern artists also...

Animal, Vegetable, nor Mineral is the first large-scale solo museum exhibition of Manila-born, Los Angeles-based artist Miljohn Ruperto (b. 1971). Working across photography, video, animation, generative artificial intelligence, and other mediums, Ruperto explores the ways humans have understood their place in the world. From digitally-created fantastical botanical specimens printed as gelatin silver photographs to immersive apocalyptic landscapes experienced in VR, Ruperto’s artworks highlight the elusiveness of knowledge and unsettle what we think we know about nature.

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Jeremy Frey: Woven is the first solo museum exhibition of works by MacArthur “genius” award winner Jeremy Frey, and the Cantor will be its only West Coast venue. Renowned for his innovation in basketry, Frey has been advancing his practice over the last twenty years. The exhibition will present over 30 objects, ranging from early point baskets and urchin forms to more recent monumental multicolored vases with meticulous porcupine quillwork, as well as new work in video, prints, and large-scale woven sculpture.

The exhibition premiered at the Portland Museum of Art in May 2024, before...