Bengston was most recently the focus
of the
major retrospective California Dreaming:
Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston &
Ed Ruscha at the New Britain Museum
of Art in New Britain, CT..
In 2017, Bengston was the focus
of the
major retrospective California Dreaming:
Ed Moses, Billy Al Bengston &
Ed Ruscha at the New Britain Museum
of American Art in Connecticut.
The 2013 programme also includes the haunting film work Secretion, 2012, by leading artist Willie Doherty, first shown to critical acclaim at dOCUMENTA 13; an exhibition exploring the relationship between art and cinema, Cloud Illusions I Recall, which includes some
of the most important artists
of recent times such as Cindy Sherman,
Ed Ruscha, Marcel Broodthaers and Andrei Tarkovsky; and the first
major retrospective of Leonora Carrington's work in Ireland, a significant figure in the Surrealist art movement who exhibited alongside André Breton and Max Ernst.