Katonah Museum and Pocantico Center Team Up for Joint Exhibition

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January 29, 2026

Visitors stand in a contemporary art gallery, looking at large abstract paintings on neutral-colored walls. In the foreground, two women face a blue-and-white abstract artwork, while other visitors—including a person using a mobility scooter—move through the open, well-lit exhibition space.

Photo by Susan Nagib.

Visitors take in "Suspension In Blue No. 5" at the opening of Shen Wei: Still/Moving, on view at Pocantico through April 18.

The seeds for this project were planted in 2008, when Shen Wei’s dance company received a grant from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF). In 2019, while expanded arts programming was being envisioned for the Pocantico Center, the RBF team responded enthusiastically to Wei’s exhibition at the Gardner, where he was an artist in residence. Realizing that the complexity of his work demanded a full presentation with an expert partner, the RBF contacted Michelle Yun Mapplethorpe, then the director at the Asia Society Museum in New York, with the idea for a collaboration. When Mapplethorpe became director and chief curator at the KMA, the idea came with her.

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