Overlapping Empires: Virtual Exhibit & Discussion

Van Cortlandt House Museum, built in 1748, was home to generations of the Van Cortlandt family as well as enslaved and free servants. For over 100 years, the museum’s period rooms and authentic furnishings have offered visitors a glimpse of what life was like for the historic residents of the house from 1748 to 1823.

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Explore Overlapping Empires online through a virtual exhibition presentation and discussion featuring artist Samantha Box.

Join Van Cortlandt House Museum online for a virtual presentation and discussion of Overlapping Empires, a site-wide contemporary art exhibition by Samantha Box.Now installed throughout the historic house, Overlapping Empires brings Box’s still-life photography and installation work into direct dialogue with one of New York City’s earliest colonial sites. This virtual program will offer a closer look at the exhibition as installed in the museum, including how the works engage with the rooms, objects, and layered histories of Van Cortlandt House Museum.Through richly composed still-life photography and installation, Box draws on the visual languages of 17th-century painting, tourism imagery, and contemporary product photography to explore connections between empire, trade, migration, and memory. The exhibition considers the house not as a neutral backdrop, but as a historic site shaped by colonial economies, Caribbean and Latin American trade, enslavement, migration, and nation-building.This online program will include a virtual look at the exhibition, background on the artist’s process, and a discussion of how Overlapping Empires invites new ways of seeing the museum and the histories embedded within it.Overlapping Empires is on view at Van Cortlandt House Museum from June through August 2026. This online program is free; registration is required to receive a Zoom link.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.Van Cortlandt House Museum's programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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