Common Things: Art and Objects in Public Life - American University Museum

Common Things: Art and Objects in Public Life invites artists, designers, and architects working across media to reflect creatively on what thinker Hannah Arendt described as the "world of things," those durable features of the physical world that "relate and separate men at the same time." The show asks artists to consider what it means to share a world in common with others and how their work might be the basis for a shared world, bringing people together, setting them apart, and creating space for the difficult work of living together as humans who, by our very nature, think and act differently from one another.