Art is history, Lisa Sette Gallery’s spring exhibit, plays with the idea of Art History as a formal field of study overgrown with relics and theories, but the show’s astute collection of works reveals individual artists to be sources of human truth, their creative expression upending the self-serving histories repeated by corporate interests, political victors, and wealthy institutions.

Featuring works by Pedro Álvarez, Rachel Bess, Enrique Chagoya, Sonya Clark, Carrie Marill, Duane Michals, Sandro Miller, Yasumasa Morimura, Vic Muniz, Charlotte Potter, Omar Soto, and Joel-Peter Witkin, Art is History opens with a public reception on Saturday, March 7 and continues through May 30, 2026.

With these works and others in Art is history, the message is clear: Art offers an alternate view of time and events, a perception more vital and human than the changeable politics of the news or the histories written by victors. Art is the real history, the exhibit shows us, and the artist’s work is recognizing and peering beyond the prescriptive notions of the current moment.