National Museum of Modern Art
Closes July 31

This exhibition is named after Jack Kerouac's famed Beat Generation novel "On the Road," the story of a young man who travels cross-country on highways and byways in search of that elusive "American dream."

The 1957 book greatly influenced American culture in the following decades and inspired a wave of contemporary art that sought to capture "the American road." Such imagery was encapsulated within the emerging conceptual art scene of the 1960s and '70s, as artists and photographers strove to illustrate passing landscapes and time in innovative ways that broke away from the confines of the conventional rectangular picture frame.