Eighteenth-century art and its ongoing influence is documented in five concurrent exhibitions of historical, modern and contemporary art. Five brief essays interweave the historical and the contemporary in order to open up different discussions such as the legacies of the 18th century (the enlightenment, empiricism, revolution and innovation) and the instability of these ideas as they speak to our unstable time. Under discussion are 18th century artists Jean-Antoine Houdon, Thomas Gainsborough, Angelica Kauffmann and others, and contemporary artists Rebecca Belmore, Angela Grauerholz, Jinny Yu and others.