In 2017, The Drents Museum and the Kunsthalle Emden joined forces to mount the international double exhibition "The American Dream." This ambitious survey of American painting from 1945 to the present was on view simultaneously in Assen (The Netherlands) and Emden (Germany). Leading artists included Edward Hopper, Andy Warhol, Alice Neel, Cindy Sherman, Roy Lichtenstein, Andrew Wyeth, and Chuck Close.