Exhibitions

Current and Traveling Exhibitions

A keyboard instrument resembling a piano. Text and ornamentation are visible on the inside of its raised lid and on the surfaces above the keyboard itself. The instrument has elaborately carved legs.

Ornament

September 26, 2023 – February 18, 2024

A painting of a Black woman from the waist up gazing out at the viewer housed in a hinged case. She wears a dress with vertical stripes and a striped headwrap that leaves her blackish-gray hair visible along the hairline. Over her shoulders and neck, she wears a lightweight, white garment with a high ruffled collar.

Mickalene Thomas / Portrait of an Unlikely Space

September 8, 2023 – January 7, 2024

A stemmed cup. The cup itself resembles a shell. It has an iridescent surface that is decorated with images of insects as well as a scene involving four figures. The opening faces directly up and is fitted with a flared, gold-colored lip. A curved section of the shell rises vertically above and alongside the opening and terminates in a gold-colored face, perhaps that of a bird. The shell is supported underneath by an ornate stem on a broad, two-tiered base.

Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale

November 18, 2023 – November 3, 2024

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

A wall drawing made up of bright, colorful isometric cubes overlaid with a square black grid

Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective

November 16, 2008 – November 8, 2043

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Upcoming Exhibitions

Two standing figures are seen from behind as they embrace outdoors. Pinkish vertical lines in the background evoke tree trunks, while green, inky forms suggest tree tops and perhaps grass.

Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression

February 16, 2024 – June 23, 2024

A poster of white designs on a dark blue ground. The bottom half is entirely occupied by a grid that recedes toward a horizon line. Proceeding from the right foreground toward the left background is a line of screws resembling the female symbol, a circle with a small cross underneath. In the implied sky above are five circles, either full or partial, in which the same image of two women is repeated. A line of text just above the horizon begins: “Women in Design: The next decade—A conference.”

Sheila Levrant de Bretteville: Community, Activism, and Design

February 16, 2024 – June 23, 2024

Past Exhibitions

A painting of several ships in a harbor, with a city faintly visible in the background. A particularly detailed ship occupies the middle ground. Its deck is crowded with people. One of those on board appears to be either handing off or receiving something from two people who stand in an adjacent paddle boat, while another paddle boat full of people floats nearer to the foreground. The sky is yellow and pale blue, with sparse clouds.

In a New Light: Paintings from the Yale Center for British Art

March 24, 2023 – December 3, 2023

Silver equinoctial sundial

Crafting Worldviews: Art and Science in Europe, 1500–1800

February 17, 2023 – June 25, 2023

Installation view of exhibition.

Bámigbóyè: A Master Sculptor of the Yorùbá Tradition

September 9, 2022 – January 8, 2023

Installation view of Fazal Sheikh: Exposures exhibition.

Fazal Sheikh: Exposures

September 9, 2022 – January 8, 2023

Installation view of exhibition.

Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look

February 25, 2022 – June 26, 2022

Installation view of exhibition.

Recent Acquisitions

February 25, 2022 – June 26, 2022

Installation view of exhibition.

Gold in America: Artistry, Memory, Power

February 25, 2022 – July 10, 2022

Artworks on the wall and a sculpture in a case in the exhibition On the Basis Art.

On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale

September 10, 2021 – January 9, 2022

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