Decorative

Exhibitions

Current and Traveling Exhibitions

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 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

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

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

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

Jefferson Pinder: "Lazarus"

December 15, 2017 – February 18, 2018

Installation view of exhibition

Artists in Exile: Expressions of Loss and Hope

September 1, 2017 – December 31, 2017

Title Wall for exhibition.

"Drink That You May Live": Ancient Glass from the Yale University Art Gallery

August 4, 2017 – November 12, 2017

Installation view of exhibition

Before the Event/After the Fact: Contemporary Perspectives on War

July 21, 2017 – December 31, 2017

Installation view of exhibition

Candy/A Good and Spacious Land

June 15, 2017 – August 20, 2017

Installation view of exhibition

Modern Art from the Middle East

February 24, 2017 – July 16, 2017

Installation view of exhibition

Lumia: Thomas Wilfred and the Art of Light

February 17, 2017 – January 7, 2018

Installation view of exhibition.

Small-Great Objects: Anni and Josef Albers in the Americas

February 3, 2017 – June 25, 2017

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