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

Title Wall for exhibition.

Let Us March On: Lee Friedlander and the Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom

January 13, 2017 – December 16, 2018

Installation view of exhibition.

It Was a New Century: Reflections on Modern America

December 23, 2016 – June 25, 2017

Title Wall for exhibition.

Yosemite: Exploring the Incomparable Valley

October 7, 2016 – December 31, 2016

Title Wall for exhibition.

Art and Industry in Early America: Rhode Island Furniture, 1650--1830

August 19, 2016 – January 8, 2017

Title Wall for exhibition.

Le Goût du Prince: Art and Prestige in Sixteenth-Century France

May 20, 2016 – August 28, 2016

Title Wall for exhibition.

Weaving and the Social World: 3,000 Years of Ancient Andean Textiles

May 20, 2016 – September 18, 2016

Title Wall for exhibition.

Everything Is Dada

February 12, 2016 – July 3, 2016

Title Wall for exhibition.

Meant to Be Shared: Selections from the Arthur Ross Collection of European Prints at the Yale University Art Gallery

December 18, 2015 – November 19, 2017

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