A visitor looks closely at an object on a pedestal in a dark-walled gallery.

Exhibitions

Current Exhibitions

Figures in pastel-colored garments hold hands and dance in a circle on a background that resembles a starry sky with an illuminated sun at the center.

The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876–1917

September 6, 2024 – January 5, 2025
A dragon faces the viewer while wrapping its body around a rock or dune, with waves visible in the background.

Year of the Dragon

March 15, 2024 – November 10, 2024

Upcoming Exhibitions

A black-and-white photograph of a woman standing outdoors between two sections of a chain-link fence. Holding her arms out in a T, with either hand grasping a fencepost, she addresses the camera with a confident gaze. The woman wears a dark pageboy hat and a white polo shirt tucked into a short, plaid skirt. In the background is a low brick building with a slanted roof.

David Goldblatt: No Ulterior Motive

February 21, 2025 – June 22, 2025

Traveling Exhibitions

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

Venue: 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

Venue: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art

Past Exhibitions

John Stuart Gordon, the Benjamin Attmore Hewitt Assistant Curator of American Decorative Arts, with John C. Waddell

American Design from the John C. Waddell Collection

December 13, 2011 – March 11, 2012
Title Wall for exhibition.

Remembering 9/11

September 1, 2011 – January 19, 2012
Title Wall for exhibition.

Old Javanese Gold: The Hunter Thompson Collection

March 25, 2011 – August 14, 2011

Dura-Europos: Crossroads of Antiquity

February 5, 2011 – January 8, 2012
Title Wall for exhibition.

John La Farge's Second Paradise: Voyages in the South Seas, 1890–1891

October 19, 2010 – March 27, 2011
Title Wall for exhibition.

Robert Adams: The Place We Live, A Retrospective Selection of Photographs

September 25, 2010 – August 31, 2014
Title Wall for exhibition.

Embodied: Black Identities in American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery

September 16, 2010 – June 26, 2011
Title Wall for exhibition.

Jane Davis Doggett: Talking Graphics

January 26, 2010 – July 11, 2010

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