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Explore the shows currently on view in our three featured exhibition galleries! These shows include art from our permanent collection and from around the world.

Featured exhibitions are free and open to the public.

Featured Exhibitions

Magic Ledger: The Drawings of Saul Steinberg

Saturday, January 27, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, June 02, 2024, 5 p.m.

Saul Steinberg (American, 1914–1999) brought a modernist aesthetic and cosmopolitan sophistication to his gallery art and commercial work—including eighty-five covers and more than twelve hundred internal drawings for The New Yorker magazine—endearing him to many artists, writers, and popular audiences of his era. As Steinberg said, “The purpose of drawing is to make people feel that there is something else beyond the perception. That is essentially what I am playing with—the voyage between perception and understanding.”

A photographic image of a hazy urban area with the upper stories of buildings visible above a grey cloudy mass representing thousands of humans passing through the streets. Many illegible traffic signs and advertisements line the buildings with balconies and shuttered windows above them. The street stretches into the distance toward the left side of the image, gradually getting brighter.

Adam Magyar: Matter

Saturday, February 10, 2024

10 a.m.

Hungarian-born video artist and photographer Adam Magyar has studied the relationship between time and moving images extensively. Fixing a camera inconspicuously in public spaces throughout his worldwide travels, Magyar captured hours of human foot traffic, layering the video recordings upon each other and replacing the urban cacophony with a solemn, meditative soundtrack. The resulting images depict the ghostly traces of dense human presence in otherwise still environments, shifting the focus to the spaces that remain stable as life passes by.

Focus Exhibitions

Italian Renaissance Paintings from the Kress Collection

Thursday, November 07, 2019, 10 a.m.—Sunday, December 01, 2024, 5 p.m.

This focus gallery exhibition features works donated to the museum by one of our earliest benefactors, the collector Samuel H. Kress.

Two people are seated near a large, shallow terracotta cup with handles, a tall stem, and decoration in red against a black background. The person on the right of the vase is leaning forward intently to look at the underside of the cup, holding a book open as he does so. The person on the left is slightly behind the cup, and is holding up a phone as if they might be taking pictures or reading from the screen.

Life and Legend: Storytelling and Greek Pottery

Thursday, May 04, 2023, 10 a.m.—Sunday, June 30, 2024, 5 p.m.

This student-curated focus exhibition explores the rich imagery of vase painting in ancient Greece. It is being developed by IU students in the Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Research Experience (ASURE) program, with the mentorship of Dr. Julie Van Voorhis and Ancient Art curator Juliet Graver Istrabadi.

An ovoid vessel with a short neck and an outward curved rim. The clay vessel itself has patterned bands running horizontally around the body and there is an open interlaced plant fiber basket structure that surrounds the entire vessel surface. This basket structure ends at the rim with circular wrapped fiber around fiber core tightened into neck space.

Interwoven: Basketry and Visual Culture in Cameroon

Saturday, March 09, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, February 23, 2025, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition explores how basketry in the Grasslands region of Cameroon intersects with wider visual culture. It considers this topic through two main directions: one, the connections between the form of baskets and that of artworks made with other materials, and second, the widespread use of basketry in a variety of settings and cultural practices. Interwoven presents a selection of twentieth-century objects used in ceremonial and domestic settings, including dance rattles, baskets for honey, woven bags, palm wine pitchers, and storage baskets.

Eight figures with yellow skin are huddled together in a cluster. Two figures hold the arms of a centrally placed man. One figure wields a sword.

Jennings Tofel: Spiritual Modernist

Saturday, March 30, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, December 01, 2024, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition presents four paintings by Jewish American expressionist artist Jennings Tofel (1891–1959) from the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s permanent collection. Tofel drew upon Jewish mystical and biblical themes to convey his personal spirituality and articulate his horror at the Holocaust.

A men's wrapper with dark and light blue square areas in a checkerboard-like design with six horizontal strips of red over top.

Interlacing in African Textiles

Saturday, April 06, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, September 08, 2024, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition explores the concept of interlacing through a display of nineteenth and twentieth-century textiles from West and Central Africa. It discusses interlacing through African woven and dyed textiles worn as clothing, as well as the use of textiles in hats, masks, and currency. This exhibition was developed in collaboration with contemporary fiber artist Beatrice Atencah, who is an MFA candidate in the IU School of Art, Architecture, and Design.

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