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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

A repeated kaleidoscopic image depicts beige and white residential buildings against a blue and grey mountainous backdrop with beige plumes of smoke and dust emerging from center. The image is mirrored over the center horizon.

Walid Raad: Sweet Talk: Commissions (Beirut)_Solidere 1994-1997

Friday, January 24, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, October 05, 2025, 5 p.m.

Sweet Talk: Commissions (1987–2006) is a project by artist Walid Raad that documents Beirut’s residents, buildings, streets, stairs, squares, monuments, storefronts, and gardens. This video is a portion of the larger project.

A person stands while holding in their hand a black-and-white portrait photograph that conceals their face. They wear a shirt printed with a picture of two people posed next to one another.

Portraiture and Archives in African Photography

Saturday, February 22, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, August 31, 2025, 5 p.m.

This exhibition explores how artists of African descent have approached portraiture in historical and contemporary photography.

Focus Exhibitions

A still life composed of a lobster, grapes, melon, oranges, shellfish, and a gleaming silverware set on a table fills most of the painting. The surrounding canvas is dark.

The Lives of Art: Provenance Stories from the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s Collection

Sunday, January 26, 2025, 10 a.m.—Saturday, January 31, 2026, 5 p.m.

This two-part focus exhibition, on view in both first floor permanent collection galleries, sheds light on the research undertaken in conjunction with the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s Nazi-Era Provenance Research Project.

A gourd container with a wide body and long thin neck and lid. The lid fits into the neck of the container. There are pieces of aluminum used for repairs in several areas of the body.

Alternate Paths: New Object Histories from Africa to America

Saturday, March 15, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, March 15, 2026, 5 p.m.

This exhibition considers the interventions that people have made to objects over time and the implications of such departures from the objects’ initial making. It explores this topic through three thematic areas related to artistic agency, ethics and provenance, and materiality.

A fan shape with a white iris in full bloom at the center and one in bud at the right against mottled green leaves and a red artist’s seal stamped at the right.

Reinvigorating Tradition: Rinpa in Japanese Art and Design

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, April 05, 2026, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition explores the transmission of the Japanese Rinpa aesthetic. It highlights how Rinpa's distinctive repertoire of patterns, motifs, and techniques—hallmarks of Japanese art and design today—were continually emulated and reinvigorated by artists working in diverse media, notably woodblock-printed picture books.

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