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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 dark room with a rectangular bench in the foreground and three connected screens behind it. The screens depict a dark-skinned man in front of a mud-brick wall, a dark-skinned arm pressing a circle of dough onto a metal cooking surface with a flame beneath it, and a dark-skinned man wearing a sports jersey crouching in a mudbrick structure surrounded by pots and plastic jugs.

Of Men and Gods and Mud

Saturday, October 18, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, May 31, 2026, 5 p.m.

Ali Cherri is a Lebanese artist who makes film, sculpture, paintings, and installations, often combining found artifacts with handmade forms.

Mulyana: Vital Ecosystems

Saturday, February 07, 2026, 10 a.m.—Sunday, June 28, 2026, 5 p.m.

Mulyana: Vital Ecosystems transforms the museum into an imaginative underwater landscape inspired by Indonesia’s stunning coral reef ecosystem. This immersive installation of hand-knit and crocheted sculptures by acclaimed fiber artist Mulyana (b. 1984, Bandung, Indonesia) highlights the beauty and precarity of the ocean and our relationship to it.

A young woman in a loose, white gown is draped across a brown upholstered chair in the corner of a decrepit room, her legs arched over the left armrest and her hair cascading over the right. Tall, open windows on either side reveal green foliage as dirt and detritus are scattered on the floor.

Rania Matar: Where Do I Go? لوين روح؟

Thursday, March 05, 2026, 12 p.m.—Sunday, August 02, 2026, 5 p.m.

Photographer Rania Matar confronts the legacy of the Lebanese Civil War and Lebanon’s ongoing crises through intimate portraits of women taken throughout the country’s picturesque landscapes and crumbling architecture. Matar collaborates with the young women of Lebanon to collectively commemorate the present and reimagine the future of a country defined by half a century of conflict and catastrophe.

Focus Exhibitions

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

Sunday, January 26, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, April 26, 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 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.—Sunday, September 20, 2026, 5 p.m.

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, May 31, 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.

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