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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.

Focus Gallery: Style and Status: The Art of Roman Fashion

Thursday, May 06, 2021

5 p.m.

This student-curated focus exhibition, developed during a spring 2021 ASURE course, explores the history of ancient Roman fashion.

The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music

Thursday, August 19, 2021, 12 p.m.—Sunday, May 29, 2022, 5 p.m.

The Living Need Light, the Dead Need Music is a 2014 single-channel video that delves into the paradox of life and death in a short film concerning the ritual funerary celebrations that take place in Ho Chi Minh City and throughout Southeast Asia.

Focus Gallery: American Artists and the Avant-Garde: Three Paintings from the Art Bridges Foundation

Tuesday, November 02, 2021, 10 a.m.—Sunday, September 11, 2022, 5 p.m.

The focus exhibition illuminates how international exchange fostered the development of modernist art in the United States in the first half of the twentieth century.

Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural

Saturday, February 05, 2022, 12 p.m.—Sunday, May 22, 2022, 5 p.m.

Stuart Davis’s 1938 mural Swing Landscape, a work familiar to many EMA visitors, is considered one of the most important American paintings of the twentieth century.

Saitō Kiyoshi: Master of Design

Thursday, March 03, 2022, 10 a.m.—Sunday, August 07, 2022, 5 p.m.

Saitō Kiyoshi's (1907-1997) keen sense of design, superb technique and engagement with an appealing variety of themes made him one of the best known and most popular Japanese print artists of the twentieth century. This exhibition will focus on prints Saitō created in the 1950s and '60s, arguably the most vibrant period of his career, and includes several rare, early designs.

Focus Gallery: Italian Renaissance Paintings from the Kress Collection

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

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