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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.

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 view looking down the Seine, shadowed by dark green and blue foliage in the foreground, which opens into clear, light blue and gray sky in the background, set against the silhouette of the distant wooded riverbank. Foreground and background elements converge in their reflection on the surface of the water, which gives the effect of a mirrored composition cut at center by the horizontal far-edge of the riverbank.

Blanche Hoschedé-Monet in the Light

Friday, February 14, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, June 15, 2025, 5 p.m.

Recognized for her sophisticated approach to color, composition, and technique, Blanche Hoschedé-Monet (1865–1947) was part of a successful network of artists in Giverny, Rouen, and Paris during the first half of the twentieth century, although she is most often recognized for her relation to Claude Monet, her stepfather and one of France’s most famous painters.

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

Two heads carved from light stone are facing each other. The man, on the left, has curly hair and a beard. The woman wears a tightly crimped hairstyle and has a broken nose.

Portraits of Septimius Severus and Julia Domna: An Exploration of Roman Imperial Identity and Power

Saturday, August 03, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, March 30, 2025, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition examines the intersection of public-facing art and political propaganda during the reign of Roman Emperor Septimus Severus (193–211 CE). Severus, the Libyan-born founder of the Severan dynasty, and his Syrian-born wife, Julia Domna, used their portraits to center themselves as the rightful rulers of an increasingly complex and multicultural society.

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.

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