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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

This black, white, and gray image depicts a worm's eye view of the night sky. A bright, white moon shines through numerous gray clouds rimmed in white in the top left quadrant. The silhouette of buildings can be seen along right and bottom edges.

Landscape and Abstraction in Watercolor, 1780–1980

Saturday, August 05, 2023, 10 a.m.—Sunday, December 10, 2023, 5 p.m.

Drawn from the collections of the Eskenazi Museum of Art, this exhibition examines how artists have leveraged the challenges and possibilities of the watercolor medium over two centuries.

Half-length portrait of an older, light-skinned man seen against a white sky filled with handprinted text in black ink. He is bare chested and wears a gold chain. Silhouetted tropical foliage is found on the right side and bottom edge.

Measuring Time: The Photographs of Jeffrey A. Wolin

Thursday, September 07, 2023, 12 p.m.—Sunday, December 17, 2023, 5 p.m.

Featuring approximately one hundred works, this retrospective exhibition covers Wolin’s entire career with key selections from all ten of his major series, including his earliest landscapes and portraits of stonecutters, Holocaust survivors, war veterans, and people experiencing homelessness.

Focus Exhibitions

The Degenerate Art Exhibition: 85 Years Later

Sunday, September 18, 2022, 12 p.m.—Saturday, September 30, 2023, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition features four art objects that offer a variety of insights the Nazis’ condemnation of German modernist art, their persecution of Jewish artists, and their looting of Jewish art collections.

This cloth is decorated with a light blue repeated block pattern of abstract geometric forms. Along the edges is the lettering 'ENIAFE LAMOSEREIBE' and at each end of that, with axis at right angles to the lettering, there is a man's face with a hand beneath it.

Designing with Dyes: Connecting Cloths and Ideas in West Africa

Saturday, March 18, 2023, 10 a.m.—Sunday, September 17, 2023, 5 p.m.

Textiles displayed in this exhibition explore the changing uses of dyes in cloth making during the twentieth century in West Africa. It features cloths made by Asante, Bamana, Fula, and Yorùbá artists including indigo-dyed textiles and “mud” dyed bògòlanfini cloth among others. Designing with Dyes explores how people have circulated materials, technologies, and knowledge through cloth.

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.

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.

A cotton textile panel comprised of repeating abstract patterns throughout the cloth. The designs are made with different colors including yellow, orange, pink, and green, and are outlined in thin black lines.

Textile Heritage in Central and South America

Saturday, August 26, 2023, 10 a.m.—Sunday, February 18, 2024, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition explores the transmission of knowledge through the textile legacies of Central and South America to show the powerful role of cloth to transfer cultural wisdom across generations. The historical legacies of these textiles testify to the contemporary vitality and resilience of the communities they originate from in Central and South America.

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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