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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.

Focus Exhibitions

An ovoid vessel with a short neck and an outward curved rim. The clay vessel itself has patterned bands running horizontally around the body and there is an open interlaced plant fiber basket structure that surrounds the entire vessel surface. This basket structure ends at the rim with circular wrapped fiber around fiber core tightened into neck space.

Interwoven: Basketry and Visual Culture in Cameroon

Saturday, March 09, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, February 23, 2025, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition explores how basketry in the Grasslands region of Cameroon intersects with wider visual culture. It considers this topic through two main directions: one, the connections between the form of baskets and that of artworks made with other materials, and second, the widespread use of basketry in a variety of settings and cultural practices. Interwoven presents a selection of twentieth-century objects used in ceremonial and domestic settings, including dance rattles, baskets for honey, woven bags, palm wine pitchers, and storage baskets.

A men's wrapper with dark and light blue square areas in a checkerboard-like design with six horizontal strips of red over top.

Interlacing in African Textiles

Saturday, April 06, 2024, 10 a.m.—Sunday, February 23, 2025, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition explores the concept of interlacing through a display of nineteenth and twentieth-century textiles from West and Central Africa. It discusses interlacing through African woven and dyed textiles worn as clothing, as well as the use of textiles in hats, masks, and currency. This exhibition was developed in collaboration with contemporary fiber artist Beatrice Atencah, who is an MFA candidate in the IU School of Art, Architecture, and Design.

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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