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You won't want to miss these shows, coming soon to our three featured exhibition galleries! These shows include art from our permanent collection and from around the world.

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.

A group of individuals are depicted as smudgy, semi-abstract forms in shades of black and grey. Three of the individuals' faces are depicted, looking backward.

Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 1940–1970

Thursday, September 04, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, December 14, 2025, 5 p.m.

Remembrance and Renewal will be the first exhibition to examine the impact of the Holocaust on the development of midcentury American art.

An abstract woodcut print with many translucent layers in shades of green, blue, yellow, red, white, and pink. A central shape comprised mostly of greens and blues with a scrawling black line following the left edge is against a white background. At the upper left of center is a large dark green circular shape with visible woodcut tool marks and a small red dot in the middle.

Radius: Helen Frankenthaler Prints in Context

Monday, September 15, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, February 08, 2026, 5 p.m.

Radius: Helen Frankenthaler Prints in Context displays seventeen prints by celebrated Abstract Expressionist Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) side-by-side with prints by contemporaries such as Grace Hartigan, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock.

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 Will I Go? لوين روح؟

Thursday, March 05, 2026, 10 a.m.—Sunday, August 09, 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

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.

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, March 15, 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.

A fan shape with a white iris in full bloom at the center and one in bud at the right against mottled green leaves and a red artist’s seal stamped at the right.

Reinvigorating Tradition: Rinpa in Japanese Art and Design

Saturday, April 19, 2025, 10 a.m.—Sunday, April 05, 2026, 5 p.m.

This focus exhibition explores the transmission of the Japanese Rinpa aesthetic. It highlights how Rinpa's distinctive repertoire of patterns, motifs, and techniques—hallmarks of Japanese art and design today—were continually emulated and reinvigorated by artists working in diverse media, notably woodblock-printed picture books.

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