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The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University announces the appointment of two new members of its senior leadership team, along with three additional staff hires.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University announces the exhibition Positive Fragmentation: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, on view July 14–December 11, 2022, in the Featured Exhibition Gallery. Organized by the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the exhibition features more than 180 works by 21 contemporary artists who employ a strategy of fragmentation in their artistic process.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has received a major gift of fifty photographs by American photographer Brett Weston (1911–1993), donated by art collector and philanthropist Christian Keesee. The works range from 1930 to 1981 and represent a broad survey of Weston’s career with special emphasis on environmental and architectural abstractions, as well as landscapes of California and New Mexico.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University is pleased to announce the exhibition Saitō Kiyoshi: Master of Design, open March 3 through August 7, 2022, in the Rhonda and Anthony Moravec Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Gallery. Curated by the Eskenazi Museum’s Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art, Judith A. Stubbs, the exhibition explores the work of Japanese printmaker Saitō Kiyoshi (1907–1997), whose long career spanned most of the twentieth century.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University is pleased to announce the exhibition Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural, open February 5 through May 22, 2022, in the Featured Exhibition Gallery. Curated by the Eskenazi Museum’s Curator of European and American Art, Jenny McComas, the exhibition centers on Swing Landscape, the 1938 mural by American modernist painter Stuart Davis and a highlight of the museum’s permanent collection.

The IU Eskenazi Museum of Art is proud to announce a design award from the American Alliance of Museums for its biannual magazine, SCHEMA.

The Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University is pleased to announce the launch of a new progressive web app, made possible with grant funding from the A. W. Clowes Charitable Foundation.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University was awarded a 2021 Museums Empowered Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in the amount of $138,769.

After reducing hours and capacity in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic last year, the IU Eskenazi Museum of Art is pleased to announce that it will return to a normal schedule of operations and eliminate capacity restrictions for galleries on August 24, 2021.

The IU Eskenazi Museum of Art is excited to share highlights from 2020 with guests and supporters. You can view the latest Annual Review online to learn more about our accomplishments during the 2020 calendar year.