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Mariah R. Keller has been appointed as the interim director of the Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University, IU Bloomington Provost and Executive Vice President Rahul Shrivastav announced today.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University is pleased to announce an exhibition of artwork by award-winning musician and accomplished artist John Mellencamp.

Amplitude: Terry Winters Prints Since 2000 from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation opens at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University (IU) on August 9, 2024, and closes on December 15, 2024. The exhibition will examine Winters’ printed work since 2000, a period marked by technical innovation during which he introduced artist’s books and monoprints in addition to his editioned prints.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University is proud to share that three recently published books have won awards from the Midwest Art History Society Catalogue Competition.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University (IU) has hired Darla Blazey as the Director of Administration and Strategic Initiatives and Dr. Natasha Kimmet as the new Pamela Buell Curator of Asian Art.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has acquired the diptych Poplar Trees (2015) from artist Samuel Levi Jones. The work enhances the museum’s growing collection of contemporary art by artists of color, as well as a collection of work by Indiana artists. As an interpretation of a shameful event in Indiana’s history, Poplar Trees facilitates important reflections on the past as well as discussions about persisting inequalities.

Magic Ledger: The Drawings of Saul Steinberg opens at the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University (IU) on January 27, 2024, and closes on June 2, 2024. The exhibition includes forty-three unique works selected from the recent gift of sixty-five drawings, twenty-one prints, and an annotated catalogue from The Saul Steinberg Foundation and six works acquired by the museum in the 1970s.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University announces a conversation with Jeff Koons (American, b. 1955) on November 5.

Jeffrey A. Wolin is a celebrated and influential photographic artist and former longtime head of Indiana University’s photography department. Featuring one hundred works, this retrospective exhibition covers Wolin’s entire career with key selections from all ten of his major series. Best known for his innovative use of image/text combinations, Wolin has explored the living reality of history and the primacy of the personal experience.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art will have adjusted hours during summer 2023.