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This spring the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art will open three new featured exhibitions in its newly renovated galleries. 

The Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art has announced a transformative estate gift of $5 million from Bloomington residents and entrepreneurs Kimberly and John Simpson in support of the new Center for Education. Their generous donation will support the museum’s core mission of engaging students with original works of art.

The Eskenazi Museum of Art has announced a generous gift of $1 million for the new Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Study room from Martha and David Moore. The donation will support the museum’s core mission of engaging students and the public with original works of art on paper.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art has announced a generous gift from Patrick and Jane Martin in support of the new Commons in the Center for Education, which facilitates learning and engagement with original works of art across the lifespan.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has received a major gift of 65 drawings by the world-renowned artist Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) from the New York City–based Saul Steinberg Foundation.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has announced the acquisition of the Jeffrey A. Wolin Archive that will include current and future work by Wolin along with the following notable projects: Written in Memory: Portraits of the Holocaust; Inconvenient Stories: Vietnam War Veterans; Life at the Millennium; New Faces at the Crossroads; Pigeon Hill: Then and Now; and Stone Country: Then and Now.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art has announced a contemporary art installation on the ceiling of the Luzetta and Del Newkirk Café and Gift Shop.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art has announced a generous gift from Luzetta and Del Newkirk in support of the newly renovated museum café and gift shop. In honor of the Newkirks’ generosity, Indiana University is naming the space the “Luzetta and Del Newkirk Café and Gift Shop.”

The Harrison Collection of Japanese baskets is comparable to some of the finest and most encompassing collections of Japanese bamboo art in the country.

The Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art at Indiana University has announced an estate gift with an estimated value of approximately $4 million from the late Indiana philanthropist Jane Fortune, who was a passionate advocate for women in the arts and founder of the Florence, Italy-based nonprofit Advancing Women Artists.