January 12 - May 8, 2016 - The works on view in Consciously Surreal challenge this notion of photographic truth through the purposeful engagement of experimental techniques, fragmentation of the body, and chance encounters. Championed as a medium capable of yielding unmediated copies of nature, photography is often believed to operate in the realm of the factual. Closed Mondays and some holidays...

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January 12 - May 8, 2016 - The Dada movement arose in reaction to the senseless destruction of World War I. First practiced, and named, in 1916 by writers and artists working in Zürich—among them Jean Arp, Hugo Ball, and Tristan Tzara—the idea soon developed independently in Berlin, Paris, and New York. The groups were united not so much in style or technique as in ...

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January 12 - June 12, 2016 - This exhibition of works on paper highlights rarely displayed illustrations created by Enos B. Comstock (1879-1945) and his son Henry B. Comstock (1908-2003), who continued his father’s artistic legacy. Original images of playful animal characters, detailed renderings of trains and patriotic illustrations published both in Boys’ Life and in several children...

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January 12 - November 6, 2016 - This exhibit features 343 portraits by artist Dawn Howkinson Siebel, one for every New York City firefighter lost in the World Trade Center attacks. Together, the images create a wall measuring  21 feet long, allowing visitors to come face to face with men who made their living running toward danger and saving lives, even at the risk of their own.

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January 15, 2016 - January 1, 2017 - In this exhibition, fifty of the most beautiful are now featured in The Field Museum’s new exhibition Looking at Ourselves: Rethinking the Sculptures of Malvina Hoffman. The new exhibition is a rich inquiry into the concept of race, which has changed drastically over the past eighty years but is still very much with us today.  Hoffman’s artwor...

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January 15 - May 15, 2016 - In The American West: Photographs of a New Frontier, a portrait of one of the world’s great muses emerges: the landscape of the Western United States. Ansel Adams, Timothy O’Sullivan, and Carlton Emmens Watkins are a few of the photographers represented among some 70 works on display.

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January 15, 2016 - January 1, 2020 - The Museum added another must-see exhibit to its world-famous fossil halls: a cast of a 122-foot-long dinosaur. This species is so new that it has not yet been formally named by the paleontologists who discovered it. The remains were excavated in the Patagonian desert region of Argentina by a team from the Museo Paleontologico Egidio Feruglio led by Jos&e...

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January 13 - July 31, 2016 -  Exhibition highlights include the artist’s screenprints, Vegetarian Vegetable from Campbell’s Soup II (1969) and Electric Chairs (1971), as well as selected Polaroids and black-and-white photographs of celebrities popular in the 1980s, such as Pia Zadora, Sylvester Stallone, Bob Colacello, Caroline, Princess of Monaco, Mariel Hemingway, and others. Th...

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January 16 -May 30, 2016 - This related installation reconstructs how Whistler’s unrealized quest for “the perfection of art” intersected with less-rarified concerns about patronage, payment, and professional reputation.

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January 17, 2016 - January 31, 2017 - The exhibition uses photographs, documents, music, artifacts, and video, to present Hawai`i’s contested past and the possibilities of its future.  E Mau Ke Ea: The Sovereign Hawaiian Nation takes visitors through the history of the Hawaiian Nation, from the consolidation of the islands by King Kamehameha I in 1810 and the establishment of ...

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