February 19 - May 15, 2016 - This international traveling exhibition explores the lavish lifestyle and economic interests of ancient Rome’s wealthiest and most powerful citizens, who vacationed along the Bay of Naples. Julius Caesar, Cicero, Augustus, and Nero all owned villas here. With more than 200 objects on loan from Italy, the exhibition focuses on two structures at Oplontis that ...

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February 19 - May 21, 2016 - Pertaining to art history and socioeconomic development, the 20th century is often regarded as the “American Century.” From 1900 through the 1930s, American artists generally rejected the modern art styles evolving in France in favor of more representational imagery. Not to suggest a lack of creativity; to the contrary, this exhibition features th...

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February 20 – May 29, 2016 - in this exhibition  Holly Trostle Brigham takes on that challenge in seven self-portraits in which she assumes the guise of artists of the past such as Frida Kahlo, Artemesia Gentileschi, and Tamara de Lempicka to remind us of their important stories. Brigham looks to her academic past as a student at one of the “seven sisters" colleges for women,...

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February 20 – August 7, 2016 - The exhibition also celebrates the return of Garber’s masterpiece Tanis to the Michener for a six-month engagement. Garber in Spring celebrates the artist's masterful treatment of the season in key works created in the first half of the 20th century. Works will include Michener visitor favorites The Studio Wall and Up the Cutalossa alongside notable p...

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February 20 - July 31, 2016 - The field of paper craft is considered by many to be in the midst of a renaissance with a growing number of ingenious artists investigating the limitless potential of this simple, everyday material. Paper and Blade: Modern Paper Cutting will celebrate the pioneering spirit of artists working in this genre with a curatorial focus on cut paper. All invitees were selecte...

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February 21 - August 28, 2016 - Nazi Olympics: Berlin 1936 coincides with the 80th anniversary of the Berlin Olympics and features the athletes, controversy, and pageantry surrounding the 1936 Games. During the 1936 Berlin Olympics, Hitler exploited the Games to promote Nazi ideals of racial supremacy on a world stage. For the first time in the history of the Games, people in Europe and the ...

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February 22 - July 4, 2016 - Ray Charles was one of the most innovative and influential musicians of the 20th century. This display explores his ability to overcome blindness, poverty, and segregation, as well as the musical talent and flair for performance that made him an icon of American music.

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February 23 – December 31, 2016 - In conjunction with the National Park Service centennial, we would like to recognize the local diversity of the American landscape preserved in the Finger Lakes Region. Exhibited here are historic images of Watkins Glen State Park, from its origins as a private retreat through its modern incarnation as a public state park.

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February 24, 2016 - May 15, 2016 - Focusing on work made from 1956 to 1972, the exhibition presents Pop art as a movement that is at turns celebratory, critical, and probing in its message. It reveals the energetic exchange that contributed to a reimagining of art’s relationship to societies in flux. American and British Pop is presented alongside lesser known but equally potent examples fro...

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February 26, 2016 - July 30, 2016 - The exhibition explores American art in the narrative tradition, from the 1820s through today.  From the classically-influenced historical and genre paintings of 19th century artists to powerful contemporary narrative work, artists have long created richly evocative stories.  In this exhibition’s 18 paintings, prints, and photographs, c...

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