September 2, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - Four hundred years after his death, the Toledo Museum of Art honors the great playwright William Shakespeare with an exhibition exploring The Bard’s band of characters, from the comedic to the tragic. Approximately 30 paintings, prints, sculptures, photographs, and illustrated books bring the beloved writer’s works to life.

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September 2 - December 18, 2016 - This exhibition​ describes how the 1930s and 1940s were a golden age for murals in America where the everyday worker rose to the status of a primary hero. The Great Depression forged a renewed belief in the centrality of the laborer, and the federal government sponsored numerous work programs, including those for visual artists. Wall paintings about larger-than-...

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September 2, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - This exhibition brings together the scattered elements of the famous triptych, reuniting the Morgan inner wings with the central panel now owned by the Musei Civici in Vicenza, Italy, and the outer wings from the Groeningemuseum in Bruges, Belgium. The exhibition also highlights links between panel painting and manuscript painting in fifteenth-century Flemish...

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September 03, 2016 - January 08, 2017 - This exhibition features prints by artists working in France and England during the 1860s and early 1870s, selected from the Zimmerli Art Museum’s renowned collection of nineteenth-century works on paper. They represent a new generation of artists who embraced the expressive qualities of etching and realized works with rich contrasts of light and dark ...

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September 03, 2016 - January 08, 2017 - The selection on view in this exhibition contains examples of color field painting, geometric abstraction, assemblage, and pop all styles current in the international art world of circa 1966. The wide range of art produced and collected circa 1966 is evidence of the global energies of the art market and the push by artists to explore new materials and new co...

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September 03, 2016 - January 08, 2017 - The artists in this exhibition share an interest in exploring paint as an expressive medium and image making as a layered, experiential endeavor. For all the artists, surface and image coalesce in what David Deutsch described as a “balance of control and accident.” While Fariba Hajamadi’s diptych combines oil paint and photographic emulsion...

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September 03, 2016 - July 30, 2017 - The three artists in this exhibition each used abstract expressionism, the prevailing American style in the postwar period, as a point of departure. Their paintings represent important continuities with the previous generation and highly distinct personal innovations.

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September 03, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - This exhibition has a  selection of prints dates from 1960 to 1974, a period of renewed interest in printmaking in the United States. Numerous print studios opened throughout the country, including Universal Limited Art Editions Tamarind Lithography Workshop, and Gemini G.E.L. These workshops were staffed by highly trained master printers and played hos...

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September 3, 2016 - December 31, 2016 - This exhibition features inventive examples of fantasy art shoes chosen from the Weitzman collection, remarkable for their imaginative construction and elaborate adornment. Each delicate shoe is constructed from unexpected materials such as bronze, ceramic, wire, Plexiglas, and corrugated cardboard. Other shoes are noteworthy for their surfaces, embelli...

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September 3 - October 16, 2016 - This exhibition shows pictorially the power, beauty and glorious nature of the 'Fro and tells the deeper "hairstory" of each of its models. This exhibition, inspired by the original book, captures the spirit and essence of the Afro today and pays homage to the historic significance of natural hair iconic voyagers.

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