“The Great Ephemeral” responds to the speculative nature of the global market, both by exploring its intangible, even emotional, aspects and by offering clear-eyed commentary on its inequalities. This exhibition is part of a season of programming organized by the New Museum’s Education Department that examines aspects of speculation, including its volatile relationship to faith a...

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Among the groups persecuted as threats to the national health were Germany's homosexual men. Believing them to be carriers of a "degeneracy" that weakened society and hindered population growth, the Nazi state arrested and incarcerated in prisons and concentration camps tens of thousands of German men as a means of terrorizing them into social conformity. This exhibition examines th...

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The exhibition includes his personal letters to his wife and daughter, the codes he shared with Washington, his swords and medals, and his accounts of his allies Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington. La Grange, Lafayette's chateau from 1802 to 1834, will lend some of its greatest Lafayette-related treasures for the first time.   Friday - 10am-8pm Sunday - 11am-5pm Monday - CLOSED

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Featuring numerous recent acquisitions, this exhibition presents selections from the Colby Museum’s holdings of contemporary works on paper. Many of the artists represented are new to the collection and have entered it through their accomplishments in printmaking. Sunday: Noon–5 p.m. Closed Mondays

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The art of the Wyeths Exhibition – N.C., Andrew and Jamie – is a direct result of their familiarity with and fascination for life along midcoast Maine, reaching back to N.C.’s decision to bring his family to the area in 1920. The Wyeths’ interests have included the coast’s dramatic shoreline and islands, including Monhegan, the lives of fishermen and farmers, and the ...

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The exhibition Andy and Kosti explores the friendship between Maine artists Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) and Kosti Ruohomma (1913-1961). Both found Maine an inexhaustible subject in which to practice their respective arts, and in particular were fascinated by the relationship between people and their environment, Andy in particular with the Olson House and siblings Alvaro and Christina Olson; and Kost...

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The exhibition traces Homer’s epic poem across history through ancient and modern works of art. Greek vases and armor, along with prints by Winslow Homer, a WWI poster, and war photography, take us from the wrath of the hero Achilles to universal images of war and peace.  For the ancient Greeks, the Iliad was both entertainment and a record of their past. The museum is closed on T...

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From 1895 to 1897, Maurice Prendergast filled the pages of a folio album with drawings in watercolor, pencil, and pen and ink, sketched on-site in the Boston Public Garden. His radiant images captured the carefree recreation of cossetted children and their adoring families in beguiling snapshots. Several of the sketches originated ideas for advertisements, while others laid out subjects for monoty...

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For this new installation at Dia:Beacon, the artist redesigned Excursus to engage with the museum’s architectural and lighting specificities, a technique he has articulated as “site-conditioned,” in which “the sculptural response draws all its cues (reasons for being) from its surroundings.” Realized almost thirty years later, Excursus: Homage to the Square3 furthere...

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In our 30th anniversary year the idea of the exhibition is to highlight Noguchi's original installation and the complex task of editing it--when necessary (as in the case of fundamental changes to the building or when pieces go out on loan), as well as when programmatically desirable. Additionally, the show will provide an opportunity to consider the importance, and the subjectivity and transi...

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