Depicting quotidian life in the country, urban scenes, and imagined views of timeless Arcadian realms, this selection of rarely exhibited landscape drawings from the Frick’s small but superb collection of works on paper reveals thematic continuities across four centuries. The watercolor finds an ideal context among drawings by Vollon’s contemporaries and forebears — including Cla...

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This major exhibition features over 150 objects that trace the development of her innovative practice over the past 20 years. For her entire career, Shechet has embraced an experimental approach to sculpture, finding form in the chance processes that occur as mutable materials—such as plaster, ceramic, paper pulp and glass—become solid. Her exhilarating, polymorphic sculptures test the...

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ALONG THE WAY, KAWS’s colossal eighteen-foot-high wood sculpture, greets visitors in our Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion and Lobby. Portraying a pair of gigantic figures with their heads lowered and with one arm around each other in a gentle embrace, the sculpture alludes to familiar childhood toys and cartoon characters while at the same time transforming their identities with a radi...

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“Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden” is the first New York museum exhibition of the work of the pioneering German painter Albert Oehlen (b. 1954, Krefeld, Germany). The range of imagery and techniques that Oehlen has deployed throughout his career is staggering. His canvases capture haunting interiors, mutating self-portraits, archaic and digital landscapes, cryptic fragments of language,...

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The Jerome Project (Asphalt and Chalk) V, XV, and XVI represent a compelling new phase of Kaphar’s Jerome Project, which investigates racial injustice through the vagaries of the justice and penal systems in contemporary American society. In 2011, Kaphar began researching his father Jerome’s prison record, and came across mugshots of nearly one hundred men who shared his father’s name. Usin...

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The exhibition features original illustration drawings for some of Duvoisin’s beloved picture book classics for children, including Donkey-donkey: The Troubles of a Silly Little Donkey; White Snow, Bright Snow, Petunia, A for the Ark, Nubber Bear, The Old Bullfrog  and The Web in the Grass, The Crocodile in the Tree; Snowy and Woody; and The Happy Lioness. The almost forty drawings in ...

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This exhibition includes work in most media and in a wide variety of themes and styles, many of which have not been on view in the museum previously.  Maine Collected features selected works by living artists connected to Maine from the Bates Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The collection has significant strengths in Maine art. Closed Sunday

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An exhibition of contemporary photography featuring new and recent works by Jay Gould, of Baltimore, Maryland, Gary Green, of Waterville, Maine, David Maisel, of Marin, California and Shoshannah White, of Portland, Maine. Viewing elements of the Maine landscape from different levels of scale – from great distance to close-up, each artist explores a different aspect of the boundaries and inte...

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This exhibition focuses on photographs of rather than art by Hartley. The Painter of Maine begins with photographs of Hartley as a young man, including images taken during his travels in Europe and the U.S., and ends with informal images in Corea, Maine from the early 1940s at the end of his life. For most of this group, the photographer is unknown. The exhibition also includes a fine and pensive ...

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This exhibit has nearly 200 photographs and framed quilted pieces. The photos, taken between 1910 and 1960, feature lifeguards, locals, tourists and celebrities who frequented this beach, which was designated as the "Blacks-only" beach until the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964. Photos include Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Sammy Davis, Jr., Rosalind Cash and Madame Sarah Spen...

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