May 20 - July 17, 2016 -  In this exhibition, these bracingly deadpan works satirize conventional notions of masculinity, recasting the male figure in various scenarios that both mock virility and redistribute the dynamics of power. Bright pastel color fields form the ground for base group scenes in which balding, rotund, and mustachioed middle-aged men blindly follow each other in circl...

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May 20 - July 17, 2016 - The exhibition includes three large-scale architectural installations, sculptural costumes, and lighting that considers this potential and also reflects the group’s interest in set design and staging.​ Tragedy Machine, Villa Design Group’s new body of work realized for the List Visual Arts Center, comprises sculptures and a four-act theatrical production imag...

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May 20–September 18, 2016 - The exhibition will pay special tribute to the concept of the icon, and the fluid definition of that term in contemporary society, particularly in relation to its historical definition. From Annie Oakley to Liza Minnelli and Saint Apollonia, in these prints as in other works, Warhol played on notions of celebrity through the use of the singular iconic image repeat...

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May 21 – September 4, 2016 - The enigmatic—and often humorous and dramatic—works in this exhibition survey the production of five gifted artists: James Castle, Thornton Dial, Nellie Mae Rowe, Bill Traylor, and Willie Young. Whether called “outsider,” “visionary,” or more accurately, “self-taught” art, the genre remains one of the most intriguin...

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May 21 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition will present about 40 of those drawings, covering five salient themes in the art history of the Netherlands during the 16th and 17th centuries. Works by the period’s outstanding draftsmen will be on view. The first section, comprised of drawings from the 1500s, highlights the stylistic innovations precipitated by contact with Italian Renaissance mo...

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May 21 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition explores the mysterious visual world of symbolism, an open-ended cultural phenomenon of the late 19th century that formed an important bridge between impressionism and modernism. Yet more than these two movements, symbolism sought to evoke ideas subjectively through color, form, and composition rather than objectively representing worldly appearances. The...

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May 21 - August 14, 2016 - This installation showcases approximately 60 excellent, yet rarely seen prehistoric Chinese ceramics from the collections of the Harvard Art Museums and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Ancient pottery vessels are not only works of art but also representations of technical achievement, products of economic value, and windows into understanding ancien...

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May 21 - August 28, 2016 -  The exhibition traces the artist’s career from his early trompe l’oeil works executed in a style the artist calls “levitational realism” – for the illusionistic levitation of the objects depicted  to his more recent paintings that combine trompe l’oeil realism with modernist tendencies, creating works that focus on juxtapose...

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May 21 - August 21, 2016 - This exhibition, featuring works from the Museum’s Permanent Collection, traces the development of still life painting from late 19th-century naturalism through the formalist concerns of early- 20th century modernism to the verisimilitude of photorealism in the 1970s.  Still life painting celebrates the abundance, beauty, and diversity of the natural world. &n...

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May 21 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibition reunites for the first time the surviving photographs and texts intended for the two projects, including never-before-seen photographs by Parks from the collections of the Art Institute and the Gordon Parks Foundation and unpublished manuscripts by Ellison. Revealed in these frank depictions of Harlem is Ellison and Parks’s symbiotic insistence on makin...

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