Best known for her elaborate paintings composed of rhinestones, acrylic and enamel, New York based artist Thomas introduces a complex vision of what it means to be a woman and expands common definitions of beauty. Her work stems from her long study of art history and the classical genres of portraiture, landscape, and still life. Closed Monday and Tuesday The Museum will be closed on July 4, Tha...

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This exhibition juxtaposes American illustration work from the 19th and early 20th centuries with contemporary art.  Winslow Homer’s striking wood engravings of the 1860s and 1870s for Harper’s Monthly represent an important phase of his early career when he was employed as a freelance illustrator and artist reporter. This period coincided with the flourishing of mass market illus...

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This exhibit spans work from his first to his last Monhegan visit in 1992, and will be the first large retrospective of the artist’s Monhegan work to be shown in New England. Drawing from two large collections, the C.L. Morehead Collection from Athens, GA, and the collection of the Lamar Dodd Art Center at LaGrange College. The Museum is open to the public from June 24- September 30

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On loan from the Portland Museum of Art, this exhibition features 30 woodcuts by Winslow Homer, one of the greatest nineteenth-century American painters. These prints were some of the first anecdotal images of war in the United States. This exhibition is generously sponsored by the Meadowmere Resort, with special thanks to the Portland Museum of Art. Museum is open - May 1 through October 31

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This exhibiton shows that his direct application of paint and bold choice of color, Chadbourn (1921-1998) was a popular New England painter. This is the first retrospective of his works. Museum is open - May 1 through October 31

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The Bronx Museum of the Arts is organizing a multi-venue artistic and cultural survey of The Young Lords Organization—a radical social activist group founded by Puerto Rican youth in the 1960s that demanded reform in health care, education, housing, employment, and policing. Exhibitions of art and archival materials at three cultural institutions in New York City will exp...

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The exhibition reveals Blume’s central role in the development of American modernism and examines the artist’s impact on late 20th-century narrative painting. In addition to the paintings and drawings by Blume that appear in Nature and Metamorphosis, the Wadsworth Atheneum will present a selection of works from its permanent collection titled, Visions from Homr: Surrealism in Connecti...

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The exhibition features a selection of paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photographs by some of the artists that lived in this bohemian community that are also represented in the museum’s permanent collection. The personal connections and relationships that developed between these artistic and social circles are illustrated using photographs, artists’ letters, and exhibition announc...

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Discover some of the planet's most versatile animals in a new exhibit that features live spiders, larger-than-life models, fossils, and more. Which came first: spiders or dinosaurs? Do all spiders make webs? Are all spiders poisonous? Test your knowledge and find out more. Location: American Museum of Natural History - Gallery 77

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The exhibition will feature highlights from the N-YHS collections, as well as hidden gems on display for the first time. The installation will also feature outdoor colonial “kitchen gardens,” with herbs, vegetables, and flowers for visitors to enjoy. Every Saturday and Sunday between July 4, 2015 and September 27, 2015.

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