Encountering Vishnu -Dramas presented during religious festivals in southern India are an important aspect of popular Hindu celebration. This exhibition highlights five rare wooden sculptural masks that represent a largely unrecorded category of late medieval Indian devotional art. The masks depict the protagonists in a deadly battle between Vishnu in his man-lion avatar, Narasimha, and an evil ki...

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The exhibition at the List Center will include three projects, Scandalishious, Here for You, and Twelve.  Ann Hirsch’s work in video and performance considers the effects of technology on popular culture; many of her projects examine how young women are portrayed and present themselves in social media and online.

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The exhibition offers an in-depth look at the science and biology of the big cats while examining the conservation challenges the animals face today.  The show will feature approximately 40 - 60 of the artist’s paintings, drawings, and sketches Illustrating the eight big cat species.  Offering a cross-disciplinary approach that brings together art, design, and science, this exhibit...

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In her paintings, sculptures, performances, and installations, Camil draws inspiration from the inner-city landscape of her native Mexico City and from the history of modernism. At the New Museum, Camil will present an immersive sculptural installation created specifically for the Lobby Gallery. Thursday 11 a.m.–9 p.m.

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This exhibition examines four centuries of African-American history through the striking visual medium of story quilts. This unique exhibition features the diversity, creativity and power of this folk art form. Visitors will explore the struggle for racial and gender equality, and the extension of civil liberties through the lens of economic, social, and cultural developments throughout history an...

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It is the first major exhibition to appear as part of this project, and it provides visitors a rare chance to witness these seldom-seen masterpieces and share in the act of discovery. Masterworks on Paper presents these works together for the first time as part of Your Museum, Reimagined, a multiyear project based around improved access. Hours for Fridays: 10:00 am to 9:00 pm

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The retrospective will demonstrate the intricate interrelationships among Fischli and Weiss’s seemingly discrete works in sculpture, photography, installation, and video, each of which they used to confront, examine, and lampoon the seriousness of high art. In particular it will establish a sustained dialogue between Fischli and Weiss’s work with the moving image and their sculptural p...

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Turning Back, an exhibition of 164 photographs by acclaimed photographer Robert Adams, will be on display at the Colby Museum of Art beginning February 2nd. According to Adams, “The theme of this work is the glory of the natural world and the tragic nature of human beings. The West is gone. What did we do with it? What have we traded for this great forest? What did we get in exchange?”...

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Highlighting Sala’s continuing interest in how sound and music can engage architecture and history, “Anri Sala” will feature extensive multichannel audio and video installations that will unfold across the Second, Third, and Fourth Floor galleries, composing a symphonic experience specific to the New Museum. In recent works, Sala has interpreted musical compositions in multichan...

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While the exhibition focuses on the last 40 years of Indigenous art, it also includes historical objects from the rich collections of Harvard University’s Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology to underscore both the continuity of cultural practice and remarkable adaptive innovations. The exhibition will showcase more than 70 works drawn from public and private collections in Australia ...

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