Archived - Shows And Events

April 30 - October 10, 2016 - this exhibition of 56 works celebrates the important role of monkeys in Japanese culture. The highlight of the show is a complete set of all 21 known designs in the color print series Journey to the West by Tsukioka Yoshitoshi. Also part of the show are Art Deco postcards for 1932. Exhibit held at Japanese Print Gallery (Gallery 278A)

April 16 - July 31, 2016 - For his first museum solo exhibition, Los Angeles-based sculptor Sean Townley was drawn to molds produced by conservators to aid in preserving two ancient sculptures from the MFA’s collection. Townley has crafted new, original works of contemporary art using technologies designed to create copies and reconstruct losses. The sculptures 7 Diadems and Red Ankhhafs reference...

April 13 - July 17, 2016 - This immersive survey of the artist’s recent major “paper works” presents room-sized installations composed of hundreds of small sculptures made of cutout photographs, fabric, and various supports. In these recent works, processions of figures assembled from fragments of book and magazine photography and illustration manifest the artist’s interest in the cross-pollinatio...

In this exhibition Farmer uses movement, sound, animation, puppet characters, and a panoply of highly choreographed bodies and characters to investigate world history from the different angles of its photographic and sculptural accounts. This immersive survey of the artist’s recent major “paper works” presents room-sized installations composed of hundreds of small sculptures made of cutout photogr...

April 11 - December 31, 2016 - The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum is proud to present a new landmark exhibition, Ernest Hemingway: Between Two Wars. Showcasing the JFK Library’s Hemingway Collection, this is the first ever major museum exhibition devoted to the work and life of Ernest Hemingway. The exhibit features a trove of rarely exhibited material, including multiple drafts o...

April 3 - July 17, 2016 - This exhibition of works on paper explores what happens when cities fade. “Ruined” begins in the Renaissance, when the withered bones of ancient Rome provided artists and scholars with both a source of inspiration and a cautionary tale. Later, the cities of ancient Greece, Egypt, and the Near East also loomed in European imagination, and the exhibition includes early phot...

April 3 - July 17, 2016 - This print exhibition highlights how two great cities on opposite sides of the world captured imaginations in the early 19th century, becoming the subject of nearly obsessive attention by artists. At the center of the exhibition are two series of prints celebrating the great cities through the lens of their own time. Through these and related works, the exhibition highlig...

April 3 - July 17, 2016 - Asia is home to more megacities than any other continent: the works by the 11 artists in this exhibition respond to the political, environmental, and social conditions of their home cities of Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai, and Seoul, conveying their textures, proportions, and striking material and visual juxtapositions. Like a sprawling megacity, this exhibition extend...

03/12/16 - June 12, 2016 - This exhibition will include approximately 30 major paintings of Harris’s idealized northern landscapes from the 1920s and 1930s, one of the most significant periods of the artist’s career. The exhibition draws from the AGO’s substantial holdings, as well as from major public and private collections across Canada—including the National Gallery of Canada and the McMichael...

March 10 - August 28, 2016 - This once-in-lifetime exhibition will provide visitors with direct access to extraordinary works by artists such as Botticelli, Raphael, and Rembrandt, among others. Placing select group of paintings and drawings in our contemporary exhibition space, seen up close and lit to best advantage, will allow us to reconsider the museum’s rich holdings and to think anew about ...