Beauty, Passion, and Bliss spans the 19th century with major examples of works dealing with classical mythology, biblical subjects, landscape and animals, genre (everyday subjects), and Orientalism. The exhibition features 50 works by artists such as Jean-Léon Gérôme, William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Frederic, Lord Leighton, and Jean-Jacques Pradier. Saturday 10:00a – 5:00p ...

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April 23 - October 30, 2016 - ​This exhibition describes how ceramics have been an integral part of Chinese culture throughout its history. How they were fashioned, decorated, and used reflected functional needs, cultural practices, and spiritual beliefs. During the Tang Dynasty (618–907) the Chinese often buried their dead with objects representing the things they would need in the afterl...

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September 1 - 30, 2016 - The exhibition is a collection of extreme slow-motion takes, in which the camera is zoomed in to the point that the women’s identity gradually blurs into abstraction. Their bodies are not acting on their own impulses and desires. Instead, they are passive­—with their hips, knees, and legs yielding to the external forces. The belt vibrates each body, mo...

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Septembe 24 - November 27, 2016 - This exhibition explores a number of artists from the 15th through the 21st century who have taken the human form as their subject. The drawings in this exhibition—male and female, clothed and nude, young and old—illustrate the human form’s powerful symbolic potential to embody an idea, to express an ideal, or to embrace that which is vulnerable ...

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October 1 - 31, 2016 - The exhibition is a looped video that explores the notion of suspended trauma; the idea that dramatic and traumatic incidents from the past are continually repeated and replayed, no longer just as personal memories but also vicariously through the ever-expanding shared experience of mass media depiction. In both, the document is detached from its original time and place. It ...

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December 3, 2016 - January 29, 2017 - The artists in this exhibition depict men and women at work, mostly in factory settings. Many works are from the decade of the 1930s, the era of the Great Depression, which saw many changes to labor, from the picket line to the unemployment line.

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January 22 - April 15, 2017 - The subjects in this exhibition come from all walks and stages of life. They are mothers and daughters, artists, professionals, and community activists. The black-and-white photographs are done in a style reminiscent of the high glamour photography of the 1930s and 40s Hollywood. Professional portraits will be created by photographer Jerry Taliaferro. This exhibition ...

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February 4 - April 30, 2017 - This exhibition will explore how modern and contemporary artists reacted to human rights violations from the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s to the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s and beyond.

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May 6 - July 30, 2017 - This exhibition will feature 50 bronzes by French sculptor Auguste Rodin who is generally considered the father of modern sculpture. Rodin is recognized as one of the greatest sculptors since Michelangelo. His pioneering work deconstructed the body as fragments, or partial figures that reveal human vitality, pathos, and beauty.

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