August 29, 2016 - February 13, 2017 - This exhibition, featuring some 30 works from The Met collection, will examine the role of text and image in the construction and function of arms and armor in the Islamic world. Qur'anic verses; prayers that invoke Allah, the Asma al-Husna (99 Beautiful Names of Allah), as well as the Prophet Muhammad, his family, and companions; and mystical symbols were...

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September 2, 2016 - January 8, 2017 - This exhibition brings together the scattered elements of the famous triptych, reuniting the Morgan inner wings with the central panel now owned by the Musei Civici in Vicenza, Italy, and the outer wings from the Groeningemuseum in Bruges, Belgium. The exhibition also highlights links between panel painting and manuscript painting in fifteenth-century Flemish...

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September 8, 2016 - December 10, 2016 - A Feast of Astonishments is the first museum exhibition to explore the art and impact of Charlotte Moorman cellist, performance artist, and impresario. Best known for her collaborations with Nam June Paik, Moorman was a bold, barrier-breaking performer and a tireless champion of the avant-garde. Her landmark festivals presented experimental art for over 15 y...

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September 9, 2016 - January 2, 2017 - This exhibition, presented on the occasion of the two hundredth anniversary of Brontë’s birth, traces her creative path from reluctant governess to published poet to commanding novelist. The exhibition is a historic collaboration between two of the world’s finest repositories of Brontëana. It brings together literary manuscripts, intimat...

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September 15, 2016 to February 5, 2017 - This exhibition consists of three main “habitats.” A giant Coral Forest and a collection of miniature Pod Worlds represent the diversity of living corals through the varying textures, colors, and forms of crocheted yarn and beads. Two Bleached Crochet Reefs serve as invocations of dying corals, while The Midden four years’ worth of the Wer...

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September 16, 2016 - January 9, 2017 - Monumental Lhasa: Fortress, Palace, Temple is the first exhibition of its kind to explore rare images of central Tibet’s most iconic monuments as they were seen by Tibetans and Westerners prior to the mid-twentieth century. The exhibition explores how image-making relates to placemaking and how the production and transmission of images contributes ...

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September 16, 2016 - Februsry 5, 2017 - This exhibition depicts Adele Meyer with her children Elsie Charlotte and Frank Cecil. This remarkable work of art is one of Sargent’s most beloved portraits. When it was first shown at the Royal Academy of Arts in 1897 it was both praised and disparaged. Henry James reviewed the painting in Harper’s Weekly writing, “Of these elements Mr. S...

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September 16, 2016 - February 5, 2017 - In this highly unconventional exhibition, visitors are encouraged to participate, touch, and even take home works of art by 40 international and intergenerational artists, many of whom are creating new and site-specific works for the exhibition. The exhibition ms to construct a democratic space for all visitors to participate in the creation and ownership o...

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September 16, 2016 - February 12, 2017 - The third installment in The Television Project exhibition series, You Don’t Have to Be Jewish, explores advertising produced for Jewish audiences or with Jewish content, and examines the way religion, ethnicity, and identity play out on American television. Television commercials have been fertile ground for aesthetic invention, with sponsors and ad...

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September 16, 2016 - February 12, 2017 - This exhibition series focuses on designer and artist Peter Shire’s Menorah #7 (1986), and presents an opportunity to visually sketch the connection between the Los Angeles native’s history to the history and resonance of Memphis design. Elaborating these two stories opens up a larger and multilayered conversation about the relationships and dis...

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