This exhibition is familiar favorites along with artwork new to WCMA’s collection provide a panoply of American creativity. Edward Hopper’s Morning in a City, back on view after its international tour, joins a colorful geometric gouache painting by Stuart Davis. Portrait paintings by John Smibert and Thomas Eakins coalesce with sculpture, decorative arts, and beloved works by Maurice P...

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The exhibition traces Homer’s epic poem across history through ancient and modern works of art. Greek vases and armor, along with prints by Winslow Homer, a WWI poster, and war photography, take us from the wrath of the hero Achilles to universal images of war and peace.  For the ancient Greeks, the Iliad was both entertainment and a record of their past. The museum is closed on T...

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This exhibition explores how a flexible concept of time figured across their artistic practices through subject matter, materials, and technique. The work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast oscillated in and out of its own time. The Prendergasts combined their knowledge of historic and modern art with observations of contemporary life to develop hybrid approaches to making art. The Loosening of Ti...

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This exhibiton featuring a group of exquisite small paintings on loan from the Terra Foundation for American Art along with prints from WCMA’s collection, some in multiple states, the installation lends itself to the exploration of Whistler’s artistic process and creative choices. The museum is closed on Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.

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The exhibition draws from WCMA’s collection and features highlights from a recent major gift from software publisher and philanthropist Peter Norton including works by artists Nayland Blake,  Navel-gazing; a self-mocking focus on an artist’s own life and practice; embracing identity politics; and a skeptical obsession with technology. This is the stuff of Your smarter than me. i&n...

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January 22, 2016 - August 7, 2016 - This exhibition makes visible how works of art are used in courses across the curriculum. Professors deeply embed art into their teaching, students get extended access to the art, and the public gets a glimpse into liberal arts learning. This is the second iteration of Object Lab with different works pulled from the WCMA collection for a new ...

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January 29, 2016 - August 28, 2016 - This exhibition highlights the long and extraordinary history of activism, intervention, and resistance that has characterized a great deal of African art-making from prehistory to the present. In underscoring how artists have used expressive culture in Africa to produce advocacy and even agency for disenfranchised and marginalized groups and communities, the e...

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February 12, 2016 - September 25, 2016 - Both Sides Now is a first-time creative collaboration by sibling artists Lexa and Dan Walsh. Dan, a minimalist abstract painter, and Lexa, a socially engaged artist, come together to merge their practices around a shared interest in spectacle, perception, and encounters among objects and people. The result is a series of interactive sculptural stations, nod...

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March 11, 2016 - August 21, 2016 - Not Theories but Revelations is the first exhibition to address Thayer’s artistic practice as part of his broader investigation of animal and human concealment. His idealized portraits of young women and monumental landscapes, along with his puzzle pictures of birds and paper doll soldiers, elucidate Thayer’s original, controversial, and rad...

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