May 21 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition will present about 40 of those drawings, covering five salient themes in the art history of the Netherlands during the 16th and 17th centuries. Works by the period’s outstanding draftsmen will be on view. The first section, comprised of drawings from the 1500s, highlights the stylistic innovations precipitated by contact with Italian Renaissance mo...

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May 21 - August 14, 2016 - This exhibition explores the mysterious visual world of symbolism, an open-ended cultural phenomenon of the late 19th century that formed an important bridge between impressionism and modernism. Yet more than these two movements, symbolism sought to evoke ideas subjectively through color, form, and composition rather than objectively representing worldly appearances. The...

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May 21 - August 14, 2016 - This installation showcases approximately 60 excellent, yet rarely seen prehistoric Chinese ceramics from the collections of the Harvard Art Museums and the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Ancient pottery vessels are not only works of art but also representations of technical achievement, products of economic value, and windows into understanding ancien...

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May 28 - September 4, 2016 - Based on the popular book by Dr. Wayne Lynch, The Scoop on Poop will introduce the whole family to the science of poop! Listen in on a bear’s digestive system, learn the language of poop in countries around the world, examine fecal samples in a veterinarian’s lab, compete in dung beetle races, track wild animals by clues left in scat, improve your #2 IQ in ...

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May 28 - September 4, 2016 - This exhibition will display both objects, the sword for the first time in public, with video and interactives to bring their world to life.​ This work, recently published in translation by WAM's Curator of Arms and Armor, is one of the most important sources for modern swordfighters who are today reviving the combat arts of medieval and Renaissance Europe. In 20...

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June 3 - July 31, 2016 - Every summer PAAM presents an exhibition of floral works from the Permanent Collection in conjunction with the Secret Garden Tour. This year’s exhibition also features limited edition prints created by youth artists who participated in the 2015 Youth Employment Program.  The program combined creative projects with professional development and life skills trainin...

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June 7, 2016 - June 4, 2017 - Over seven decades, Currier & Ives produced nearly 9,000 print designs that were distributed nationally through a successful marketing network. They printed pictures at an affordable price that reflected public interests of the time, making them accessible to most of the public. Currier & Ives did not play favorites in the political arena, often printing promo...

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June 7 - November 6, 2016 - This exhibition marks the first step in the long-term integration of arms and armor into the collection of the Worcester Art Museum. This process ensures that a treasure of national importance remains in Worcester and continues to delight future generations of museumgoers from within the city and across the region.

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June 8 - November 6, 2016 - This exhibition is an enduring testament to the horrors that the Serbs, Croats, Bosnians, and Kosovar Albanians perpetrated against each other as a result of ancient enmities and modern political manipulation. Amid the numerous photographs of the conflict in Yugoslavia, Ron Haviv's work stands out as a unique record of the conflict, from its beginnings in 1991 to th...

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June 14, 2016 - January 15, 2017 - This exhibition exemplifies the artist’s abstract style, while also demonstrating his achievements with various printmaking techniques. Though Kandinsky is perhaps best known for his paintings, this series of prints shows his mastery of lithography, woodcut, and etching. Kandinsky used each method to its best advantage in rendering his abstract compositions...

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