CURRENT EXHIBITS [854]

'Fusion' is an exploration of mixed media, cold wax and encaustic art-making processes. The word 'encaustic' comes from the ancient Greek and means to 'burn in'. It describes a process of fusing a paint composed of beeswax, dammar resin and pigments. Optical depth is created by fusing together different surface layers with a heat source, to create a single element. The idea of an experience that 'b...   [more]

Opening: June 15th   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

AcA Main Gallery- Group exhibition of 15 local and national artists: Brad Benischek Steven Collier Lynda Frese Amy Guidry Kathryn Hunter Heather Ryan Kelley Sophie Lvoff Shawne Major Esko Mannikko James McGarrell Aaron McNamee Lavar Munroe Stephanie Patton Pat Phillips Jim Richard Amie Rogers Next opening reception June 8th, 6-9pm (in conjunction with Artwalk) Closing reception July 13th, 6-9pm   [more]

Opening: June 8th   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Opening today at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) is Warwick Thornton: Mother Courage, a striking video and sculptural installation from lauded Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton. Thornton is an Alice Springs based filmmaker and artist whose film Samson & Delilah (2009) won the Camera d’Or for best first feature at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.  Commissioned by ACMI for the ACMI Commis...   [more]

Opening: February 5th   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Direct from the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Hollywood Costume explores the central role costume design plays in cinema storytelling. Bringing together the most iconic costumes from a century of filmmaking, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see the clothes worn by unforgettable and beloved characters in films from The Wizard of Oz (1939) to Titanic (1997), Ben-Hur (1959) to Jam...   [more]

Opening: April 24th   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

As Adelson Galleries has begun to settle into a new home in Boston, we have decided to celebrate some of the local artists. This group show is comprised of 10 very different and talented artists. Over the past 8 months of our gallery’s establishment in Boston, we have encountered hundreds of artists – this is just a small sampling, but some of the best we have seen. The variety of style and ae...   [more]

Opening: May 17th   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

This exhibition presents a dramatic inside look at 1960s biker counterculture. From 1963 – 1967 Danny Lyon not only captured the bikers in photographs, but immersed himself in the lifestyle. Lyon joined the Chicago Outlaw Motorcycle Club, making him a pioneer of the new form of photojournalism where the artist was personally involved with the subject. This series was featured in Lyon’s defining fi...   [more]

The museum is collaborating with Leggett Elementary, King Elementary, Glover Elementary and The Lippman School to celebrate the power of picture book storytelling and promote visual literacy. Leggett second and third grade students will create collaborative classroom picture books to be displayed in The Mary S. and David C. Corbin Foundation Gallery. The student artists will also meet and work wi...   [more]

Opening: February 9th   11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Ravenstail weavings by this prolific artist woven over the last 20 years, includes robes, tunics, aprons, and other selections.   [more]

This noted artist and carver has produced a wide range of artwork including totems, house posts, masks and bentwood containers. "Rainforest Warriors" consists of Tlingit armor and clothing.   [more]

Six individual artists from The Canvas each bring their unique perspective to the ceramic pieces encompassed in this show. The Canvas is a community outreach and day program for REACH, an independent non-profit organization serving people who experience disabilities.   [more]

Having trained extensively in traditional as well as contemporary approaches to art, this Tlingit/Aleut multi-disciplinary artist draws on a wide range of indigenous technologies and global materials to explore his ideas.   [more]

Opening: May 17th   8:30 AM - 5:30 PM

The graphic collection of the Albertina houses an internationally important inventory of Dutch drawings. Its scope and quality make it possible to present Dutch drawing art in all of its thematic, technical and stylistic diversity. A top-class selection of 170 works is presented in the Albertina. Highlights of the exhibition are larger groups of works from Hieronymus Bosch, Pieter Bruegel the El...   [more]

Last year the Albertina began inviting artists at irregular intervals to take part in interventions in and at the palace. This new series will be continued this year. Following the first intervention by Markus Hofer, it will be possible as of 14 March to view the works of the Belgian artist Antoine Roegiers on the theme of Brueghel's "The Seven Deadly Sins" in the exhibit Bosch Brueghel Rubens R...   [more]

Gottfried Helnwein is one of the most important internationally known Austrian artists. On the occasion of his 65th birthday, the Albertina is dedicating the first retrospective of his works in Europe to him. More than 150 works from all phases of his career provide insight into Helnwein's creative work, which is characterised by a pointed dialogue with society, its bete noires and taboo subjects...   [more]

Religion, Ritual and Performance in the Renaissance brings together more than 80 works, sacred and secular, spanning the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, from both Northern and Southern Europe. The objects—which include paintings, sculptures, and decorative arts—are from the collections of the AMAM and Yale University Art Gallery. The exhibition was made possible by a genero...   [more]

As in earlier periods, the art of the 20th and 21st centuries engages in a dialogue with the important themes of religion, ritual, and performance. Works from the AMAM collection by artists from diverse backgrounds and artistic approaches reflect a broad array of responses to these concepts. Examples by artists such as Louise Bourgeois and photographer Holly Wright address religion, ranging from th...   [more]