New Classes and Events!
The calendar is bulging with opportunities to learn!
Lectures, yoga, painting classes, drawing classes, February Vacation workshops...See them all in our calendar of events.
Upcoming Exhibit
Treasures from the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, NYC
Central, East and South Asian Ceramics 1200 BC–16th century AD
Over eighty objects from the world-renown collections of Arthur M. Sackler, MD, are on view January 22 through March 18, 2012. Included in the exhibition are animal-form vessels from Iron-Age Iran, and bowls, jars and figures from China, Korea and Thailand. For more than five thousand years, the ceramics of ancient Iran and South Asian produced beautiful, technically sophisticated, and often amusing works of art. This special exhibition establishes the great ceramic tradition of the ancient world.
Free Lecture - Treasures from the Sackler Foundation
Sunday, February 5, 1:00–2:00 p.m. (Snow date: February 12) Trudy S. Kawami, Director of Research at the Arthur M. Sackler Foundation, will talk about the ceramic treasures from ancient China, Korea, Thailand and Iran currently on view. Learn More
Upcoming Exhibit
New Acquisitions: Twentieth-Century Photography
A rare Alfred Steiglitz image, The Steerage (1907), is the centerpiece of this exhibition featuring early 20th - century American photography. This exhibition includes works by Berenice Abbott, Arthur Rothstein, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Ben Shahn, including photographs which Rothstein printed from Farm Security Administration negatives.
Free Lecture - Recent Early Twentieth-Century Photography Acquisitions
Sunday, March 4, 1:00–2:00 p.m. (Snow date: March 11) Photography consultant Stephen Jareckie will discuss influences and trends in early twentieth-century photography as seen in the Museum’s collection. Learn More
Current Exhibit
William Garnett's Aerial Photography Exhibition
September 25, 2011- March 18, 2012
Discover photographs taken from the air that capture the American landscape with poetic subtly, magic, and power. Boston Globe Photo critic Mark Feeney wrote: "The pictures in the show have several qualities in common: remarkable clarity, a balance between delicacy and majesty, a tendency to play with perspective."
For more than 50 years and 10,000 hours of flying time, William A. Garnett piloted his own 1955 Cessna 170B as he photographed sweeping pictures of forests, sand dunes, agricultural crops and suburban grids, using a variety of camera formats, with both black-and-white and color films.
Shown here: “Dry Wash With Alluvium, Death Valley, California. 1957,” by William A. Garnett
Current Exhibit
African Conversations: Works from the Museum's permanent collection in dialogue
September 25, 2011- March 18, 2012
Experience a new way to learn about African art by seeing it exhibited next to objects from other cultures that share a common idea, creating a “dialogue” between them. The conversations include women’s roles, distinctive conventions of portraiture and aesthetics, modernism and African art, ideas of the wilderness and religious belief, the material construction of an abstract idea.
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