Past Exhibitions

Memory Unearthed
The Lodz Ghetto Photographs of Henryk Ross

March 25–July 30, 2017

“Memory Unearthed” offers an extraordinarily rare glimpse of life inside the Lodz Ghetto during its existence from 1940 to 1944, through the lens of Polish Jewish photojournalist Henryk Ross (1910–1991).

“I must tell you what I saw”
Objects of witness and resistance

March 25–July 30, 2017

Adjacent to “Memory Unearthed” in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art, is a special installation of objects and works of art that bear witness...

Daniela Rivera: The Andes Inverted

March 4, 2017–February 25, 2018

Daniela Rivera’s museum installations often focus on uncanny spatial and material dislocations. Breaking from the traditional mold of painting, she...

Past Is Present: Revival Jewelry

February 14, 2017–August 19, 2018

Whether copying or choosing motifs to reinterpret, jewelers have always looked to the past for inspiration. The practice became popular in the 19th...

New Women for a New Age
Japanese Beauties, 1890s–1930s

December 10, 2016–August 20, 2017

Examine the changing image of Japanese women though prints, book illustrations, and photographs made in Japan from the 1890s to the 1930s. During this...

Make Way for Ducklings
The Art of Robert McCloskey

November 25, 2016–June 18, 2017

In celebration of the 75th anniversary of the beloved children’s book set in Boston, Make Way for Ducklings (1941), this exhibition tracks the career...

Massed Media

November 19, 2016–April 9, 2017

The works in “Massed Media” are all made using a similar artistic strategy: the massing of multiple components into a cohesive whole—greater than the...

Wilson/Cortor

November 5, 2016–September 17, 2017

Celebrate the legacies of two contemporary American artists—John Wilson and Eldzier Cortor—each dedicated to an exploration of the African American...

William Merritt Chase

October 9, 2016–January 16, 2017

William Merritt Chase (1849–1916) was a brilliant observer, an innovative painter, and a leader in international art circles at the turn of the last...

UH-OH: Frances Stark 1991–2015

September 17, 2016–January 29, 2017

The most comprehensive survey to date of Los Angeles-based artist and writer Frances Stark (born 1967), “UH-OH” tracks her 25-year career from early carbon copy drawings and text-based works to more recent video installations, digital slide shows, and projects that shape fleeting engagements with social media into art.