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Andean Modernities / Contemporary Art: Cultural Transformation in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia
January 19, 2023 - March 5, 2023 , Becker Gallery
The exhibition explores how processes of social, political, and cultural modernization have contributed to the unique worldview of Andean communities living in Peru, Ecuador, and Bolivia
Turn of Phrase: Language and Translation in Global Contemporary Art
December 15, 2022 - June 4, 2023 , Center Gallery, Focus Gallery
This exhibition examines the critical and creative functions of language in global contemporary art from the 1980s to the present.
In Light of Rome: Early Photography in the Capital of the Art World, 1842–1871
December 8, 2022 - June 4, 2023 , Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery
"In Light of Rome" comprehensively explores the contribution made by the cosmopolitan art center to the early history of photography and traces the medium's rise there that forever changed the way we perceive the Eternal City.
Masks of Memories: Art and Ceremony in Nineteenth Century Oceania
October 6, 2022 - July 16, 2023 , Markell Gallery
This exhibition presents extraordinary masks from the island New Ireland, part of Papua New Guinea, that residents performed in at funeral ceremonies to explore their cultural significance and collecting history connected to Maine.
Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman: Without Limits
September 15, 2022 - March 12, 2023 , Shaw Ruddock Gallery
Helen Frankenthaler (1928–2011) and Jo Sandman (b. 1931) reveal new modes of conceptualizing art in the 1960s and printmaking's role in that revolution.
Antiquity & America: The Ancient Mediterranean in the United States
March 31, 2022 - February 5, 2023 , Walker Gallery, Rotunda, Assyrian Gallery, Boyd Gallery
"Antiquity & America" uncovers a new history of curious and related phenomenon: the intensity and passion with which Mediterranean antiquities have long been collected by Americans, and the prominent role the ancient Mediterranean has played in the history of American cultural and political life.
Re|Framing the Collection: New Considerations in European and American Art, 1475-1875
May 14, 2021 - December 31, 2023 , Bowdoin Gallery
This exhibition of art in the Atlantic World considers empire-building across Europe, North America, and their colonies, and how it shaped interconnected global networks from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.
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