Modernism for All: The Bauhaus at 100
, Shaw Ruddock GalleryBy juxtaposing works of art and design by Bauhaus masters and their students this exhibition introduces the famous school as a highly successful learning environment.
Current Exhibitions
Bowdoin Collects: Chinese Ceramics, Jades, and Paintings
, Markell GalleryRarely seen masterpieces from Bowdoin’s collection offer insights into the materials, technologies, and changing tastes that shaped Chinese art over the past five centuries.
Fashioning Modernity: Art and Independence among Yorubas in Nigeria
, Becker GalleryThis exhibition examines innovations in Yoruba arts—at once traditional and modern—during a critical moment in Nigeria’s history, the transition to political independence.
Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment
, Focus Gallery, Halford Gallery, Media Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery, Center GalleryThis exhibition explores the intersections of art and the environment with works drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection. Featuring objects from antiquity to today, "Material Resources: Intersections of Art and the Environment" examines artists’ dependence on Earth’s material resources, while presenting art as an integral “material” resource in the study of the environment.
Among Women
, Boyd GalleryThis exhibition explores the artistic portrayal of women in the United States over the last three centuries. Featuring outstanding portraits in all media from the Museum’s permanent collection and several important loans, it examines the myriad ways that artists have represented women in the history of American art
"Let's Get Lost" and "Listening Glass"
, Walker Gallery"Let's Get Lost," a site-specific drawing by linn meyers will be complemented by an interactive sound installation, "Listening Glass" created by Rebecca Bray, James Bigbee Garver, and Josh Knowles in partnership with meyers. The projects include visual and acoustic components that can be activated through audience participation.
In the Round: Ancient Art from All Sides
, RotundaThis exhibition examines the geometry and design of ancient art and the efforts by artists to represent depth and movement by influencing the vantage point of the viewer.
Upcoming Exhibitions
- Photographic Lives: Robert Freson, Irving Penn, and the Portrait.
- Bowdoin Collects: The Nineteenth Century.
- Treasures from the Wyvern Collection: A Special Preview.
- Suspense: Key Moments in Midcentury Art.
- Bowdoin Collects: Emerging Modernisms, 1900–1950.
- Art Purposes: Object Lessons for the Liberal Arts.