Empires of Liberty: Athena, America, and the Feminine Allegory of the State
, Becker GalleryThe exhibition explores female personifications of the nation state from antiquity through the Enlightenment to today.
The exhibition explores female personifications of the nation state from antiquity through the Enlightenment to today.
This exhibition draws from artworks at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and explores the origins of Etruscan civilization, contacts with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and contemporary cultures in ancient Italy, and their wider legacy.
“The Book of Two Hemispheres” highlights the dynamic visual culture that arose in response to the most famous American anti-slavery novel of its era and arguably of all time: "Uncle Tom’s Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
This exhibition spotlights the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American artistic expressions over the past century.
"Jim Dine: Last Year's Forgotten Harvest" represents the first exhibition to focus on Dine’s portrayal of his family and friends.
This exhibition brings together work by contemporary artists who incorporate weaving, sewing, quilting, and fabric to explore ideas about gender, identity, memory, and cross-cultural encounters.
"Currents: Art Since 1875" tells new stories, asks provocative questions, and challenges assumptions about the human experience through works of twentieth and twenty-first century art.
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.