Currents: Art Since 1900

Museum of Art Museum of Art

Exhibition: Currents: Art Since 1900

A colorful drawing depicts the stylized form of a whale

Dates:

March 26, 2026 - April 07, 2028

Location:

Bowdoin Gallery
Banner: Jaune Quick-To-See Smith, Jocko, Gray Whale (detail), 1993, acrylic, pastel, and charcoal on paper, 30 x 22 inches. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Museum Purchase with Funds Contributed by Jimmy Ellis ’82, Martha Henry ’82, and Leslie Rainer ’82 in memory of Yvonne Swann Simon ’82. © Estate of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

Currents: Art Since 1900presents highlights from the Museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art. The installation is organized around three broad and intersecting themes—Bodies / Representation, Environment / Materiality, and Languages / Citation—that collectively explore topics such as identity, gender, place, power, and memory. The works on view also showcase the breadth of artistic movements that, driven by the rapidly changing landscapes of modernity, have proliferated in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Featuring regularly rotating works of art, Currentsinvites us to craft inclusive narratives about the human experience and to pose questions about our unique histories and shared futures.