Currents: Art Since 1900

Museum of Art Museum of Art

Exhibition: Currents: Art Since 1900

A dark painting of people moving tin in a mine

Dates:

March 26, 2026 - April 07, 2028

Location:

Bowdoin Gallery
Banner: Alejandro Mario Yllanes, Estaño Maldito (Cursed Tin) (detail), 1937, oil on burlap canvas, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine. Museum Purchase, Lloyd O. and Marjorie Strong Coulter Fund, 2024.15

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.