“Approaches” is a special exhibition series that helps visitors build a deeper understanding of artistic styles, concepts and media. Drawn from the permanent collection, with additional work by Heather Dawn […]

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AUG 29 - JAN 3Harry Clewans is largely self-taught and has worked in his studio in Oakland, California, since 1983. Clewans creates unique large-scale woodblock prints by assembling hundreds of smaller printed images. Ex…

“Formal Matters” explores the cornerstones of visual media that shape how we experience art. Drawing together works from across the modern and contemporary collections, the exhibition focuses on the five essential elemen…

Glow: A Cinematic Experience is a multi-sensory, immersive installation centered on six aesthetic themes that moviemakers have revisited again and again—Sunrise and Sunset, Moon, Neon, Candlelight, Fireworks, and Campfir…

What is art? Why does it matter? What does it mean to speak of its “history”? How and by whom is that history constructed? What does art have to do with power or desire? Is it a form of knowledge, or is it a way of world…

Lee Miller: Fearless is the first comprehensive survey of Miller's photographs in more than 25 years and gathers together the major episodes of her singular career.

MJ Torrecampo’s Cut the Fruit exhibition presents the artist's layered paintings, that investigate themes of family, belonging, and cultural identity by transforming everyday moments into psychologically complex narrativ…

AUG 29 - JAN 3Rose Sellery is a multidisciplinary, self-taught artist whose work navigates the charged terrain between beauty and brutality, fragility and strength, and tradition and rebellion. Through humor, irony, and…

Explore Hulet Semāi (Two Skies) by Tariku Shiferaw, on view August 29–October 18, 2026, featuring abstract paintings exploring diasporic cosmology and mark-making.

How did photography construct cultural memories of postwar America? Life in the United States after World War II is often remembered as a time of prosperity, stability, and ease. The Way We Never Were examines the role t…

Water—an essential element of life on Earth—has long played a vital role in shaping human civilization. In Japan, a country made up of islands, water is more than a natural resource. It is a constant presence that surrou…