December 14, 2024 – June 8, 2025 | Winton Jones Gallery (344) | Free Exhibition In the final years of the 1400s, printed representations of European cities began to appear more frequently. Some of the images seemingly place the viewer on a hill, looking across the countryside to the city
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August 20, 2016 – March 19, 2017 | Regis Fountain Court | Free Exhibition Enjoy a rare opportunity to see 14 American quilts from Mia’s collection, dating from the mid-1800s to the mid-1900s. See appliquéd, pieced, and embroidered quilts in a dramatic, ceiling-suspended display in Mia’s grand Regis Fountain Court
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March 31, 2018 – November 18, 2018 | G203, G218 | Free Exhibition „Enchanted Mountains“ reveals the rich imaginations and sensitivities of Chinese landscape painters through a variety of artistic styles. The works on display showcase the colorful court style as well as the refined literati mode of pale color—or, in the subtlest technique of all, varying tones of pure black ink
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May 14, 2016 – October 12, 2016 | Perlman Gallery (G368) | Free Exhibition In an age when anyone with a cell phone can make a self-portrait daily, even instantly, this show will consider a genre that has been important to artists through the ages. Featuring a selection of widely varied 21st-century self-portraits, this exhibition showcases works that are striking for their slowed down, careful, existential examination of the self. Artists working across different media—drawing, painting, photography, print, and sculpture—are featured, including Chuck Close, Stacey Davidson, Nina Katchadourian, Leonardo Lasansky, Glenn Ligon, Cobi Moules, Freya Payne, and Zak Smith.
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March 24, 2018 – December 9, 2018 | G315, 316 | Free Exhibition Before and after writing her famous children’s book Millions of Cats (1928), Wanda Gág was a printmaker, creating lithographs as intimate and exuberant as her books. Meanwhile, fellow Minnesotan Elizabeth Olds was writing herself into history by helping to transform screenprinting, traditionally a commercial process, into a medium for fine art
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November 14, 2020 – November 7, 2021 | G218 | Free Exhibition In the male-dominated society of imperial China, most women were physically restricted to domestic spaces. The center of a woman’s life was the bedroom, where she would sit alone or with others, working or pursuing leisurely activities
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January 6, 2024 – June 23, 2024 | Harrison Photography Gallery | Free Exhibition In the summer of 1942, during a yearlong fellowship in Washington, D.C., Gordon Parks photographed government worker Ella Watson across the varied landscape of her daily life. The resulting picture story presents Watson—a custodian, the head of a household, a deaconess at her church—as a vital figure within the civic sphere
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June 27, 2015 – August 21, 2016 | Galleries 200/203 | Free Exhibition Mountains lie at the very heart of Chinese culture and art. A bridge between the human and transcendental realms, they have provided an enduring source of inspiration for poets, scholars, and artists and remain a potent theme within China’s landscape painting tradition. The idea of retreating from society into a life of reclusion in the mountains has a long-standing history in China
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