September 14, 2024 – June 30, 2027 | Gallery 256 | Free Exhibition „Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room: The Alice S. Kandell Collection“ includes more than 200 gilt-bronze sculptures, paintings, silk hangings, and carpets that were created in Tibet between the 1300s and early 1900s
Promised Gift of Alice S.
in these galleries are all recent additions to the collection, or are promised gifts
enforcement paper targets shot through, housed in artist-made painted plywood enclosure Gift
February 14, 2026 – August 2, 2026 | Robert and Marlyss White Gallery (281) | Free Exhibition Derived from a Nahuatl word, a huipil is a traditional blouse worn by women throughout Mesoamerica, particularly among the Maya, since before the 16th century when Spanish explorers arrived in the region. The garment remains especially prevalent in Guatemala’s highland regions, where a majority of Maya descendants reside today. Huipiles are traditionally handwoven on a backstrap loom in two or three rectangular panels, later sewn together
Gift of Richard L. Simmons in memory of Roberta G.
April 22, 2017 – June 10, 2018 | Queen Anne Room and Georgian Room, G326 and 327 | Free Exhibition In 1700s England, the home was a place where genteel men and women studied and conversed about natural history; only later did science move exclusively to the laboratory, where it became a predominantly male profession. This temporary exhibition presents Mia’s British rooms as places for the pursuit of science
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February 16, 2019 – November 3, 2019 | Gallery 255 | Free Exhibition To make barkcloth, a traditional form of clothing, Mbuti men collect pieces of the inner bark of fig trees, and pound them until they are thin and pliable. Mbuti women decorate the surfaces with intricate designs, using twigs and their fingers to apply dyes made from plant saps and charcoal powder
pigment The Mary Ruth Weisel Endowment for Africa, Oceania, and the Americas and gift
December 14, 2019 – November 28, 2021 | Gallery 203 | Free Exhibition Beautiful yet lonely and melancholy—women from imperial China were often depicted in terms of their highly circumscribed lives, which were entirely dependent upon men. In some paintings, women engage in duties appropriate to their stations in life, according to patriarchal Confucian principles
Chinese, 18th century, The Singer Su Xiaoxiao, 1746, Ink and light color on paper, Gift
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September 20, 2025 – June 28, 2026 | Galleries 251, 252, and 253 | Free Exhibition Yoshida Hodaka (1926–1995) was born into a family of artists. He was the second son of Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950), a leading Western-style artist in Japan during the early 20th century
Gift of the Clark Center for Japanese Art & Culture; formerly given to the Center
October 21, 2017 – July 1, 2018 | Gallery 375 | Free Exhibition George Morrison (1919–2000) constantly explored new ways to translate nature and personal experience. Born near Grand Marais, Minnesota, Morrison trained in Minneapolis before moving to New York in 1943
Morrison American (Grand Portage Anishinaabe), 1919-2000 Untitled, 1960 Oil on canvas Gift
