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September 14, 2019 – June 7, 2020 | Gallery 216 | Free Exhibition Snuff is powdered tobacco, which users inhale up their noses. It was introduced to China from Europe in the early 1700s and became widely popular
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus L.
July 14, 2018 – July 28, 2024 | Wells Fargo Center, Downtown Minneapolis | Free Engineered for Domestic Bliss is the theme of an installation of objects from Mia’s modernism collection that focuses on appliances made for the home in the decades before and after World War II. Radios penetrated the majority of homes in the 1930s; by 1960 television ownership had grown to 90%
Predicta „Princess“ television, c. 1959 Metal, plastic, pigment, electronic components Gift
April 8, 2023 – November 26, 2023 | Gallery 359 | Free Exhibition Harriet and Walter Pratt, of Minneapolis, focused their collecting on the German, Austrian, Belgian, and Russian artists who broke with convention in the early 1900s, eschewing realism in favor of emotion. The artists’ exuberant use of color and line became known as Expressionism, the defining art movement of the early 20th century
Gift of Harriet and Walter Pratt, 2022.64.7 Gifts Beyond Measure from Harriet and
Lone Felucca at Dusk near Roda along the Nile, 19th century, c. 1876 Oil on canvas Gift
Lone Felucca at Dusk near Roda along the Nile, 19th century, c. 1876 Oil on canvas Gift
November 23, 2024 – April 13, 2025 | Perlman Gallery (G368) | Free Exhibition Collectors Fay Gallus and Richard Sweet recently gave Mia an exceptional group of photographs: works by Eugene Atget, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Walker Evans, Irving Penn, Alec Soth, Weegee, and other celebrated photographers of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. This show honors the generosity of these collectors in supporting Mia’s mission of collecting, preserving, and making accessible outstanding works of art
Valley from the Mariposa Trail, 1865, Albumen print mounted on announcement card, Gift
June 1, 2019 – November 24, 2019 | Gallery 262 and Gallery 275 | Free Exhibition Hózhǫ́ is a foundational concept in the Navajo world, encompassing ideas of beauty, harmony, balance, order, grace, health, and happiness. It is a state of being, thinking, and acting
Navajo artist Beeldléí or Dah’iistł’ó (Third Phase Variant), c. 1880 Wool, pigments Gift
January 28, 2021 – August 15, 2021 | Gallery 353 | Free Exhibition Saul Steinberg (1914–1999) is widely known for his decades of drawings in The New Yorker magazine. He thought of himself as an author who drew—a conceptual artist. Born in Romania, Steinberg studied architecture in Milan and contributed cartoons to student journals
Steinberg, Speech, 1959, Ink, graphite, conté crayon, and rubber stamp on paper, Gift
August 1, 2020 – April 9, 2023 | Gallery 251, Gallery 252, Gallery 253 | Free Exhibition In East Asia, calligraphy has been hailed as the highest of all art forms for more than 15 centuries. It’s not hard to understand why: With more than 80,000 Chinese characters and infinite graphic variations, the expressive potential is unlimited
River,” late 17th to early 18th century (detail), hanging scroll; ink on paper, Gift
April 22, 2017 – September 10, 2017 | Harrison Photography Gallery | Free Exhibition This exhibition will show The Living Need Light, The Dead Music (2014), a film by The Propeller Group, a Ho Chi Minh City–based artist collective. The film will be accompanied by an installation of objects selected by the collective from Mia’s Asian, African, Classical, and Native American collections, as well as new objects recently created by the collective
The Propeller Group Color video with surround sound audio 25 minutes, 15 seconds Gift
