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Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880

February 6, 2025 - July 20, 2025, Markell Gallery

Members of 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½â€™s Class of 1825, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow created some of the most popular literary works in nineteenth-century America. In response to Hawthorne's novels and Longfellow's poetry, artists created many remarkable paintings, sculpture, and prints. Conversely, the authors drew inspiration from art and objects of all ages, often using them as narrative devices. This exhibition explores how the two authors and their compelling stories influenced American visual culture during this period.

Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now

January 16, 2025 - June 1, 2025, Focus Gallery, Media Gallery, Center Gallery, Rotunda

This exhibition features works of art that resist the rendering of human lives into objects of consumption, data sets, and/or algorithms. The exhibition touches on subjects from the recent and not-so-recent past, looking at how art helps build our capacity for empathy when our worldviews are often shaped by the twenty-four-hour news cycle and the Internet.

From Daughters to Mothers: A Study of Reproductive Labor

December 19, 2024 - March 2, 2025, Becker Gallery

This exhibition investigates the complex concepts of motherhood through the lens of reproductive labor: the unpaid work associated with caregiving, the maintenance of a household, and child-rearing.

Art, Ecology, and the Resilience of a Maine Island: The Monhegan Wildlands

December 12, 2024 - June 1, 2025, Halford Gallery, Bernard and Barbro Osher Gallery

Monhegan’s history offers lessons for us all. This exhibition brings together artworks, objects and representations of ecological inquiry, and historical documents and photographs to chart forest conversion and recovery on the island.

Hello, Stranger: Artist as Subject in Photographic Portraits since 1900

October 25, 2024 - March 23, 2025, Shaw Ruddock Gallery

This exhibition features thirty-five photographs—self-portraits or portraits of other artists—which reflect radically new propositions for what a portrait might be. They foreground the idea that identity is fluid, bodies are malleable, and strangeness is common. Whether confessional or slyly secretive, each of these photographs offers new revelations to the viewer. Working against systems meant to define, categorize, and normalize, these artists have reclaimed the portrait to express themselves and realize a vision of self otherwise foreclosed.

Etruscan Gifts: Artifacts from Early Italy in the 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Collection

February 1, 2024 - February 9, 2025, Walker Gallery

This exhibition draws from artworks at the 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Museum of Art and explores the origins of Etruscan civilization, contacts with the Phoenicians, Greeks, and contemporary cultures in ancient Italy, and their wider legacy.

Currents: Art Since 1875

October 12, 2023 - March 2, 2025, Boyd Gallery

"Currents: Art Since 1875" tells new stories, asks provocative questions, and challenges assumptions about the human experience through works of twentieth and twenty-first century art.

Re|Framing the Collection: New Considerations in European and American Art, 1475-1875

May 14, 2021 - December 31, 2030, 91ÑÇÉ«´«Ã½ Gallery

This exhibition of art in the Atlantic World considers empire-building across Europe, North America, and their colonies, and how it shaped interconnected global networks from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries.