This exhibition features works by Hung Liu which adapt and subvert Maoist propaganda cartoons that were published during the 1950s. In the series, Liu revisits cartoons of her youth that were published in children's books and primers (known as “xiaorenshu”). The exhibition was organized by Georgetown University Art Galleries, and curated by Dr. Dorothy Moss and Georgetown graduate students.
This exhibition is the first-ever museum retrospective of drawings by Josefina Auslender, whose work in graphite, colored pencil, and ink spans decades and continents. “Josefina Auslender” features more than 100 drawings created in Argentina and the United States that collectively reflect her enduring interest in building new worlds through the visual languages of abstraction and Surrealism.
Visions Unsettled explores how identity has been imagined, fractured, and performed across the Hispanic world from the sixteenth century to today. The exhibition features early modern artworks alongside images by twentieth and twenty-first century photographers and in so doing considers how early interrogations of race, gender, visibility, and the gaze intersect with more contemporary meditations on ritual, marginality, and kinship.
This exhibition brings together works of premodern art from the Wyvern Collection (London, United Kingdom) with the collections of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art to explore the deep ties that linked Asia, the Near East, North Africa, and Europe from the fifth through the fifteenth centuries.
This exhibition brings together the etchings of an international array of women who have continued the legacy of the etching revival of the turn of the twentieth century, expanding the scope of the medium and their own creative practices. “Front Lines” explores such themes as gender, race, class, and identity in addition to the expressive idioms of both figuration and abstraction.
Featuring works from the collection of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art spanning nearly two thousand years —from approximately 1300 BCE to 400 CE—Flora et Fauna examines how ancient Mediterranean societies understood and depicted the natural world.
"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.
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.
