Current Exhibitions
May 11, 2012 - June 3, 2012
Jean Pool: Senior Studio Art Exhibition
The Class of 2012 has worked in a wide array of media and is notable for their varied aesthetic approaches to art making. The work draws inspiration from diverse sources and explores far ranging issues.
March 10, 2012 - September 16, 2012
Museum Models: Students Take On Celebrated Architects
Highlighting the innovative curriculum of Ann McCallum’s architectural design courses, this exhibition features models of museums that students have created in the styles of renowned architects.
February 25, 2012 - August 19, 2012
Teaching with Art: Life and Death in Ancient Rome
Benjamin Rubin, Assistant Professor of Classics, has worked closely with the museum’s collection of antiquities to create this exhibition. Focusing on ancient Rome, he grouped objects thematically: jewelry, coins, sculpture, household objects, military accoutrements, and grave goods.
February 4, 2012 - July 29, 2012
Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987
Asco: Elite of the Obscure, A Retrospective, 1972–1987 will be the first retrospective to present the wide-ranging work of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group Asco.
April 7, 2011 - Ongoing
Art Re: Art
Art Re: Art features 30 works from the museum’s collection which take art as their subject.
April 7, 2011 - Ongoing
A Collection of Histories
A Collection of Histories is part of the museum’s reinstallation project, Reflections on a Museum, which looks at “the museum” as its subject.
April 7, 2011 - Ongoing
Don’t Fence U.S. In: Crossing Boundaries in American Art
Don’t Fence U.S. In: Crossing Boundaries in American Art focuses on the many ways that art expresses the power of boundaries: making, breaking, crossing, drawing, and erasing.
April 7, 2011 - Ongoing
Reflections on a Museum
WCMA announced the themes of each of the eight exhibitions that are opening this spring as part of the museum’s massive reinstallation project entitled Reflections on a Museum.
April 7, 2011 - Ongoing
The Object of Art
The Object of Art focuses on what makes an object a work of art and what is the role of the museum in dictating this transformation.
April 7, 2011 - December 30, 2012
Room for Reflection
Room for Reflection offers the opportunity for visitors to experience a single object with nothing else to lend it context.