Current Exhibitions
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.
January 14, 2012 - April 22, 2012
African Americans and the American Scene, 1929–1945
African Americans and the American Scene, 1929—1945 explores the role of African Americans in the visual and performing arts during the Great Depression.
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
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 - 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 - 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.