Drawn entirely from the Mead’s permanent collection, this exhibition presents artworks across centuries, continents and media that visualize concepts of time. ON VIEW NOW.
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Shonibare’s selection of 234 books tells a specific story of how knowledge is organized and disseminated. OPENING OCT. 30
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This exhibition celebrates the recent growth of the Mead’s collection of abstract art, including works by Caio Fonseca and Leon Polk Smith. ON VIEW NOW.
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Works examining various ways women have been depicted or have represented themselves. ON VIEW NOW.
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An ephemeral mural created by printmaker Tatiana Potts and Five College students. ON VIEW NOW.
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A groundbreaking exhibit that explores how modern art was influenced by advances in science, from Einstein’s Theory of Relativity to newly powerful microscopic and telescopic lenses. OPENING MARCH 28.
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Download a PDF of the Mead’s fall brochure, which includes information about upcoming exhibitions and events. Printed copies are available in the main lobby of the museum.
The Mead has acquired The American Library Collection (Activists), a large-scale installation by Yinka Shonibare MBE. It will be on view at the museum October 30, 2018, through February 17, 2019.
Located in the Amherst Center for Russian Culture in Webster Hall, the Russian Center Art Gallery displays artworks, books and archival materials from the Thomas P. Whitney ’37 collection of Russian art. The current exhibition on view, Constructing A New World: The Soviet Experiment, 1920s–30s, features works by a wide range of Russian artists who responded to events transforming Russian society after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
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