In Search of Norman Rockwell's America

February 13 - April 25, 2010

In Search of Norman Rockwell's America is a groundbreaking exhibition that pairs the work of American icon Norman Rockwell with images by award-winning photojournalist Kevin Rivoli.  Unprecedented in concept, this exhibition features thirty-five black and white photographs alongside Rockwell originals: paintings, drawings, and limited artist’s prints. 

Gothic Art in the Gilded Age

December 19, 2009 - April 4, 2010

Comprising around 350 paintings, sculptures, and works of decorative art including metalwork, furniture, ceramics, cameos, timepieces, and wax miniatures made across the European continent chiefly between the twelfth and sixteenth centuries, this group of objects belonged to three successive owners: Émile Gavet, Alva Vanderbilt Belmont and John Ringling.

Venice in the Age of Canaletto

October 8, 2009 - January 10, 2010

Venice in the Age of Canaletto will consider Canaletto in this Venetian context focusing upon the contrast between the artist’s paintings and the works of his contemporaries who were also active in the city.

August 22 - November 8, 2009

Buddhism is a religion to about 300 million people around the world. The word comes from the  term budhi, which means 'to awaken'. It has its origins about 2,500 years ago when Siddhartha Gautama was himself awakened (enlightened) at the age of 35 and became Buddha.

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Hold Your Horses The Circus is Coming

July 15 - November 8, 2009

With the difficult task of promoting a performance available for one day only, American circuses of the early twentieth century had to pull out all the stops in their advertising campaigns.

Dangerous Women

May  23 -  October 11, 2009

The visual consumption of woman has for centuries been at the cornerstone of art. This fascination—or even obsession—with women of all descriptions is perhaps nowhere more apparent than during the 16^th and 17^th centuries.

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Picturing Eden

May 9 - August 2, 2009

Picturing Eden, organized by George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, features the work of 37 artists from six countries —including well-known artists Mike and Doug Starn, Adam Fuss, Ruud van Empel, and Sally Mann, as well as emerging artists such as Gavin Hipkins, Alec Soth, and Lori Nix.

Language of the Nude

May 2 - July 26, 2009

This exhibition of sixty rarely seen drawings from the Crocker Art Museum examines the nude, its place in the artist's process and the ideals—and desires—it expressed in European art. 

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February  24 -  June 30, 2009

Examining how the graphic styles of the Polish artists came together to advertise the state backed circus, this exhibition includes twenty-one of the Cyrk posters, designed between 1965 and 1977.

The Triumph of Marriage: Painted Cassoni of the Renaissance 

February 14, 2009 - April 19, 2009

In Renaissance Italy, cassoni – Italian for ‘large chests’ – were an essential part of elite marriage rituals. Made in pairs and often painted with historical or allegorical scenes, these chests were paraded through the streets, very much like trophies, when the bride moved into the house of her new husband.

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You Be The Judge

January 17, 2009 - May 10, 2009

This exhibition aims to provide visitors with opportunities to develop skills in looking at works of art, with the ultimate goal of becoming more active viewers.

Fashioning Kimono: Art Deco and Modernism in Japan 

November 15, 2008 - February 8, 2009

This exhibition includes 100 kimono created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries – one of the most dynamic periods in the history of Japan’s national costume. 

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Barnum, Ballyhoo and the Big Top



October 22, 2008- February 21, 2009

Barnum is widely recognized as one of the most brilliant showmen, who's impact on American culture is unrivalled.

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To Live Forever: Egyptian Treasures from the Brooklyn Museum 

October 18, 2008 - January 11, 2009

Belief in the afterlife, and that death was an enemy that could be vanquished, was fundamental to the ancient Egyptians.

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Modern Masters of the Japanese Print: Tradition and Transformation 

July 12, 2008 - January 4, 2009

The 20th century brought many changes to Japan – war and peace, industrialization, urbanization and globalization.  Nowhere are the traces of these changes more evident than in Japanese prints, particularly those made using woodblocks.

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Ringling Retro:Modern & Contemporary Works of Art from the Permanent Collection 

May 10 - October 26, 2008

Included in this provocative display of paintings and sculptures, are seminal works by Jules Olitski, Frank Stella, Trevor Bell, John Chamberlain, Robert Rauschenberg, Syd Solomon, Louise Nevelson, Jackie Ferrara, David Hockney, Barbara Kruger and Thomas Struth.

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May 24 - August 10, 2008

Mist, breath, and fog are often associated with mystery; in their double status as perceptible yet almost nonexistent phenomena, they suggest evanescence or absence.  

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Old Master Drawings from the Ringling Museum of Art

February 9 - May 4, 2008

The scope of the exhibition spans three centuries—late 15^th century to the late-18^th century—and contains approximately forty to fifty drawings. While by no means a chronological survey of styles and movements, the quality, scope of media, technique, and genre, conveys the enormous variety and invention of the Ringling’s works-on-paper.

Jacob Lawrence: Three Series of Prints

January 26 - May 4, 2008

A sampling of the work of Jacob Lawrence, among the best-known African-American artists of the 20th Century.

Grandma Moses: Grandmother to The Nation 

January 26 - April 18, 2008

Grandma Moses: Grandmother to the Nation aims to contextualize Moses’ work so as to account for its immense popularity. When seen against the backdrop of the transition from the Great Depression and World War II to the prosperity and domesticity of the 1950s, her celebrity makes perfect sense.

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Focus on Asian Art: Guanyin Personified

December 15, 2007 - June 15, 2008

The Buddhist god of compassionate wisdom, Guanyin, takes on different guises throughout Asia. The Dr. Helga Wall-Apelt collection contains an important Vietnamese Guanyin.

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