Current Exhibitions
Armillary, Victoria Ellis Hughes, 1992 (photo: Elise Winters)
Necklaces from the MAD Collection
Untitled (Box), Kyohei Fujita, c. 1995
Japanese Art and Design
New Art from the Venice Biennales
Flora (detail), Phoebe Cummings, 2010
Dust, Ashes, and Dirt in Contemporary Art and Design
Collections

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Future Exhibitions
Ring, Margaret De Patta, 1949
Space, Light, Structure
The Jewelry of Margaret De Patta
Eames Chair with Micmac Beadwork, Mindy Magyar, 2009
Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation, 3
Contemporary Native Art from the Northeast and Southeast
South (detail), Daniel Brush, 2004
Blue Steel Gold Light
War Boy - Job No. 1, Clifford Rainey, 2006
Playing With Fire
50 Years of Contemporary Glass
Escapism Couture, Iris van Herpen, Spring 2011 (photo by Michel Zoeter)
Out of Hand
Digital Fabrication
Selected Past Exhibitions
Dead or Alive: Nature Becomes Art
Nature Becomes Art
The Global Africa Project
 

Join the curators of The Global Afica Project, as well as artists and outside experts, in a series of conversations on the themes of the exhibition.

Crafting Modernism: Midcentury American Art and Design
Midcentury American Art and Design

Browse exhibition objects in their historical contexts.