This reinstallation offers a fresh look at favorite works in the collection and prominently features several recent acquisitions. Works on display for the first time include paintings by the Austrian symbolist painter Walter Sigmund Hampel, Italian impressionist Giacomo Favretto, and German landscape painter Julius Lange. The new installation aims to evoke the atmosphere of a nineteenth-century museum or art gallery, with deep blue walls providing a dark backdrop for the paintings.
From the Steppes and Monasteries: Arts of Mongolia and Tibet
Continuing through December 19
Spanning a time period from the Bronze Age to the twentieth century, this exhibition offers a tantalizing glimpse of the arts of Tibet and Mongolia, whose practice of Buddhism has joined them together at key moments in their history.
African Reinventions: Reused Materials in Popular Culture
Continuing through December 19, 2010
Special Exhibitions Gallery, The Judi and Milt Stewart Hexagon Gallery, first floor
Plastic bags, aluminum cans, wire, and scraps of wood, cloth, metal, and plastic are given second lives throughout sub-Saharan Africa when they are transformed into a variety of utilitarian and decorative items. With objects including a working radio, a movie poster painted on an old flour sack, and a menagerie of animals made out of cans and wire, African Reinventions presents an engaging assortment of creative uses of recycled materials.
This exhibition was organized in conjunction with sustain•ability: Thriving on a Small Planet, the Fall 2010 College of Arts and Sciences Themester. For more information about this Themester, visit http://themester.indiana.edu/.
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