Manjari Sharma, To See and Be Seen
Sports and Games
Merritt Johnson
Ancient Native Americans of the South and Midwest
The Art of Travel, Trade, and Transportation
All Things Bright and Beautiful brings together works primarily from the Museum’s permanent collection that…
In 1948, the Wedgwood company asked British-American artist Clare Leighton (1898-1989) to create a series…
Ways of Seeing: Buildings and Monuments is an exhibition of nearly sixty objects from the…
Jacob Lawrence: The American Struggle features the series of paintings Struggle . . . From…
Ways of Seeing: Portraits is the newest iteration of the BMA’s Ways of Seeing series…
Celestia Morgan: REDLINE presents a series of photographs and small sculptures by artist Celestia Morgan…
Barbie: Dreaming of a Female Future takes a critical look at Barbie on the occasion…
Black Out presents historic silhouettes from the collection of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery and…
[metaslider id=529560] What is fashion? The dictionary defines it as a popular trend, especially in…
Ceramic art is an ancient and enduring form of creative expression in Japan. Contemporary Japanese ceramic artists are mindful of…
Ethel Waters was at the peak of her singing career when artist Luigi Lucioni painted…
Through the ages and across the globe, art has reflected faith. For centuries, artistic production…
We see lines everywhere in daily life: in cracks on the sidewalk, on our notebook…
The Birmingham Museum of Art is proud to present Third Space, the first large exhibition…
In commemoration of Alabama’s Bicentennial, the Birmingham Museum of Art is proud to present The Original…
Featuring just a single work of art, Waterline is an immersive exhibition experience that reflects…
In the wake of the Great Depression, Birmingham experienced a remarkable transformation that helped shape…
This small exhibition features the work of Walker Evans, Arthur Rothstein, and Marion Post Wolcott,…
AFTERLIFE: Asian Art from the Weldon Collection journeys across Asia to explore the fascinating role…
Spencer C. Shoults (1977 – 2017) was an American painter, printmaker, pinhole photographer, and kinetic…
On May 21, 2017, “The Greatest Show on Earth” came to an end, when Ringling Brothers…
Josef Albers is best known for the hundreds of paintings and prints from his series…
Dr. Roy T. Ward, Jr. (1922–2015) of Watkinsville, Georgia was a doctor by profession, but…
In May 2015, The Do Good Fund, a non-profit organization that acquires and exhibits photographs…
From the late eighteenth century when Josiah Wedgwood utilized the designs of artists like John…
lobby projects is a new initiative by the Birmingham Museum of Art that invites contemporary…
For the past decade, ikat patterns have permeated the fashion and design industry, touching everything…
Beaded and sequined flags, called drapo, are an important component of Vodoun, a religion that…
a temporary platform for social exchange For five months shift will occupy the ground…
“The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe.”…
The Museum is proud to celebrate Heart Gallery Alabama’s 10th anniversary by featuring this exhibition…
Manuel Álvarez Bravo was one of Mexico’s most renowned photographers of the twentieth century. Working…
In 1938 Atlanta-based artist Hale Woodruff was commissioned to paint a series of murals for…
This exhibition showcases artworks by members of Teen BMA, the Museum’s leadership and professional development…
You’ve come here looking for some sort of essential truth about the South or some…
Between Fantasy and Reality takes a focused approach in exploring the early period of Alabama…
Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Their Contemporaries is the first exhibition to explore this…
The Birmingham Museum of Art proudly honors the life and legacy of the Rev. Dr.…
Craig Wedderspoon is a Tuscaloosa-based sculptor who creates abstract work in both metal and wood…
When the widowed Hester Bateman took over her husband’s silver workshop in 1761, she faced…
The samurai are universally recognized warriors. Tales of their heroics have fascinated people since the…
The Birmingham Museum of Art is proud to host the first Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) exhibition…
Vanguard Views is an exhibition celebrating the innovation in visual representation in early modern art…
Horizons is an outdoor installation by Icelandic artist Steinunn Thórarinsdóttir (pronounced Stay-nun Thor-orens-daughter). The exhibition…
Chinese New Year is the most important of the traditional Chinese holidays and is a…
Hank Willis Thomas, Chris Johnson, Bayete Ross Smith, Kamal Sinclair Question Bridge is trans-media art project…
Acclaimed photographer Dawoud Bey presents an exhibition of portraits, which symbolically commemorates the four young…
Etched in Collective History presents the work of artists who interrogate, depict, and memorialize the…
In conjunction with the blockbuster Norman Rockwell’s America, the Museum presents The Golden Age: American Illustration from…
From the arrival of Spanish settlers in the mid-1500s to their forced move to reservations…
Taken from the Museum’s permanent collection, Intimate Interiors presents portraits of intimate moments and spaces including places…
Warhol and Cars: American Icons is the first exhibition to examine Andy Warhol’s enduring fascination with…
This exhibition features approximately fifty-five works of African ceramics and iron art, including vessels, musical…
The final feather in the Museum’s 60th anniversary cap is an exhibition of more than…
This stunning exhibition explores the little-known subject of “lover’s eyes,” hand-painted miniatures of single human…
Vietnam created the most sophisticated ceramics in Southeast Asia. Though they borrowed from China, Vietnamese…
In August, Birmingham lost a remarkable artist, teacher, and member of our community with the…
Beginning on October 23, 2011, the Museum will highlight a recent exceptional gift of more than…
SELECTED WORKS FROM THE ROWE COLLECTION Jean-Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was one of nineteenth-century France’s most…
The art of quilting enjoys a long and rich heritage within African-American communities, particularly in…
The Birmingham Museum of Art is proud to present the first showing of Indian sculpture…
Conceived by the likes of Elvis and the Beatles, evolving into the sounds of Madonna…
Exhibition focuses on photography’s role in south africa’s dynamic transformation This exhibition features the work…
In the early 1960s in New York, the artist Romare Bearden invited a group of…
In 1988, Birmingham couple David and Natalie Sperling made a gift to the Museum of…
The Birmingham Museum of Art recently announced the purchase of A Dream of Italy (1865), a major…
The kimono is iconic in Japanese fashion and for good reason. Far from being a…
It’s amazing how artists looking at similar things come up with completely different points of…
Works by artists Fred Wilson, Odili Donald Odita, Jeff Donaldson, Carrie Mae Weems, and others…
Birmingham artist Amy Pleasant is creating a site-specific drawing installation that wraps the four walls…
Beginning in the 1960s, New York couple Dorothy and Herbert Vogel spent 45 years collecting…
This second installation in our African-American art gallery explores various aspects of Prentice Herman (P.H.)…
Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness: American Art from the Yale University Art Gallery offers…
The Museum has devoted its Arrington gallery to the exhibition of folk art. Objects on display are from…
The World through My Eyes
Mary Lucier is considered one of the pioneers of video as an art form. The…
The human body has been an important subject for artistic expression since prehistoric times. Indeed,…
Fabric of Life compares the cultural roles of African textiles and southern quilts, studies what is…
The exhibition New Hands, Native Lands presents recent Navajo pictorial textiles and Pueblo pottery from the American…
This exhibition presents new work by New York-based artist Sharon Louden that will visually connect…
As a female photographer in the 1930s, Marion Post Wolcott was required to cover fashion…
Group of Leonardo Drawings Shown for First Time in U.S. The Birmingham Museum of Art…
The print tradition in Korea is an ancient one. Woodblock printing of Buddhist texts and…
During the immediate post-war period, the German ceramics industry experienced an explosion of form, decoration,…
For thousands of years, the indigenous people of the Amazon Basin of South America have…
The Netherlands' Golden Age
So Close to Heaven: Sacred Sculpture of Asia from the Collection of June “Jimmy” deH.…
Artist, activist, and urban-planner Theaster Gates performed with The Black Monks of Mississippi, an ensemble…
Issues regarding visual depictions of blackness in American art have been such highly scrutinized topics…
This exhibition presents 87 works of art made by the Inuit people of Canada. Formerly…
This small focused exhibition comprises 10 works by Clara Weaver Parrish, Rose Pettus Weaver, and…
A new installation of 19 contemporary Pueblo ceramic objects are on view in the Native…
A selection of seven prints by artist James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1936-1902) is currently on…
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