Lethal Beauty

The samurai are universally recognized warriors. Tales of their heroics have fascinated people since the 12th century. Bushido (The Way of the Samurai) is the code of chivalry by which […]

Small Treasures

Small Treasures: Rembrandt, Vermeer, Hals, and Their Contemporaries is the first exhibition to explore this little-known field of small-format 17th-century paintings from the Dutch and Flemish Golden Age. Organized by […]

Delacroix and the Matter of Finish

The Birmingham Museum of Art is proud to host the first Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) exhibition in the United States in more than a decade. Delacroix and the Matter of Finish arrives in […]

Etched in Collective History

Etched in Collective History presents the work of artists who interrogate, depict, and memorialize the Civil Rights Movement, telling a multi-generational story of the Civil Rights Movement. These various perspectives and works form a powerful synthesis of art, relating dynamic responses to our collective history.

The Golden Age

In conjunction with the blockbuster Norman Rockwell’s America, the Museum presents The Golden Age:  American Illustration from the Collection. Illustration experienced unprecedented popularity in the United States during the late nineteenth and […]

Future Perfect

The final feather in the Museum’s 60th anniversary cap is an exhibition of more than 150 works that have been purchased or gifted in honor of our diamond anniversary. The […]

Dragons and Lotus Blossoms

Vietnam created the most sophisticated ceramics in Southeast Asia. Though they borrowed from China, Vietnamese potters explored their own indigenous tastes and developed their own production techniques. As early as […]

Daumier

SELECTED WORKS FROM THE ROWE COLLECTION Jean-Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) was one of nineteenth-century France’s most popular and influential artists. Although he was a painter and sculptor, he was also a […]

Who Shot Rock & Roll

Conceived by the likes of Elvis and the Beatles, evolving into the sounds of Madonna and Tupac, the phenomenon that is rock and roll indelibly transformed music and society. Catalysts […]

Darkroom

Exhibition focuses on photography’s role in south africa’s dynamic transformation This exhibition features the work of 18 photographers, new media and video artists, who lived and worked in South Africa […]