Mission:
The Museum of Art and Archaeology advances understanding of our artistic and cultural heritage through research, collection and interpretation. We help students, scholars and the broader community to experience authentic and significant art and artifacts firsthand and to place them in meaningful contexts. We further this mission by preserving, enhancing and providing access to the collections for the benefit of present and future generations.


Exhibitions:

The Voyage of a Contemporary Italian Goldsmith in the Classical World: Golden Treasures by Akelo
June 5 - September 26, 2010


Faces of Warhol
June 6, 2009 - Summer 2010
To celebrate the recent generous donation of 150 "working" photographs from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Museum will present an exhibition devoted to Warhol’s study of the face. Through a series of three installations of these photographs, the exhibition will explore Warhol’s faces in relation to his artistic process and the issues of identity, fame and portraiture.
The three installments are

• Manufacturing Fame
  June 9 - October 4, 2009
  
• Constructing Gender
  October 6 - February 7, 2010
  
• Accessing the Private
  February 9 - June 6, 2010
  
  
  

The Fine Art of Living: Luxury Objects from the East and West
ongoing from May 29, 2008
This multicultural exhibition features a selection of luxury arts from the Museum’s diverse collections. Like painting and sculpture, these beautiful objects played an important aesthetic role as they communicated social, political, religious and cultural information about the patron. The realm of the decorative arts is a vast one, involving objects of every shape and material imaginable. By bringing together objects from China, Europe, India, Japan and the United States from the Early Modern period to around 1900, this exhibition explores a wide variety of cultural aesthetic preferences and societal practices in relation to The Fine Art of Living.
 

Ancient Glass from the Permanent Collection
ongoing from August 2007
This exhibition highlights the Museum’s finest ancient glass vessels, representing various techniques of manufacture including core-formed, free-blown and mold-made examples. A broad spectrum of time periods are also encompassed, ranging from Greek to Roman and from Byzantine to Islamic. The ancient glass collection is indebted to Gladys Davidson Weinberg, who was co-founder of the Museum, and held the titles of curator and honorary research fellow. Weinberg was a pioneer in the field of ancient glass and did much to advance the study of this fascinating aspect of ancient material culture. Moreover, she acquired many glass objects for the Museum’s antiquities collection, some of which are included in this exhibit.

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Galleries:

Treasures from Antiquity: The Weinberg Gallery of Ancient Art
Ongoing

The Museum’s antiquities collection includes objects representing the major cultures of the ancient Mediterranean world. While Greek and Roman art are the collection’s emphasis, ancient Egypt and the ancient Near East are also significantly represented. Particular strengths in the Greek and Roman collections include approximately 3,000 coins, and a significant number of lamps, glass objects (mostly vessels), Greek and South Italian pottery, terracotta sculpture, and small bronzes. A growing collection of stone sculpture is represented by Roman funerary monuments, portraits of the emperors Nero and Hadrian, and one of an unidentified third-century empress. The antiquities collection also includes substantial holdings representing the cultures of Egypt, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Iran, Palestine, and Cyprus. Iranian artifacts are particularly strong in pottery and Luristan . A number of pottery vessels from the early Hacilar and Yortan cultures strengthen the Anatolian collection. The Museum’s interest in the archaeology of Cyprus has led to the acquisition of a fine collection of Cypriot pottery. A painted linen mummy shroud, plaster mummy masks, a Coptic tunic, a collection of Coptic textile fragments, and an exquisite agate bowl are exceptional examples from the Egyptian holdings. Finally, over 900 objects from the Palestinian region attest the Museum’s long-standing connections with the archaeology of that area.


The European and American Galleries
Ongoing

The Museum of Art and Archaeology boasts an exceptional collection of medieval through 19th century art, built around a Samuel H. Kress Study Collection received in 1961. Works by Bordone, Mellone, Romanino, Frans Francken the Younger, Caracciolo, and Bramantino, van Goyen, Romney, Gerry, Bierstadt, George Caleb Bingham. Wyburg, Vedder, Bricker and Colman grace the main galleries, with a smaller gallery dedicated to Byzantine and medieval works.


The Robert and Maria Barton Gallery of Modern & Contemporary Art
Ongoing

While the exhibitions in the Robert and Maria Barton Gallery of Modern & Contemporary Art regularly change to keep the galleries fresh and vibrant, currently works by Vasarely, N.C.Wyeth, Picasso, Demuth, Chihuly, Pettibone, Tryon, Sandzen, Larry Rivers, Daniel Garber, and Nam June Paik are on display. In addition, a special exhibition of photographs by Andy Warhol--a gift from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts--is currently being shown.

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Events

MUSEUM OF ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY FILM SERIES
All films are at 7:00 pm, Room 106 Pickard Hall.

July

July 15, 2010 - Thursday
Heaven (1969)

Directed by Tom Tykwer
Starring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi

August

August 6, 2010 - Friday
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)

Directed by Richard L. Bare and William Keighley
Starring Bette Davis, Jimmy Durante and Monty Woolley

August 19, 2010 - Thursday
The Leopard (1963)

Directed by Luchino Visconti
Starring Burt Lancaster