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Events This Week

Film Screening: New Wave
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Sat, Apr 19, 2025 2:00pm–4:00pm
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Exhibitions Open Today

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A line of people walk toward a museum entrance, and a large sculpture of a white head stands tall next to them.
Jaume Plensa: Behind the Walls
Jaume Plensa
Ongoing
UMMA Exterior
Groups of people stand and walk through a light green room with dark wooden vitrines and gilded framed paintings on the wall in the Unsettling Histories exhibition.
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
Ongoing
European and American Decorative Art
A celebration of UMMA's fall season with exhibition openings of You're Welcome, Hear Me Now, and A Gathering.
We Write To You About Africa
Ongoing
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
View of a gallery installation. Black walls with gold and silver text tell the story of the Burt Lake Band of Anishinaabe Native Americans
Future Cache
Andrea Carlson
Now thru November 2025
Vertical Gallery
Art gallery interior showing an exhibition space with light blue walls and tiled floors. Two benches are centrally placed on the floor. To the left, a large colorful abstract painting is displayed, featuring vibrant reds and oranges with scattered elements of blue and pink. Adjacent to the right is a smaller framed artwork. A wall text titled "A Gathering" is visible on the right side.
A Gathering
Ongoing
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Interior of the LA Raza Art & Medioa Collective with a vibrant, colorful mural on a green wall. Glass doors and windows are reflecting the outside street view. An exhibit display with graphical panels is placed in the foreground.
La Raza Art and Media Collective
1975 – Today
Dec 7, 2024 — July 20, 2025
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Visitors viewing an art exhibition titled 'Strange You Never Knew' by Jarod Lew at a gallery.
Strange You Never Knew
A Solo Exhibition by Jarod Lew
February 1 — June 15, 2025
Taubman I
Post No Bills exhibition, the gallery walls are adorned with descriptive text and several artworks, including abstract and graphic pieces, displayed in a well-lit room with glass display cases.
Post No Bills
March 1 — July 13, 2025
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery

Artwork on
Display

The UMMA galleries are dynamic and always evolving.

Frida with Globe, Coyoacan, Mexico
1938
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Bencharong Ware Jar (tho)
19th century
Chinese
Where can you see it:
Gallery of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art
Untitled, The Peter Norton Family Christmas Project 2002
2002
Yinka Shonibare
Where can you see it:
Marvin H. Davidson Gallery
Ganesha, seated on a double lotus throne
11th century
Indonesian
Where can you see it:
Gallery of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art
Headrest
Kenyan
Where can you see it:
The Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery
Sugar Caster (one of a pair)
1739
Monogrammist CO
Where can you see it:
Marvin H. Davidson Gallery
Sanctification cross with scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary and the Evangelists
1650-1800
Greek
Where can you see it:
Richard and Rosann Noel Gallery
Tall Ceremonial Stand for Jar
5th century
Korean
Where can you see it:
Woon-hyung Lee and Korea Foundation Gallery of Korean Art
Fan-shaped Vase on Domed Foot (piece of lip broken off)
circa 1896-1900
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Where can you see it:
Tiffany: Between Tiffany Doors and FFW Connector
Male Twin Figure
circa 1925-1940
Yoruba
Where can you see it:
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
Track of Colors by Settei #1
2023
Manika Nagare
Where can you see it:
Japanese Gallery
Twilight
1892
Charles Warren Eaton
Where can you see it:
Thomas H. and Polly W. Bredt Gallery
Vanitas (Still Life), with globe, skull, candle, tazza, and covered cup
1633-1635
Willem Claesz Heda
Where can you see it:
Marvin H. Davidson Gallery
Three Notes from Zhang DaQian to Lo
20th century
Zhang Daqian (Chang Ta-ch'ien)
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
like the ocean, having been the ocean long before we arrived, each wave newborn and buried at once; like us, standing breathless at the edge, astonished by our own lungs.
2022
Antonius-Tín Bui
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
Set of Kaiawase (Shell Game)
19th century
Japanese
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
Self:Portrait
2022
McArthur Binion
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
The Break-up of the Ice (La Débâcle or Les Glaçons)
1880
Claude Monet
Where can you see it:
Thomas H. and Polly W. Bredt Gallery
Brick in a Soft Hat, Series 2 No. 5
2013
Susan Dessel
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
Tomb Guardian
675-750
Chinese
Where can you see it:
Shirley Chang Gallery of Chinese Art
Ngoromera
2020
Masimba Hwati
Where can you see it:
The Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery
Double-Gourd Ewer with Lid
13th century
Korean
Where can you see it:
Woon-hyung Lee and Korea Foundation Gallery of Korean Art
Flay (James Madison)
2019
Titus Kaphar
Where can you see it:
Marvin H. Davidson Gallery
Church with Tree
circa 1960-1975
Eddie Arning
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
Flute Player
before 1967
Lamidi Fakeye
Where can you see it:
The Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery
Portrait of Françoise (Buste de Femme)
February 28, 1949
Pablo Picasso
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Tarzana
1987
Grace Hartigan
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Little Torso No. 5 (Torse)
1930; cast 1957
Hans (Jean) Arp
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art