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Events This Week

Webster Reading Series: Clara Rosarius and Elizabeth Lee
Helmut Stern Auditorium
Fri, Sep 20, 2024 7:00pm–8:00pm
Event Series Webster Reading Series
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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 June 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
Students and community members in special exhibition 'Silver Linings' at the annual Artscapade! in August 2024.
Silver Linings
August 24, 2024 — January 5, 2025
Taubman I
Students and community members in special exhibition 'Hey We Need to Talk!' at the annual Artscapade! in August 2024.
Hey, We Need to Talk!
Aug 31, 2024 — Feb 09, 2025
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery

Artwork on
Display

The UMMA galleries are dynamic and always evolving.

Lipstick Building
2015
Enoc Perez
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Interconfined
1994
Dinh Q. Lê
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
Sunset Corner
1969
Helen Frankenthaler
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Ceremonial sword (afena)
20th century
Asante
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
Resurrection (triptych)
2002
Khaled Al-Saa'i
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
Male Twin Figure
circa 1925-1940
Yoruba
Where can you see it:
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
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
Frida with Globe, Coyoacan, Mexico
1938
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
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
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
Tall Ceremonial Stand for Jar
5th century
Korean
Where can you see it:
Woon-hyung Lee and Korea Foundation Gallery of Korean Art
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
When the Gods Speak, Heaven Listens
2022
Frederick Ebenezer Okai
Where can you see it:
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
Calligraphy in Running Script
early 17th century
Mi Wanzhong
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display