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Brushing the Present: Contemporary Academy Painting from China presented a selection of academic artists’ responses to the cultural changes occurring in contemporary China. These portraits, models, and still lifes included themes of globalization, the Chinese landscape, folk arts and legends, and traditional and new... See more 

This exhibition catalogue explores the problem of permanence versus mutability and the perception of time. AVLH explores the human perception of stars, with an emphasis on the contrast between the traditional picture of immutable points of light and the modern picture of physical objects, many of which dramatically... See more 

From a hirsute Beasty Girl to a lock of George Washington’s hair, this project explored the significance of facial, head, and body hair in western society from the Renaissance to the present. Though primarily focused on paintings, prints, photographs, and sculptures, the exhibition also included objects made from... See more 

In addition to using the Tang exhibitions as a resource for their teaching, faculty have also acted as co-curators and organizers of exhibitions, organized and appeared in performances at the museum, and participated in lectures and Dialogues. In the Classroom Faculty members from many different disciplines have... See more 

By the fourteenth century, Tibetan artists were very much aware of Chinese painting traditions and motifs. Over the course of several centuries, there were regular exchanges between the courts at the imperial capitals of China and the religious centers of Tibet. Integrating the gnarled landscapes, fantastic fauna,... See more 

Early twentieth-century photographer and amateur anthropologist Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952), convinced the American Indian was doomed to extinction, made it his lifelong goal to create an exhaustive document of memories of this “disappearing race.” Between 1900 and 1930, he traveled the Western half of North... See more 

Focusing on two specific domains, the human body and northeastern North America, The World According to the Newest and Most Exact Observations: Mapping Art and Science examined how we depict realms inaccessible to our senses. Artwork by eighteen contemporary artists combined with five centuries of maps and atlases,... See more