Future Exhibitions
Don't miss these exciting exhibitions, coming to the Walters soon!
- Public Property
- Sunday, June 17, 2012–Sunday, August 19, 2012
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - This summer, we?re holding a participatory exhibition, created collectively by the public. You get to decide what the exhibition will be. We will invite your opinion on a number of decisions. Then, visit the museum this summer when Public Property opens and continue to contribute to, and change, this public exhibition.
- Paradise Imagined: The Garden in the Islamic and Christian World
- Saturday, June 30, 2012–Sunday, September 23, 2012
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - This exhibition explores the art of gardens and the cross-fertilization of garden imagery between the East and West. Gardens have functioned as spaces of invention, imagination and myth-making, as well as places of repose and recreation, for different cultures across time.
- The Two Planets - Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
- Saturday, August 11, 2012–Sunday, November 18, 2012
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - In the short film vignettes of The Two Planets (Dow Song Duang), the farmers of small Thai villages discuss several classic works of modern European painting while artist Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook fixes her camera on them.
- Facing our Community
- Saturday, September 15, 2012–Wednesday, February 13, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - Facing Our Community is a small exhibition of artwork created by Maryland middle and high school students in response to the Walters Art Museum?s special exhibition Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe.
- Revealing the African Presence in Renaissance Europe
- Sunday, October 14, 2012–Monday, January 21, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - This groundbreaking exhibition will explore the wealth of European art to reveal the hidden presence of Africans in Renaissance society and the many roles they played. The portraits at the core of this show provide a window on an unsuspected facet of a society deeply impacted by the expanding worldview of the Age of Exploration.
- Diadem and Dagger: Jewish Artisans of Yemen
- Saturday, October 27, 2012–Sunday, January 20, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - This focus show of approximately 25 objects introduces Yemeni-Jewish silverwork from the Zucker Family Trust collection. Yemeni-Jewish craftsmen produced beautiful silver pieces characterized by elaborate granulation and filigree decoration for Muslim and Jew alike.
- The Ben Ezra Synagogue and the Walters-Yeshiva University Ark Door
- Saturday, March 02, 2013–Sunday, May 26, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - This show focuses on a work of exceptional historical importance: an intricately decorated and inscribed wood panel believed to come from the famous Ben Ezra synagogue of Old Cairo (Fostat), Egypt, which has captivated public imagination for over a century.
- New Eyes on America: The Genius of Richard Caton Woodville
- Sunday, March 10, 2013–Sunday, June 02, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - Painter of iconic works of American genre, Richard Caton Woodville (1825?55) led a life of paradox. His humorous characterizations of life, realistic depictions of interiors and use of narrative detail give access to a fascinating period of American and European history.
- Living by the Book: Monks, Nuns and Their Manuscripts
- Saturday, June 22, 2013–Sunday, September 15, 2013
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - Today, medieval books are treated as works of art, untouchable treasures to be locked away in cabinets. Yet many were intended for regular use as vital components of everyday life for monks and nuns.
- Views of 18th-Century Istanbul
- Saturday, March 01, 2014–Sunday, May 25, 2014
10:00 AM–05:00 PM - This focus show of approximately 25 works invites the visitor to experience the ancient sites, majestic mosques, waterfront gardens, coffeehouses and forested hills of Istanbul, the cosmopolitan capital of the Ottoman Empire from 1453 until 1922.
