Exhibitions
To enhance your visit, we provide educational guidance and resources for your use with the collection and special exhibitions, such as a guide for writing in the museum.
To view a collection of previous exhibitions, please visit our exhibitions archive.
Current Exhibitions
Aperture Remix:
Celebration of Aperture's 60th Anniversary Year
Through March 30, 2014
On the occasion of Aperture's sixtieth anniversary, a select group of
contemporary photographers have been invited to choose an Aperture publication
by an artist who has been influential in forming their work and to pay it
artistic homage. For each commissioned artist, the goal is to create a new,
unique work inspired by the ideas they find most influential or of greatest
concern in the previously published work. A reading area and various
Aperture books are available for use.
Special Exhibitions Gallery
Photorealism and
the Automobile
Through March 30, 2014
Beginning in the 1960s, a group of artists, known as photorealists, was using
the camera as a visual aid in creating photorealistic images of scenes of
everyday America. The automobile was a recurring subject for the photorealists,
appearing in settings as diverse as urban landscapes, roadside diners, and
reflections in store windows. Together the artists represented in the
exhibition make poignant statements on the changing American culture of their
time, encouraging viewers to consider the power of the automobile in their own
lives. The exhibition includes photorealist prints from 1972 to 1980. An
exhibition handout is available for use.
Brown Study Room