Based on the permanent collection, this exhibition of art in the Atlantic World considers empire-building across Europe, North America, and their colonies, and how it shaped interconnected global networks from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries…

People of the First Light, the Abbe Museum's core exhibit, introduces visitors to the Wabanaki universe, engaging them with the culture and history of a people that is unfamiliar to many…

“When I was growing up in Rockland from grammar school to high school, there was no museum. One of the great joys of my life is that we have a first-rate one now—a beautiful building that encloses creative works that can stand with the great ones. That is something that I had not expected in my wildest dreams to find in a town in Maine—that jewel that shines.” –Louise Nevelson

This installation of the Paul J. Schupf Wing for the Works of Alex Katz highlights different strategies of repetition in Katz’s art, focusing on four words that describe this defining aspect of his artistic practice: reflection, recurrence, reduplication, and re-creation…

The “Micmac Indian Craftsmen” were the first modern Indigenous artists in Atlantic Canada and developed an international following almost overnight…

Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village centers Pueblo perspectives on the contexts that informed the social and cultural landscape of Taos from 1915 to 1927, when the Taos Society of Artists (TSA), a group of Anglo-American painters, was active…

Passages in American Art is a fundamental reinterpretation of the PMA collection, platforming multiple voices, revealing new ways of looking at some of the museum’s most beloved works of art, and inviting community members to drive the conversation…

Portland-based artists Rachel Gloria Adams and Ryan Adams created the site-specific mural, You Showed Me Love, on the Farnsworth Art Museum’s campus…

… Organized by a curatorial team that includes the artist himself, Alex Katz, Wedding Dress will offer a unique opportunity to situate Katz’s work in relation to performance, figuration, and fashion.

…the annual Waponahki Student Art Show brings together a wonderful variety of art created by Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, Maliseet, and Micmac students from early childhood education through high school…

Marsden Hartley and the Sea brings together a selection of paintings inspired by the painter’s memory of Nova Scotia as well as other works made on Vinalhaven from the late 1930s…

This exhibition brings together work by contemporary artists who incorporate weaving, sewing, quilting, and fabric to explore ideas about gender, identity, memory, and cross-cultural encounters…

Currents: Art Since 1875 tells new stories, asks provocative questions, and challenges assumptions about the human experience through works of twentieth and twenty-first century art.

Jim Dine: Last Year's Forgotten Harvest, organized by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art,  represents the first exhibition to focus on Dine’s portrayal of his family and friends.

This exhibition spotlights the vibrancy and diversity of Asian American artistic expressions over the past century…

Drawn exclusively from the Farnsworth’s collection, this exhibition presents a snapshot of AAA’s efforts and artists’ contributions during its first decade…

Maine-based artist Linda Packard has created a new body of abstract paintings for the Zillman Art Museum’s exhibition Poems I Meant to Write…

There is a theatricality in the artist’s imagined environments—some are inhabited by a comedic cast of characters—while in other works sexually charged figures unite en masse…

The artists in this exhibition share the presentation of an idea being translated into a visual vocabulary, rather than the basic elements of visual design. The artworks offer the viewer an opportunity for contemplation. 

Frost and Bloom brings together works of art from the Zillman’s permanent collection that evoke feelings of winter and spring and how these seasons influence human experience.

“The Book of Two Hemispheres” highlights the dynamic visual culture that arose in response to the most famous American anti-slavery novel of its era and arguably of all time: Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe…

What we know of the Etruscans comes from ancient writers, who often were rivals and adversaries, and from the archaeological record…

One of the first exhibitions to explore Louise Nevelson’s sculptures and works on paper in dialogue with their historical moment, The World Outside: Louise Nevelson at Midcentury illuminates the artist’s multidimensional command of form and attunement to postwar culture in the United States…

Maine native Eastman Johnson was one of the most significant painters of the nineteenth century and was instrumental in the development of genre painting in the United States…

The exhibition A Lot More Inside: Esopus Magazine presents archival materials and original artworks associated with the abundant publication…

Momentum, a new exhibition series at the Farnsworth, is dedicated to the next generation of artists with long-standing connections to Maine. 

This exhibition explores female personifications of the nation state from antiquity through the Enlightenment to today…

Throughout a prolific career marked by recognition as one of the leading watercolorists of the twentieth century, Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) is predominantly acclaimed for his mastery in the ancient medium of egg tempera…

Abstract Flash is an exhibition in two parts. The Brandywine Museum of Art hosted its first installment, centering on Wyeth’s Pennsylvania abstractions…

While the collective is still active today, Neue Slowenische Kunst | Monumental Spectacular is a focused exhibition of 11 prints that are part of a portfolio from our collection and select multimedia elements primarily from the 1980s that meld the group’s many facets of music, art, theater, and graphic design.

Taking place in the spring of each year, this exhibition highlights work selected from the thesis projects of graduating seniors in Studio Art…

Cudahy brings together different histories, culling images from a range of sources, including photos from the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center archives in New York and medieval tapestries. These themes are woven throughout the works in the exhibition. 

Ogunquit was one hub in a vast network of progressive art schools and communities connecting modern artists across the United States and abroad…

In 1953, Henry Strater, in partnership with a group of artists and community members, opened the Museum of Art of Ogunquit (now the Ogunquit Museum of American Art)…

Situated on a plateau set high above the rugged rockbound coast, with hills on the north and south sides, the OMAA's unique three-acre landscape is the ideal place to interact with nature and enjoy the creative arts of sculpture and garden design…

The Sea, Just Like Your Eyes, Became a Refuge reflects on the powerful, yet fragile, point where sea and land meet…

For the first time, the Farnsworth will exhibit its newly conserved Drexler paintings alongside loans from other institutions and private collections…

This exhibition offers participating students the opportunity to exhibit their work and participate in the museum’s exhibition process from start to finish…

As a group, the Young Curators collaborate and develop a theme for their exhibition which includes researching the artwork and writing the didactic materials for the exhibition.

As the first-ever major retrospective of a Wabanaki artist in a fine art museum in the United States, Jeremy Frey: Woven is a groundbreaking exhibition in contemporary and Indigenous art…

This exhibition traces the rise of the family business, as well as their own basket making practices, and showcases extraordinary examples of styles and traditions of Penobscot basketry from the 1930s to today…

Peggy Bacon: Biting, never Bitter offers a compelling and satirical window into the social structures of the United States that still hold relevance today, particularly in areas of gender, education, and class…

This exhibition brings together three contemporary artists who have never shown together before, but are all remarkable for their punchy, surreal installations…

Please stay tuned for more information about our upcoming 2024 exhibition: Women Artists of Monhegan Island: A Common Bond, opening July 1st.

This exhibition traces a persistent vein of intriguing, often disconcerting imagery over the career of renowned artist Jamie Wyeth (born 1946)…

“Your life is defined in time. The way I relate to this in my work is by thinking of infinity: to the time of religion, of history … using shapes that have been significant to people for thousands of years.”—Martha Diamond, interviewed for the Whitney Biennial 1989