Over the course of the summer, the small but mighty Fleming team–composed of staff and interns–has made significant changes to the Museum’s Collections Gallery. These changes include improvements to the physical space of the galleries, and a complete reinstallation of art objects drawn from across the Fleming’s collections. Both of which aim to make the …
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Art and the Matter of Place
September 5 – December 8, 2023 Art objects can illuminate many ways in which place matters to the human experience. Art can give visual form and material expression to human connection to place. So too art can reveal different ways that humans have and continue to imbue places with meaning. Grounded in these ideas, Art and …
Land Marks: Paintings of Human-Altered Landscapes
Extended through May 18, 2024 Landscape painting came into prominence in the visual arts of this land, now called the United States, in the early 1800s. Over the course of the century, the genre–with European roots–gained favor in the U.S., especially in the Northeast and among white artists and collectors. Many such paintings hold special …
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Collections Rotations | Spring 2023
Changes are afoot at the Fleming. We are currently re-envisioning the Collections Gallery (formerly the European/American Gallery). In areas freshly painted gray or blue, you’ll find a new selection of artworks installed among some objects from the prior display. This ongoing reinstallation project expands possibilities for connecting with the collection in new and exciting ways. …
Abstracts: Opening Space for Imagination
September 14 – December 10, 2021 Change has had a domino effect in the Museum this year. Deconstructing the outdated African Gallery led to a deinstallation of the Marble Court balcony, which has long featured nearly all-white New England artists and especially landscapes. Just as our Absences project uses blank spaces to envision new possibilities, the empty …
RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST!
September 27 – December 13, 2019 There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.”— Elie Wiesel RESIST! INSIST! PERSIST! explores the intersection of art and activism. Drawn primarily from the Fleming Museum’s collection, the exhibition features the work of historical …
The Impossible Ideal: Victorian Fashion and Femininity
September 21 – December 14, 2018 The Victorian era (1837-1901), named for the reign of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, is known for extreme expressions of women’s fashion, and for a narrow definition of women’s roles in society. Tight-laced corsets, wide hoop skirts, bustles, and trains exaggerated women’s forms while restricting their movement and …
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