Past Exhibitions

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The Nightmare Transported into Art: Odilon Redon’s “St. Anthony”

November 1, 2014 — January 25, 2015


This exhibition consisted of the complete set of Redon’s third series (1896) illustrating Flaubert’s work

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Emilio Pucci in America

October 18, 2014 — February 1, 2015


Inspired by Emilio Pucci’s brief tenure as a student at the University of Georgia in 1935, this exhibition celebrated the Italian designer’s time in the United States and his 100th birthday

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The . . . of E6, part of Athens Celebrates Elephant Six

October 4, 2014 — January 4, 2015


Part of a citywide series of art exhibitions and events: Athens Celebrates Elephant Six. The museum’s component included works of art used for album covers, along with other examples of the visual culture that helped define the collective.

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Boxers and Backbeats: Tomata du Plenty and the West Coast Punk Scene

October 4, 2014 — January 4, 2015


A series of portraits of boxers and musicians that Du Plenty painted in the mid-1990s

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An Archaeologist’s Eye: The Parthenon Drawings of Katherine A. Schwab

September 13, 2014 — December 7, 2014


Drawings of what is present and not present in the Parthenon metopes

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XL

September 13, 2014 — November 16, 2014


Large contemporary paintings, prints and sculpture from the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art or on long-term loan to the museum

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The Prints of Mary Wallace Kirk

July 19, 2014 — October 12, 2014


This exhibition was the first since the artist's death to address her work, which takes for its subject the mostly rural surroundings of her home, especially cabins and other humble dwellings

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Bernd Oppl

June 21, 2014 — September 16, 2014


Three videos by the Austrian video and installation artist

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Picturing America: Signature Works from the Westmoreland Museum of American Art

June 14, 2014 — August 24, 2014


Fifty-seven works from the Westmoreland’s permanent collection made up this exhibition that spans 200 years of American art, from colonial times to the mid-20th century, as the United States came into its own as the cultural capital of the world

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Terra Verte

May 31, 2014 — July 31, 2015


Leighton’s installation in the museum’s sculpture garden consisted of six “growing cubes,” elevated frameworks of steel filled with living vegetation