Events

Some of the museum’s most important Japanese woodblock prints are featured in a current exhibition that recently traveled to three venues in Japan. But who was Mary Ainsworth? And how did she...

Lucy Haskell ’20 speaks about a quilt by Anna von Mertens, titled 6:01 pm until 7:05 pm, April 4, 1968, from the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee (looking in the direction...

In 1988, Zhang Peili borrowed a camcorder and recorded himself breaking and repairing a mirror over three painstaking hours in a time-based artwork called 30 x 30 , which is considered the first act...

An Oberlin College tradition since 1940, Art Rental invites students to live with an original work of art (or two) for a semester. The Art Rental collection has about 400 works from which to choose...

Completed near the end of the Civil War, the painting The Present was part of a trilogy that once included The Past and The Future , as well. Megan Maguire ’20 gives a Sunday Object Talk on the...

Alexandra Letvin, assistant curator of European and American art, discusses The Finding of Moses , which was painted at the end of the 17th century by French artist Antoine Coypel.

The glowing colors in Alexej von Jawlensky's 1912 painting, Head of a Woman , show the influence of the Fauves, while the heavy, dark outlines recall the work of Paul Gauguin. AMAM docent Izzy...

In 2006, as part of a residency at the Louvre Museum in Paris, author Toni Morrison invited spoken word poets to reflect on the colonial histories of that museum and its holdings. The AMAM presents a...

Poets from the Oberlin College community gather to reflect on the exhibition Afterlives of the Black Atlantic . ‘‘ Afterwords: An Evening of Poetry at the AMAM’’ also...

The editing marathon returns for a fourth year. This worldwide event aims to create and expand Wikipedia pages on women and gender non-binary artists. Last year 65 editors participated, contributing...