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Events This Week

Study Days – Zine Workshop with WCBN-FM
Forum
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 12:00pm–2:00pm
Study Days – Jewelry Making Workshop
Forum
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 2:00pm–4:00pm
Artist Meet & Greet – Machine Dazzle
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
Study Days – Natural Dye Workshop
Vertical Gallery
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 4:00pm–6:00pm
Study Days – Night Cap Performances
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 6:00pm–8:00pm
Study Days – Monotype Print Making Workshop
Vertical Gallery
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 12:00pm–2:00pm
Study Days – Sound Bath Meditation
Joan and Bob Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 3:00pm–3:45pm
Study Days – Sound Bath Meditation
Joan and Bob Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 4:00pm–4:45pm
Study Days – Therapy Dogs
Forum
Sat, Apr 27, 2024 1:00pm–5:00pm
Artist Meet & Greet – Machine Dazzle
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery
Sun, Apr 28, 2024 3:00pm–4:00pm
Study Days – Night Cap Performances
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Sun, Apr 28, 2024 6:00pm–8:00pm
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Exhibitions Open Today

See Upcoming Exhibitions
A line of people walk toward a museum entrance, and a large sculpture of a white head stands tall next to them.
Jaume Plensa: Behind the Walls
Jaume Plensa
Ongoing
UMMA Exterior
Groups of people stand and walk through a light green room with dark wooden vitrines and gilded framed paintings on the wall in the Unsettling Histories exhibition.
Unsettling Histories: Legacies of Slavery and Colonialism
Ongoing
European and American Decorative Art
A celebration of UMMA's fall season with exhibition openings of You're Welcome, Hear Me Now, and A Gathering.
We Write To You About Africa
Ongoing
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
Curriculum / Collection 
Ongoing
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Gallery
View of a gallery installation. Black walls with gold and silver text tell the story of the Burt Lake Band of Anishinaabe Native Americans
Future Cache
Andrea Carlson
Now thru June 2025
Vertical Gallery
Highly decorated gold frame, broken on the top edge and fractured on the bottom edge. A large piece of gold and red fabric with a gold fringe is covered with numerous multi-covered shirts, tunics, or other similar garments sewn across the front, giving a quilted appearance.
A Gathering
Ongoing
Lizzie and Jonathan Tisch Apse
Gallery space displaying works of art by various artists in exhibition Angkor Complex.
Angkor Complex: ​Cultural Heritage and Post-Genocide Memory in Cambodia
On view February 3 - July 28, 2024
Taubman I
Ouroboros
Machine Dazzle
March 14 — August 25, 2024
Irving Stenn, Jr. Family Gallery

Artwork on
Display

The UMMA galleries are dynamic and always evolving.

Lipstick Building
2015
Enoc Perez
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Interconfined
1994
Dinh Q. Lê
Where can you see it:
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker
Sunset Corner
1969
Helen Frankenthaler
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Ceremonial sword (afena)
20th century
Asante
Where can you see it:
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker
Resurrection (triptych)
2002
Khaled Al-Saa'i
Where can you see it:
Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker
JD and Steve
2020
Jess T. Dugan
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
Male Twin Figure
circa 1925-1940
Yoruba
Where can you see it:
A. Alfred Taubman Gallery II
Bencharong Ware Jar (tho)
19th century
Chinese
Where can you see it:
Gallery of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art
bodies and souls (fabric element)
2021
Suchitra Mattai
Where can you see it:
Not currently on display
Untitled, The Peter Norton Family Christmas Project 2002
2002
Yinka Shonibare
Where can you see it:
Marvin H. Davidson Gallery
Frida with Globe, Coyoacan, Mexico
1938
Manuel Álvarez Bravo
Where can you see it:
Joan and Robert Tisch Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art
Ganesha, seated on a double lotus throne
11th century
Indonesian
Where can you see it:
Gallery of South, Southeast and Central Asian Art
Headrest
Kenyan
Where can you see it:
The Robert and Lillian Montalto Bohlen Gallery
Sugar Caster (one of a pair)
1739
Monogrammist CO
Where can you see it:
Marvin H. Davidson Gallery
Apsara Warrior
circa 2004
Ouk Chim Vichet
Where can you see it:
Stair 8
Sanctification cross with scenes from the life of Christ and the Virgin Mary and the Evangelists
1650-1800
Greek
Where can you see it:
Richard and Rosann Noel Gallery
Fan-shaped Vase on Domed Foot (piece of lip broken off)
circa 1896-1900
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Where can you see it:
Tiffany: Between Tiffany Doors and FFW Connector
Tall Ceremonial Stand for Jar
5th century
Korean
Where can you see it:
Woon-hyung Lee and Korea Foundation Gallery of Korean Art
Twilight
1892
Charles Warren Eaton
Where can you see it:
Thomas H. and Polly W. Bredt Gallery
Vanitas (Still Life), with globe, skull, candle, tazza, and covered cup
1633-1635
Willem Claesz Heda
Where can you see it:
Marvin H. Davidson Gallery