May 25–August 12, 2018
The Museum recently received an extensive collection of photographs of children from all corners of the globe. In this exhibition we survey a range of documentary and intimate images that depict the characteristic activities, delights, and inevitable sorrows of childhood. Photographers whose works are on view include Ken Heyman, Ilse Bing, Dmitri Baltermants, Danny Lyon, and Leonard Freed.

May 25–August 12, 2018
1968 was a year of upheaval and transformation. It was a year in which national and international events spawned intense vocal expression and protest. This exhibit, through the lens of art, music, and literature, looks back fifty years to consider the issues then transforming American society.

Ongoing, Lower Gallery
On view in this updated and revised installation are recent acquisitions in Egyptian and Mesopotamian art as well as Greek, Roman, and medieval European objects from the Museum’s permanent collection. Highlights include an Egyptian Old Kingdom relief and an early fifteenth-century Italian panel painting.

Ongoing, Cerf Gallery
This installation, which changes regularly, features highlights of the Museum’s collection of Western art from the Renaissance to the end of the nineteenth century. Landscapes by American painters Jasper Cropsey and John Frederick Kensett are on view alongside sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European religious and devotional images and American and European sculpture.

Ongoing
On view in this gallery is a wide range of East Asian ceramics: Chinese funerary sculpture from the Han (206 B.C.E–220 C.E.) and Tang (618–906) dynasties, celadons and other wares of the Song dynasty (960–1279), and blue-and-white enameled porcelains of the Ming (1368–1644) and Qing dynasties (1644–1911). Also included in the installations are Japanese tea ceremony wares and Korean celadons.