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Past Exhibitions

Allegory: Paintings by Raúl Anguiano

This exhibition brings together an impressive group of paintings by the Mexican artist Raúl Anguiano and explores the artist's use of symbolic imagery. Pre-Columbian history, contemporary indigenous populations of Mexico, and women...

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Heroes

Heroes have played an integral part in all cultures since ancient times. Whether heroes  are superhuman protagonists of Greek myths or average individuals who rise above the ordinary, they are admired, emulated, and sometimes even...

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In the Age of Revolution

In the Age of Revolution presents photography of Mexico created by foreign photographers both before and after the time of the Mexican Revolution. The Mexican Revolution resulted in tremendous loss of life and brought great destruction...

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Mannered Bodies

The style today known as Mannerism became the common currency of artists across Europe in the last decades of the sixteenth century. Characterized by elegantly drawn figures, complicated compositions, exquisite grace, and perhaps, above all, by...

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Old Masters in New Light

Late in 2008, the Museum's galleries of European art underwent their first major rotation in over a decade. The new installation highlights some of the museum’s familiar masterpieces—Giorgione’s Portrait of a Man (ca. 1506...

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Brutal Beauty: Drawings by Hugo Crosthwaite

Born in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1971, Hugo Crosthwaite spent his formative years in Rosarito, Mexico, and earned a degree from San Diego State University. Now based in New York City, Crosthwaite creates large-scale graphite and charcoal drawings...

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