Below is a list of past and current exhibitions relating to Modern & Contemporary Art. For all current and upcoming exhibitions, click here.
Past and Current Exhibitions
Homage to Ellsworth Kelly
April 27, 2013 - August 25, 2013Notations: Sean Scully
July 28, 2012 - July 14, 2013Isamu Noguchi at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 7, 2010 - Summer 2013Cy Twombly: Sculptures
April 14, 2012 - May 27, 2013Live Cinema/Manon de Boer: Resonating Surfaces – A Trilogy
November 17, 2012 - May 5, 2013Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp
October 30, 2012 - January 21, 2013Collab: Four Decades of Giving Modern and Contemporary Design
May 21, 2011 - October 21, 2012Notations/Everyday Disturbances
February 25, 2011 - July 7, 2012Zaha Hadid: Form in Motion
September 20, 2011 - March 25, 2012Live Cinema/Peripheral Stages: Mohamed Bourouissa and Tobias Zielony
October 15, 2011 - January 16, 2012Paris Through the Window: Marc Chagall and His Circle
March 1, 2011 - July 10, 2011Live Cinema/In the Round: Contemporary Art from the East Mediterranean
September 17, 2010 - February 13, 2011Michelangelo Pistoletto: Cittadellarte
November 2, 2010 - January 17, 2011Michelangelo Pistoletto: From One to Many, 1956–1974
November 2, 2010 - January 17, 2011Notations/Forms of Contingency:
New York and Turin, 1960s-1970s
April 24, 2010 - September 26, 2010Isamu Noguchi at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
September 14, 2009 - August 16, 2010Live Cinema/Histories in Motion: Jennifer Levonian, Martha Colburn, Joshua Mosley
April 30, 2010 - July 25, 2010Celebrating Picasso
March 9, 2010 - June 14, 2010Notations/Bruce Nauman: Giorni
November 21, 2009 - May 31, 2010Picasso and the Avant-Garde in Paris
February 24, 2010 - May 2, 2010Picasso in Context
February 24, 2010 - April 25, 2010Jun Kaneko
September 5, 2009 - April 18, 2010New York Dada
October 20, 2006 - April 5, 2010Notations/Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni
November 21, 2009 - April 4, 2010Cai Guo-Qiang: Fallen Blossoms
December 11, 2009 - March 21, 2010Gorky in New York
November 10, 2009 - February 2010Arshile Gorky in Context
October 16, 2009 - January 10, 2010Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective
October 21, 2009 - January 10, 2010Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés
August 15, 2009 - November 29, 2009Bruce Nauman: Topological Gardens
June 7, 2009 - November 22, 2009Henri Matisse and Modern Art on the French Riviera
December 13, 2008 - October 25, 2009Notations: The Closing Decade
November 21, 2008 - October 25, 2009A Director’s Vision: The Legacy of Anne d’Harnoncourt
April 25, 2009 - July 19, 2009Live Cinema/Tim Hyde: Building in Reverse
March 20, 2009 - June 21, 2009Cézanne and Beyond
February 26, 2009 - May 31, 2009Ellsworth Kelly: Paris/New York, 1949–1959
October 3, 2006 - April 8, 2009Live Cinema/Anita Sieff: Films
October 3, 2008 - January 11, 2009Calder Jewelry
July 12, 2008 - November 2, 2008Notations: Gilbert and George
May 2, 2008 - November 2, 2008Live Cinema/Carlos Amorales: Four Animations, Five Drawings, and a Plague
April 11, 2008 - July 13, 2008Pop Art and Its Affinities
July 29, 2006 - June 2008Frida Kahlo
February 20, 2008 - May 18, 2008Fragile Demon: Juan Soriano in Mexico, 1935–1950
February 16, 2008 - May 11, 2008Notations/William Kentridge: Tapestries
December 12, 2007 - April 6, 2008Live Cinema/The Return of the Image: Video from Central Asia
November 16, 2007 - February 17, 2008Notations: Kiefer, Polke, Richter
July 21, 2007 - November 25, 2007Live Cinema/Marine Hugonnier: Trilogy
April 20, 2007 - July 22, 2007Notations: Out of Words
November 24, 2006 - June 24, 2007Thomas Chimes: Adventures in 'Pataphysics
February 27, 2007 - May 6, 2007Live Cinema: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla's Under Discussion
March 3, 2007 - April 15, 2007Crouching Spider by Louise Bourgeois
May 24, 2006 - March 26, 2007Live Cinema/Mircea Cantor: The Title Is the Last Thing
November 11, 2006 - February 27, 2007Ellsworth Kelly in Resonance: Selections from the Collection
October 7, 2006 - February 4, 2007Live Cinema: Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk
September 30, 2006 - November 10, 2006Notations: Energy Yes!
April 8, 2006 - October 30, 2006Andrew Wyeth and the American Landscape Tradition
May 27, 2006 - July 16, 2006Live Cinema: Gordon Matta-Clark
April 15, 2006 - July 9, 2006Beauford Delaney in Context: Selections from the Collection
November 13, 2005 - February 26, 2006Beauford Delaney: From New York to Paris
November 13, 2005 - January 29, 2006Poussin to Cézanne: French Drawings from the Prat Collection
July 16, 2005 - September 25, 2005Salvador Dalí
February 16, 2005 - May 30, 2005Jacques Lipchitz and Philadelphia
June 27, 2004 - August 22, 2004The Big Nothing
May 1, 2004 - August 1, 2004Warren Rohrer: Paintings 1972–1993
June 22, 2003 - August 17, 2003Museum Studies 7: Christian Marclay, The Bell and the Glass
May 17, 2003 - July 27, 2003Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne
November 3, 2002 - January 5, 2003Museum Studies 6: Richard Hamilton
August 31, 2002 - November 3, 2002Barnett Newman
March 24, 2002 - July 7, 2002Pennsylvania Impressionism
November 17, 2001 - March 31, 2002Dox Thrash: An African American Master Printmaker Rediscovered
October 27, 2001 - February 24, 2002Philadelphia Modernism: Arthur B. Carles and His Circle
May 10, 2001 - August 12, 2001Howard Hodgkin
March 24, 2001 - May 20, 2001Alice Neel
February 18, 2001 - April 15, 2001Dorothea Tanning: Birthday and Beyond
November 24, 2000 - January 14, 2001Celebrating the Eight: American Modernism from the Potamkin Collection
March 23, 2000 - July 2, 2000Designing the Future: Three Directions for the New Millennium
November 17, 1999 - March 26, 2000Selections from the Seventies
April 17, 1999 - March 19, 2000Museum Studies 5: Gabriel Orozco
October 27, 1999 - December 12, 1999Raymond Pettibon
April 30, 1999 - July 25, 1999Mad for Modernism: Earl Horter and His Collection
March 7, 1999 - May 16, 1999Joseph Cornell / Marcel Duchamp…in resonance
October 8, 1998 - January 3, 1999Henry Moore: A Centennial Salute; An Exhibition in Celebration of Philip I. Berman
July 30, 1998 - November 29, 1998Twenty Philadelphia Artists: Celebrating Fleisher Challenge at Twenty
July 18, 1998 - September 13, 1998New Work by Contemporary Artist Zoe Leonard
April 1, 1998 - September 6, 1998Museum Studies 4: Rirkrit Tiravanija
April 1, 1998 - May 31, 1998Liberating the Moment: American Modernism and the Stieglitz Circle
May 31, 1997 - April 12, 1998Richard Meier Builds: From Tabletop to Rooftop
October 30, 1996 - February 20, 1998Public Service and Other Announcements
May 20, 1997 - September 7, 1997The Pennsylvania Impressionists: Landscapes from Bucks County
February 1, 1997 - July 31, 1997Chuck Close/Paul Cadmus: In Dialogue
April 5, 1997 - June 22, 1997Philadelphia Stories
March 4, 1997 - May 18, 1997Encounters with Modern Art: Works from the Rothschild Family Collections
March 2, 1997 - May 11, 1997Up Close and Personal
December 31, 1996 - March 2, 1997Richard Meier Builds: From Tabletop to Rooftop
October 30, 1996 - February 28, 1997Demolitions and Other Works
November 5, 1996 - December 29, 1996Gifts from the Collection of Edna S. Beron
October 6, 1996 - December 2, 1996Feminine / Masculine: Videos from the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
September 2, 1996 - November 3, 1996Artists' Interviews
July 9, 1996 - September 1, 1996Marie-Ange Guilleminot: My Dolls (Mes Poupées)
June 9, 1996 - July 7, 1996Sidney Goodman: Paintings and Drawings, 1959-95
February 11, 1996 - March 31, 1996Constantin Brancusi
October 8, 1995 - December 31, 1995Downsizing the Image Factory
September 12, 1995 - November 12, 1995Nam June Paik: Selected Videos, 1966-1995
June 13, 1995 - September 10, 1995Rolywholyover: A Circus for Museum by John Cage
June 4, 1995 - July 30, 1995Video and Film by Philadelphia Artists
April 4, 1995 - June 11, 1995Revising Romance: New Feminist Video
February 14, 1995 - April 2, 1995Museum Studies 3: Lawrence Weiner
December 7, 1994 - February 5, 1995Show and Tell: Selected Videos by Lawrence Weiner
December 7, 1994 - February 5, 1995Moving Pictures: Videos on AIDS
November 29, 1994 - December 4, 1994Video Art: The First 25 Years
October 1, 1994 - November 29, 1994Museum Studies 2: Richard Long
April 12, 1994 - November 21, 1994Marcel Duchamp: Videos by, about and with Marcel Duchamp
August 15, 1994 - September 15, 1994Intimate Visions: The Photographs of Dorothy Norman
July 16, 1994 - September 11, 1994Thinking is Form: The Drawings of Joseph Beuys
October 10, 1993 - January 2, 1994Museum Studies 1: Sherrie Levine
October 23, 1993 - November 28, 1993Art in Mourning
November 29, 1992 - January 31, 1993Martin Puryear
November 1, 1992 - January 3, 1993Picasso and Things: The Still Lifes of Picasso
June 9, 1992 - August 30, 1992Contemporary Works by African-American Artists
May 20, 1992 - August 16, 1992Ian Hamilton Finlay: The Garden and the Revolution
December 21, 1991 - February 29, 1992Jacob Lawrence: The Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman Series of Narrative Paintings
May 4, 1991 - June 30, 1991Contemporary Philadelphia Artists: A Juried Exhibition
April 22, 1990 - July 8, 1990Liberty Belle Cape from "The Honeymoon Project" by Miralda
January 10, 1990 - February 4, 1990Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray
October 22, 1989 - January 7, 1990Selection of African-American Works from the Collections
February 1, 1989 - April 9, 1989Jasper Johns: Work Since 1974
October 23, 1988 - January 8, 1989Picasso, Braque, Léger, Gris: Drawings from the Douglas Cooper Collection
June 16, 1988 - July 31, 1988Apropos of Marcel Duchamp 1887/1987
October 1, 1987 - January 3, 1988Miró in Philadelphia Collections
October 2, 1987 - November 29, 1987Marc Chagall
May 12, 1985 - July 21, 1985Pertaining to Philadelphia V: Paintings by Sidney Goodman
January 5, 1985 - June 23, 1985Jonathan Borofsky
October 7, 1984 - December 2, 1984Pertaining to Philadelphia: Part IV
February 11, 1984 - November 11, 1984Tabu Dada: Jean Crotti and Suzanne Duchamp, 1915-1922
November 19, 1983 - January 29, 1984Pertaining to Philadelphia II
October 29, 1982 - August 21, 1983Julius Bloch: Portrait of the Artist
March 20, 1983 - May 1, 1983John Cage: Scores & Prints
September 11, 1982 - October 31, 1982Picasso from the Collections
June 6, 1981 - August 23, 1981Sets and Costumes of the Florence Opera: Designs for the Maggio Musicale, 1933-1980
November 30, 1980 - January 5, 1981Futurism and the International Avant-Garde
October 26, 1980 - January 4, 1981Noguchi's Imaginary Landscapes
October 20, 1979 - January 6, 1980Violet Oakley (1874-1961)
June 30, 1979 - August 12, 1979Life with Dada: Beatrice Wood Drawings
March 11, 1978 - April 9, 1978Recent Acquisitions: 20th Century Art Department
October 30, 1974 - February 18, 1975The Albert M. Greenfield and Elizabeth M. Greenfield Collection
October 30, 1974 - February 18, 1975Sol LeWitt: Lines in Four Directions in Flowers
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