This Week
: Standing in the corner of a gallery filled with contemporary art, a person wearing a face covering looks at an abstract painting on the wall. Over their left shoulder is a long rectangular painting. In the middle of the room is a mobile sculpture on a white platform. Further to their right is a painting of a Black man holding a paintbrush and standing behind an oversized palette.

We look forward to welcoming you on your next visit to the museums, where you can come in from the cold to view our newest exhibition, Social Fabrics. Just a reminder that reservations are required for all visits, and that the museums continue to be free to everyone on Sundays.
A dark red and blue patterned wool cushion cover with embedded inscriptions.

In our just-opened Social Fabrics exhibition, discover what inscribed textiles from medieval Egyptian tombs can tell us about connection and belonging in a diversifying world. On view through May 8, 2022. 
A woman wearing a white shirt and gray pants stands over a large-scale abstract painting in a lab. She applies a white material to the painting using a long slender tool.

CONSERVATION

Getting Back on View

It’s great to have Kumi Sugaï’s 1960 painting Fuyu (Winter) back on the gallery walls, after it spent some time in our conservation lab. Before you check it out in person, have a look at this video, which shows the bold techniques conservators used to treat this dramatic painting.
A hanging scroll depicts a standing bodhisattva surrounded by smaller deities.

EXHIBITION

Himalayan Art

In a new installation, view diverse objects from the Himalayan region that span the 14th to the 20th century, focusing on the major cultural centers such as the Kathmandu Valley and Buddhist sites across the Tibetan plateau.
A side profile of a man looking into a microscope.

Check out this interview with Narayan Khandekar, director of the Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies and senior conservation scientist, as he discusses the world-renowned Forbes Pigment Collection on BYU Radio.

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Image: (header) © Caitlin Cunningham Photography. Textiles from Medieval Egypt: Cushion cover with tiraz inscription, Egypt, early 9th century. Wool and linen: tapestry weave. Cleveland Museum of Art, J. H. Wade Fund, 1959.48, TL42343.6. Courtesy of Cleveland Museum of Art. 






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