Highlights at the MOA – Spring and Summer 2016
Coming to visit the BYU Museum of Art this Spring or Summer? Here’s our handy guide of your must-sees during your visit!
- Learn about lithography from the educational display in the Reality Reorganized: Walter Askin and Wayne Kimball’s Mysterious Discursions exhibition. Wayne Kimball is one of the best lithographers alive today and many of his works are featured in the exhibition.
- Walter Askin’s mammoth painting featuring a colorful cast of characters and an immense title: Christopher Columbus Returns from the New World with the Four Basic Food Groups to Queen Isabella Levitating and Oskar Kokoschka in a Funk.
- Watch The Great Train Robbery in the Branding the American West: Paintings and Films 1900-1950 exhibition
- Forgotten Man by Maynard Dixon in Branding the American West
- Watch the spell-binding Rube Goldberg-esque film, The Way Things Go, in the Electronic Gallery on the lower floor.
- Christ Healing at the Pool of Bethesda in the religious wing of Cannon Gallery
- Half Dome by Ansel Adams, in the Capturing the Canyons: Artists in the National Parks exhibition
- See Thomas Moran’s sketchbook from his trip to Virgin River, Capturing the Canyons
- Take a selfie in front of one of the designated #FindYourPark spots in Capturing the Canyons
- Be dazzled by Gabriel Dawe’s Plexus no. 29 up in the skylight of the Lied Gallery
- See Rembrandt’s Head of Christ in the new To Magnify the Lord: Six Centuries of Art and Devotion exhibition (Opening July 2016)
Always check on our events page when planning your visit to see if you can come to any of our public programs or events!
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