News & Events

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There are exciting things happening at Indiana University's Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art every day. Here's where you'll find the latest news and events, so you’ll always be up to date.

Featured events

Mindful Mondays

Monday, August 4, 2025

2 p.m.3 p.m.

SIDNEY AND LOIS ESKENAZI MUSEUM OF ART

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Unwind, recenter, and start your week off right!

Common Threads

Tuesday, August 5, 2025

3 p.m.4:30 p.m.

SIDNEY AND LOIS ESKENAZI MUSEUM OF ART

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Create fiber art and connect with a community of fellow makers!

Museum news

An abstract woodcut print with many translucent layers in shades of green, blue, yellow, red, white, and pink. A central shape comprised mostly of greens and blues with a scrawling black line following the left edge is against a white background. At the upper left of center is a large dark green circular shape with visible woodcut tool marks and a small red dot in the middle.

Radius: Helen Frankenthaler Prints in Context celebrates the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation’s generous gift of fifteen prints, which in 2023 joined three other prints by the artist in the Eskenazi Museum of Art’s collection. Frankenthaler’s prints will be shown side-by-side with others by artists who had ties to the Abstract Expressionist movement, such as Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, and Jackson Pollock. The exhibition will be open Saturday, September 20, 2025, to Sunday, February 15, 2026.

An abstract painting in neutral greys, blacks, and whites, depicting what appears to be a huddled crowd of people.

Remembrance and Renewal: American Artists and the Holocaust, 1940–1970 is the first exhibition to examine the influence of the Holocaust on mid-twentieth-century American art. Curated by Eskenazi Museum of Art Curator of European and American Art Dr. Jennifer McComas, the exhibition will be on view from September 4 to December 14, 2025.

A portrait of a light-skinned woman with fair hair. She is smiling widely and looking directly at the camera.

Indiana University Bloomington has appointed Mindy N. Besaw as the next Wilma E. Kelley Director of the Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, effective Aug. 15. Besaw brings more than two decades of curatorial and museum leadership experience with a focus on innovative exhibition design, expansive storytelling and academic collaboration.

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