April 10 - September 12, 2010

Herb and Dorothy: A Glimpse into Their Extraordinary Collection

The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions
The Vogel Collection has been characterized as unique among collections of contemporary art, both for the character and breadth fo the objects and for the individuals who created it. Herbert Vogel spent most of his life working as an employee of the United Sates Postal Service, and Dorothy Vogel was a reference librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library, New York. By setting their collecting priorities about those of personal comfort, the couple used Dorothy's salary to cover the expenses of daily life and devoted Herbert's salary to the acquisition of contemporary art. In 1991, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., began its association with the couple, and has acquired many works from the Vogel Collection to share with the nation.  The Fifty Works for Fifty States gift program of contemporary art is a collaboration between the Vogels, the National Gallery of Art, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services to distribute 2,500 works of art from the Vogel Collection to one museum in each of the fifty states.  The Mississippi Museum of Art was selected as a beneficiary of this program, and is proud to share with the public the fifty pieces presented to its permanent collection. This exhibition is sponsored by Ross & Yerger Insurance, Inc. Click the title above for more information on this exhibition

August 14 - September 12, 2010

Art by Choice

The Donna and Jim Barksdale Galleries for Changing Exhibitions
Back by popular demand, the New Collectors Club with the Mississippi Museum of Art presents Art by Choice, a sale of artworks to benefit the MMA's acquisition of new art and Museum operations. MMA has curated a selection of museum-quality works by artists associated with Mississippi as well as works from galleries in New York, Boston, Memphis, and New Orleans. And for the first time, artworks from the estate of prominent arts patron Theo Inman Vaughey will be available in a public sale and auction. The art will be available to purchase on the evening of Saturday, August 28 ($50 per person, reservations required, open to the public), and on the afternoon and evening of September 11 (free admission). MMA welcomes sale inquiries during regular Museum hours beginning August 29.

On going

The Mississippi Story

Comprised of artwork from the Museum’s permanent collection, The Mississippi Story reveals the remarkable history of visual arts in the Magnolia State. The installation includes more than 200 objects and is divided thematically into four sections: Mississippi's Landscape, Mississippi's People, Life in Mississippi, and Exporting Mississippi’s Culture. The exhibition is guest curated by Patti Carr Black, author of Art in Mississippi, and is the Museum's most comprehensive showing of Mississippi art from its permanent collection. The exhibition features artwork by Walter Anderson, George Ohr, Sam Gilliam, William Dunlap, John McCrady, Richmond Barthé, Eudora Welty, William Hollingsworth, Marie Hull, and William Eggleston, among many others. Click the exhibition title for more information.

Icons of the Permanent Collection

Icons of the Permanent Collection: Masterpieces of American Art is an ongoing exhibition of eighteen stellar works of art from the Mississippi Museum of Art’s permanent collection. The survey of our best-known artists includes works by James McNeill Whistler, Georgia O’Keeffe, John Sloan, George Inness, Albert Bierstadt, Robert Henri, Moses Soyer, Reginald Marsh, and other masters.

Pre-Columbian Ceramics

The objects displayed in the cases of the Museum’s lobby originate from two continents and represent a time span of more than two thousand years. Pre-Columbian civilizations living across Peru, Mexico and Central America flourished prior to the arrival of Europeans. An array of archaeological cultures developed, several of which are represented in the collection exhibited here.