Press Room

Welcome to the 91��ɫ��ý Art Museum’s Press Room. Members of the media may find press releases, fact sheets, and other information for media professionals. To request interviews and for access to images and supporting materials, contact staff listed in the press release or the Assistant Director of Museum Communications.

Press Releases

2025

A detail of a jug decorated with the words of a poem

02/06. ‘Poetic Truths: Hawthorne, Longfellow, and American Visual Culture, 1840-1880’ Explores the Relationship Between Literary Works and the Arts.

The exhibition explores how Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow influenced American visual culture between 1840 and 1880. [more]

A detail of a black and white photograph of a figure with dark skin wearing a white lattice crown set against a dark background

01/16. 'Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now' Addresses Themes Evoking Our Shared Humanity at 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art.

'Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now' explores the complexities of human empathy in a world that can seem dominated by acts of violence and dehumanizing rhetoric. [more]

2024

A color photograph of a person with a red pepper sticking out of their mouth like a tongue

09/26. More Than 230 Photographs Donated to 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art by David and Gail Mixer.

The 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art (BCMA) has received a major gift of 238 works of global photography from the 1840s to the 2000s. [more]

Island view with a rock outcropping with a tree on top. Birds fly above.

07/25. Upcoming Exhibition About Monhegan Island Explores Connections Between Art and Environmental Resilience.

In December, the 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art (BCMA), in collaboration with the Monhegan Museum of Art and History, will present an exhibition that looks anew at the history of Monhegan Island, Maine. [more]

02/06. Major Painting by Alejandro Mario Yllanes Acquired by 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art.

The 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art (BCMA) has acquired Estaño Maldito (Cursed Tin) (1937) [more]

2023

09/27. Artist’s Explorations of Asian-American Identity.

The groundbreaking new exhibition “Without Apology: Asian American Selves, Memories, Futures” weaves together 30 artworks from the 20th and 21st centuries, created by more than twenty artists who self-identify as Asian American. [more]

09/27. Exploring Jim Dine’s Portrait Drawings.

This December, the 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art will open “Jim Dine: Last Year’s Forgotten Harvest,” an exhibition featuring over 60 of the artist’s exceptional portrait-drawings, created over the past six and a half decades. [more]

05/10. People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965 to Open at 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art This Summer.

Exploring how humans witness each other, the 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art (BCMA) will organize and host an expansive selection of photographs in a new exhibition titled People Watching: Contemporary Photography since 1965. [more]

03/30. Bust of Harriet Beecher Stowe, by Noted 19th Century Sculptor Anne Whitney, Acquired by 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art.

The 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art (BCMA) announced today that it has acquired an 1893 plaster work by sculptor Anne Whitney (1821–1915) of the noted author and abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896). [more]

02/01. First Major Exhibition of the Art of Mina Loy to Open at 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art.

The 91��ɫ��ý Museum of Art (BCMA) will organize and present Mina Loy: Strangeness is Inevitable, the first monographic presentation of the art of Mina Loy (born Mina Gertrude Lowy, 1882-1966), one of the most challenging poets of the twentieth century. [more]