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- Weisman Art Museum presents The Other Four, multimedia works by contemporary artists exploring touch, taste, smell, and sound
- Weisman Art Museum presents Urban Cadence, street photography from Lagos and Johannesburg
- Weisman Art Museum presents an eclectic survey exhibition, Doug Argue: Letters to the Future
- Weisman Art Museum Presents Message from Our Planet, with work by 19 International Artists at the Forefront of Digital Art
- Weisman Art Museum Presents a Major Survey Exhibition, We Are Working All the Time!, by Multimedia Artist Piotr Szyhalski
- Weisman Art Museum receives a grant of nearly $240,000 from the federal Institute for Museum and Library Services to support a Truth and Reconciliation project with Indigenous communities
- Alejandra Peña-Gutiérrez is Named the New Director of University of Minnesota’s Weisman Art Museum
- The Weisman’s Target Studio for Creative Collaboration to Receive $140,000 from National Funders for On Site, Supporting the Development and Exhibition of Incarcerated Artists’ Work
- American Alliance of Museums Honors Former WAM Director, Dr. Lyndel King, with 2021 Award for Distinguished Service to Museums
- Weisman Art Museum Will Reopen on Feb. 11, 2021
- WAM’s Upcoming Artist-Led Programs Tackle Questions of Truth, Culture, and Power this Election Season
- Weisman Art Museum Will Reopen on October 1, 2020
- Harriet Bart: Abracadabra and Other Forms of Protection
- Alexis Rockman: The Great Lakes Cycle
- Rose and Melvin Smith: Remembering Rondo
- Baggage Claims
- Many Visions, Many Versions: Art from Indigenous Communities in India
- Director Lyndel King Announces Retirement in 2020
- Vanishing Ice
- New Commissioned Work, One Portrait of One Man, by Beth Lipman
- Prince from Minneapolis
- WAM Announces Boris Oicherman as the Ihlenfeld Curator for Creative Collaboration
- Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Spreads Awareness of the Father of Neuroscience
- The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal
- Pan American Modernism: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America and the United States
- Valeria Luiselli Reading
- The Talking Cure
- Silver River
- 2016-2017 Exhibition Season
- Clouds, Temporarily Visible
- The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection
- Local Time opens the night of Northern Spark
- WAM Welcomes Frank Gehry’s Standing Glass Fish
- Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art
- Tony Smith Sculpture Installed at McNamara Alumni Center
- Trains that Passed in the Night: The Photographs of O. Winston Link
- WAM featured in exhibition by the AAMD and the Department of Education
- Native Kids Ride Bikes and Fall 2014 Exhibitions
- WAM@20: MN opens with Northern Spark
- Siberia: Imagined and Reimagined
- The Youth/Dhallinyarada
- WAM@20 and 2013-2014 Exhibition Season
- Reviewing the Real
- International Museum Day 2013
- Threads Design Competition
- Our Treasures: Highlights from the Minnesota Museum of American Art
- Weisman Art Museum 2012-2013 Exhibition Season
- Tenuous, Though Real
- No White Fashion Show
- Plaza Design Competition Winner
- WAMdemonium Opening Event
- Weisman Art Museum 2011-2012 Exhibition Season
- WAMarchy Declared at the Weisman
- Common Sense: Art and the Quotidian Explores the 20th Century Problem of the Everyday
- To Have It About You: The Herbert and Dorothy Vogel Collection Showcases a Major New Gift to the Weisman
- Weisman Art Museum 2009-2010 Exhibition Season
- To Have it About You: The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection
- Au Courant: Robert Rauschenberg’s Currents
- Stories of the Somali Diaspora: Photographs by Abdi Roble
- Eduardo Kac: Natural History of the Enigma (April 17 – June 21)
- Changing Identity
- Hindsight is Always 20/20
- By the People, for the People: New Deal Art at the Weisman
- Paul Shambroom: Picturing Power
- Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation
- Documenting China: Contemporary Photography and Social Change