Hours: Tuesday – Saturday: 10:00 – 5:00 p.m. Sunday: Noon – 5:00 p.m.

New in the Galleries:

Onya LaTour: Pioneering Modern Art in Indiana
Continuing through May 10, 2015
Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art, first floor
In 1941 Onya LaTour opened the Indiana Museum of Modern Art near Nashville, Indiana, creating a stir in local art circles. Two works from her personal collection are featured in this installation presented in conjunction with Onya LaTour on view at the Indianapolis Museum of Art this fall, to which the IU Art Museum loaned four pieces.

WWI War Bond Posters
Continuing through May 24, 2015
During World War I, mass-produced color posters encouraged enlistment, helped raise capital for the war effort, and solidified public opinion against the enemy. Two vintage posters for war bonds, one American and one French, are featured: although both depict a German soldier, they have very different styles and impacts.

Nature’s Small Wonders: Photographs by Ansel Adams
Continuing through May 24, 2015
America’s most famous nature photographer, Adams was also an ardent conservationist who served on the board of directors for the Sierra Club for thirty-seven years and was active in the Wilderness Society. He used his dramatic black-and-white photographs to encourage the preservation of America’s natural wonders, particularly those found in the U.S. National Parks.

This installation is on view from January 13 through May 24, 2015, in the Gallery of the Art of the Western World, Doris Steinmetz Kellett Endowed Gallery of Twentieth-Century Art. It is presented in conjunction with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sycamore Land Trust, whose mission is to protect the beautiful natural and agricultural landscape of southern Indiana.

Finding Atget
Continueing though May 24, 2015
French photographer Eugène Atget’s imagery mixed a nineteenth-century aesthetic with a modern sensibility, garnering him admiration and respect from the young Berenice Abbott, who became his champion. This installation features a vintage print by Atget and several later prints from his original negatives.

Women behind the Camera
Continuing through May 24, 2015
The world of professional photography in the early- to mid-twentieth century was largely a men’s club, but a small group of talented women paved the way for future generations of female “lensmen.” Portraits by three of these pioneers—Imogen Cunningham, Berenice Abbott, and Toni Frissell—are featured.

Pop Textiles
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Textiles designed by Pop artists Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Lindner, and Claes Oldenburg are featured. These bold and inventive compositions on fabric blur the boundaries between fine art, craft, and industrial production.

Robert Salmon: Romantic Painter
Continuing through May 24, 2015
Two paintings by Robert Salmon help elucidate the artist’s foundation in English Romanticism, which continued to inform his painting after his move to Boston in 1828.

Focalpoint: Fantastic African Hats: Power, Passage, and Protection
Continuing through May 24, 2015
These twelve richly embellished African hats celebrate the prestige of their owners, evoke complex histories of trade and commerce, and provide protection from harm. Organized by Brittany Sheldon, graduate assistant for the arts of Africa, the South Pacific, and the Americas.

“Moco’s Prehistoric Past”
Come see and examine fossils of plants, organisms, and animals found in the Hoosier state and learn how they contributed to Southern Indiana’s natural landscape. The history center is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10:00am-4:00pm. Runs through March 31.

The History Center is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10am-4pm.

A Quilt Show Open House (no guided tours) with extended hours, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., will be held from March 5-7, 2015. The Open House runs concurrently with the Indiana Heritage Quilt Show (held at the Bloomington Convention Center). The museum will be displaying a portion of is antique quilt collection throughout the home. A shuttle will be operating between several participating sites, including Wylie House Museum on Friday and Saturday only.

Special Event Note: In addition to the exhibit, this year Wylie House Museum is pleased to welcome Indiana State Curator of Social History, Mary Jane Teeters-Eichacker, for a free, one hour talk on Indiana’s Quilting Heritage. This talk takes place on Friday March 6, from 3-4pm.

Indiana’s Quilting Heritage: A Visual Survey
A Visual Feast! Mary Jane will tell the story of quilting’s history in Indiana from the 1820s to the early 1900s using images of 88 quilts, many from the Indiana State Museum’s collection. Find out what Indiana’s earliest documented quilts looked like, how Indiana Amish quilts differ from those from Pennsylvania, and how Indiana designers revolutionized quilting at the turn of the 20th century.

The Kinsey Institute art and library collections contain thousands of examples of erotic imagery produced over centuries by artists around the world. Secret Impressions presents a selection of lithographs, engravings, etchings and woodblock prints from the mid-19th century and earlier. These artworks from France, England, Italy, Germany, Holland, and Japan illustrate the means by which pornographic and erotic images were mass produced before the invention of the camera. Wealthy collectors could commission paintings, but others could purchase prints at a lower cost. Once photography was invented in the 1830s, it quickly became a popular medium for depictions of the nude figure, as well as erotic imagery. The first photographic process to become widespread was the daguerreotype, which produced a unique image. With the invention of a process that used a negative to make multiple photographs, the mass production of erotic images became possible. Hold That Pose features daguerreotypes, tintypes, albumen and gelatin silver prints, stereocards, and other examples of photographic processes that were used in the 19th century by professional photographers to produce and distribute erotic material.

The Kinsey Institute is open to visitors from 1:30 to 5:00 pm weekdays or at other times during office hours by appointment only. Admission is free. Due to adult content, visitors should be 18 years of age or older, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. To schedule a group guided tour of The Kinsey Institute, please call 812-855-7686.

Enea, a 29-year-old Italian man, wants one thing more than anything else: to have sex. The only problem is that Enea has autism, and Italy doesn’t offer any legal solutions for people like Enea to fulfill their desires. As a result, Enea sets out on a journey to Northern Europe with his friends Carlo and Alex. What begins as a search for physical love, however, eventually ends up presenting the trio with additional questions that have new, unexpected answers. In Italian and German languages with English subtitles. (2K DCP presentation)

Happy Hour jazz

In Uganda, a new bill threatens to make homosexuality punishable by death. David Kato, Uganda’s first openly gay man, and retired Anglican Bishop Christopher Senyonjo work against the clock to defeat state-sanctioned homophobia while combatting vicious persecution in their daily lives. But no one is prepared for the brutal murder that shakes their movement to its core and sends shock waves around the world. (HD Cam presentation)

Filmmakers Katherine Fairfax Wright and Malika Zouhali-Worrall are scheduled to be present.

Stage fright or not, the weekly OPEN MIC CABARET is your chance to shine! Open to musicians, songwriters, performance artists, poets, actors, dancers, comics—you name it! Don’t be shy! Grab your 15 minutes of fame every Thursday night. Hosted by Actor/Musician/Songwriter dwBrykalski (dwBrykalski.com).

In Shakespeare’s beautifully tragic tale of love at first sight, Romeo and Juliet secretly wed despite the sworn contempt their families hold for each other. A chain of fateful events changes both families forever.

“Two households both alike in dignity, In fair Verona, where we lay our scene…”

The show runs February 27, 28, March 3-6, 2015 @ 7:30 p.m. and March 7 @ 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Ticket prices are $25 for adults, $20 for seniors, and $15 for students.

How did four blue-collar Italian kids from New Jersey become one of the greatest successes in music history? Join us on the whirlwind journey of pop-music greats Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, as their true-life trip through obscurity, heartbreak, and stardom unfolds in the runaway smash-hit Jersey Boys.

Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-Winner for Best Musical, this blockbuster phenomenon takes you up the charts, across the country, and behind the music of this iconic super-group. Jersey Boys is loaded with electrifying performances and the true-life story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. Audiences will be blown away by the spot-on renditions of hits like “Sherry,” “Big Girls Don’t Cry,” “Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,” “Dawn,” “My Eyes Adored You,” and more.

Directed by two-time Tony Award-winner Des McAnuff, Jersey Boys is written by Academy Award-winner Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice, with music by Bob Gaudio, lyrics by Bob Crewe, and choreography by Sergio Trujillo.

This international sensation is a Broadway triumph, was named the number one show in Las Vegas, and continues to break records in cities across America—bringing countless audiences to their feet. As The New York Times says, “The crowd goes wild!”