New Exhibitions at the Akron Art Museum

The Akron Art Museum has an exciting lineup of exhibitions for the spring and summer. Beginning April 9, Reflections on Perception opens in the Judith Bear Isroff and Fred and Laura Ruth Bidwell galleries. In this exhibition, viewers can explore how artists employ reflection to enhance and complicate their compositions. The works in Reflections on Perceptions show how mirrored surfaces […]

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Akron Art Museum Acquires Powerful Herman Aguirre Painting

  Herman Aguirre’s Vamos a darnos una vuelta al cielo [Let’s give heaven a visit] is a densely rich and truly unusual artwork. Most painters use their materials to make a picture on the surface of a canvas. While Aguirre does some of that, he also treats paint as a sculptural substance: building it up to represent leaves, flower petals, […]

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Afterimages and More is More, at Akron Art Museum

Afterimages: Geometric Abstraction and Perception features large-scale abstract paintings, sculptures, prints, and interactive artwork from the 1960s and ‘70s. Through glittering patterns and radiant colors, these works create experiences that are both visual and mental. The works in the show do not illustrate complicated ideas or messages because the art is all about visual sensation. Several artists in the show […]

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Experience More at the Akron Art Museum

  This fall, the Akron Art Museum’s exhibitions will allow viewers to experience art in new and unique ways. Continuum: Historical Resonances in Contemporary Art encourages viewers to enjoy the past along with the present as pairs of art are displayed together. Afterimages: Geometric Abstraction and Perception creates visual and mental experiences through glittering patterns, radiant colors, and stimulating effects. […]

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Reconsidered: Works from the Collection

On April 6, the Akron Art Museum launched a new exhibition titled Reconsidered: Works from the Collection. The show allows the museum to display works from the permanent collection that have not recently been on view and to create an interactive experience for visitors. Reconsidered was conceived in response to disruptions in shipping and loans from other institutions during the […]

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New Exhibitions for a New Year at Akron Art Museum

The new year brings several new projects and exhibitions to the Akron Art Museum. While the museum hopes to reopen safely in the near future, staff members have been working hard to provide engaging content to be enjoyed both inside and outside the museum. The newest project, InterPlay: Art Play for All, is an augmented reality (AR) experience that enables […]

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Connecting Art with Our Community

  As the Akron Art Museum continues the process of reopening, the AAM team has been working to provide the community with many opportunities for connecting with art. Our galleries are open for visitors, and we have implemented guidelines to ensure their safe enjoyment of the art on view. We’ve also kept many of our programs virtual. We want to […]

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Welcoming You from Afar

The Akron Art Museum’s galleries may be closed, but many of the experiences that our patrons value are still available at any time. The AAM team has been hard at work developing engaging and exciting virtual connections to our collection. Each week on social media we share in-depth collection content on Mondays and Thursdays, studio experiences on Wednesdays, stories on […]

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Akron Art Museum brings you AAM at Home

Every day, we seek to make creative connections. “Live Creative” is our motto and we aim to extend that into the community. With our staff working from home, we strive for that even more by connecting to people in their own homes. Since the Akron Art Museum decided to close its doors in March, we have explored several ways to […]

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Winter at Akron Art Museum

OPEN WORLD: VIDEO GAMES & CONTEMPORARY ART Karl and Bertl Arnstein Galleries, and Judith Bear Isroff Gallery October 19–February 2 More than 166 million Americans play video games. Visual artists are gamers too, yet video games are rarely examined as a major influence on contemporary art. Open World draws attention to this phenomenon through the presentation of artworks including painting, sculpture, textiles, […]

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