Empire

September 20, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Empire includes projected art, both metaphorical and documentary, most exhibited for the first time in this country, examining from many perspectives the mechanisms of empire building and destruction, modernity and its discontents.

Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt

August 30, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Focusing on the French invasion of Egypt in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt features engravings from the Description de l’Égypte (1809–1828), the seminal multi-volume work that remains the most important European scholarly study of ancient and modern Egypt.

Gaze: Vision, Desire, and Difference in the Frye Collections

August 30, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Gaze explores the various kinds of gazes reflected in paintings from the Frye Collections, among them clandestine pleasure, voyeurism, and the artist's or subject's gaze.

Education Wing Exhibition–Happiness Mapped on Their Faces, Curiosity the Twinkling Eye’s Course

October 4, 2008 – February 15, 2009
Like the artwork in Napoleon on the Nile, students’ photography, video, and sound maps are a collection of source material and new work that attest to a new generation of map-making.