31 Aug 2018 - 6 January 2019 SPELLBOUND Do you believe in magic? Even if you don’t, you probably ‘think magically’ sometimes. This is the first exhibition to examine how magical thinking has been practised over the centuries.
23 March – 22 July 2018 AMERICA'S COOL MODERNISM America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper. From experiments in abstraction to precisionist paintings, this major exhibition explored the cool in early 20th-century American Art.
19 October 2017 – 18 February 2018 IMAGINING THE DIVINE Exploring Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, this major exhibition was the first to look at the art of the five world religions as they spread across continents in the first millennium AD.
1 Jun – 3 Sep 2017 RAPHAEL: THE DRAWINGS This captivating exhibition brought together 120 stunning works from international collections spanning the brief but brilliant career of the Renaissance genius.
10 Feb – 7 May 2017 DEGAS TO PICASSO In works by Matisse, Manet, Chagall, Renoir, Degas, Léger and Picasso, this ground-breaking exhibition told one of the most compelling stories in the history of art – the rise of modernism.
16 Sep - 27 Nov 2016 SENSATION: REMBRANDT'S FIRST PAINTINGS The Senses are the earliest surviving works by the most famous of all Dutch artists, Rembrandt (1606–1669). This was the very first time that the four surviving panel paintings were on show together in public.
20 Oct 2016 – 15 Jan 2017 POWER AND PROTECTION Showcasing over a hundred spectacular objects from Morocco to China, Power and Protection was the first major exhibition to explore the supernatural in the art of the Islamic world.
21 Jun – 25 Sep 2016 STORMS, WAR AND SHIPWRECKS Storms, War and Shipwrecks told the extraordinary story of the island at the crossroads of the Mediterranean through the discoveries made by underwater archaeologists.
18 Mar – 15 May 2016 ELIZABETH PRICE: A RESTORATION Elizabeth Price, winner of the 2013 Contemporary Art Society Award, created a new work in response to the collections and archives of the Ashmolean and Pitt Rivers museums.
4 Feb – 15 May 2016 ANDY WARHOL This spring exhibition presents, for the first time in public, an important private collection of works by Andy Warhol (1928–1987).
15 Oct 2015 – 10 Jan 2016 TITIAN TO CANALETTO: DRAWING IN VENICE Featuring a hundred drawings from the Uffizi, the Ashmolean, and Christ Church, Oxford, Drawing in Venice was a ground-breaking exhibition based on new research.
16 Jul – 4 Oct 2015 AN ELEGANT SOCIETY: ADAM BUCK, ARTIST IN THE AGE OF JANE AUSTEN The work of Adam Buck, Regency portrait and miniature painter, provides a fascinating insight into the faces and fashions of this time.
