Please join us for an opening tour of Irreplaceable You: Personhood and Dignity in Art, 1980s to Now led by Sean Kramer, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. in the Museum’s entryway Pavilion.

On view through June 1, 2025, this exhibition features works of art that resist the rendering of human lives into objects of consumption, data sets, and/or algorithms. The exhibition touches on subjects from the recent and not-so-recent past, looking at how art helps build our capacity for empathy when our worldviews are often shaped by the twenty-four-hour news cycle and the Internet.

Free and open to the public. No registration is required. The tour will begin at 4:30 p.m. in the Museum’s entryway Pavilion.

Pictured: Zanele Muholi, Sine IV, Melbourne, Australia, from the Somnyama Ngonyama (Hail the Dark Lioness) series, 2020. Gelatin silver print, 31 1/2 x 20 7/8 in. (80 x 53 cm). Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, Gridley W. Tarbell II Fund. Ó Zanele Muholi. Photography by Luc Demers.