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==Major exhibitions==

Upcoming planned exhibitions include:

* '''''Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality''''': This exhibition opened at the Ashmolean in February 2023 and will be open until late July 2023.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ashmolean Membership - Upcoming Exhibitions|url=https://www.ashmolean.org/membership|access-date=2022-08-23|website=www.ashmolean.org|language=en}}</ref>

Major exhibitions in recent years include:
* '''''Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours''''': This exhibition, initially shown for 5 weeks in 2021, was re-mounted in 2022 for a longer run, opening in July. It is drawn from the Ashmolean's own collection of [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelite]] drawings and watercolours.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours Press Release|url=https://www.ashmolean.org/article/pre-raphaelites-drawings-and-watercolours|access-date=2022-08-23|website=www.ashmolean.org|language=en}}</ref>
* '''''Pissarro: Father of Impressionism''''': Open from February until June 2022, this exhibition included artworks drawn from the Ashmolean's collections as well as international loans, spanning [[Camille Pissarro]]'s entire career.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pissarro: Father of Impressionism Exhibition |url=https://www.ashmolean.org/pissarro |access-date=2022-11-30 |website=www.ashmolean.org |language=en}}</ref>
* '''''Tokyo: Art and Photography''''': Open from July 2021 until January 2022, this exhibition included artworks from the Ashmolean's collection as well as loans from Japan and new commissions by contemporary artists. It included woodblock prints by [[Hokusai]] and [[Hiroshige]], photography of [[Daidō Moriyama|Moriyama Daido]] and [[Mika Ninagawa|Ninagawa Mika]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=New Exhibition Schedule|url=https://www.ashmolean.org/article/2021-exhibition-listings|access-date=2021-09-01|website=www.ashmolean.org|language=en}}</ref>
*'''''Pre-Raphaelites: Drawings & Watercolours''''': Open in May and June 2021, this exhibition was drawn from the Ashmolean's own collection of [[Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood|Pre-Raphaelite]] drawings and watercolours. The exhibition was curated by British art historian [[Christiana Payne]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Spring Exhibition |url=https://www.ashmolean.org/article/pre-raphaelites-drawings-and-watercolours|access-date=2021-09-01|website=www.ashmolean.org|language=en}}</ref>
*'''''Young Rembrandt''''': Open from August until November 2020, this exhibition was delayed due to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], and featured more than 120 of [[Rembrandt]]'s paintings, drawings and prints from international and private collections. It focused on the first decade of Rembrandt's work, from 1624 to 1634, and included his early paintings [[Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem]], [[Self-Portrait in a Gorget|Self-portrait in a Gorget]], [[Rembrandt Laughing]], [[Judas Repentant, Returning the Pieces of Silver]], Portrait of [[Jacob de Gheyn III|Jacques de Gheyn III]], and [[History Painting (Rembrandt)|History Painting]]. The exhibition was the subject of a [[BBC]] television documentary, in its 2020 Museums in Quarantine series.<ref>{{Cite web|title= New Dates: Young Rembrandt |url=https://www.ashmolean.org/article/young-rembrandt|access-date=2021-09-01|website=www.ashmolean.org|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title= Museums in Quarantine, Series 1, Rembrandt|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000hqpj|access-date=2021-09-01|website=BBC Four|language=en-GB}}</ref>
* '''''Last Supper in Pompeii''''': Open from July 2019 until January 2020, this exhibition explored what the people of the ancient Roman city of [[Pompeii]] loved to eat and drink. Many of the objects, on loan from [[National Archaeological Museum, Naples|Naples Museum]] and [[Pompeii]], had never before left Italy.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum 2019 Exhibition Listings|url=https://www.ashmolean.org/article/2019-exhibition-listings|access-date=10 April 2019}}</ref>
*'''''Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean''''': Open from February until June 2019, this exhibition featured 17 major works by the American artist [[Jeff Koons]], 14 of which had never been on display in the UK before. They included some of his most well-known series such as Equilibrium, [[Banality (sculpture series)|Banality]], Antiquity and his recent Gazing Ball paintings and sculptures. In the galleries of the museum, where the collections range from prehistory to the present, Jeff Koons's work was 'in conversation' with the history of art and ideas which has been his focus over the past four decades. The exhibition was curated by Koons and [[Norman Rosenthal]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum press release for Jeff Koons at the Ashmolean|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/press|access-date=7 January 2019|work=Ashmolean website}}</ref>
*'''''Spellbound: Magic, Ritual & Witchcraft''''': Open from August 2018 until January 2019, this exhibition explored the history of magic over eight centuries. On display were 180 objects from 12th-century Europe to newly commissioned contemporary artworks.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum press release for Spellbound|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/press|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=10 August 2018}}</ref>
* '''''America's Cool Modernism: O'Keeffe to Hopper''''': Open from March until July 2018 this major exhibition of works by American artists in the early 20th-century included over 80 paintings, photographs and prints, and the first American avant-garde film, [[Manhatta]]. Many of the paintings had never before travelled outside the US.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition America's Cool Modernism|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/americascoolmodernism|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=28 February 2018}}</ref>
* '''''Imagining the Divine: Art and the Rise of World Religions''''': Open from October 2017 until February 2018 this exhibition explored Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam and Judaism, and was the first to look at the art of these five world religions as they spread across continents in the first millennium AD.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition Imagining the Divine|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/imaginingthedivine|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=27 September 2017}}</ref>
* '''''Raphael: The Drawings''''': Open from June 2017 until September 2017 this exhibition brought together over a hundred works by [[Raphael]] from international collections and aimed to transform public understanding of Raphael through a focus on the immediacy and expressiveness of his drawing.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition Raphael The Drawings|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=27 September 2017}}</ref>
* '''''Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France''''': Open from February 2017 until May 2017, and featuring works by [[Matisse]], [[Manet]], [[Chagall]], [[Braque]], [[Eugène Delacroix|Delacroix]], [[Renoir]], [[Jean Metzinger|Metzinger]], [[Degas]], [[Fernand Léger|Léger]] and [[Picasso]], this exhibition told the story of the rise of Modernism through works from a private collection that had never been seen in Britain before.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition Degas to Picasso|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/degastopicasso|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="ashmolean2">{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition listings 2017|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/about/press/downloads/?newsYear=2017|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref><ref name="oxfordmail1">{{cite web|title=Picasso, Cézanne and Raphael will feature in stunning Ashmolean Museum exhibitions|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/14996050.Picasso__C__zanne_and_Raphael_will_feature_in_stunning_Ashmolean_exhibitions/|work=Oxford Mail news website|access-date=6 January 2017}}</ref>
* '''''Power and Protection: Islamic Art and the Supernatural''''': Open from October 2016 until January 2017, this was the first major exhibition to explore the supernatural in the art of the Islamic world. The exhibition included objects and works of art from the 12th to the 20th century, from Morocco to China, which have been used as sources of guidance and protection in the dramatic events of human history. These include dream-books, talismanic charts and amulets.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition Power and Protection|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/details/?exh=128|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Art Fund What To See – Exhibition Power and Protection|url=https://www.artfund.org/what-to-see/exhibitions/2016/10/20/power-and-protection-islamic-art-and-the-supernatural-exhibition|work=Art Fund website|access-date=21 July 2016}}</ref>
* '''''Storms, War and Shipwrecks: Treasures from the Sicilian Seas''''': Open from June until September 2016, this exhibition explored the roots of [[Sicily]]'s multi-cultural heritage through the discoveries made by underwater archaeologists – from chance finds to excavated shipwrecks.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition Storms War and Shipwrecks|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/details/?exh=129|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=22 January 2016}}</ref> The exhibition also featured what has been described as a "flat pack" [[Byzantine Empire|Byzantine]] church interior, intended for assembly at its destination, with marble items raised from a wreck off the southeast coast of Sicily in the 1960s by archaeologist Gerhard Kapitan.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Storms, War and Shipwrecks' at the Ashmolean Museum in 2016|url=http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/the-storms-war-and-shipwrecks-at.html|work=Archaeology News Network Blog Post|access-date=22 January 2016}}</ref>
* '''''Andy Warhol: Works from the Hall Collection''''': Open from February until May 2016, this exhibition featured over a hundred works, by [[Andy Warhol]], from the Hall Collection (US), plus loans of films from [[The Andy Warhol Museum]], Pittsburgh. Curated by [[Norman Rosenthal|Sir Norman Rosenthal]], the exhibition spanned Warhol's entire output, from iconic pieces of the 1960s Pop pioneer to the experimental works of his last decade.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition Andy Warhol|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/andywarhol/|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=22 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Andy Warhol Cultural Icon Celebrity and Provocateur New Ashmolean Exhibition Announced|url=http://www.artlyst.com/articles/andy-warhol-cultural-icon-celebrity-and-provocateur-new-ashmolean-exhibition-announced|work=Artlyst web article: Ashmolean 2016 Andy Warhol exhibition|access-date=22 January 2016}}</ref>
*'''''Elizabeth Price: A Restoration''''': Open from March until May 2016, this two-screen video installation by British artist [[Elizabeth Price (artist)|Elizabeth Price]] was a newly commissioned work in response to the collections and archives of the Ashmolean and [[Pitt Rivers Museum|Pitt Rivers]] museums, in partnership with the [[Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art]], and funded by the 2013 [[Contemporary Art Society]] Award. The main focus was the records of [[Arthur Evans]]'s excavation of the Cretan city of [[Knossos]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition Elizabeth Price A Restoration|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/arestoration/|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=24 March 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=CAS Annual Award Winner Elizabeth Price's new work to open at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford|url=http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/news/cas-annual-award-winner-elizabeth-prices-new-work-to-open-at-the-ashmolean-museum-oxford/|work=Contemporary Art Society website|date=24 February 2016|access-date=24 March 2016}}</ref>
* '''''Drawing in Venice: Titian to Canaletto''''': Open from October 2015 until January 2016, this exhibition featured a hundred drawings from The [[Uffizi]] Gallery in Florence, the Ashmolean, and [[Christ Church, Oxford]]. It was based on new research tracing continuities in Venetian drawing over three centuries, from around 1500 down to the foundation of the first academy of art in Venice in 1750.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition Titian to Canaletto|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/titiantocanaletto/|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=21 October 2015}}</ref> The exhibition also featured 20 works on paper and canvas by contemporary artist [[Jenny Saville]], produced in response to the Venetian drawings in the exhibition.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum exhibition Titian to Canaletto Jenny Saville Drawing|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/titiantocanaletto/jennysaville/|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=21 October 2015}}</ref>
* '''''Great British Drawings''''': An exhibition open from March until August 2015 showing more than one hundred British drawings and watercolours from the Ashmolean's collection, spanning three hundred years.<ref name="ashmolean.org">{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum future exhibitions|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/future/|work=Ashmolean website future exhibitions|access-date=16 December 2014}}</ref>
* '''''An Elegant Society: Adam Buck, artist in the age of Jane Austen''''': Open from July until October 2015 this exhibition explored the work of [[Adam Buck]], Irish [[Regency era]] portrait and miniature painter.<ref name="ashmolean.org"/>
* '''''Love Bites: Caricatures by James Gillray''''': An exhibition in 2015 to mark the 200th anniversary of the death of British caricaturist [[James Gillray]] (1757–1815). The [[caricatures]] on display were from the collection of [[New College, Oxford]].<ref name="ashmolean.org"/>
* '''''William Blake: Apprentice and Master''''': Open from December 2014 until March 2015, this exhibition celebrated the work of [[William Blake]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/details/?exh=87|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref>
* '''''Discovering Tutankhamun''''': a special exhibition, open from July until November 2014, explored [[Howard Carter]]'s excavation of the tomb of [[Tutankhamun]] in 1922. Original records, drawings and photographs from the [[Griffith Institute]] were on display.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/discovertut/|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref> 
* '''''The Eye of the Needle: English Embroideries from the Feller Collection''''': a special exhibition, open from August until October 2014, of 17th-century embroideries from the ''Feller Collection'', together with examples from the Ashmolean's own holdings.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/eyeoftheneedle/|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=4 March 2014}}</ref> 
* '''''Cézanne and the Modern''''': a special exhibition, open from March to June 2014, displaying [[Impressionism|Impressionist]] and [[Post-Impressionism|Post-Impressionist]] paintings and sketches from the [[Henry Pearlman|Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/cezanne/about|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=1 August 2014}}</ref> 
* '''''Francis Bacon / Henry Moore: Flesh and Bone''''': a special exhibition, open from September 2013 until July 2014, displaying paintings by [[Francis Bacon (artist)|Francis Bacon]] and sculptures and drawings by [[Henry Moore]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/baconmoore|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=21 July 2014}}</ref> 
* '''''Stradivarius''''': a special exhibition, open from June until August 2013, exploring the life and work of [[Antonio Stradivari]]. It was the first time twenty-one of his instruments, from guitar to cello to violin, were on display together in the UK.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/stradivarius|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=21 July 2014}}</ref> 
* '''''Master Drawings''''': a special exhibition, open from May until August 2013, displaying a selection of the Ashmolean's on western art collection. The exhibition surveyed drawings of all types by some of the biggest names in art history, including Leonardo, Michelangelo and Raphael, as well as Gwen John, David Hockney and Antony Gormley.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/masterdrawings|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=21 July 2014}}</ref> 
* '''''Xu Bing: Landscape Landscript''''': a special exhibition of the work of [[Xu Bing]], open from February until May 2013. It was the Ashmolean's first major exhibition of contemporary art.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ashmolean Museum|url=http://www.ashmolean.org/exhibitions/xubing|work=Ashmolean website|access-date=21 July 2014}}</ref>