Exhibitions

An Art of Authority: Self-Censorship and the Comics Code 1954-2011
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The Comics Code Authority enforced a set of guidelines in a period of censorship and regulation for over fifty years,...
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The Assembled Playwright: Harley Hammerman’s Eugene O’Neill Collection
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Alumni Harley Hammerman has made the Julian Edison Department of Special Collections an important center for O’Neill studies.
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Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence
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Wicked Women explores the connection between whiteness, gender, and violence in women carrying out acts of mass violence and discrimination.
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Wherein I Am: Highlights from the Aaron Coleman Papers
In 2021 the Washington University Libraries acquired the literary papers of Aaron Coleman, a poet and translator who received his...
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Stanley Elkin’s “Pieces of Soap”
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In 1990 novelist Stanley Elkin published an essay about his “accumulation” of travel soaps. Published in Art & Antiques magazine,...
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Current Exhibitions
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Exhibition Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence
-Wicked Women explores the connection between whiteness, gender, and violence in women carrying out acts of mass violence and discrimination.View Exhibition about Wicked Women: White Women as Perpetrators of Mass Violence -
Exhibition Stanley Elkin’s “Pieces of Soap”
-In 1990 novelist Stanley Elkin published an essay about his “accumulation” of travel soaps. Published in Art & Antiques magazine,...View Exhibition about Stanley Elkin’s “Pieces of Soap” -
Exhibition Reaching New Heights: The Life and Legacy of Michael W. Friedlander
-Distinguished professor of physics Michael W. Friedlander led an extraordinary life dedicated to his family and students at Washington University...View Exhibition about Reaching New Heights: The Life and Legacy of Michael W. Friedlander -
Exhibition Artifacts & Fictions: Curated by Students in Illustration and Visual Culture
-The Artifacts & Fictions exhibition presents selected works from the Master of Fine Arts in Illustration and Visual Culture (MFA-IVC)...View Exhibition about Artifacts & Fictions: Curated by Students in Illustration and Visual Culture -
Exhibition Shakespeare in Hand
-From love sonnets to insults, the miniature books featured in Shakespeare in Hand are perfect for having Shakespeare on hand...View Exhibition about Shakespeare in Hand -
Exhibition Beauty in Enormous Bleakness: The Design Legacy of the Interned Generation of Japanese Americans
-This exhibition explores architecture's relationship to immigration, exclusion, and cultural identity in the post-war landscape of the 20th-century United States.View Exhibition about Beauty in Enormous Bleakness: The Design Legacy of the Interned Generation of Japanese Americans -
Exhibition The Play’s the Thing: Shakespeare in Special Collections
-The Play's the Thing exhibition celebrates the 400-year anniversary of the first folio and the reach of Shakespeare's influence.View Exhibition about The Play’s the Thing: Shakespeare in Special Collections