Exhibitions
An Art of Authority: Self-Censorship and the Comics Code 1954-2011
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
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
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”
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