ARTISTS
2025
The national tour of “Rembrandt: Masterpieces in Black and White ‒ Prints from the Rembrandt House Museum” makes its U.S. debut in Charleston this week at the Gibbes Museum of Art (Oct. 24, 2025 ‒ Jan. 11, 2026).
An exhibition of art and historical artifacts celebrates the freedom fighter’s story without over-mythologizing her.
The Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston announced that after a comprehensive.
You can see archive pieces from Alexander McQueen, COMME des GARÇONS, Dapper Dan, and more.
2024
The Gibbes Museum of Art, a beacon in the American South since its establishment in 1858, honored Spike Lee at the Museum’s 2024 Distinguished Lecture Series event.
The Gibbes Museum of Art announced its exhibition featuring the vibrant narrative paintings of Reynier Llanes, an established Cuban artist who spent six years working in Charleston before settling in Miami in 2015.
The Gibbes Museum of Art announced its acquisition of Edward Hopper’s The Battery, Charleston, S.C., which is now on view in the museum’s permanent collection galleries.
A pair of lesser-known and connected art movements come together at the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston during the exhibition “Something Terrible May Happen: The Art of Aubrey Beardsley and Edward Ned I.R. Jennings.”
2023
In a landmark exhibition, the Gibbes Museum of Art is exploring the queer influences on the Charleston Renaissance, the interwar period when Charleston flourished as an arts hub, producing iconic works like Debose Heyward’s “Porgy,” which inspired Gershwin’s “Porgy and Bess.”
Philanthropist and arts patron Alice Walton is bestowing $40 million in grants upon sixty-four US institutions.
2022
The Gibbes Museum of Art is proud to announce Raheleh Filsoofi as the 2022 winner of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.
The Gibbes Museum of Art unveiled OMNISCIENCE, a newly commissioned sculpture by internationally renowned artist Fred Wilson inspired by the story of Omar Ibn Said, on May 27, 2022.
2021
The Gibbes Museum of Art is proud to announce Stephanie J. Woods as the 2021 winner of the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art.
The Chicago-based Gaylord and Dorothy Donnelley Foundation (the Foundation)—which supports land conservation, artistic vitality, and regional collections for the people of the Chicago region and the Lowcountry of South Carolina...
The Columbia (South Carolina) Museum of Art was intended to be the curtain call for “30 Americans,” a dynamic showcase of contemporary art featuring many of the most acclaimed African American artists of the last four decades.