Past Exhibits
Test of Faith
signs, Serpents, Salvation
November 11, 2017 – February 11, 2018
Rubenstein Photography Gallery
Center for Documentary Studies
Yasak/Banned
Political Cartoons from Late Ottoman and Republican Turkey
November 1, 2017 – March 12, 2018
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Humans of Paris
Picturing Social Life in the Nineteenth Century
October 18, 2017 – February 18, 2018
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
I Sing the Body Electric
Walt Whitman and the Body
July 26, 2017 – October 28, 2017
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Dream of a House
The Passions & Preoccupations of Reynolds Price
July 14, 2017 – November 5, 2017
Rubenstein Photography Gallery
Incredible Insects
A Celebration of Insect Biology
June 13, 2017 – October 15, 2017
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Royal India and The British
The Photography of Samuel Bourne & Raja Lala Deen Dayal
April 4, 2017 – July 22, 2017
Mary Duke Biddle Room
IAS
NeuroDIVERSITY and Inclusion
An exhibition of creative activism projects by Duke students
April 1, 2017 – May 1, 2017
Student Wall
Duke Disability Alliance
A Sound Mind in a Sound Body
Health Advice for Scholars and Students
March 28, 2017 – July 14, 2017
Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
There’s Content
Five Years of the Masters of Fine Arts in Experimental & Documentary Arts
March 3, 2017 – June 20, 2017
Rubenstein Photography Gallery
Capturing the Moment
Centuries of the Passover Haggadah
February 23, 2017 – June 11, 2017
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
To Market, To Market!
Urban Street Food Culture Around the Globe
February 7, 2017 – March 30, 2017
Student Wall
Maria de Bruyn Papers
World AIDS Day exhibit
November 26, 2016 – March 10, 2017
Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
“Agencies Prefer Men!”
The Women of Madison Avenue
November 10, 2016 – March 10, 2017
Hartman Center
50 Years of Lemurs at Duke
October 20, 2016 – February 19, 2017
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
A Delicate Balance
Understanding the Four Humors
August 18, 2016 – November 23, 2016
Josiah Charles Trent History of Medicine Room
The Common Ground We Meet Upon
Music Collections in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
August 1, 2016 – November 1, 2016
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Boccaccio and the Genealogy of Stories
July 20, 2016 – October 16, 2016
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
The Tomb in the Corner of the Garden
Selections from the Picture File
July 1, 2016 – October 20, 2016
Rubenstein Photography Gallery
Worth the Paper It’s Printed On
The Economists’ Papers Archive
June 1, 2016 – August 1, 2016
Sperling Family Exhibit Cases
Time Reopened
The Original Washington Duke Hotel's Time Capsule
April 11, 2016 – August 1, 2016
Sperling Family Exhibit Case
University Archives
Faith in Action
In the Footsteps of Abraham Joshua Heschel
March 18, 2016 – July 29, 2016
Mary Duke Biddle Room
An Iconic Identity
Stories and Voices of Duke University Chapel
March 11, 2016 – June 19, 2016
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Duke University Chapel
Where We Live
A North Carolina Portrait
March 5, 2016 – June 26, 2016
Rubenstein Photography Gallery
Heralding the Way to a New World
Exploring Women in Science and Medicine Through the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection
January 19, 2016 – May 23, 2016
Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
Malignant Fever
Benjamin Rush and the 1793 Yellow Fever Epidemic in Philadelphia
January 4, 2016 – March 11, 2016
Mary Duke Biddle Room
Intimate Gestures
Handmade Books by William Gedney
November 12, 2015 – March 1, 2016
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Aunties
The Seven Summers of Alevtina and Ludmila
November 7, 2015 – February 28, 2016
Rubenstein Photography Gallery
Dreamers and Dissenters
Selections from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
September 30, 2015 – December 13, 2015
Mary Duke Biddle Room
American Beginnings, featuring the Bay Psalm Book
September 30, 2015 – November 30, 2015
Michael and Karen Stone Family Gallery
Languages of Anatomy
From Vesalius to the Digital Age
August 24, 2015 – November 8, 2015
The Jerry and Bruce Chappell Family Gallery
Sidney D. Gamble in China, 1908-1932
Photographs from the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
August 24, 2015 – November 1, 2015
Rubenstein Photography Gallery
What I Be Project at Duke
June 24, 2015
Student Wall
Duke Blue Devils United and Duke Student Government
Duke Groups
Student Organizations at Duke University from 1846 to the present
April 1, 2015 – September 30, 2015
Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Duke Dance Marathon
February 1, 2015 – February 28, 2015
Student Wall
Duke Dance Marathon student group
Me Too Monologues
February 1, 2015 – February 28, 2015
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Me Too Monologues student group
36th Annual Duke Employee Art Show
August 29, 2014 – September 30, 2014
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Duke Hospital Arts & Health
Queering Duke History
August 14, 2014 – December 14, 2014
Perkins Gallery
Special Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity
Wiser-Women's Institute of Secondary Education
March 1, 2014 – May 1, 2014
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
WISER Duke
Cheap Thrills
The Highs and Lows of Paris's Cabaret Culture, 1880-1939
February 1, 2014 – May 1, 2014
Perkins Gallery
Art, Art History and Visual Studies Department
Nelson Mandela Photographic Exhibit
January 6, 2014 – February 15, 2014
The Duke Campus Club Exhibit Wall
Loaned by Pop Inernational Galleries
Between the Lines
Comical Interpretations of the Nineteenth Century
November 1, 2013 – February 1, 2014
Student Wall
Writing 101
Soul & Service
The North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Company, 115 Years and Counting
October 24, 2013 – December 20, 2013
Travelling exhibit
Outrageous Ambitions
How a One-Room Schoolhouse Became a Research University
October 14, 2013 – February 16, 2014
Perkins Gallery
University Archives
Recording the Anthropocene
July 16, 2013 – November 13, 2013
Perkins Gallery
Interdisciplinary faculty and students
Botanical Treasures from Duke's Hidden Library
April 10, 2013 – July 14, 2013
Perkins Gallery
Duke University Herbarium
Street Exposure
The Photographs of Ronald Reis
March 13, 2013 – May 17, 2013
Rubenstein Hallway Gallery
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
POST THIS UP!
March 5, 2013 – May 17, 2013
Rare Bookroom Hallway Cases
Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Mapping the City
A Stranger's Guide
December 15, 2012 – March 18, 2013
Perkins Gallery
Borderworks Humanities Lab
A Mockery of Justice
Caricature and the Dreyfus Affair
December 12, 2012 – March 9, 2013
Rubenstein Hallway Gallery
Duke University Center for Jewish Studies
The Road to Desegregation at Duke
December 5, 2012 – March 3, 2013
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
University Archives
Documenting the Politics of Food
Photographs from the Rubenstein Library Collections
August 10, 2012 – December 10, 2012
Rubenstein Photography Gallery
Archive of Documentary Arts, SAF, CDS
The Art of SAF
How Student Action with Farmworkers Use the Arts in Education and Advocacy
August 9, 2012 – December 9, 2012
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
SAF
SAF: Student Action With Farmworkers
20 Years of Growing Farmworker Activists
August 9, 2012 – December 9, 2012
Perkins Gallery
SAF, CDS
Keep All You Wish
The Photographs of Hugh Mangum
May 30, 2012 – November 20, 2012
Center for Documentary Studies, Lyndhurst Gallery
Archive of Documentary Arts, and Center for Documentary Studies
Randolph Bezzant Holmes Photographs, 1910-1919
Northern India and the North-West Frontier Province
May 7, 2012 – August 6, 2012
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rubenstein Library
What Does Your Doctor Know?
Exploring the History of Physician Education from Early Greek Theory to the Practice of Duke Medicine
April 18, 2012 – July 29, 2012
Perkins Gallery
History of medicine, Rubenstein Library
From Blackface to Blaxploitation
Representations of African Americans in Film
April 4, 2012 – July 29, 2012
Rare Book Room hallway cases
Rubenstein Library
Charles Dickens
200 Years of Commerce and Controversy
February 1, 2012 – April 1, 2012
Rare Book Room Cases
Rubenstein Library
Nation on the Move - The Puerto Rican Diaspora
Photographs by Frank Espada, 1963-1990
January 16, 2012 – April 29, 2012
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rubenstein Library
I Recall the Experience Sweet and Sad
Memories of the Civil War
January 4, 2012 – April 15, 2012
Perkins Gallery
Rubenstein Library
Looking In, Looking Out
Writing for the Public Eye
November 19, 2011 – January 6, 2012
Perkins Gallery
Thompson Writing Program
From Campus to Cockpit
Duke During World War II
October 26, 2011 – January 30, 2012
Rare Book Room Cases
University Archives
Iraq | Perspectives
Photographs by Benjamin Lowy
October 24, 2011 – December 11, 2011
Rubenstein Gallery
Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography & Rubenstein Library
Instruments of Torture
September 11, 2011 – March 1, 2012
Conservation Gallery
Conservation Department
Language, Power, Stories, Words
an Exhibit from the Dorothy Allison Papers
August 19, 2011 – October 25, 2011
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
Bingham Center
The Life of Memorials
Manifestations of Memory at the Intersection of Public and Private
July 21, 2011 – October 16, 2011
Perkins Gallery
Team Kenan
Future Fantasteek!
Zines and Sketchbooks by Jackie Batey
June 20, 2011 – October 7, 2011
Lilly Library
Bingham Center
Flesh and Metal, Bodies and Buildings
Works from Jonathan Hyman’s Archive of 9/11 Vernacular Memorials
May 9, 2011 – October 16, 2011
Rubenstein Hallway Gallery
Look Boys and Girls!
Advertising to Children in the 20th Century
May 5, 2011 – August 7, 2011
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing
Student Mural
Perkins Library (2010-2011)
May 1, 2011 – May 1, 2013
"Old Perk" (Perkins Library, 2nd floor)
Duke University Union Visual Arts Committee, Office of the Vice Provost for the Arts
Animated Anatomies
The Human Body in Anatomical Texts from the 16th to 21st Centuries
April 7, 2011 – July 17, 2011
Perkins Gallery
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, the Departments of Romance Studies and History, the Center for European Studies, Duke University Medical Center Library & Archives, Duke University Libraries
Changing the Face of Medicine
February 14, 2011 – March 27, 2011
Duke Medical Center Library
History of Medicine and Duke Medical Center Archives
Stefan Hoffmann
Visiting Artist Feb 2011
February 1, 2011 – May 1, 2013
"Old Perk" (Perkins Library, 2nd floor)
Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies
Brave deeds are proudly spoken of
African American Military Service
February 1, 2011 – May 1, 2011
Rare Book Room Hallway Cases
RBMSCL
10 Projects
Analog to Digital
February 1, 2011 – March 15, 2011
Conservation Gallery
Digital Productions Center
Philanthropist, Environmentalist, Collector
Doris Duke and Her Estates
January 13, 2011 – April 3, 2011
Perkins Gallery
Doris Duke Archivist, RBMSCL
On the Migrant Trail
Stories from the U.S.-Mexico Border
December 1, 2010 – January 1, 2011
Perkins Student Wall
Duke Engage
Photographs by Amy Cotter
November 3, 2010 – December 1, 2010
Student Wall
Center for Documentary Studies
Mastering Craft
Interpreting Historic Bookbindings
October 13, 2010 – January 1, 2011
Conservation Gallery
Conservation
To Keep the Future Worthy of the Past
October 13, 2010 – January 30, 2011
Rubenstein Gallery
University Archives
Book + Art
Artists' books from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
October 12, 2010 – January 9, 2011
Perkins Gallery
Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture
Deena Stryker
Photographs of Cuba, 1963-1964
August 20, 2010 – December 12, 2010
Rubenstein Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
"As Far As Possible from Forgetfulness"
The Trinity College Historical Society
August 3, 2010 – October 10, 2010
Perkins Gallery
University Archives
10 Years, 10 Treatments
An exhibit of conservation treatments from the Duke University Libraries Conservation Laboratory
July 15, 2010 – October 1, 2010
Rubenstein Gallery
Conservation Department
The Power of Refined Beauty
Photographing Society Women for Pond's, 1920s-1950s
April 5, 2010 – August 22, 2010
Rubenstein Gallery
Hartman Center
Performing Identities
An Investigation on Race and Gender through Dance
March 1, 2010 – January 15, 2011
Old Perk Gallery
DUU Visual Arts Committee
Abusing Power
Satirical Journals from the Special Collections Library
February 23, 2010 – April 11, 2010
Perkins Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Haiti
Photographs by Gary Monroe and Documents from the Perkins Library Collection
February 1, 2010 – April 1, 2010
IAS Office Gallery
IAS
Mixed Blood
Conservation Work and Decision-Making in Support of the Study of Racial History
January 27, 2010 – April 1, 2010
Conservation Gallery
Conservation Department
Cedric Chatterley
Photographs of Honeyboy Edwards, 1991-1996
January 18, 2010 – March 28, 2010
Rubenstein Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Conscience of a Nation
John Hope Franklin on African-American History
January 1, 2010 – March 1, 2010
Rare Book Room Cases
"I Take Up My Pen"
British Women Writers in the Nineteenth Century
December 15, 2009 – February 21, 2010
Perkins Gallery
Rare Book, Special Collections Library
Sustainability at Duke
Leave your mark not your footprint
October 19, 2009 – December 14, 2009
Perkins Gallery
Sustainability at Duke
Insects of the Duke Campus
October 7, 2009 – November 18, 2009
Student Wall
Biology Department, Duke University
What is Jazz?
Selections from the Jazz Archive at Duke University
October 1, 2009 – January 1, 2010
Rare Book Room Cases
Jazz Archive of the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
The Bathers
Photographs by Jennette Williams
September 8, 2009 – December 13, 2009
Rubenstein Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Beyond Beauty
Photographs from the Duke University Special Collections Library
July 1, 2009 – October 1, 2009
Nasher Art Museum
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Chinese Paintings from the Kingdom of Min
May 12, 2009 – August 16, 2009
Perkins Gallery
International Studies
William Gedney & Paul Kwilecki
April 6, 2009 – August 30, 2009
Rubenstein Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Sarah P. Duke Gardens
Hanes' Dream, Sarah's Gift, Our Treasure
February 1, 2009 – May 1, 2009
Perkins Gallery
University Archives and Sarah P. Duke Gardens
The Presidential Image
An exhibit in honor of the 200th birthday of Abraham Lincoln
February 1, 2009 – March 1, 2009
Special Collections Hallway Cases
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
The New Road
I-26 and the Footprints of Progress
January 1, 2009 – March 1, 2009
Rubenstein Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
"How full of life those days seemed"
New Approaches to Art, Literature, Sexuality, and Society in Bloomsbury
December 1, 2008 – March 30, 2009
Perkins Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
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7 Elections that Changed U.S. History
October 11, 2008 – December 14, 2008
Perkins Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Not Just Mad Men
Real Advertising Careers of the 1960s
October 1, 2008 – February 28, 2009
Rare Book Room Hall Cases
Hartman Center
Olive Pierce
Forty Years of Photographs (1963-2003)
August 4, 2008 – December 14, 2008
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Songs of Glory, Songs of Sorrow
The Civil War in Music
July 1, 2008 – October 1, 2008
Rare Book Room Hall Cases
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Then & Now
Eight South African Photographers
March 31, 2008 – July 27, 2008
Rubenstein Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Near the Cross
Photographs from the Mississippi Delta
January 14, 2008 – March 23, 2008
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Danny Wilcox Frazier - Driftless
Photographs from Iowa
November 5, 2007 – December 16, 2007
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Day of the Dead at Duke University Libraries
October 30, 2007 – November 5, 2007
Perkins Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Neither Model Nor Muse
Women and Artistic Expression
October 22, 2007 – May 31, 2008
Old Perk
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Close To Home
Photographs by Margaret Sartor
August 7, 2006 – December 12, 2006
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Carl Mydans
Photographs, 1935-1958
April 3, 2006 – July 30, 2006
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Maxwell Did It!
Photographing the Atlantic City Boardwalk, 1920s-1950s
January 11, 2006 – March 26, 2006
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Steven Smith
Photographs of the Suburban West
November 7, 2005 – December 14, 2005
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Night Vision
Photographs of William Gedney and Lynn Saville
August 8, 2005 – October 30, 2005
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
James Karales
Photographs 1956-1969
April 11, 2005 – July 31, 2005
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Comic Book Cultures
March 3, 2005 – May 16, 2005
Perkins Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Early Comic Strips 1898-1916
January 14, 2005 – April 3, 2005
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Mel Rosenthal
Photographs from In the South Bronx of America
August 2, 2004 – December 12, 2004
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Larry Schwarm
On Fire
October 1, 2003 – October 31, 2003
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Alex Harris Photographs, 1998-2000
Images from the Duke University Special Collections Library
September 1, 2003 – September 30, 2003
Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
America Votes
Presidential Campaign Memorabilia from the Duke University Special Collections Library
January 1, 2000 – December 31, 2000
Online
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Guido Mazzoni Pamphlet Collection Exhibit
A Renaissance at Duke
January 1, 1996 – December 31, 1996
Online
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Still Going On
Celebrating the life and times of William Grant Still
January 1, 1995 – December 31, 1995
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Third Person, First Person
Slave Voices From The Special Collections Library
January 1, 1995 – December 31, 1995
Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Portraits in the Gothic Reading Room
January 1, 1985 – December 31, 1985
Gothic Reading Room
University Archives
