Decorative Arts/Household objects

Artist Jennifer Angus brings to life the imaginations of two children, whose love of bugs gleam on the walls of two galleries in The Ballantine House, and uses exotic insects to create beautiful patterns—truly an entomologist's dream.

Party Time: Re-imagine America is a major site-specific installation by internationally acclaimed artist Yinka Shonibare MBE.

Artistic ceramics is not a new idea. After all, the finest decorated pottery in ancienct Greece was both functional and artistic. The potteries in Renaissance Italy produced brilliant painterly vessels that were appreciated as art.