Museum exhibitions opening soon: Xiaoze Xie retrospective, Ensor prints

“The Metropolitan Museum of Art Library (Dürer),” a 2006 oil painting by Xiaoze Xie.

Xiaoze Xie, an artist whose work is featured in a Bates College Museum of Art retrospective, formally opens the museum’s two winter exhibitions with a lecture about his work at 6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 26, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St. A reception follows in the museum, also located in the arts center.

The museum is open to the public at no cost from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. For more information, please contact museum@bates.edu or 207-786-6158.

Learn more about the winter exhibitions:

Xiaoze Xie: Amplified Moments (1993-2008)

James Ensor: ‘Scènes de la vie du Christ’ and other works