Curators Select: Recent Acquisitions, 2003–2008
On view: September 12, 2008–February 15, 2009

House Proud: Nineteenth-century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection
On view: August 12, 2008–January 25, 2009

Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product
On view: November 9, 2007–September 10, 2008

Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection
On view: February 15–August 24, 2008

Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730–2008
On view: March 7–July 6, 2008

GlassLab
On view: May 17–June 3, 2008

Provoking Magic: Lighting of Ingo Maurer
On view: September 14, 2007–January 27, 2008

Piranesi as Designer
On view: September 14, 2007–January 20, 2008

IDEO Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection
On view: June 22, 2007–January 13, 2008

Looking Forward/Looking Back: Recent Acquisitions in 20th- and 21st-Century Design
On view: August 17–October 11, 2007

Design for the Other 90%
On view: May 4–September 23, 2007

Quicktake: Doshi Levien for Moroso
On view: Summer 2007

Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006
On view: December 8–July 29, 2007

Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces The Eugene & Clare Thaw Gift
On view: October 13,2006–June 3, 2007

Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500–2005
On view: May 5–October 29, 2006

Frederic Church, Winslow Homer, and Thomas Moran: Tourism and the American Landscape
On view: May 19–October 22, 2006

Solos: Matali Crasset
On view: May 19–September 24, 2006

Yinka Shonibare Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection
On view: October 7, 2005–September 24, 2006

Solos: New Design from Israel
On view: January 27–April 16, 2006

Fashion in Colors
On view December 9, 2005–March 26, 2006

Excavating Design: 18th-century Drawings and Prints from the Permanent Collection
On view November 4, 2005–January 8, 2006

Extreme Textiles: Designing for High Performance
On view April 8–October 30, 2005

Hella Jongerius Selects: Works from the Permanent Collection
On view March 4–September 4, 2005

Josef and Anni Albers: Designs for Living
On view October 1, 2004–February 27, 2005

Design ≠ Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread
On view September 10, 2004–February 27, 2005

Faster, Cheaper, Newer, More: Revolutions of 1848
On view June 4, 2004–January 30, 2005

Artist's Designed Wallpapers
On view August 13–November 14, 2004

Solos: FutureShack
On view May 14–October 10, 2004

Shock of the Old: Christopher Dresser
On view March 5, 2004–July 25, 2004

Nancy and Edwin Marks Collection Gallery:
Treasures from the Collection
On view October 16, 2003–May 2, 2004

National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now
On view April 22, 2003–January 25, 2004

Solos: SmartWrap
On view August 5, 2003–October 10, 2003

New Hotels for Global Nomads
On view October 29, 2002–March 2, 2003

Skin: Surface, Substance, and Design
On view May 7–September 15, 2002

Russel Wright: Creating American Lifestyle
On view November 20, 2001–September 15, 2002

Glass of the Avant-Garde: From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus
On view August 21, 2001–March 31, 2002

Rooms with a View: Landscape & Wallpaper
On view April 24–October 14, 2001

Aluminum by Design: Jewelry to Jets
On view March 20, 2001–July 15, 2001

Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum
On view October 10, 2000–February 11, 2001

The Opulent Eye of Alexander Girard
On view September 12, 2000–March 18, 2001

National Design Triennial: Design Culture Now
On view March 7–August 6, 2000

The Work of Charles and Ray Eames: A Legacy of Invention
On view October 12, 1999–January 9, 2000