One hundred years ago, America's first museum of modern art opened in a private mansion in Washington, D.C. Founder Duncan Phillips was an early collector of Picasso, Matisse, Van Gogh. The Phillips was the first to buy a Georgia O'Keeffe. Decades ago, in this city of museums, it became my favorite one. Read More
Mama (Beautiful Skin) — Natal-San Miguel added the parenthesis — belongs to the Mint Museum in Charlotte, N.C. It's part of their first online exhibition. Twenty six of Natal-San Miguel's photos are on view in "Expanding the Pantheon: Women R Beautiful." His subject in this one has vitiligo. Pigment is missing from parts of her skin. She's dappled. And Natal-San Miguel Read More
An art project that turned the border wall at the U.S.-Mexico border into the temporary base for pink seesaws – inviting children on each side to come play together – has won the London's Design Museum award for best design of 2020. Continue Read More
The ground-breaking comic strip Doonesbury has been with us for a half-century. It was the first daily comic strip to win a Pulitzer Prize for tackling social issues, politics and war. It's also been censored for some of those same reasons. Read More
For centuries in Italy — the cradle of Renaissance masters — women with artistic talent were not allowed to enter academies. And the names of the few female artists from centuries past have mostly faded into oblivion. Continue Read More
Sure, you're a good Northwesterner because you recycle your beer cans, cardboard boxes and plastic milk jugs. But what about that dust-collecting piano you have long wanted to unload? It doesn't fit into the recycling bin. Creative upcycling might be the answer. Read More
‘Traverse Talks’ Episode 8: Stella Williams On Diversity In Literature And Art’s Impact On Community
In this episode of "Traverse Talks with Sueann Ramella," author Stella Williams shares how her love for reading at a young age drove her to write about stories that showcased characters that looked like her. Read More
The apology, which appeared as a note on the official Roald Dahl website, comes 30 years after the author's death. Continue Reading Roald Dahl Family Apologizes For Children’s Author’s Anti-SemitismRead More
The statue was once of a smiling woman in a pastoral scene. Now, it looks more like a melted candle with some gouged holes. Professional art restorers in Spain are calling for stricter oversight. Continue Reading Behold The Read More
"Look at all the wisdom, look at all the heart that is imprisoned in our society," says Hank Willis Thomas, cofounder of the art installation project. Continue Reading ‘The Writing On The Wall’ Finds Poetry Behind Bars, Read More
San Francisco's Asian Art Museum has been asking staffers to highlight favorite objects in the collection. Curator Forrest McGill chose the base of a hookah, made in 17th century India. Continue Reading Need 2 Minutes Of Calm? Inhale, Exhale … And Read More
Throughout history, people have turned to music during disease outbreaks as a way to seek spiritual guidance, express pain or even educate others about hygiene. The current moment is no exception. Continue Reading 9 Songs That Show How People Of Read More
The birds were allowed to waddle through the galleries of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Both the museum and the Kansas City Zoo, which is home to the penguins, have been closed due to pandemic. Continue Reading WATCH: Missouri Penguins Read More
Saar says the nude in her 2019 sculpture Set to Simmer has a message for the viewer: "If you want to look at me, don't just give me a sideways glance. Sit down in this chair and know me." Continue Reading ‘She’s Read More
Kwame Alexander, NPR's poet in residence, reads the latest crowdsourced poem, this one focused on how you've been affected by and coping during the global coronavirus pandemic. Continue Reading ‘If The Trees Can Keep Dancing, So Read More
Once finding it near Seattle's infamous Gum Wall, visitors will enter a small lobby leading to eccentric installations and flashy colors on every corner. After giving the front-desk your name, staff will stamp your hand and advise visitors of three important rules: have fun, take lots of pictures and don’t break anything. Read More
More Murrow News Stories PULLMAN – Trimpin: Ambiente432 returned to the main atrium of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the start of the spring semester. The exhibition is an interactive experience that allows the audience to become a part of the art. “What I love so much about it is that it’s unexpected,”… Read More
The inflatable replica that rests on the lake’s solid surface isn’t a political statement, nor a throwback to the ending of 1969’s “Planet of the Apes,” but a decades-long tradition founded on a good laugh. The University of Wisconsin-Madison has staged the display at different times for more than four decades, starting in 1979 as a campaign stunt. Read More
The National Portrait Gallery unveiled the official portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama two years ago this month. Now it is sending them on a yearlong tour to five cities. Continue Reading Portraits Of Barack And Michelle Obama Going On Tour Read More
Donna Zakowska has already won two Emmys for her work on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel — and two of her costumes are in the Smithsonian. Now she's up for an award from the Costume Designers Guild. Continue Reading Meet Donna Read More
Some 120 paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet are on display at the Denver Art Museum. They're on loan from all over the world — and getting them from place to place is a lot of work. Continue Reading How Do You Move 100+ Monet Read More
Making art is fun. But there's a lot more to it. It might serve an evolutionary purpose — and emerging research shows that it can help us process difficult emotions and tap into joy. Continue Reading Get Artsy For Health And Science: How Making Read More
In some historical Nativity scenes, the shepherds have grossly enlarged thyroid glands — also known today as goiter. It's an apparent symbol of their poverty and iodine-deficient diet. Continue Reading Why Certain Poor Shepherds In Read More
The Rise of Skywalker speaks to the historical experiences of many in the Indigenous community. An exhibit by Native artists attempts to shed light on those connections. Continue Reading ‘The Force Is With Our Read More
The Italian painting by the artist Cimabue sold for nearly $27 million at auction. But now, government officials in France are intervening in order to stop the art from leaving the country. Continue Reading France Blocks Read More
Howard Weistling wanted to be a comic strip artist. But when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Weistling felt compelled to enlist in the Army. After flight engineer training, Howard was shipped off to Europe. On his maiden flight, his plane was shot down over Austria, and the U.S. soldiers were captured. Hungry and homesick, Howard coped the only way he knew how. He drew a Read More
Researchers combed Vatican archives to find records of how ancient church policies restricting whom one could marry shaped Western values and family structures today. Continue Reading Western Individualism May Have Roots In Read More
Suvero's acclaimed sculptures are in public spaces all over the world and in the collections of major museums. The sculptor recently installed his largest work at the Storm King Arts Center. Continue Reading Sculptor Mark Di Suvero Creates Joy Out Of Read More
Pastels are fragile and therefore difficult to put on public display. But an exhibition in Washington, D.C., has 64 artworks on view, and celebrates centuries of artists working in the chalky medium. Continue Reading Versatile, Read More
The jazz pianist has pulled the curtain off his polymathic abilities, bringing his fine art exhibition — which includes video, installations and performance — home to New York. Continue Reading Constructing Jazz Inside Fine Art, And Vice-VersaRead More
While some art lovers look down their noses at the monument to children’s television icon J. P. Patches, the replica of a rocket and other sculptures, Fremont’s public art has a bevy of defenders. But a group of state lawmakers is not among them. If they have their way, one of Fremont’s signature artworks, the 16-foot-tall statue of former Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, Read More
Jill Rorem, like many Americans, had made some special plans for the holidays. The Chicago native was finally going to get to see the nation's capital with her arts-obsessed kids.
Then, the federal government partially shut down. Read More
HBO's The Price of Everything calls into question the current price explosion and commodification of modern art "that's fascinating, but it's also terrifying," says director Nathaniel Kahn. Continue Reading New Documentary Paints A Read More
Julian Schnabel's "bold, blissful and deeply sad" film about Vincent Van Gogh's final days is as textured as the artist's canvases; Willem Dafoe delivers "one of the finest performances of the year." Continue Reading FILM Read More
Newly minted "genius" grantee Titus Kaphar takes on historical paintings, modifying the scenes to lead the eye to those relegated to the background. Continue Reading Meet The MacArthur Fellow Disrupting Racism In ArtRead More
The ordinary becomes extraordinary — and sometimes the offensive every Saturday in Walla Walla when Gerald Matthews opens his curiously creative Museum of Un-Natural History. Continue Reading A Curator As Intriguing As His Museum Of Un-Natural Read More
When artist Trevor Paglen looks up at the night sky, there's beauty and wonder, but also a planet completely transformed by humans into a "landscape of surveillance." His new exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, “Sites Unseen,” offers a new way to look at very familiar landscapes. Jeffrey Brown reports on Paglen’s latest obsession: how artificial intelligence Read More
How do you dispose of an old totem pole? Fortunately, this is not a problem we regularly face. But a tall totem gifted by Seattle to its sister city in Japan renewed this question. Continue Reading How To Respectfully Dispose Of An Old Totem PoleRead More
The Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London. PHOTO BY NIGEL CHADWICK / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS Did you know London has a tempo of 122.86 beats per minute? So says musician David Byrne, of Talking Heads and solo career fame. Byrne’s new sound installation , titled “Get It Away,” builds a song around sampled… Read More