Art News

What do a baby rhino, soldiers on stilts and humans dragging a whale mean to Iranian artist Avish Khebrehzadeh? Watch as she draws the figures for her video, “Seven Silent Songs” and her grand, wall-sized drawing, “Tree of Life in Blue,” temporarily installed at the National Gallery of Art.

MoMA's Kristen Di Lonardo, department manager in Visitor Engagement, looks behind the curtain at Florine Stettheimer’s Family Portrait, II and marvels at its intricate detail and sense of theatricality.

Take a moment to learn more about this preparatory drawing of the Bodhisattva Maitreya. Listen to Najiba Choudhury, Assistant Information Specialist & Provenance Researcher Smithsonian's National Museum of Asian Art, as she shares who made this monumental drawing, for what purpose, and how it came to be part of our museum's collection.

A long-overdue cleaning reveals a world of vibrant color in a Séraphine Louis's 1928 painting "Tree of Paradise." Heidi Hirschl Orley, MoMA assistant director of Curatorial Affairs, talks about the conservation effort that brought new life to the painting.

As years go, 2020 was indubitably a very bad one. Naturally, this raises the question of whether these events will impact art. The Brooklyn Museum attempts an answer with The Slipstream.

The Broad's Associate Curator Sarah Loyer discusses artist Kara Walker and a new acquisition by Walker called The White Power 'Gin I Machine to Harvest the Nativist Instinct for Beneficial Uses to Border Crossers Everywhere (2019). In this work, Walker imagines harvesting racist anxieties and fears with a patented machine. Featuring The Broad’s curators, Up Close is a series that takes a deeper look at artists and works in the Broad collection, which is notable for the exceptional depth of its holdings and dedication to the full arc of artists' careers.

In the macho, testosterone-driven New York art scene of the 1950s, abstract expressionist Joan Mitchell (1925-1992) was a key figure and one of the few women artists to be recognized by “The Club” a loose organization of artists that included several iconic names.

Veronika Molnar, an intern in the Department of Media and Performance, discusses the calming effect—and global influences—of Constantin Brancusi’s 1913 sculpture Mlle Pogany at MoMA.

This “maximally efficient” 1926 kitchen design inspires family memories—and a career path. Andrew Gardner, curatorial assistant in the Department of Architecture and Design, visits his spices in Grete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Frankfurt Kitchen from the Ginnheim-Höhenblick Housing Estate, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (1926–27), the earliest work in MoMA’s collection by a female architect.

Cold Hollow Sculpture Park will open its 2021 season on June 12, 2021, with more than sixty sculptures placed on over 200 acres of rolling landscape, CHSP offers a safe and invigorating way to gather, explore, and find respite.