Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Music at the Museum: Spring Concert Series

    Music at the Museum: Spring Concert Series

    Join us for a series of concerts that resonate with the themes of the Museum’s spring exhibitions, Gainsborough’s Family Album and Confronting Childhood .
  • Time Capsule, 1970 : Rauschenberg's Surface Series from Currents

    Time Capsule, 1970 : Rauschenberg's Surface Series from Currents

    The Art Museum is pleased to present the extraordinary Surface Series from Currents —eighteen provocative screenprints created by Robert Rauschenberg (1925–2008), one of the most influential American artists in the second half of the twentieth century. This rarely seen series,...
  • Naming and Claiming: The Language of Indigenous Art

    Naming and Claiming: The Language of Indigenous Art

    What is in a name? I have spent the last few months pondering just this question as the Museum’s Andrew W. Mellon Research Specialist for Understudied Collections in Native American Art. The second of three specialists who will work with...
  • Blackness and Media

    Blackness and Media

    As early as the nineteenth century, African American cultural producers, critics, writers, consumers, and visual practitioners creatively confronted the vexed, and often exciting, relationship between race and media. This interplay was at the heart of my fall 2018 course “Blackness...
  • Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

    Nature's Nation: American Art and Environment

    How can paintings from the nineteenth century reflect views about westward expansion? What can a high chest of drawers from Philadelphia reveal about the trade of mahogany? How have works by contemporary artists contributed to modern ecological consciousness? These are...