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Georgia O’Keeffe. Beauford Delaney, 1943. Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Fund.

New Acquisition
Georgia O’Keeffe’s Beauford Delaney

Gentle eyes, a wise, ambiguous smile, and carefully rendered features distinguish this powerful and intimate portrait in charcoal.

Meet the Artist
An Interview with Mounira Al Solh

revisiting an exhibition
Chasing a Ghost by Alexandra Bachzetsis: One Year Later

Abstract painting on a white background featuring a black shape with red shadings, thick bands in red, winding drips in black and red, and a splattering of red paint drops.

New Acquisition
Ed Clark’s Blacklash

A landmark painting significantly expands the museum’s holdings of both Clark’s work and postwar abstraction.

Collage of images from the 1960s featuring soldiers in Vietnam, Jim Crow laws, the Great Migration, protest, and violence against African American youth.

New Views of History
Immigration, the Civil Rights Movement, and my existence

The author explores how the hard-fought civil rights victories of the 1960s enabled his parents to immigrate here and start a family.

The Digital Museum
Inspiration—There’s a Filter for That and More

Learn the ins and outs of our new search engine—and see works you’ve never seen before.

Boldly colored painting of nondescript red, blue, yellow, purple, and green figures densely tangled together, some bleeding and cradled in the arms of others.

Inside the Exhibition
Three Curators, Three Favorites

You’ll want to keep an eye out for these paintings when you visit Malangatana: Mozambique Modern.

Photo of a young woman with medium-light skin and dark, long hair in curls, Kylie Escudero, standing with her arm on a railing, a beautiful stained-glass window of a waterfall behind her. She smiles and looks at the viewer.

Meet the Staff
Kylie Escudero, Exhibition Project Manager

Find out what it takes to bring an exhibition from idea to reality from a former intern who did the same with her dream to work in the arts.

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Interpreting the Collection
The Unending Sweetness of Painted Fruit

In defying the effects of time, paintings force us to consider those very effects.

A light-skinned man with a full beard, a mustache, and round glasses —Kirill Mazor—smiles slightly as he leans upon a stone railing, quadrilateral artworks in single shades hung behind him.

Meet the Staff
Kirill Mazor, Creative Director, Digital Content, Experience Design

From in-gallery videos to virtual tours, he brings dual passions for digital production and experiential design to a role that’s all about storytelling.

Painting in mostly greens, blue, and yellows of a sweeping view of farmlands, fields stacked like blocks in a quilt. Small houses and even smaller animals can be found throughout. In the foreground, a man in a brown jacket leans against a tall tree.

New Acquisitions
Four Paintings by Grandma Moses

These paintings by the popular 20th-century American artist are windows into distant memories layered with imagination.

Photo of a gallery shows a low platform with several pieces of brightly colored and irregularly shaped furniture. On the white walls behind are framed graphic posters and small paintings of architecture.

Gallery Spotlight
Five Picks from the New Architecture and Design Galleries

Five staff members in five different roles highlight five distinct artworks from the newly installed Modern Wing galleries featuring architecture and design.

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Exploring the Collection
The Great and Modest Life of Mary Reynolds

The life and influence of the remarkable Mary Reynolds have inspired a growing fan club. Read this article and see why.

A medium-skinned woman with long black hair points to an image in a folded pamphlet while standing with a light-skinned man in front of Grant Wood's painting American Gothic. An array of other artworks fill the galleries surrounding them.

Digital Interactive
Introducing My Museum Tour

Dive into our new tour creator—a personal way to explore the collection—with insights from the design team.

Perspectives
Everything I Have: Paula Modersohn-Becker and Motherhood

Modersohn-Becker possessed a pressing desire to both make her mark as an artist and to have a family, a goal that, a century onward, still remains elusive for many artists.

An interactive sculptural artwork features wooden cutouts in various shades of brown varnish in the shapes of earth's land masses. The cutouts are affixed to a blue wooden panel with sliding tracks that allow them to merge together and come apart when manipulated.

Inside the Exhibition
Toward a Borderless Imagination

The curatorial team of Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica introduces one of Pan-Africanism’s key tenets: the idea of remapping the world.