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Black print on cream-colored paper of a skeletal dog, ribs and other bones laid bare while some portions remain opaque. The lower-left portion of the image has been torn off entirely, as has the upper-right corner.

From the Conservation Lab
Hidden Care: Four Stories of Patience and Repair

The conservation of works of art happens behind the scenes and at its best is something you don’t even notice.

From the Conservation Studio
Predicting the Damages of Light

Using new technology, conservators can predict how long a work on paper can safely be exhibited and exposed to light.

On a turquoise-blue background, the image of a white and black table-like shape, rendered in three dimensions with various intersecting two-dimensional shapes, repeats regularly in various sizes, rotated to various different angles.

Inside the Exhibition
Dan Friedman’s Radical Transformation

Inspired by modernist ideals and the East Village art scene, he turned away from corporate branding to embrace a fun-loving and deeply progressive spirit of design.

The Creative Process
What You Don’t See: Meditating on Korean Monochrome Painting

Meet three Korean modern artists for whom painting is a deeply spiritual practice.

Painting of three opulently dressed men seated around a cloth-covered table playing cards. The man at left is baby-faced and wears a wide-sleeved velvet top with lace ruffles at the wrists. He stares at his cards placidly while the young man across from him, whose back is largely toward the viewer and who wears a dominant feather in his hat, leans forward with an expression of alarm and pulls a card from a hidden pouch at his back. A third man, a bit older, wears gloves with holes at the fingertips and bends toward the first man, conspicuously reading his cards.

Inside the Exhibition
Caravaggio’s Dramatic Life and Paintings

The artist’s dynamic and highly influential work, like his biography, contrasts darkness and light.

Photograph of a young light-skinned man with short black hair sitting on the floor of an art gallery holding a sketchpad, his back partially toward the viewer, as he looks toward a painting of a woman in blue.

Top 10
Our Fall Favorites

Looking to spice things up with creative activities, imaginative artworks, or just a really good chicken sandwich? It’s all here.

Exploring the Collection
Bureaucratic Collage: Ghosts in the System

Sometimes art unexpectedly results from our desire to refine and organize information.

Painting in loose brushstrokes of a line of closely packed buildings along the horizon with many sloping roofs in bright orange. Before them an expanse of overgrown, yellow and green grass waves in the wind. Beyond, multiple slim smokestacks rise into a gray and pale-turquoise sky.

Inside the Exhibition
Finding Inspiration in the Tensions of Modernity

In the 1880s the new mix of industry and nature in the evolving Parisian suburbs prompted Van Gogh and his contemporaries to experiment with radical painting approaches.

One Theme, Multiple Voices
Unfazed: Cats in Art

Five felophiles on our staff share works by artists who share their love of cats.

A person sits at a table in a study-like room stringing objects—flowers, leaves, vegetables, crystals, scraps of paper with mathematical equations—onto a three-dimensional musical staff. Figures emerging from the wall do the same, while the floor's tiles come loose, drawers overflow, and birds nest in the back of a chair.

Inside the Exhibition
The Dueling Dualities of Remedios Varo

Discover the diverse techniques and seemingly incompatible fields of knowledge the artist used to create her endlessly enchanting paintings.

An open book featuring a single image spread over two pages showing a parade of grotesque, slightly comical, googly-eyed goblins. The frontmost has a lute for a head, and another of the five figures crawls on all fours, its back a long piece of wood; part of a zither.

Collection Spotlight
Books: Another Kind of Japanese Print

Though less well-known today than their single-sheet counterparts, Japanese illustrated books are an artform unto themselves—often inventive, sometimes lavish, and endlessly varied.

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From the Curator
Lui Shou-Kwan’s Zen Painting and American Abstraction

Curator Tao Wang shares how artist Lui Shou-Kwan arrived at the pure abstraction of his Zen paintings.

Charcoal sketch of a young man with receding hair wearing an open shirt, sitting in a crouched position, right leg bent in front of him.

Inside the Exhibition
Ellsworth Kelly’s Life in Portraits

Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the acclaimed painter, sculptor, and printmaker with a rare look at his deeply personal portraiture.

Two young women sit painting in front of Alexander Calder's Flying Dragon, a bright-red metal sculpture located in a blooming garden.

Summer 2023
The Top 10 Things to Do

Here’s your guide to just some of our many offerings this summer, including member-only exclusives, can’t-miss exhibitions, and more.

Photograph of Leslie Wilson, a medium-skinned woman with short, curly black hair, beside a bank of floor-to-ceiling windows and wearing a tweed vest over a black shirt.

Meet the Staff
Leslie Wilson, Associate Director, Academic Engagement and Research

With a global perspective and outgoing manner, she guides and supports emerging professionals at every stage, from undergraduate internships to post-doctoral fellowships.

A garden empty of humanity but full of trees and grass and green sky,all pulsing with life.

From the Curator
Van Gogh and the Nature of Solitude

Throbbing with the hum of life, this garden is as inviting as the artist’s iconic bedroom. Curator Kevin Salatino tells us why.

One Theme, Multiple Voices
Unleashed: Dogs in Art

Staff members adopt five dogs from our collection that illustrate the bond between humans and their faithful furry companions.

From the Curator
In Praise of Mothers and Fermented Beverages

Curator Andrew James Hamilton finds a rich and heady celebration of motherhood in a vessel from the Andes.

A wooden sculpture of the head and shoulders of a person with lustrous gold skin, a blue-highlighted graphic wig, and many hieroglyphic decorations.

Exhibition Insights
A New Look at Faces from the Past

Come face-to-face with gods, rulers, and everyday people from the ancient world.

Two matching vases of deep-red ceramic with short necks, resting on golden bases designed with flourishes. Each vase has two golden arms and a golden, swirled topknot.

New Acquisition
Pair of Mounted Vases by Jean Claude Duplessis

Trace the roughly 50-year journey of these elaborate vessels as they traveled from China to France and were extravagantly transformed along the way.

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