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Sometimes paintings can play with your memories and even help you to compose your past.
Twenty-two years ago, he was a student working to pay his way through design school, when the museum’s director of design decided to give him a chance.
Our curator of ancient Egyptian art reflects on the early days of presenting this historic collection at the museum—how much has changed and how much we’ve learned in the last century plus.
Before electronic alarm systems, security was in the hands of human keepers and the paws of their canine crew.
Curator Gloria Groom reveals how the two artists prepared the stage for their cast of Parisian models.
This is an artist, she insists, who always manages to take your breath away.
Smart exhibition design facilitates a physically distanced yet powerful and intimate experience.
A photograph brought into a home brings two strangers together—and inspires another photograph.
The evidence of colonialism can be found in the most beautifully rendered objects in Dutch painting.
Four curators share their favorite elements of the newly reimagined galleries and the deeper, richer, more entwined narratives they tell.
The use of ancient Egyptian motifs allowed France to explore its fascination with—and exert a feeling of ownership over—the illustrious North African culture.
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