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Just like letters and cards, artworks sent through the mail make personal connections.

Conservator Mardy Sears discovers the perfect pandemic project: making a custom box for Josef Albers’s print portfolio Homage to the Square—the cube to house the squares.

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

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

The artist drove himself to capture what was changing right before his eyes.

How does context affect the meaning and the stories we find in photographs?

Curator Ashley Arico addresses three questions about the close relationship between ancient Egyptian text and image.

This intimately scaled postcard print shows how creative cropping and positioning turn a publicity shot into an art object.

Rubins’s high-flying investigations of aluminum, amorphous masses composed of salvaged kiddie rides, rise from the Bluhm Family Terrace.

It’s the perfect time to get to know Patrick and his green thumb.

Calm and focus are among the tools needed to stretch a canvas as large as Warhol’s Mao.

The department celebrates its centenary with a look at some of the spectacular works and key figures that have shaped the collection.

“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am.”

Thanks to some collaborative TLC, two wooden horses are back on the carousel, much to the delight of visitors.

There we were, the eight of us, noses up like hunting dogs, sniffing the air for that chlorine smell.

Sometimes paintings can play with your memories and even help you to compose your past.

Curator Annelise K. Madsen explores how Mary Cassatt created one of the era’s most recognizable icons.

Take a ride through the collection to see how horses were revered in the ancient Greco-Roman world.