Blackness in Contemporary American Collage, the first major museum exhibition dedicated to contemporary collage reflecting the breadth and complexity of Black identity and experiences in the United ...

The event raised over $760,000 to benefit the museum’s education and public initiatives and honored champions of Washington, ...

The 2023/24 season closes with a special performance by a group of elite chamber musicians, led by violinist Livia Sohn and pianist Pedja Mužijević, regular performers at the prestigious Spoleto ...

The Spanish Ballet reflects the fascination with Spanish art and culture manifest in Edouard Manet’s work in the late 1850s and throughout the 1860s. His exploration of these romantic stereotypes ...

Interior with Egyptian Curtain brings a vibrant energy to the window motif. Henri Matisse was beginning to develop the synchronized line and color of his paper cutouts, it is considered by many ...

How can one be a German artist after Nazism and the destruction of “kultur”? This is the question Anselm Kiefer asked himself, echoing the famous lines in Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics of 1955: ...

In 1950, de Staël, who fervently maintained that “[w]e are continually influenced and penetrated by nature,” was deeply affected by the soft light of London (which he visited in July), as well as the ...

Pierre Bonnard’s work may resemble that of the impressionists; however, he painted from memory rather than from life, which accounts for the dreamlike quality of his pictures. Bonnard’s quiet and ...

After his forced resignation from the Pennsylvania Academy in 1886, Eakins concentrated almost solely on portraiture. Among his finest and most compelling portraits is this painting of a former ...

In 1931, John Marin shocked many of his admirers with an exhibition of oil paintings that were considered not nearly as beautiful as his vibrant watercolors. Nevertheless, he continued to experiment ...

In the winter of 1908–1909, while living in Dublin, New Hampshire, Rockwell Kent created what he called his “best known example of that winter’s work,”The Road Roller, which depicts the Dublin ...