Story Archive

Story Archive

  • Changing the Conversation: African Arts in a Global Context

    Changing the Conversation: African Arts in a Global Context

    This spring, the Museum seeks to broaden the discussion by bringing together works by African and European artists that engage viewers in intercultural conversations beyond the Africa-Europe binary of discovery, influence, or “Otherness.” Installed throughout the Museum’s galleries of European...
  • On view | Photography and Belonging

    On view | Photography and Belonging

    This spring a selection of works from the Museum’s collections investigates the ways in which experiences of belonging and alienation have been both a subject and an effect of photography. Photographers have long sought to depict human relationships and social...
  • Migration and Material Alchemy

    Migration and Material Alchemy

    Working from positions of personal or political vulnerability, the artists in this exhibition provide a human context for matters of immense scope and imbue humble materials with spiritual or metaphorical resonance.
  • Landscapes Behind Cézanne

    Landscapes Behind Cézanne

    It is commonly understood that when you compare very alike things, you notice their differences. When comparing unlike things, it can take a little longer to notice their similarities—but eventually I became aware that, notwithstanding the radicalism of Cézanne’s approach,...
  • In Depth | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from the Phillips Collection

    In Depth | The Artist Sees Differently: Modern Still Lifes from the Phillips Collection

    In their quest to create a new art suited to new times, many late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century artists rejected the official hierarchies of the French Academy, which privileged epic narratives of history, mythology, and religion, choosing instead to paint...
  • Art Matters Winter 2018

    Art Matters Winter 2018

    I feel like I have become so lost in art that I think of parts of my life as paintings: Picasso’s Guernica captures best the state of my war-torn hometown of Aleppo, Syria; Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes...
  • Rare Works on Loan to the Museum

    Rare Works on Loan to the Museum

    The Art Museum has received on long-term loan from a private collection two rare and intriguing works of art from the Early Modern period. The painting from Central Europe and bust from Italy enhance the Museum’s display and represent aspects...
  • Studying Emotions in Art and Science

    Studying Emotions in Art and Science

    Alexander Todorov, professor of psychology, recently spoke with Veronica White, the Museum’s curator of academic programs, about his fall 2016 freshman seminar “Expressing the Passions of the Soul: The Study of Human Emotions in Art and Science.”