Allison C. Meier

Two decades before he was interred beneath a stark tombstone, the artist Andrew Wyeth imagined his own funeral. In about fifty drawings from the early 90s known as the “Funeral Group,” he sketched…
Gordon Parks’s Rare Photos of Pittsburgh’s WWII-era Industry
In 1931—between the Great Depression and segregation—a beautiful tombstone was often a privilege denied. Edmonson lost his janitorial job at a Nashville hospital and felt inspired to pursue a new…
Shifting the longstanding narrative about American modern art to include a long-overlooked woman who embraced both visual and spiritual experimentation.
The ground-breaking exhibition not only expands art history, drawing attention to the engagement of black models in modernism, it also questions the role of museums and asks how these spaces can be…
A cache of silver left behind by the Roman Gauls reveals a complex and diverse Roman Empire.
Life Cut Short: Hamilton’s Hair and the Art of Mourning Jewelry is a compact exhibition that explores how this now obscure practice was part of a larger culture of mourning in New York City and…
The multi-talented designer is often overlooked in art and design history. The Cooper Hewitt, which has a large collection of her eclectic works, has sought to change that.