This summer, the High Museum of Art will premiere Picture the Dream: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement through Children’s Books (August 15–November 8, 2020), an exhibition organized in collaboration with The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art.
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The year 2020 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted millions of women in the U.S. the right to vote. The Frick is celebrating with a series of videos honoring the stories of women who made, appeared in, collected, and took care of art in its collection. Aimee Ng is continuing the series with a look at Helen Clay Frick, the founder and first director of the Frick Art Reference Library and an instrumental force in The Frick Collection's early art acquisitions.
The family of Lilly Cassirer, the painting’s owner prior to World War II, has sought to reclaim Camille Pissarro’s Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain (1897) from Madrid’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection since 2000.
This next iteration of the exhibition series features migration (empire), a twenty-four-minute video work by multidisciplinary artist Doug Aitken.
Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography, on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, delves into the rise and fall of this popular form, and how it was a precursor to our current media-saturated moment.
Leading international artists Shepard Fairey, Jenny Holzer, Luchita Hurtado and more are partnering with eBay to release an exclusive, artist-designed series of fine art bandanas.
Learn about Mary Cassatt's groundbreaking color aquatints and a dynamic series of linocuts produced by early-20th-century British artists in this discussion with Met experts in conjunction with the exhibition Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Collectors' Collections.
The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum has announced their 2020 Purely Proxy Prix de West award winners and virtual tour.
As part of its Say it Loud online exhibition, Christie's visited acclaimed artist and photographer Cary Fagan in his studio. In this video, Cary talks about the ability to stop time with his work and describes photography as his teacher.
This summer, the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA) debuts a selection of recently acquired contemporary and decorative art works in Contemporary Art + Design: New Acquisitions. Jointly organized by the Museum’s decorative arts and design and contemporary art curators, Contemporary Art + Design is the first special exhibition to debut since the Museum’s reopening, after closing in mid-March due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
