Telling the brutal history of Mexico told through fresco in Depression era New York, Diego Rivera at The Museum of Modern Art
Dr. Steven Zucker
A brutal history told for a modern American city, Mexican muralism in New York
Diego Rivera’s Sugar Cane
How a portrait of an African muslim came to hang side-by-side with the founding fathers in one of America's earliest museums.
An African muslim among the founding fathers, ...
How a portrait of an African muslim came to hang side-by-side with the founding fathers in one of America's earliest museums.
An African muslim among the founding fathers, ...
A portrait of a president transformed by tragedy.
Homage to JFK: Rauschenberg’s Retroactive I
Global trade in a cup of tea: Colonial America, sugar and slavery.
The triangle trade and the colonial table, ...
The gun that "won the West" also transformed American manufacturing and marketing.
Inventing America, Colt’s Experimental Pocket Pistol
Go backstage at the 1960 Democratic National Convention with photographer Gary Winogrand.
Gary Winogrand, Democratic National Convention, Los Angeles, ...
Go backstage at the 1960 Democratic National Convention with photographer Gary Winogrand.
Making an icon: JFK and the power ...
According to the artist (Reginald Marsh), at Coney Island, “The best show is the people themselves.”
Reginald Marsh, Wooden Horses
According to the artist (Reginald Marsh), at Coney Island, “The best show is the people themselves.”
Cheap Thrills: Coney Island during the Great ...
A portrait of a president transformed by tragedy.
Homage to JFK: Rauschenberg’s Retroactive I
The gun that "won the West" also transformed American manufacturing and marketing.
Inventing America, Colt’s Experimental Pocket Pistol
Nazi violence forced many artists and intellectuals to leave Germany in the 1930s, and like Grosz, many came to the United States.
George Grosz, Remembering
Nazi violence forced many artists and intellectuals to leave Germany in the 1930s, and like Grosz, many came to the United States.
Premonition or memory? George Grosz’s Remembering
Artifacts like this are key for reminding us of a history of racism that is all too easy to forget.
Connecticut Klan robe
Artifacts like this are key for reminding us of a history of racism that is all too easy to forget.
An artifact of racism: a Connecticut Klan ...
What most American students learn about as Custer's Last Stand was the last great victory for the Lakota people.
Custer’s Last Stand — from the Lakota ...
What most American students learn about as Custer's Last Stand was the last great victory for the Lakota people.
Henry Oscar One Bull, Custer’s War
These reliquary figures helped a nomadic society to honor their loved ones after death.