Sarah Alvarez, The Art Institute of Chicago

Does abstract art mean something? How can a viewer approach such a work of art?
Finding meaning in abstraction

Abstract expressionism invites us in
Finding meaning in abstraction

This jug is one of the earliest known alkaline-glazed stoneware face vessels made by slaves or their descendants in the Edgefield District of South Carolina.
Cultures and slavery in the American south: ...

This jug is one of the earliest known alkaline-glazed stoneware face vessels made by enslaved people or their descendants in the Edgefield District of South Carolina.
Thinking about cultures

Geller captures the tensions of the Jewish immigrant experience in the early 20th-century United States.
Todros Geller, Strange Worlds

Geller captures the tensions of the Jewish immigrant experience in the early 20th-century United States.