Whether you are in New York, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Oregon, Colorado, Minnesota, or Illinois, there's almost always a great museum nearby.
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Alice Aycock, Low Building with Dirt Roof (For Mary)
A work of non-functional architecture, Aycock’s structure evokes personal memories and associations to the ancient past.
Elizabeth Catlett, Invisible Man
Celebrating the novelist Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man also testifies to Catlett’s lifelong artistic commitment to the struggles of Black Americans.
Ole Worm, Museum Wormianum
This catalog describes a very particular kind of room: a 17th-century curiosity cabinet.
Theaster Gates, In Case of Race Riot II
Drawing on Minimalist forms, Gates provokes active reflection on the social lives of the objects he employs.
Dedication Page (colophon), with Blanche of Castile and King Louis IX of France, Saint Louis Bible (Moralized Bible or Bible moralisée)
This visually dazzling manuscript helped lift King Louis IX to sainthood. A dedication page shows the book’s illuminator at work.
Marble statue of a kouros (New York Kouros)
This early Greek depiction of the idealized male form displays power and poise in his nudity and steadfast gaze.
Collection in Focus: The Morgan Beatus
Take a closer look at this 1000 year old Spanish illumination.
Kerry James Marshall, Now And Forever; Elizabeth Alexander, “American Song,” Washington National Cathedral
Kerry James Marshall and Elizabeth Alexander create words and images that fill the Washington National Cathedral with hope.
Michel-Jean Cazabon, Cedar Point, Mount Tamana
Made for British clientele, Cabazon crafts a picturesque vision of Trinidad’s tropical beauty.
Ziggurats in the U.S.: the reception of Assyrian architecture in New York City
Architects used Assyrianizing motifs strategically to help their businesses stand out in New York’s competitive urban landscape.
Freddy Rodríguez, Paradise for a Tourist Brochure
Rodríguez juxtaposes the beauty of the natural world with violent references to Rafael Trujillo's dictatorship in Paradise for a Tourist Brochure.
Pocho Research Society (Sandra de la Loza), Echoes en el Echo: A Series of Interventions about Memory, Place, and Gentrification
In Echoes en el Echo, De La Loza excavates forgotten fragments of L.A.’s past.