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Amy Sherald, Precious Jewels by the Sea
This monumental painting of Black people at the beach speaks to a dearth of Black figures in the art history canon
Alma Thomas, Lunar Rendezvous—Circle of Flowers
Thomas takes inspiration from both the 1969 moon landing and her backyard garden
Harry Fonseca, Two Coyotes with Flags
Cartoonish coyotes play on Fonseca's overlapping identities as queer, American, and Indigenous.
Richard Mayhew, Indigenous Spiritual Space
Explosions of color signify a landscape, real or imagined
Norman Lewis, Untitled
Lewis leaves behind the figure for abstracted fragments at the end of World War II
Representing the inner self: Charles Sebree’s The Mystic
Charles Sebree expresses his inner self in The Mystic.
Contemporary politics and classical architecture: Federal Building and Courthouse, Tuscaloosa
This federal building inspires discussion over neoclassical architecture's ties to the ideals of democracy and contemporary American politics.
Monument Avenue and the Lost Cause
A conversation that took place on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, just before the last Confederate monument on the boulevard was removed in September 2021
Stefanie Jackson, Bluest Eye
Taking the name from Toni Morrison's debut novel, this painting's figures and scenes show the clash of innocence and the adult violence of bigotry and hatred
A desert on fire, Salgado in Kuwait
Finding heroism amidst one of the world's great environmental disasters.
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