Taking its name from Toni Morrison's debut novel, this painting shows the clash of innocence and the adult violence of bigotry and hatred.
Global Cultures – Identity and the Body
Go behind the scenes with contemporary artist Wangechi Mutu, who discusses the inspiration and making of The NewOnes, will free Us, an exhibition of four sculpture that inaugurate The Met's annual facade commission
Wangechi Mutu, The NewOnes, will free Us
Rejecting the sensationalization of Mexico's injustices, Iturbide embeds herself within the communities when taking photographs
Graciela Iturbide, Photographing Mexico
Transformation and decay are at play with Cruzvillegas's improvised house-like structures, reflecting also the improvised construction of identity
Abraham Cruzvillegas, Autoconstrucción
Hurtado celebrates her first solo exhibition and discusses how her experience of motherhood and her commitment to environmental activism merge in her most recent body of work
Luchita Hurtado’s body of work
“Soundsuits” serve as an alien second skin that obscures race, gender, and class, allowing viewers to look without bias towards the wearer’s identity
Nick Cave’s “Soundsuits”
Contemporary artist Jordan Casteel paints vibrant large scale portraits, making visible the often unrepresented humanity of Black men
Jordan Casteel paints her community
Contemporary artist Maryam Hoseini discusses her abstracted, fragmented figures in her 2019 series of paintings reimagining the 12th-century poem about Laylah and Majnun
An interview with Maryam Hoseini
Could an arts initiative for immigrants become a political party? Artist Tania Bruguera created "Immigrant Movement International" (IMI) with that in mind.
Tania Bruguera, Immigrant Movement International
To acknowledge the truly violent nature of humankind is to implicate one’s self in a relationship to such atrocities.
Jane Alexander, Butcher Boys
In the 1990s, as artists searched for new alternatives, many considered conceptual art of the 1970s an unfinished project.
Tracey Emin, My Bed
This work is an example of provocation with a purpose.
Marc Quinn, Self
Kruger’s art is characterized by a visual wit sharpened in the trenches of the advertising world.
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your gaze hits the ...
The Wyeths have a long history of painting the American story.
Jamie Wyeth, Kalounna in Frogtown
Jason and the Golden Fleece and the American anti-Slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin combine to upend our own contemporary myths
Turning Uncle Tom’s Cabin upside down, Alison ...
Weems sets her series around the kitchen table, a metaphor for the intimate spaces of home.
Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Woman Feeding Bird), ...
Is staring into the eyes of one of the world’s most renowned performance artists scary? Transcendent? Boring?
Marina Abramović, The Artist is Present
Freud’s nude isn’t the idealized, horizontal beauty of previous centuries, but a forthright, vertical one.
Lucian Freud, Standing by the Rags
What might Shonibare wish to communicate by bringing together these “African” textiles with Fragonard’s Rococo images?
Yinka Shonibare, The Swing (After Fragonard)
Dumas paints from photographs, and deliberately makes her pictures strange, unsettling, and ugly.
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