Superman makes an appearance in what looks (at first sight) like a Japanese print.
Seeing America – Periods: 1980-present
Building the American dream in the California desert.
Desert to Suburb, framing the American Dream
Native American artist Jaune Quick-To-See Smith suggests that thinking about our history in a different way helps us rethink our present.
What’s in a map? Reading the United ...
How can we begin to correct the lies of history? Artist Kenseth Armstead suggests a poetic solution.
The American Revolution as a world war: ...
A Greek myth 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 ...
An unflinching memorial to civil rights martyrs by the contemporary artist Thorton Dial
An unflinching memorial to Civil Rights martyrs, ...
Can the commonplace working farmland of California's Sacramento River Valley be a place of of breathtaking beauty?
The landscape remade, Thiebaud’s Ponds and Streams
Teraoka draws on Japan's brilliant history of art and kabuki theatre to create beauty from heartrending tragedy
American Kabuki
A viewing station for sunrise and sunset, Turrell’s work manipulates light, time, and perception.
Light, time, and transcendence in James Turrell’s ...
Who should be the arbiter of taste—the person on the street, the artist, the courts?
The Culture Wars and Richard Serra’s Tilted ...
Smith created this in 1992, responding to the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s arrival in North America.
“That’s the deal you gave us,” trade ...
The “father of video art” argued that electronic communication, not transportation, unites the modern world.
Television nation—Nam June Paik’s Electronic Superhighway
Weems confronts identity, family, and the myth of home in this iconic series of photographs.
Carrie Mae Weems, Untitled (Woman Feeding Bird), ...
Kaphar takes a violent history and renders it visible in this modified portrait of Andrew Jackson.
The Trail of Tears, Titus Kaphar’s The ...
Hundreds of shoelaces form just three words. Here, the artist takes an abstract idea and makes it immediate.
Nari Ward, We the People (black version)
This prestigious garment follows a traditional design passed down through generations of indigenous Alaskans.
Speaking to past and present, Clarissa Rizal’s ...
Red Star annotated photographs to restore dignity and context to government-issue photographs of Crow chiefs.