At this party, everyone has the same face and seems profoundly alone. Fashion & alienation in 1960s New York by Dr. Halona Norton-Westbrook, Toledo Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker
From the Manhattan Project to nursery rhymes, a collision of art and science. If All the World Were Paper… by Emma Acker at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and Dr. Beth Harris
A portrait of a president transformed by tragedy. Rauschenberg’s Homage to JFK by Patricia Hickson, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker
Go backstage at the 1960 Democratic National Convention with photographer Gary Winogrand. JFK and the power of media by Dr. Robert Cozzolino, Minneapolis Institute of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker
Spirituality and transcendence were important postwar themes expressed in Rothko's work. Transcendence and Cold War by Dr. Margaret C. Conrads and Dr. Steven Zucker
A powerful accumulation of names is inscribed on slabs of reflective stone that cuts into the earth on the Mall. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker
This sculpture, installed on the Yale campus during Vietnam War protests, was never meant to be permanent. Protesting the Vietnam War, with lipstick by Dr. Mya Dosch
The “father of video art” argued that electronic communication, not transportation, unites the modern world. Television nation by Tina Rivers Ryan
The American flag is a potent symbol that has different meanings for different viewers. Icon and irony: Jasper Johns, Flag by Sal Khan and Dr. Steven Zucker
Asawa was interned in World War II, but we must be careful about interpreting her artworks as related to that trauma. From wire to weightlessness by Allison Glenn, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, and Dr. Beth Harris
Warhol’s art celebrates the consumerism and advertising that inundated American culture in the 1960s. Consumers, Warhol, and 1960s America by Alejo Benedetti, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art and Dr. Steven Zucker