Art & Design

American painters Willard Metcalf, Dwight Tryon, Winslow Homer, and Abbott Thayer created profoundly beautiful views of the New England landscapes where they lived and worked. These paintings largely depict that environment as timeless and static.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

From the moment of its creation, the Peacock Room has been a personal, artistic, and cultural battleground. Created by artist James McNeill Whistler (1834–1903) for the London home of British businessman Frederick Leyland, the room has a .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

These artworks were some of the 29 pieces that were legally transferred to their country of origin, Nigeria, in fall 2022. The so-called “bronzes,” which were in the museum’s collection for many years, were stolen from Nigeria during the 1897 .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

To usher in the next century of the National Museum of Asian Art, artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, South Korea) was commissioned to create a special edition of his work Public Figures to be installed in front of the museum and facing the National .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

To inaugurate its 50th-anniversary season, the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden presents Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, a major survey of artwork made during a transformative period characterized .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Japan’s rich history of ceramic artistry developed in large part alongside the culture of drinking tea. Chanoyu (literally, “hot water for tea”), or the practice of preparing and serving matcha, powdered green tea, gained popularity in the .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

Sir Isaac Julien’s moving image installation Lessons of the Hour (2019) interweaves period reenactments across five screens to create a vivid picture of nineteenth-century activist, writer, orator, and philosopher Frederick Douglass. Through .... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.

The Smithsonian American Art Museum’s reopened and reimagined modern and contemporary galleries feature a new installation, American Voices and Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art, that freshly examines the explosion of possibility in American.... Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.