The Art Museum has recently acquired an extraordinary group of drawings by the renowned American architect and designer Michael Graves (1934–2015). The nearly five thousand works, which come to the Museum from Graves’s estate, span the entire range of his...

How can paintings from the nineteenth century reflect views about westward expansion? What can a high chest of drawers from Philadelphia reveal about the trade of mahogany? How have works by contemporary artists contributed to modern ecological consciousness? These are...

Among the most enjoyable aspects of producing the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment is the opportunity it has afforded to teach related courses at different stages in the project’s gestation.

Convened in conjunction with the exhibition Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment , this two-day symposium extends the exhibition’s focus and approach to the visual cultures of diverse times and places. Seventeen international speakers offer compelling ecocritical analysis of a...

Postcommodity’s time at the Museum as the 2017 Sarah Lee Elson, Class of 1984, International Artists-in-Residence resulted in a sound art performance and the acquisition of N13: 31°20'50.88"N; 109°29'47.62"W , one of twenty-six large-scale balloons from their 2015 land art...

Collaborating as artist and craftsman, Stella and Tyler embraced the challenge of expanding the technical capabilities of modern printmaking with each series they made. The result was the development of multimedia prints of unprecedented scale and breathtaking complexity.

Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment tells a new environmental history of North American art, tracing evolving ideas about the environment from colonial encounters between Indigenous beliefs and European natural theology through nineteenth-century notions of progress and Manifest Destiny to...

Can an abstract painting tell a story with the same persuasive power and expressive drama as a narrative scene? What is the future for abstract painting—following the artistic brilliance of Pablo Picasso, El Lissitzky, and Jackson Pollock, can it continue...