Collections Themes
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/monstrosity-and-spectacle-chinese-figure-painting
Monstrosity and Spectacle in Chinese Figure Painting
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/children-and-childhood-nineteenth-century-american-folk-art
Children and Childhood in Nineteenth-Century American Folk Art
This online collection explores depictions of children and childhood in the Museum's collection.
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/ritualized-competition-mesoamerica
Ballgame and Beyond: Ritualized Competition in Mesoamerica
Explore a digital resource on ritualized competition in anicent Mesoamerica.
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/kenji-ishiguro-photographing-continuity-through-discontinuity
Kenji Ishiguro: Photographing Continuity through Discontinuity
This online collection presents a selection of photographs by Kenji Ishiguro (b. 1935) in the Museum's collection that show urban change in Japan. Taken in Tokyo between 1958 and 1960, these photographs reflect a period of instability, rearrangement, and upheaval in the city.
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/michael-kenna-rouge
Michael Kenna: Rouge
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/mhv/representing-slavery-rereading-visual-narrative
Representing Slavery: Rereading the Visual Narrative
Explore a digital exhibition for AAS 349, Seeing to Remember: Representing Slavery Across the Black Atlantic.
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/not-just-bridge-works-museum-collections
Not Just a Bridge: Works from the Museum Collections
This online collection considers bridges not merely as structures but also as important visual cues and metaphors: they join what is separated; they increase communication; they facilitate circulation; they are social and cultural constructions, as well as feats of engineering.
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/wpa-progress
Populist Printmaking: Works from the WPA Graphic Arts Division
Explore themes that emerge from across the Museum's collection of prints from the New York City Graphic Arts Division of the WPA Federal Art Project.
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/art-asias-diasporas-and-asian-american-experience
The Art of Asia's Diasporas and the Asian-American Experience
This resource explores works from the Museum’s collections by Asian American artists, American artists working in Asia and/or in an Asian style, and Asian artists working in America.
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/learn/explore/collections-themes/many-powers-gold-akan-art
The Many Powers of Gold: Akan Art
This resource explores works by Akan artists of present-day Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire.