The narrative quilt tells the story of runaway enslaved people escaping north through the Underground Railroad.
Colby College Museum of Art
Bob Thompson’s Provocative Challenge to Euro-American Art History
A new retrospective expands on the late artist’s legacy as a Black Expressionist who teased out Civil Rights-era tensions in the United States.
Nancy Spero Takes No Prisoners
The issues that compelled Spero to create some her most provocative work never cease to trouble us.
Bern Porter: Never Finish
It could be argued that Jenny Holzer’s appropriation of advertising language/modes owes something to the Maine-born, physicist-engineer-turned-poet Ben Porter’s brilliant anti-establishment send-ups of the admonitions of ad men.
Smithsonian Joins Forces with 14 Museums to Pool Data on American Art
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has launched the American Art Collaborative, a consortium of 14 museums across the country coming together to create what you might call the art-world version of the Digital Public Library of America.