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Looking Beyond the “Brotherhood” of the Pre-Raphaelites

Avatar photo by Mark Scroggins January 17, 2023January 23, 2023

Concurrent shows at the Delaware Art Museum highlight overlooked aspects of Pre-Raphaelite art and tread beyond typical gender hierarchies.

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Delaware Art Museum Restages Afro-American Images 1971: The Vision of Percy Ricks

Avatar photo by Delaware Art Museum October 27, 2021October 17, 2022

The show, which honors the 50th anniversary of an exhibition history once ignored, continues a series of projects documenting Wilmington’s contemporary art scene.

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Hank Willis Thomas on Black Survival Guide and Creative Civic Action

Avatar photo by Karen Chernick August 21, 2020November 5, 2020

Thomas and fellow artist Ebony Brown talk about interdependence and How to Live Through a Police Riot, an archival handbook that inspired his 2018 series.

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Drawings of Daily Resistance from the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott

Avatar photo by Allison Meier September 3, 2018August 31, 2018

The Delaware Art Museum is exhibiting a series of drawings by Harvey Dinnerstein and Burton Silverman of the 1956 Montgomery Bus Boycott.

John Sloan, "Helen at the Easel" (1947), casein tempera underpaint, and oil-varnish glaze on panel (some Shiva Ponsol colors used), gift of the John Sloan Trust
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The Open-Ended Narratives of a Small Museum

Avatar photo by Thomas Micchelli June 24, 2017June 26, 2017

What if Abstract Expressionism never happened?

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Letters Between Dante Gabriel Rossetti and His Model Fanny Cornforth Are Now Online

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 12, 2017May 12, 2017

The Delaware Art Museum has digitized correspondence between the Pre-Raphaelite painter and his overlooked muse.

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‘Dark Humor’ by African-American Artists at Delaware Art Museum

by Sponsor July 14, 2016May 8, 2017

The term “dark humor” was coined in 1935 to describe a subgenre of comedy in which pleasure arises from topics generally considered taboo. Dark Humor: African American Art from the University Museums, University of Delaware presents works that employ subversive humor to question cultural and racial stereotypes.

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Can You Solve These Early 20th-Century Newspaper Puzzles?

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 7, 2015July 7, 2015

Better known for his realist paintings of New York City street life, Ashcan School artist John Sloan was also a master of visual mind-bending.

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Delaware Art Museum Showcases Performance Art for the First Time

by Sponsor July 8, 2014May 16, 2017

This summer, the Delaware Art Museum explores performance art for the first time in its exhibition history.

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Delaware Museum Plans Art Sale to Pay Debt

by Jillian Steinhauer March 27, 2014March 30, 2014

The Delaware Art Museum will sell at least three, possibly four artworks, to raise money to pay off its debt, the News Journal has reported. The move would violate the rules of both the Association of Art Museum Directors and the American Alliance of Museums, likely bringing sanctions on the Delaware institution.

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