Seven guest collaborators bring new eyes to a Smithsonian museum founder’s collection of American art Blossom Time, Willard Metcalf, oil on canvas, 1910 Chris Klimek Host, "There's More to That ...

Willem de Kooning's abstract expressionist work "Interchange" represents a pivotal moment in American art history, reflecting the post-World War II shift towards abstraction. Painted in 1955 ...

"American Gothic" is a famous piece of artwork by Iowa-born Grant Wood. The painting by Wood depicts a man and a woman standing in front of a house. The man, a farmer, wears overalls, with a ...

A new American wing draws on feminist and racially and ethnically diverse thinking to spotlight 400 exceptional works in its collection. By Holland Cotter In the artist’s first major U.S ...

Friday’s Art After Dark: Party in the U.S.A. event highlighted the opening of the exhibition “Crossing the Divide,” a collection of American art from the museum’s permanent collection.

That’s an act of welcome clarity by its curators — Dalila Scruggs, of the Smithsonian American Art Museum; Catherine Morris, of the Brooklyn Museum; and Mary Lee Corlett, formerly of the ...

Upon entry, visitors are greeted by a 55-foot-tall "Whirligig" wind-powered configuration, which sets the tone for the quirky art displayed inside. The American Visionary Art Museum exhibits ...

The drying oils are of great value in the arts, tlieir principal application being in the art of painting. They are the vehicles for the distribution of colors over the surfaces of | materials ...

But the installation is not a vacuous vision of pastoral escape; it is a new work by the Apsáalooke (Crow) artist Wendy Red Star that ruminates on the colonisation of Native American land.

“Anila Quayyum Agha: Interwoven” will bring together two decades of art in different mediums from the Indianapolis-based Pakistani-American artist, who is renowned for her explorations of ...