Art & Design

Looks like your spice rack on steroids? Nope. Although the colors are a feast for the eyes.

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Tiny Little Jars Contain Big, Bold Colors In The Forbes Pigment Collection

3:23pm October 29, 2020

by Susan Stamberg

Conservators, preservationists, artists, art historians and serious art fans can consult the Harvard Art Museums' collection to analyze and imitate the colors that painters used many centuries ago.

Mark Loughney, Pyrrhic Defeat: A Visual Study of Mass Incarceration, 2014-present. Graphite on paper (series of more than 600 drawings)

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'Marking Time' And Making Art In Confinement

6:36am October 28, 2020

by Andrew Limbong

An exhibition at MoMa PS1 features work created by currently or formerly incarcerated artists and their family members. Curator Nicole R. Fleetwood knows what it's like to love someone on the inside.

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Museums Postpone Show Over Late Artist's Images Of Hooded Klansmen

6:02pm October 25, 2020

by Emma Jacobs

Four major museums have delayed a show that includes work by the late American artist Philip Guston until 2024 due to concerns about how Guston's images of hooded Klansmen would be received.

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Medusa cutting her hair and Hercules exercising at home are two examples of Jonathan Muroya's Greek Quarantology illustration series.

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Drawing On Greek Myths As Inspiration For Illustrating Life During The Pandemic

7:00am October 25, 2020

by Emily Bogle

Illustrator Jonathan Muroya chose characters from Greek mythology to represent different aspects of living in isolation. A King Midas whose gold is hand sanitizer, for instance, feels relatable.

The formerly missing panel is titled, There are combustibles in every State, which a spark might set fire to. --Washington, 26 December 1786, Panel 16, 1956.

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Lost Painting By Modernist Master Jacob Lawrence Found In Private Collection

10:56am October 22, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

A visitor to the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York — where Lawrence's series, Struggle, is currently on view — helped identify a missing painting by the Modernist master.

Increased car and foot traffic coupled with rising sea levels have driven parts of the Tidal Basin area underwater.

Landscape Architects Unveil Plans To Save The National Mall's Tidal Basin

4:35pm October 21, 2020

by Elizabeth Blair

With increased car and foot traffic, the ground underneath the Tidal Basin — home to memorials to Thomas Jefferson, FDR and MLK Jr. — is sinking. As sea levels rise, the walkways flood daily.

Portraits of Points of Connection created by James "Yaya" Hough

Artist In Residence Creates Portraits Of Reform At The District Attorney's Office

4:41pm October 19, 2020

by Neda Ulaby

"I've been an artist since I was a child," says James "Yaya" Hough. After serving 27 years in prison, he is now the first-ever artist in residence at the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.

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"The Writing On The Wall" art installation projects writings by incarcerated people onto the sides of buildings, such as The New York State Supreme Court Building, above.

'The Writing On The Wall' Finds Poetry Behind Bars, Projects It Onto Buildings

9:53am October 19, 2020

by Jon Kalish

"Look at all the wisdom, look at all the heart that is imprisoned in our society," says Hank Willis Thomas, cofounder of the art installation project.

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"On the day Grandma passed, our rabbi allowed my family into the temple to recite prayers for her and speak of her memory in a holy space," says Moscovitch. "It was the first time we left the house since early March." Here, a print from that day rests on

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Documenting Grief: A Mother And Son Grow Closer Despite Loss

7:00am October 18, 2020

by Mhari Shaw

When photographer Jacob Moscovitch's grandmother died in Israel earlier this year, he and his family couldn't travel because of the pandemic. Instead, he photographed his mother's grieving process.

French woman conductor for the Paris Trolley Company, 1917

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Take Off Your Sweats And Step Into 'Silk And Steel' — French Fashions In WWI

10:43am October 15, 2020

by Susan Stamberg

An exhibition at the National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., explores what wartime women wore — from overalls to evening gowns — and how military uniforms have affected fashion.