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Black-and-white poster with a bold statistic about AIDS, an image of a baby doll, and accompanying text about HIV/AIDS in babies.
Queer Activist Art
Gran Fury’s weapons of mass production.
Jasmine Kuylenstierna
June 7, 2024
Detail of Augusta Savage's sculpture "Lift Every Voice and Sing"
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Harlem Is Everywhere: Episode 5, Art as Activism
What was the political legacy of the Harlem Renaissance?
Jessica Lynne, Mary Schmidt Campbell, Jordan Casteel, and Bridget R. Cooks
March 19, 2024
A female figure in a black burqa is set in a white space. Text in red reads "Masaawi Haqooq" in Urdu script.
Representing the Female Body

Take a closer look at two feminist artworks from the 1980s
by Lala Rukh and the Guerrilla Girls.

Kristin Plys
March 8, 2024
a gold pectoral with coins and a pseudo-medallion that holds fourteen gold coins and two gold discs that are linked together and held by a large gold tube surrounding it.
Wearing Coins in Late Antiquity
Why were gold coins used as jewelry throughout the Byzantine Empire?
Stephanie Caruso
January 23, 2024
Black and white image of the actor Charlie Chaplin dressed as the tramp, a white man in overalls in this scenario and a mustache where he is trapped between massive factory cogs that he is riding while also trying to tighten the bolts with both of his hands at the same time.
A More Perfect Union: American Political Art of the 1930s
The scholar Max Fraser considers how the Great Depression spurred a decade of art influenced by leftist politics.
Molly Morrow
September 22, 2023
Colorful print of two workers drilling at the ground in front of an industrial construction setting.
The Art of the Great Depression
How did a decade of unprecedented financial strife, radical social upheaval, and technological innovation shape art and cultural identity in the United States?
Allison Rudnick
September 18, 2023
Detail of the pamphlet for the Act Up Art Box with the text "A limited edition box of objects"
A Short History of the ACT UP Art Box
"ACT UP felt like a collision of creativity, political fervor, and justifiable anger..."
Peter Antony
June 7, 2023
A pair of black men with feathers decorating their heads and body next to a cup covered with a lid
The Linsky Project: Reinterpreting Porcelain Figures
New interpretive labels help visitors navigate the role of the decorative arts in negotiating race, labor, colonialism, and global commerce.
Marlise Brown
April 12, 2023
Curls by Wolfram Koeppe
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How the details of this bust revealed its subject—a forgotten world leader
"It’s a great mystery: who he is, who made it."
Wolfram Koeppe
August 8, 2013
Starting Over by Elizabeth Cleland
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The stunning tapestry woven by victims of religious persecution
"This tapestry is almost the antithesis of what one expects from a great sixteenth-century weaving."
Elizabeth Cleland
July 17, 2013