A Virtual Tour of Surrealism Beyond Borders

Nearly from its inception, Surrealism has had an international scope, but knowledge of the movement has been formed primarily through a Western European focus.

Various people in a plaza pulling strings on a statue

Art, Protest, and Public Space

A selection of prints investigate the role art has played in revolutions, protests, and social activist movements from the eighteenth century to the present.

A Virtual Tour of In America: A Lexicon of Fashion

This exhibition establishes a modern vocabulary of American fashion based on its expressive qualities.

A black and white photograph of two nude women in a loving embrace.

Germaine Krull’s Queer Vision

Once the toast of Paris, avant-garde photographer Germaine Krull held a mirror to queer life in interwar France.
Painting of Elem Pomo tribe members gathered in a circle with dancers in the background

Jules Tavernier and the Elem Pomo

Tavernier’s Dance in a Subterranean Roundhouse at Clear Lake, California chronicles an exceptional cultural interaction between California Indians in their homelands and outsiders.

A woman looks at photographs hung in a gallery

A Virtual Tour of The New Woman Behind the Camera

The New Woman was a global ideal of female empowerment based on real women making revolutionary changes in life and art.

A Virtual Tour of The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1512–1570

This stunning exhibition features over 90 works portraying Medicean Florence’s elite painted by the period’s most celebrated artists, from Raphael to Agnolo Bronzino.

Join Growing Thunder Collective, three generations of traditional beadwork and quillwork artists, for a glimpse into their collaborative practice and the relevance of Swiss-born artist Karl Bodmer’s portraits of Indigenous peoples to the work they create today.

A portrait of a Native American man by Karl Bodmer

Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits

Learn about Swiss-born artist Karl Bodmer's extraordinary watercolor portraits of the North American interior and its Indigenous people.

A Conversation on Karl Bodmer: North American Portraits

This conversation focuses on Bodmer’s exceptionally detailed portraits of Omaha, Mandan, Hidatsa, Blackfoot, and other Plains nations peoples and the impact of the portraits on their communities.

A gold-leaf screen depicting a white cherry blossom

The Rinpa Experience of Nature

How painters in Edo-period Japan reinvigorated artistic traditions and idealized the past.

A black-and-white photo of Jacob Lawrence resting his head in his hand in front of one of his paintings

Reckoning with American History in Jacob Lawrence’s “Struggle”

In this 1968 interview, Lawrence discusses the importance of centering Black contributions to U.S. history.
A realistic portrait of Gertrude Stein, a large woman seated with her hands in her lap, wearing a brown dress and a pin

Sitting for Picasso and Vallotton: The Portraits of Gertrude Stein

United for the first time since 1926, two portraits offer singular visions of the extraordinary writer and collector.

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Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

A portrait of two men, one with his arm around the other's shoulders

Alice Neel: People Come First

A wooden mask decorated with stone

Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

A New Look at Old Masters