Art-Making Activity | Me, You and We: Get to know each other through drawing
Louisiana artist Ida Kohlmeyer is known for her highly personal language of symbols and shapes in her abstract paintings and sculptures, often arranged like words on a page. She took… Read More
Object Lesson: The Right of Assembly by Arthur S. Siegel
In this photograph, Arthur Siegel captures the visual power of people united by a common cause. At different times in his career, Arthur Siegel worked as a photojournalist and documentarian,… Read More
Object Lesson: Alfred Stieglitz’s Hands Beside His Photograph by Dorothy Norman
Dorothy Norman was only twenty-two years old when she walked into the Intimate Gallery and met Alfred Stieglitz, then sixty-three. Although they were separated by more than forty years… Read More
Object Lesson: Blaze Starr by Diane Arbus
It is often said that a portrait photograph represents some kind of exchange between the photographer and the subject, and that the resulting image, as the product of this exchange,… Read More
Object Lesson: In Mondrian’s Studio by André Kertész
In only his second year in Paris, after moving there from Hungary, André Kertész received an invitation to visit Piet Mondrian’s apartment and studio. There, he was immediately immersed in… Read More
Object Lesson: Photographers Tina Modotti and Lola Alvarez Bravo and Mexican Modernism
This week, as NOMA turns its focus towards themes of connection, we are thinking about how human relationships shape artists’ careers, and how we can use those connections to interpret… Read More