By the 1540s the theme of Apollo and the Muses, established during the sixteenth-century Italian Renaissance, had made its way to northern Europe where Maerten van Heemskerck seems to have been one of its champions. Heemskerck was one of the first Dutch painters to travel to Italy for art studies after which he devoted his… Read More
In celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King’s legacy and the work of artist Fred Wilson, create and share an example of juxtaposition through the combination of two found objects or images from online and/or your immediate surroundings. Read More
Brian Piper, Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator for Photography, spoke with photographer Elliott Jerome Brown Jr. Brown’s work is featured in the exhibition New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile. The exhibition presents the work of four photographers, all of whom work with, and critique, these new practices in photography. Read More
Brian Piper, Mellon Foundation Assistant Curator spoke with with photographer Dionne Lee. Lee’s work is featured in New Photography: Create, Collect, Compile. The exhibition presents the work of four photographers, all of whom work with, and critique, these new practices in photography. Read More
When artist and activist Elizabeth Catlett lived in New Orleans in the early 1940s, much of the city was racially segregated, including City Park—and, by extension, the New Orleans Museum of Art. As the chair of the art department at Dillard University from 1940 to 1942, Catlett was determined that her students should have the… Read More
