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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Judy Pfaff
Judy Pfaff is an innovator, acclaimed for her groundbreaking work in installation art during the 1970s. At a time when minimalism was prized, she approached spaces with maximal intention, filling […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: David Park
While he was a young artist, David Park experimented with the predominant style of the day: abstract expressionism. However, he made a decisive turn toward representation and broke away from […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Constantin Brancusi
Constantin Brancusi’s polished bronze A Muse is one of the anchors of the Museum’s collection of European modern art. The sculpture is a refined distillation of a woman’s facial features. […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Frank Okada
Frank Okada once described his work as being “dedicatory in nature.” He said, “My parents, through good and bad times, always placed the first portion of newly cooked rice before […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Cameron Martin
The highly detailed work Selvian by Cameron Martin both excites and tricks my eye. Is this a photograph? A screenprint? A painting? Martin draws from multiple processes to create this […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Joan Mitchell
“Abstract is not a style. I simply want to make a surface work.” —Joan Mitchell Mitchell is one of the foremost painters of Abstract Expressionism. In the 1950s, she lived […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Amy Sherald
I look at America’s heart—people, landscapes, and cityscapes—and I see it as an opportunity to add to an American art narrative … I paint because I am looking for versions […]
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ConnectDaily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Ron Nagle
“Diabolically beautiful.” “Ridiculously seductive.” “Subversively beautiful.” These are just a few reactions to Ron Nagle’s small scale ceramic sculptures. This photograph shows only a glimmer of the iridescent color and […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Arnold Kemp
Years previously to making this work, I met Lee Ranaldo and Kim Gordon of the band Sonic Youth. Ranaldo introduced his music to me by inviting me to a concert […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Joe Goode and Dorothea Rockburne
After spending so much of the quarantine year interfacing with the flattened spaces of computer screens, I am anxious to rebuild the “muscles” used for close, sustained looking. Two works […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Barbara Earl Thomas
“I think about salvation and redemption, where in the world it might come from. Who and what in the end will save us from ourselves. One can only imagine what […]
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Daily Art MomentDiscoverLearnDaily Art Moment: Alwyn O’Brien
On first glance, Alwyn O’Brien’s sculpture might resemble a vase. O’Brien opens up the typically solid vessel shape by piecing together hand-rolled coils of clay. She loops, elongates, twists, and […]