February
This black and white photograph shows a living room filled with sleek, modernist furniture.

Here’s a happy way to kick off the new year: we’ve been awarded a major grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts to support our upcoming Fall 2021 exhibition Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970. Curated by Makeda Best, Devour the Land will address the impact of the U.S. military on the domestic environment. In the coming weeks, we’ll be sharing more details about this groundbreaking exhibition.

Also new this year: we have switched up our schedule for Art Talks. They now take place on Tuesdays at 12:30pm (EST), and the first in February will be a talk on Dieter Roth’s iconoclastic use of nontraditional artistic materials. Be sure to check our calendar as we are always adding virtual events, which are free and open to everyone.
This is an image of a folding screen featuring paintings of various green plants and trees set against a gold background.

Register for a discussion between film director Linda Hoaglund and curator Rachel Saunders about Hoaglund’s Edo Avant-Garde, which invites you to explore how Japanese artists of the Edo period pioneered new approaches to painting. Upon registration, you’ll be given a link to view the film, so you can watch it before the event. 
This photograph shows a rusted door to a storage shed surrounded by overgrown plants and bushes.

Congratulations to curator Makeda Best and her team on the major grant received from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts for Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970. Take a look at this article about the award and the exhibition.

 
This print shows two raised hands, clasped together, in fire engine red, overlaid with a blue inscription in all caps, “Come Together in Peace.” The background is beige.

Watch this video to witness paintings conservation fellow Ruby Awburn bring life back to a painting by abstract impressionist Kumi Sugaï.
This molded sculpture depicts a small rabbit lying down with ears extended and front limbs outstretched in near profile view. Small, spherical shapes and bits of yellow can be seen throughout the sculpture, giving it a roughly textured surface.

Our first Art Talk this year—on Tuesday, February 2—reveals how German artist Dieter Roth underscored processes of decomposition in his work.
This watercolor drawing shows a man and a woman using a wooden plank on an upside-down architectural capital as a seesaw. They are surrounded by ancient ruins. St. Peter’s Basilica and modern Rome appear in the background.

If you missed this live Art Talk in December (or want to see it again), we now have the video posted on our website. Explore The See-Saw by Hubert Robert and learn how he playfully repurposed Rome’s ancient splendor to make a statement about relations between men and women.
This black and white photograph shows a living room filled with sleek, modernist furniture.

Mark your calendar: In a live Art Talk on Tuesday, February 23, we’ll explore the historically overlooked role Lucia Moholy played in promoting a Bauhaus vision of modern living.

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Header image: Lucia Moholy, British, Bauhaus Masters’ Housing, Dessau [Lucia Moholy and László Moholy-Nagy’s Living Room], 1927–28. Gelatin silver print with gouache retouchings. Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Gift of Ise Gropius, BRGA.21.55.A. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn.






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