Join Hannah Klemm, associate curator of modern and contemporary art, and Victoria McCraven, 2020–2021 Romare Bearden Graduate Museum Fellow, as they discuss contemporary works by Black artists in the Museum’s collection. Faith Ringgold, Glenn Ligon, and Kerry James Marshall all use forms of storytelling to articulate the politics of identity and explore narrative content through … Continued

There are very few distinct lines in nature, so the task of an artist rendering forms is one of making lines stand in for edges, delineating forms in space as boundaries on a plane. If a drawn line is an edge, can a material edge, as on a sheet of torn paper, be understood as … Continued

Curator of Asian art Philip Hu will discuss the delicate floral motifs on Chinese blue-and-white porcelain of the Yuan and Ming dynasties from the Museum’s collection. He will explore the methods used to create the objects, the utilization and relevance of the objects during that period, and the symbolic significance of the flowers and plants … Continued