OGUNQUIT, Maine — The Ogunquit Museum of American Art recently announced its 2026 exhibition season, presenting four major ...

American-art history has “arrived at a crossroads,” as many of the “first generation” scholars retire and a new, much larger, and more diverse cadre makes its mark, says John Davis, head of the art ...

Bridget R. Cooks first made a splash by casting a critical eye on museums. In her much-discussed 2011 book, Exhibiting Blackness: African Americans and the American Art Museum, Cooks looked at the ...

If you want to learn more about African American art history for Black History Month, YouTube is the place to go. It’s free, accessible from home and many of the videos combine visuals of artworks ...

For 50 years, the Smithsonian American Art Museum has hosted more than 700 residential fellows and visiting scholars through its preeminent fellowship program, the oldest and largest in the world for ...

When Khalil Kinsey saw his family’s private African American Art & History Collection on public display at SoFi Stadium on the first day of Black History Month, he knew it had the potential to open ...

One cannot consider the present-day field of African American art history without mention of Sarah Lewis. The associate professor of the History of Art and Architecture and African and ...

Professor Wendy Bellion (Ph.D. Northwestern University) teaches North American art history. Professor Bellion's scholarship takes an interdisciplinary approach to American visual and material culture, ...

Editor's Note: Worcester Living stories are written far in advance of publication. In the time since this story was written, Natalia Ángeles Vieyra, associate curator for American Art, has left ...

Archives of American Art Board Trustees and Trustee Emeriti. Photo by Alexis Brown. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art celebrated the 2022 ...

John F. Kennedy, space exploration and color TV are all part of an exhibition at the Long Island Museum in Stony Brook that recalls the area’s history during that era. By Aileen Jacobson A ...

Pictures of Belonging at the Smithsonian American Art Museum spotlights Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo, three Japanese American women artists whose overlooked stories bring powerful voices ...