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Meret Oppenheim’s “Table with Bird’s Feet”
On view at NMWA in Meret Oppenheim: Tender Friendships, through September 14, Table with Bird’s Feet is a Surrealist sculpture that blends an everyday object with the fantastical. It was first...
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Artist Spotlight: Alex Prager’s La Petite Mort
Alex Prager (b. 1979, Los Angeles) is a self-taught photographer and filmmaker known for large-scale pictures of actresses in eccentrically costumed and choreographed crowds. La Petite Mort (2012),...
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Artist Spotlight: Kimsooja’s Threads of Culture
The art of Kimsooja (b. 1957, South Korea) is anchored in physical and metaphorical explorations of fabrics, textiles, and sewing. She has used a needle and thread to stitch together much of her work,...
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There’s No Place Like . . . Where?
Has NMWA’s exhibition Total Art: Contemporary Video left you wanting to know even more about video artists? You’re in luck! Today, the museum opens a new installation, bringing even more video art into...
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Graphic Novels to Watch Out For: “Fun Home” by Alison Bechdel
Alongside the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s current exhibition, The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, the library’s display shelves currently feature...
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Images that Tell a Story: The First Woman Graphic Novelist
The Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center (LRC) at NMWA currently features an exhibition of work showcasing a female voice in a field that many associate with men. Five novels created by Helena...
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Happy Hispanic Heritage Month!
“Knowledge of [Latin American] art makes it possible to develop an acquaintance with and, if you will, an understanding of, our society.”—Marta Traba, Latin American art critic and writer, in Arte de...
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“The Past is Palpably Present” on New York Avenue
Magdalena Abakanowicz’s work is now on view in NMWA’s New York Avenue Sculpture Project! At a celebration on September 30, curator and scholar Mary Jane Jacob, a renowned authority on the artist, gave...
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Lynda Benglis & Maya Lin: Spookily Impressive Artists
Two artists born in October are not often discussed together. However, both created early-career work that elicited strong reactions from the American public and art world, later cementing their places...
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Graphic Novels to Watch Out For: “Marbles” by Ellen Forney
Alongside the Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center’s current exhibition, The First Woman Graphic Novelist: Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová, the library’s display shelves currently feature...
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Popping Up with Colette Fu
Award-winning pop-up book artist Colette Fu was invited to speak at the 25th Anniversary Library Fellows Meeting (now renamed the Book Arts Fellows). Based in Philadelphia, Fu creates books that, when...
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Miriam Schapiro: Feminist and “Femmagist”
While the weather outside is cooling down, take a look at an artist born in November whose work is known for bright colors, exuberant patterns, and play on texture and form. Miriam Schapiro has...
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“Greetings” from the Archive
Between the years 1910 and 1915, American painter, illustrator, and printmaker Dulah Evans Krehbiel, along with artisans called the “Ridge Craft Girls,” designed a line of greeting cards. Dulah Evans...
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Camille Claudel: Art as Exclamation
NMWA’s mission underscores the necessity of space for women as creators and consumers of art. The poignant story of artist Camille Claudel (1864–1943), who struggled to cement her own identity and...
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5 Fast Facts: Artemisia Gentileschi
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi (Rome, 1593–Naples? 1656), whose work is currently on view at NMWA in Picturing Mary. 1. Wunderkind Gentileschi...
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Beyond Iconography: Food in The Birth of St. John the Baptist
Orsola Maddalena Caccia’s lavishly detailed painting The Birth of St. John the Baptist (1635), currently on view in Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea, features still-life arrangements nestled into...
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Orsola Maddalena Caccia: “Picturing Mary” as a Renaissance Nun
Picturing Mary: Woman, Mother, Idea focuses on themes of femininity, motherhood, and ideal women expressed through the image of the Virgin Mary. The lives of women artists whose work is on view,...
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5 Fast Facts: Sofonisba Anguissola
Impress your friends with five fast facts about Italian artist Sofonisba Anguissola (ca. 1532–1625), whose work is currently on view at NMWA in Picturing Mary. 1. All in the Family Anguissola’s father,...
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Recent library acquisitions: Bookplates by Helena Bochořáková-Dittrichová
Museum visitors may remember the recent exhibition in NMWA’s Betty Boyd Dettre Library and Research Center featuring wordless novels by the first woman graphic novelist, Czech artist Helena...
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Blood and Milk, Science and Culture: The Virgin as a Nursing Mother
The figure of the Virgin Mary has been used in art as an ideal woman, poetic beauty, and perfect mother. Young girls in the Italian renaissance were told to look up to the examples of the saints,...
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