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“I be off the slave ship building pyramids and writing my own hieroglyphs.” —Kendrick Lamar, “HiiiPoWeR” While working as an advisor on the exhibition…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Art needs to be seen. I believe a work of art becomes truly complete when a viewer is part of the equation. Without someone observing the artist’s…
Issue: Art for This Moment
In 1866, when Mary Cassatt was 22 years old, she made a life-defining choice. Unsatisfied with the depth of opportunities afforded to women studying…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Tiningo’ si Sirena: A Conversation with Gisela Charfauros McDaniel and Antoinette CHarfauros McDaniel
Håfa Adai —hello! I recently spoke with artist Gisela Charfauros McDaniel and her mother, scholar Antoinette CHarfauros McDaniel, to discuss Gisela’s…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Frank Bowling’s Americas
New York, 1966–75
When the British Guiana–born artist Frank Bowling relocated from London to New York in 1966, he found an art scene in flux, with abstract painting…
The first time I ever visited the Museum of Fine Arts, I was only a few weeks into my first semester of college. I was new to Boston and more…
Issue: Art for This Moment
My love for art has always been informed by an interest in how people across time think, feel, celebrate, grieve, and love. I view art as the tangible…
Issue: Art for This Moment
How often do we appreciate the tremendous power of an ocean wave? Not often, I realize, while I sit in a rocking chair in my suburban Cleveland home…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Mixing Bowl (Bell Krater) with Perseus, Athena, and Hermes
Like many people my age, when I was in middle school I was obsessed with Percy Jackson and the Olympians , a series of fantasy novels inspired by…
Issue: Art for This Moment
Curiosity and Generosity Support Science and Conservation
Saul Kurlat had a lifelong interest in how science helps us understand the world. As an engineer at the forefront of the image digitization revolution…