Art of East Asia vividly animates the philosophical and creative traditions that inspired Asian luminaries and everyday people throughout China, Japan, and Korea. This story begins with a section devoted to Chinese tomb art and develops through Buddhist icons, Daoist visions in the setting of a formal Chinese reception hall, the mixture of Buddhist, Daoist, and Shinto domestic piety embodied…

Art of the Open Air is an eye-opening source of creative inspiration, showcasing the Museum’s internationally significant sculpture collection in the Plaza de Panama. Visitors will see the plaza gleam with sculptures in bronze, painted fiberglass, and aluminum by great artists including Joan Miró, Auguste Rodin, and Tony Rosenthal. In addition, a work by Alexander Calder will be joining the…

The first decades of the twentieth century witnessed a schism in the arts as painters and sculptors in Europe and the Americas began to break with academic traditions. Rallying under the banner of expressive freedom and an independence from established institutions, these artists began to explore new social realities, and the even more radical concept of a purely abstract art….

In 2011, the Museum received an extraordinary gift from the Estate of Vance E. Kondon and Liesbeth Giesberger: 48 exceptional works by the leaders of the German and Austrian avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century, including Otto Dix, George Grosz, Gustav Klimt, and Egon Schiele. Presented as a temporary exhibition in 2012, these works are a remarkable…

The natural beauty and temperate climate of the American Southwest have attracted artists since the nineteenth century. Like the East Coast artists of the Hudson River School (whose work is featured in the American Art galleries), landscape painters in California and New Mexico associated the mountains and deserts of the Southwest with the American myth of “Manifest Destiny.” In images…

These galleries display a selection from the more than four thousand works of American art in the Museum’s collection. The history of American art is as complex as the history of the country itself. American art serves as the visual narrative to a largely immigrant nation—a nation rooted in diversity whose history is at times beautiful and at times challenging….

The modern-day country of Iran, known in ancient times as Persia, has a history of civilization dating back approximately ten thousand years. The early millennia of Persian civilization witnessed the rise of prosperous cities such as Susa, Persepolis, and Ctesiphon under the rule of legendary monarchs like Cyrus the Great (r. ca. 559–530 bc). At this time, Zoroastrianism was the…

Arts of South and Southeast Asia ranges in date from the first to the nineteenth century AD. The earliest works are mostly religious, relating to the ritual practices of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism. Although each religion has a distinct set of gods and divinities, all three based the iconography of these figures on the human form. Buddhism spread along the…

What You See Is What You Get Due to popular demand, the British artist’s first major American museum survey has been extended through Labor Day, September 4. Richard Deacon: What You See Is What You Get is the renowned British artist’s first major museum survey in the United States. Winner of the Turner Prize in 1987 and the subject of a survey…

This exhibition presents two bodies of work by Colorado-based photographer Brenda Biondo. Prints from the artist’s Paper Skies series, a group of carefully composed formal variations, are displayed alongside selections from her Playground series. Both series focus on familiar subjects—the built space of the playground, the open sky—with fresh eyes, attuned to subtle harmonies of form and color. Biondo’s playground images…