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Style: The Language of Design
The first in a series of Circa posts in which NCMA curatorial intern Taylor Hunkins interprets African utilitarian objects as products of design.
The Art of Healing: Potent Pigments
In our Art of Healing blog series, we’ve seen the role of ritual objects and venerated images of saints, gods, and goddesses. But can art cure our afflictions like a medicine? From time immemorial we have put our belief in powerful objects with the hope of overcoming sickness. Pilgrimage was invented …
Nature’s Art in the Museum Park
Our observant ranger keeps an eye on what the wildlife is up to in the Museum Park.
Art Advocacy: The Aesthetic of Solidarity
Do allies participate in oppressive systems that further marginalize the communities they attempt to support? Artists in the NCMA’s collection pose a challenging.
Why 20th-century African art is both the best art you’ll ever experience and not art at all.
At least not in the Western sense. NCMA intern Sarah Frisbie explains.
The Art of Healing: Conjuring the Supernatural
Animal-shaped incense burners were used in ancient Costa Rica to seek healing from another world.
The Art of Healing: Desperate Measures
GSK Curatorial Research Fellow Ángel Gonzalez describes the role of “the flayed one,” a Mesoamerican god that could both send or cure sickness.
The Art of Healing: Faith and Affliction
Artist José Bedia portrays a saint of health and healing often described as showing no mercy to the arrogant but providing solace to the afflicted.