Rick Lowe, artist and community organizer, takes us to his home in the 3rd ward of Houston, Texas.
contemporary artists and the connections between their work, their communities, and the nation
This exhibition brings together the work of a generation of British photographers of the 1970s and 1980s like Vanley Burke, Pogus Caesar, Anna Fox, Paul Graham, Sunil Gupta, Chris Killip, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Martin Parr, and others.
Together, they photographed a nation redefining what it meant to be British and,
Art for the Nation no. 68 (Spring 2024): 16-17, repro.
Artwork history & notes Artwork History Exhibition History 1986 Gifts to the Nation
Watch to learn more about the nearly 50 living Native artists practicing across the United States featured in the 2023–2024 exhibition The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans.
artist Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (Citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation
Watch Orville the Poet, a Maryland-based spoken word artist, perform his original poem, Between the Lines, in front of the work that inspired it, Theaster Gates’s Ground Rules (black line).
On Saturday, September 23rd, 2023, celebrated poets from across the nation came together
A vivid historical imagining of life in the early United States.
forest is a description of American society, the dense and discontinuous woods of nation
It’s Sunday—but nothing can mar the beauty of this crisp Spring morning. The scene takes place in a little country house—which is filled with the merriment of a weekend party—of one—rather two—for the moment I had forgotten the stove which gives out a welcome warmth from its red opening….One of the characters (the one which is not smoking) light[s] a Benson &
Greenough, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
Autumn Gold is an important example of Hofmann’s most familiar body of work. These images are distinguished by heavy rectangular slabs of intense, unmodulated colors that hover or superimpose themselves on the surface of the picture and are, in certain places, secured by thick, vigorous passages in a lower key.
Weiss, published in the National Gallery of Art exhibition catalogue, Art for the Nation
When 80-year-old Emily Sims Motley posed for her grandson, her eyes focused on the artist working in front of her. That direct gaze now invites us to look carefully at this portrait.
"Collecting for the Nation."
