American Art Everywhere

We Remember Helen Frankenthaler (1928-2011)

January 9, 2012

Helen Frankenthaler's Summerscene, Provincetown Helen Frankenthalter, the last of the Abstract Expressionists, died on December 27, 2011, at the age of eighty-three. In 1951, when she was only twenty-three, she began to soak, or stain, her canvasses with extremely thin...

Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the U.S. and Latin America

October 4, 2011

Anima (Alma/Soul) by Ana Mendieta Beginning tomorrow, October 5, the American Art Museum will be hosting a two-day symposium called Encuentros: Artistic Exchange between the U.S. and Latin America. The symposium will examine artistic exchanges between the United States and...

Luce Unplugged: Q&A with Tierney Sneeringer

June 2, 2011

Luce Unplugged, an acoustic concert series in the museum's Luce Foundation Center for American Art is the creative genius of Tierney Sneeringer, a program assistant at the Center. Each month, Tierney brings in an emerging, local talent to perform and...

The Best of Ask Joan of Art: The Monotype

March 1, 2011

This post is part of an ongoing series on Eye Level: The Best of Ask Joan of Art. Begun in 1993, Ask Joan of Art is the longest-running arts-based electronic reference service in the country. The real Joan is Kathleen...

Jasper Johns Awarded Presidential Medal of Freedom

February 17, 2011

Jasper Johns's Souvenir Jasper Johns, one of our favorite artists renowned for his paintings and printmaking, received the Medal of Freedom Tuesday night from President Obama. At eighty years old, Johns is perhaps best known for his images of targets...