Collections: Contemporary Art

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Relief of Queen Nefertiti Kissing One of Her Daughters

Egyptian art made in the centuries before Akhenaten came to the throne gives few clues to the lives or feelings of members of the royal fami...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Table

    Today when we think of where inventive contemporary design is manufactured, we often think of Italy. This, however, was not always the c...

     

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    Power FlightBurning African Village Play Set with Big House and LynchingTowering SpaciousnessAt Connies Inn, from the "Of the Blues" seriesWomanTuskegee Airmen SeriesEverlasting WaterfallOcean Park No. 27The HeroRed Indian #4 (Spearman)Study for Craters (Overall Site Plan with Survey Net)The InversionGirl on a ChairUntitled (Vitrines)PersonnageFire Weed
     
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    "...one is reminded of Iago's expression in Shakespeare's "Othello": the beast with two backs..and perhaps too this Vanilla Fudge image creates a twist to that imagery...where the hands in prayer become Iago's beast with two backs..and even an insincere handshake is beastly... "
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