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: Fragment from a Relief of Men Rowing

This relief was once part of a large-scale depiction of a major religious festival in which boats carrying divine images were towed across t...

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: Grey Area (Brown version)

    Fred Wilson often appropriates art objects to explore issues of race, gender, class, politics, and aesthetics. Made up of five portrait head...

     

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    Towering SpaciousnessBurning African Village Play Set with Big House and LynchingPower FlightWomanAt Connies Inn, from the "Of the Blues" seriesThe HeroOcean Park No. 27Everlasting WaterfallTuskegee Airmen SeriesGirl on a ChairThe InversionStudy for Craters (Overall Site Plan with Survey Net)Red Indian #4 (Spearman)Premonition of EvilFire WeedPersonnage
     
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    " It seems to be a common mistake to associate any welded bronze sculpture with well known sculptors who worked in bronze . . .however this bronze work does not bear any resemblance to any work by Ibram Lassaw. I have no idea who created it but I am glad that the BM makes it clear that Lassaw did not make it.Should anyone have a question about works attributed to Ibram Lassaw they can contact Ibramlassaw.com thanks, DL"
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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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