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Two side-by-side black-and-white photos show Frida Kahlo on the left and Mary Reynolds on the right. Kahlo has her dark hair pulled back with braids crossed over her head, wears large dangling silver earrings, and has a cigarette in her hand. Reynolds looks to the right; her closely cropped light hair is topped with a small black cap, and she wears a dark fur coat.

Frida Kahlo and Mary Reynolds: A Serendipitous Meeting

by Caitlin Haskell, Tamar Kharatishvili, Alivé Piliado, and Tacy Wagner

The curatorial team introduces these two formidable artists and shares how their brief encounter reorients our understanding of the ways artists inspire one another.

12 Things to Know AboutMyth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection

by ⁠Lisa Ayla Çakmak and Katharine A. Raff

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Bodhisattva Reimagined: The Buddha of the Future Made Whole

by Tao Wang

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Painting shows a round table with a swirling tablecloth and a single candlestick with burning candle at center. The force of the swirling seems to be sending a set of blue plates into orbit overhead, where fruits swirl about and breaks open, dropping down their seeds. All around, large mosquitos swarm. Orange and yellowish colors dominate.

Remedios Varo’sStill Life Reviving (Naturaleza muerta resucitando)

by Caitlin Haskell and Alivé Piliado

Lilly Martin Spencer: Hearth, Home, and National Fame

by Annelise K. Madsen

Artist Conversation: Rhonda Holy Bear

A gleaming dark brown sculpture of a female form seen in 3/4 view, from the knees up. Her shoulders press against the wall, while her neck inclines her head forward at an angle. Her arms hang at her side with her hands pressed on top of her thighs. While her prominent breasts are fully delineated, the rest of her figure is obscured by a full-length abstracted dress.

Simone Leigh’sSharifa

by Giampaolo Bianconi

A ceramic sculpture made to look like crushed cardboard packaging. The package features a beer can on a red background with black and white accents and lettering, some words in English and others in Japanese. The left side of the sculpted box looks particularly crushed and frayed, and the words "Super 'Dry'" are visible in large lettering on its side.

Ceramic Innovation: Japan’s Women Take the Lead

by Janice Katz

A solid gold version of a "protrait sculpture" bvut without any distinct features.

Peruvian Portraits, Past and Present: Understanding Ana De Orbegoso’sNeo-Huaco #3

by ⁠Andrew Hamilton

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Kinds of Green

by Ryan M. Pfeiffer, Sharon Cobbins, Clara Granzotto, Dail Williams, Christina Warzecha, and Veronica Cajigas

Six staff members ruminate upon some of their favorite greens in the museum.

Painting of a crowd of figures carrying candles and wearing white bonnets through which a woman is led on horseback holding a small, bundled child. The woman's dark-blue dress contrasts against a pale-pink sky. The figures stand so closely together that their hats form a sea of white. Many bonnets are illuminated like lanterns.

First Encounters with Works of Art

by Rachel Joy Echiverri Rowland, Lisa Kucharski, Ginia Sweeney, Kloie Rush-Spratt, Che d‘Arte Shines, and Christine Stringer

Unleashed: Dogs in Art

by Elizabeth Benge, Elizabeth Pope, Robby Sexton, Emily Lew Fry, and Chelsea Southwood

Birdwatching in the Museum

by Dan Meyer, Sizhao Yi, Violet Jaffe, Paul Jones, and Ryan M. Pfeiffer

Unfazed: Cats in Art

by Lisa Kucharski, Arielle Jacobi, Mel Becker Solomon, Jen Nelson, and Lauren Schultz

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A sculpture against a gray background shows a female figure with conical breasts and elongated arms holding a drum on her head and sitting on a stool. The drum is almost twice the woman's height and has figures of animals and geometric shapes carved around its middle. A stretched piece of hide forms the top of the drum.

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Three consecutive panels of peach, each containing a silhouette of a woman's face. The faces are featureless and composed of multiple cut swaths of brightly colored geometric and floral fabrics. The central figure wears her hair in Bantu knots.

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Photograph of numerous figures in blue uniforms surrounding and touching the white frame of Seurat's "La Grande Jatte" on all sides, some on ladders, a red machine at center.

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