The enduring stories of objectsVest worn by Sgt. Joseph Richardson, Revolutionary War. Object #3952.00In the summer of 1776, representatives to the Second Continental Congress adopted the final draft of the […] \n

We tend to forget that not everyone wanted “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness,” nor have the goals of the Declaration of Independence ever been fully achieved. Tories, including John Wickham , free Black reside…

The Academy Museum celebrates the many arts and sciences that contribute to the landscape of motion pictures. This exhibition introduces the 19 branches within the academy, ranging from cinematography to marketing and pu…

At the peak of his career, Auguste Rodin was regarded as the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo. He rejected nineteenth-century academic traditions that dictated what was “proper” in art and instead transformed sculptu…

Several of the exhibition’s themes coalesce in Pierre Huyghe’s riveting nineteen-minute video Human Mask (2014): interspecies relationships, extreme weather, and extinction. Huyghe (b. 1962) sets his moving-image work in…

This Vital Earth encourages an ethical recentering in human consciousness of the approximately 4.5-billion-year-old “pale blue dot” (as scientist Carl Sagan described the Earth). In the mere 300,000 years that Homo sapie…

The United States of America was forged in the meeting halls and on the battlefields of the American Revolution, which established our republican form of government and committed the new country to ideals of liberty, equ…

Dalí Museum members receive 10% off food at Mademoiselle Paris now through Dec 31, 2026. \n

Cooking Up Change explores the history and cultural significance of community cookbooks spanning the 19th to the 21st centuries.

Thijs Biersteker has developed an art practice collaborating with scientists and institutions to make the ecological challenges facing us more accessible, understandable, and relatable through art. He and his team work w…

Papyrus of Pasherashakhet (detail), Egyptian, about 375–275 BCE. Ink on papyrus. Getty Museum. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Kraus