Two paintings by Hung Liu are exciting new additions to NMWA's collection, enabling the museum to showcase Liu’s distinguished skills as a painter and printmaker.
Joana Vasconcelos's Rubra, a nearly six-foot-tall glass and textile chandelier, is an exciting new addition to NMWA's collection through a gift from museum patron Christine Suppes.
From the Curator: Inside “Delita Martin: Calling Down the Spirits”
Posted: April 27, 2020
Category: From The Curator
Associate Curator Ginny Treanor goes behind the scenes of Delita Martin: Calling Down the Spirits.
Artist Spotlight: Behind the Scenes with Eve Sussman, the Rufus Corporation, and the Old Masters
Posted: August 4, 2014
Category: From The Curator
When first exhibited at the 2004 Whitney Biennial, 89 Seconds at Alcázar (2004) was a runaway success. Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation, a collaborative of actors, choreographers, technicians, and...
Artist Spotlight: The Magical Erasure of Michal Rovner
Posted: July 22, 2014
Category: From The Curator
Learn more about artist Michal Rovner, whose work is featured in the NMWA exhibition Total Art: Contemporary Videoand in the NMWA collection.
On view in Meret Oppenheim: Tender Friendships, the artist’s early work Schoolgirl’s Notebook (Cahier d’une Écoliere) provides insight into her spirit and ambition as a young artist, as well as...
Artist Spotlight: The Collaboration of Ingrid Mwangi and Robert Hutter
Posted: July 8, 2014
Category: From The Curator
In 2005, spouses Ingrid Mwangi (b. 1975, Nairobi, Kenya) and Robert Hutter (b. 1964, Ludwigshafen, Germany) began working as a collaborative artistic force. Today, they exhibit their joint works under...
Artist Spotlight: Pipilotti Rist’s Red Room and Blue Bodily Letter
Posted: July 1, 2014
Category: From The Curator
One of the nine gallery spaces in Total Art: Contemporary Video is vividly painted with an oblong white space centered on a red wall. This was not a random design...
Artist Spotlight: Dara Birnbaum—Video as Subject and Form
Posted: June 24, 2014
Category: From The Curator
On view in Total Art: Contemporary Video, Dara Birnbaum’s Technology/Transformation: Wonder Woman (1978–79) opens with several minutes of footage showing intense explosions, transformations, and sampled disco tunes. Just as a...
Now on View: The Compelling Worlds of “Total Art: Contemporary Video” at NMWA
Posted: June 6, 2014
Category: From The Curator