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What happens to life drawing after death? This panel brings together three perspectives on historical and contemporary practices of drawing the human body as cadaver to consider the ethics and experience of life drawing at its existential limits.
May 29, 2024
From the sixteenth century to the present, drawing the human body from life has remained a mainstay of Western institutional art practice. Despite significant shifts in the aesthetics, media, and purpose of art over the last five hundred years, life drawing endures in both the studio and the classroom.
March 15, 2024

Breaking Ground in Ground Breaking Printmaking Juane Quick-to-See Smith and Neal Ambrose Smith Association of Print Scholars Ninth Annual Distinguished Scholar Lecture Born January 15, 1940, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith is an enrolled […]

March 7, 2024
Join up to 65 other artists for a full day of drawing from multiple live models
March 5, 2024

With a minimum of means—often just a pencil and paper—artists have created drawings that open infinite worlds to us. They have used the practice of drawing to express their aspirations […]

February 16, 2024

The Benton Celebrates the Art of Drawing! Adventures in Collecting Drawings Conversation with Laura Giles, Curator of Prints and Drawings at Princeton University Art Museum and Jack Shear, Executive Director […]

February 16, 2024
Through new technical examination of drawings in the Getty’s collection, this exhibition offers fresh insight into the physical properties of blue paper, and its unique contribution to artistic practice from the 15th through 18th centuries.
February 12, 2024
Focusing on the 15th and 16th centuries, this presentation by Massumeh Farhad, curator of Persian, Arab, and Turkish art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art, examines the careful preparation and application of pigments as well as their role and function within the context of Persian manuscripts.
February 12, 2024

Join us for tours of select MDNY exhibiting galleries! The tours below all begin at different times on Saturday, January 27th. Register for the tours by clicking on the link […]

January 23, 2024

Join us for tours of select MDNY exhibiting galleries! The tours below all begin at 5pm on Friday, January 26th. Register for the tours by clicking on the link below […]

January 23, 2024
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