Close Looking with the Curator: Brooklyn Bridge from the New York Municipal Archives
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Join us for a closer look at incredible drawings of the Brooklyn Bridge from the New York Municipal Archives! We are pleased to offer a special opportunity for The Drawing Foundation’s members to look at and discuss an installation of drawings related to the Brooklyn Bridge. The result of a multiyear effort to preserve the […]
A Celebration of John Wilson
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For over six decades, artist John Wilson (1922–2015) created powerful and poetic works that reflected his ongoing quest for racial, social, and economic justice. Join a panel of experts to celebrate Wilson as a global visionary and a truthful voice in response to the turbulent times in which he lived. Take a deep dive into […]
The Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Lecture on Connoisseurship—’Candy Coated Popcorn…’ with Kerry James Marshall
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Join world-renowned artist Kerry James Marshall in celebrating close looking as a source of inspiration. Known for his large-scale paintings, Marshall uses the process of close looking to critically examine art history and reassert the place of the Black figure within the canon of Western painting. Learn directly from the artist and his unique practice of connoisseurship […]
The Brooklyn Bridge Up Close
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Before the Brooklyn Bridge became an iconic symbol of New York City, it was a bold idea sketched on paper. With 11,000 drawings stored in the city’s Municipal Archives, its […]
ON DRAWINGS 2025 – Exhibition Tour at The Met
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Exhibition Tour of Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson Led by Jennifer Farrell, Jordan Schnitzer Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art This event is open to members of The Drawing Foundation. Log in to your membership account to register or sign up to become a member today. __ Exhibition […]
Allegory and Abstraction: Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints
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The Department of Drawings and Prints boasts more than one million drawings, prints, and illustrated books made in Europe and the Americas from around 1400 to the present day. Because […]
Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson
The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY, United StatesThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
For over six decades, the American artist John Wilson (1922–2015) made powerful and poetic works that captured his life as a Black American artist and his ongoing quest for racial, […]