Each object has many stories. Stories can be about how or why something was made, what the artist was thinking, and how we relate to it. We exchange stories to find and share meaning. Stories have power. Use this guide to learn stories about art and your role in those stories.
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Coffee with the Curators
The Faces of Justice and Peace: Arts of the Yoruba Ògbóni/Òsùgbó Society
The Harn docents have always delighted and challenged me with their insightful responses to art works on view in our exhibitions. They see what I can’t see, and in many cases their probing questions flummox me, and call for further investigation and re-evaluation of our interpretive materials. A case in...
Exhibition Guide
Asian Collection Brochures
Learn more about our Asian Collection.
Coffee with the Curators
Unconventional Collaborations
It isn’t unusual for artists to build upon content of the past, whether they are imitating it, criticizing it, or tearing it down. (I can’t help but think of how Robert Rauschenberg purchased a drawing by Willem de Kooning and then erased it! It was titled Erased de Kooning Drawing, 1953.) As...