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This past semester, the Smith College community welcomed our new president, Kathleen McCartney, with open arms. The Museum celebrated her recent inauguration with ART STORIES, a special exhibition featuring art that has left a lasting impression on the widespread Smith community.

A look behind the scenes can show how easily human error or simple forgetfulness can lead a piece of art into limbo, into an existence without cataloging, captioning, or even a proper home.

Known as a “Romantic Minimalist,” his extremely reductive visual language of monochromes, lines, and grids may at first appear similar to that of his Minimalist contemporaries of the 1960s and ‘70s, but Marden never completely abandoned the accidental or idiosyncratic gesture characteristic of Abstract Expressionists.

At the beginning of the 19th century, improved travel by train and by steamship offered Europeans greater access to Turkey and to Constantinople, then the capital of the Ottoman Empire.

Nusra Latif Qureshi is a leading figure in the contemporary miniature scene, having studied the art at the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan.

The Cunningham Center owns a particularly interesting set of silhouettes, done by an artist named William Henry Brown.

Narcissism is not a new thing. Just read from Shakespeare or the classics and you come across many a picture perfect narcissist.

"Interior, Exterior: Parisian harmony versus discord, 1876-2009" explores tensions in the portrayal of French culture.

Canaletto created contemporary land- and cityscapes, or vedute, which appealed to the travelers’ desire for reminders of their travels—the picture postcard of their day.

In the mid-1990s, long before everyone had a food blog, Martin Parr shot British Foods,a series of meals, side-dishes and sweets with a decidedly different vibe.

Munch’s body of work went through several phases of experimentation but most pieces adhered to his lost sense of self and melancholic understanding of life.

Drawings such as Cupid and Psyche reveal a moment in this artistic process, frozen on a page for us to see.