Where do you turn when life feels uncertain?
Facing cancer, painter Anne Neely found comfort in art while recording her Maine fishing community’s struggle to survive.
Watch the full documentary: bit.ly/4zSrbBe
Produced with RAVA Films
Coulter Fussell, a diner waitress turned artist, makes her kids’ Snapchat messages into art.
Watch the full doc on our YouTube channel: bit.ly/46X8zUo
Produced in collaboration with Rava Films
I am Harry, a Harvard educated curator ready to slay the house down boots. Today is the day I yoink control from the social girlies and Ali the mother of all rizzlers. They will not stop my aura. Siri add painting emoji here thanks
Transforming a face into a work of art! 💞
🖼 Robert Seldon Duncanson, “Still Life with Fruit and Nuts,” 1848, oil on board, 12 x 16 in., Gift of Ann and Mark Kington/The Kington Foundation and the Avalon Fund
Chat, bedrotting is officially chopped. @tripadvisor just hit our line and clocked that summer is almost over, so we're collecting side quests instead of regrets. These works of art clocked the vibe fr fr, and you can see them right here IRL at the National Gallery of Art.
Butter has changed a lot in 150 years 🧈
Photographer Ruthie Darling reimagined one of the National Gallery's most beloved paintings as if it were sold in today's grocery store.
Turning a 400-year-old painting into a ballgown 🩷
Costume designer Alexandra Sorenson recreated this iconic 1640 look as wearable art.
chat, you’ll never know the scream i scrumpt when i saw the back of this medal. wait for it twin.
luv yall,
ur girl Ali Luchs
John Singer Sargent quit portrait painting at the peak of his success.
Tired of painting for wealthy clients, he walked away in his 50s to travel the world and paint the landscapes he loved.
Quitting gave him the freedom to do his best work.
We fear they may have cleared. Meanwhile they’re hype because they just found out our Sculpture Garden is open til 8pm this summer 👀
Here's your official permission slip to touch grass longer: bit.ly/4fYgMx2
This transformation is actually unreal 😭 Artist Jo Steel reimagined Rembrandt by literally becoming him, turning into the artist’s self-portrait through makeup, costume design, and hand-painted sets. #OpenCall
Chat, the snatched girlie has returned to her regularly scheduled programming. And today’s lore drop? The Top Creators selected for the National Gallery’s Open Call 👀
See the full roster of rizzlers: nga.gov/open-call
Mother is mothering.
Madonna’s Met Gala look is inspired by Leonora Carrington, an artist who ghosted the patriarchy and painted worlds where women run everything.
In the early 1900s, André Breton, who led the Surrealist movement, was drawn to the idea that women were naturally emotional and erotic. So artists like Carrington often got boxed into the role of muse, there to inspire men instead of being taken seriously.