Howard Kaplan

Celebrating Kay Sekimachi’s 95th birthday with a comic about her life and work

Celebrating what would have been artist Alma Thomas’s 130th birthday with a comic about her life and work

Artworks in SAAM’s collection and the stories they tell us about 9/11

Reflecting on Paik's innovative installation with a new installment of the video series American Art Moments

Celebrating the renowned artist with a comic about her life and work

SAAM Debuts Drawn to Art: Ten Tales of Inspiring Women Artists

Three years ago we imagined the letters of nineteenth-century portrait sitters to Jonathan Van Ness, star of the Netflix’s series Queer Eye. With so many of us looking for advice about how to tame our unmanageable pandemic hair, we thought we’d take another look.

Our video series American Art Moments takes a closer look at an important New Deal painting in SAAM’s collection

The author’s new book, Fierce Poise, chronicles the artist coming into her own in the 1950s

A poet's trip to a museum is eye-opening in unexpected ways

The work of fiber artist Roland Ricketts, featured in the Renwick Invitational, begins on his farm in Indiana

The 2020 Renwick Invitational offers an inspired vision of nature

How SAAM is helping students stay creative when they can’t visit the museum

Populated with toy cowboys and cavalry, Barbie dolls and baseball players, David Levinthal’s photographs reference iconic images and events that shaped postwar American society.

A blog post in honor of Mother's Day, featuring Burning Man artist Tyler Fuqua and his mother talking about his work in "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man."

I'm throwing this one back five years to one of my favorite stories from one of my favorite poets that was originally posted in 2013. It comes with all good wishes from the blog for a wonderful, story-filled, Happy New Year.

Installing Trevor Paglen's Prototype for a Nonfunctional Satellite in the exhibition Trevor Paglen: Sites Unseen.

The other day, my colleague, Libby, and I walked through the museum in search of an artwork we could talk about. And though each artwork has a story to tell, Lava Thomas's "Requiem for Charleston," the artist's response to the church massacre at Mother Emanuel in 2015, spoke the most to us, in a quietly powerful way (if such a thing is possible).

David Best creates temples for Burning Man that are made of recycled wood that are ritually burned at the end of the annual festival. In this video Best discusses the Temple he created for the Renwick Gallery’s Bettie Rubenstein Grand Salon, as a sacred space for people to reflect on loss.