Why do artists sometimes label their works "Untitled"? In this video Student Educator Lingran Zhang explores how the title of Untitled (Colored People Grid) by Carrie Mae Weems relates to the meaning ...

Fernand Léger’s Les belles cyclistes (The Women Cyclists) depicts a group of four physically powerful women dressed in shorts and T-shirts at rest during a bicycle outing. The women stand or sit ...

Thomas Cole (American, b. England, 1801–1848), Aqueduct near Rome, 1832. Oil on canvas, 44 1/2 x 67 5/16 in. University purchase, Bixby Fund, by exchange, 1987 ...

Student educator Jay Buchanan considers how artists working in various artistic mediums have connected figures from ancient Greek and Roman mythology to their own historical contexts.

As part of the opening celebrations for Design Agendas: Modern Architecture in St. Louis, 1930s – 1970s, co-curators Eric P. Mumford and Michael E. Willis were in conversation with Sabine Eckmann, ...

Student educator Yue Dai takes a closer look at Les Pauvres by Pablo Picasso in Mandarin.

Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956), Sleeping Effort, 1953. Oil and enamel on canvas, 49 7/8 x 76 in. University purchase, Bixby Fund, 1954 Pollock’s return to the figural and the allusive was bound ...

Allan McCollum’s Pam Beale is one in a series of “constructed paintings” begun in the late 1960s. The piece is composed of a series of three-inch-wide rectangular strips of torn and dyed canvas ...

This painting is by the French artist Fernand Léger. Its title is Les belles cyclistes (that’s French for “The Women Cyclists”). A cyclist is a person who rides a bicycle. Léger made this scene of ...