St. Louis Art Museum

Artist and wellness advocate Dail Chambers and daughter. [8/8/19]

Arts

From The Streets To The Galleries, Artists Responded To Ferguson

Jeremy D. Goodwin

Five years ago, Kevin and Danielle McCoy were making art that wasn’t particularly political.“We made a lot of safe work,” Kevin McCoy said, “but it didn’t…

Ashley Cooper and Kehinde Wiley. Wiley's portrait of Cooper makes visual reference to Daniel Martensz Mytens the Elder's painting "Charles I." 10/29/18

Arts

Kehinde Wiley Portrait Acquired By St. Louis Art Museum

Andy Field

The St. Louis Art Museum announced on Wednesday that it has purchased a painting from the artist Kehinde Wiley.The painting was among 11 portraits by…

"Three Girls in a Wood" is based on the painting by German artist Otto Müller. 10/29/18

Arts

Obama portraitist Wiley casts 'resplendent, almost religious light' on Ferguson, St. Louis residents

Jeremy D. Goodwin

Kehinde Wiley has vivid memories of the first time he felt at home in the world of fine art. Growing up in 1980’s South Central Los Angeles, he’d…

A total of 293 objects discovered in the Mediterranean Sea comprise “Sunken Cities: Egypt’s Lost Worlds,” an exhibition that runs from March 25 to Sept. 9.

Arts

Underwater discoveries from 2,800 years ago among Egyptian artifacts at Saint Louis Art Museum

Evie Hemphill

As an underwater archaeologist, Franck Goddio has explored many strange and fascinating things under the sea during the course of his career. But nothing…

An ancient Egyptian mummy named Pet Menekh is placed in a CT scanner at the Washington University School of Medicine.

Health, Science & Environment

Leaps in CT scanning technology reveal more about the Saint Louis Art Museum's Egyptian mummies

Eli Chen

In a dark room on the third floor of the Saint Louis Art Museum, nearly a dozen grade school boys encircled a tour guide, who was dispensing facts about…

An ancient stature lies half exposed from the ocean bed, it's face and shoulders exposed to water.

Arts

Underwater Egyptian sculptures, paintings part of SLAM's 2018 season

Sixteen-foot sculptures depicting humans and gods will live among the St. Louis Art Museum’s collection this spring.Museum officials are calling it “the…

Monique McRipley Ollie and Ronald Maurice Ollie are based in New Jersey. They donated 81 works to the art museum.

Arts

SLAM receives major gift that includes 81 works by contemporary black artists

The Saint Louis Art Museum today announced an extraordinary collection gift from New Jersey-based collector Ronald Maurice Ollie and his wife Monique…

Silver tiles can be scene beneith the Space Shuttle at Kennedy Space Center.

Arts

St. Louis Art Museum's new exhibits focus on art and technology

The St. Louis Art Museum opens three different shows this month that use technology as a jumping point to explore politics or history.Among the exhibits…

A conceptualization of what the future of men's fashion will look like, part of the "Reigning Men" exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum.

Arts

The history of men’s fashion is much more complicated, and revolutionary, than you might expect

Alex Heuer

Created by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Reigning Men: Fashion in Menswear,” is showing in St. Louis – the second and only other planned stop in…

Arts

Cut & Paste: It's 'a very white-dominated field': Adrienne Davis advocates for diversity in the arts

Nancy Fowler

Adrienne Davis teaches law but she regularly cross-examines the status quo in a completely different field: the arts.The Washington University law…