But this home contains over 2,000 pieces of art organized from room to room by period and by geography.

VOA: special.2009.01.11

The Public Works of Art Program was the first national effort by the United States government to support artists.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

At the National Gallery of Art, visitors can see black and white photographs taken by Robert Frank during the nineteen fifties.

VOA: special.2009.03.23

The American Folk Art Museum in New York City has several rich and inventive drawings by the self-taught artist Martin Ramirez.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

While many plays by other writers of his time have been forgotten, Shakespeare and his art live on.

VOA: special.2010.01.13

James Bartlett said that museums have the right to make decisions about exhibits, even if some art is considered objectionable by critics.

VOA: special.2010.12.15

Jean Dubuffet soon started collecting this kind of art made by mental patients, prisoners and even children.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

This area includes rock art made by people who lived there more than two thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

His bold black and white designs are influenced by Russian Constructivist art of the nineteen twenties.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

Most importantly, he made sure Ramirez's art survived and was not thrown away by hospital workers.

VOA: special.2010.04.14

I would still be doing that." That was a video about the African-American artist Jacob Lawrence made by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

VOA: special.2009.08.28

She was the first woman hired by the government to create a work of art.

VOA: special.2010.01.27

In Houston,Texas you can see a very different kind of street art by Knitta Please.

VOA: special.2009.04.08

She also helped wealthy American art collectors choose fine works of art by Impressionist painters.

VOA: special.2009.07.12

In Buenos Aires,Argentina, visitors can take a street art tour organized by the company Graffitimundo.

VOA: special.2011.01.19

"The Lacemaker" by Johannes Vermeer provides a more peaceful and personal example of Dutch art.

VOA: special.2010.06.23