Yearning for a new, more empathetic world? New York Times art critic Aruna D’Souza knows art can lead us there. Watch as Aruna D’Souza examines works in our collection that hold the promise of a better future in her series 5 Pictures for a New World. Georges Seurat charged an hourly rate for his work on pointillist paintings, much like any other French factory worker in the late 1800s. Georges Seurat and Paul Signac’s pointillist technique took the gestural approach of Impressionism and mathematically used dots of varying colors that, when seen from afar, blend in the viewer’s eye to form an image. Aruna D’Souza was the Edmond J. Safra Visiting Professor at the National Gallery’s Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in 2022.