"Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom" explores themes and events in American history that still resonate today. On view at the Denver Art Museum through September 7. Watch this video sneak peek and learn more and buy your general admission ticket in advance at their website.
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In the long months of the COVID-19 lockdown, many citizens have found their cities emptied of human presence and transformed into places of eerie unfamiliarity. Conversely, this experience has allowed many of us to freshly appreciate the architectural achievements that our cities are made of. Meanwhile, the protests following the Black Lives Matter movement and the boarding up of entire neighborhoods brought to the fore questions of ownership and inequity, and the way architectural monuments work as markers of capital.
Grandiose. Monumental. Chas and Dave? Find out what people had to say about Holbein's 'The Ambassadors'.
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) released the findings of a new survey this week that has grim implications for America’s museums.
Although he made his name in the 1950s and ‘60s as an Abstract Expressionist, Philip Guston is now best remembered for the dark humor conveyed in the cartoon-like figurative paintings and drawings that he prolifically produced during the last twelve years of his life, which ended in 1980.
A collaboration with the Richmond Symphony's "Comfort and Joy!" – the Beethoven Summer Series, this video explores connections between the composer and Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun's "Portrait of Joseph-Hyacinthe François de Paule de Rigaud, Comte de Vaudreuil", from VMFA's collection.
Joost Joustra, The Howard and Roberta Ahmanson Fellow in Art and Religion, decodes paintings of angels.
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s large-scale work on canvas holds its own in the National Gallery of Art's museum’s pop art gallery, where it currently hangs beside works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol.
Architect and designer Neri Oxman's muse is nature, but her medium is the 3-D printer.
The Vikings are coming... again! In 2014 The British Museum followed on from the success of Pompeii Live with another live broadcast- this time from the exhibition Vikings: life and legend. Here is that broadcast, presented by Bettany Hughes and Michael Wood, featuring the largest Viking warship ever found, Roskilde 6 along with interviews with Viking scholars from across the world. Michael and Bettany explore the viking world from the homelands to its farthest reaches, Viking ship craft, trading, warfare and religion are brought to life through the spectacular objects that were brought together for this blockbuster exhibition.
