In three new galleries, the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) provides a deeper understanding and appreciation of India and its people through more than 100 paintings, sculptures, photographs, and personal correspondence.
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How do you keep art and the people who care for it safe during a global pandemic? The spread of Covid-19 has not changed that level of care, which we give to the thousands of artworks and the millions of library and archive items in our collection. However, it has certainly created new challenges, whether that is the need for social distancing or restrictions on international travel. As the galleries move in and out of lockdown, our Collection Care teams have been working together to find new ways of looking after art in exceptional times.
Providing a new hub for Amtrak and the Long Island Rail Road, the space includes a one-acre sky-lit atrium, free wifi, a floating clock, and world-class public art.
From the late 1940s on, the term cybernetics began to be used to describe self-regulating systems that measure, anticipate, and react in order to intervene in changing conditions.
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The groundbreaking designs of Pierre Cardin have been giving us a look at the future for nearly seven decades.
The exhibition brings together eleven artists’ projects that respond to a world turned upside down.
Calling out modernist designs of the past seventy years, the order seeks a return to the Classically-inspired architecture of our founding fathers.
Rising prices on the art market make it increasingly difficult for public art institutions to acquire new works by celebrated artists. Now Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam and Kunstmuseum Bern have joined forces to acquire a work by El Anatsui from the Sigg Collection, a Swiss private art collection. El Anatsui, from Ghana, is Africa's most prominent contemporary artist, known for large sculptures made from recycled bottle caps. The work will be shown alternately in Bern and Amsterdam.
What's the point of making realistic paintings when photography can do the trick?
