African Arts―Global Conversations draws from the Brooklyn Museum’s extensive and renowned collections to assert the importance of African arts within the art historical canon.
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Here are 10 artists whose work transcends a momentary Valentine’s Day infatuation to become celebrated odes to love.
A conversation with Eve Schillo, Assistant Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Beth Harris.
Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907, photograph, 33.34 x 26.51 cm (includes black border), Museum Library Purchase, 1965 (LACMA M.65.76.1).
"A Perfect Storm" is an apt expression for the urgent and unresolved challenges of global warming, pollution, climate change, and many more environmental problems that have become a reality for millions of people.
To celebrate Mary Quant’s 90th birthday, the V&A announces that its exhibition, Mary Quant, has welcomed 400,000 visitors, making it the museum’s third most popular fashion exhibition ever, after Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams and Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.
Explore what’s at risk and how experts are learning to adapt in Rapa Nui (Easter Island), Tanzania, Bangladesh, Scotland, and Peru.
One of the greatest thefts in art history is set to grace the big screen soon.
Whether it was a short journey or a long one, a temporary visit or a permanent relocation, artists’ mobility had a considerable impact not only on their practice but also on their understanding of the world.
One of the most prolific and talented American potters of the 19th Century defied expectations to leave his mark on history.
Sumptuously shot in richly contrasting black and white, this lyrical series of vignettes provides a window into the hidden workings of the Museum. Employees punch time clocks; janitors dust the galleries; conservators handle textiles and armor; curators puzzle over fragments of ancient statuary. It begins and ends with footage of workers entering and leaving the Museum, a moving homage to the first film ever made, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).
