"LACMA’s Artists on Art videos offer insights into works in the museum’s encyclopedic collection that have inspired and informed artists working today. Looking at art through their eyes, we hear…
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"Anne L. Poulet, Director Emerita of The Frick Collection, introduces the current exhibition 'Enlightenment and Beauty: Sculptures by Houdon and Clodion,' on view at the Frick until April 5, 2015…
"More than 3,000 funerary portraits from ancient Palmyra survive in museums around the world, bringing us face to face with people who lived in Syria almost two millennia ago."
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"In conjunction with the exhibition Japanese Bamboo Art: The Abbey Collection, on view June 13, 2017–February 4, 2018, this video features time-lapse photography of bamboo artist Tanabe Chikuunsai…
"Rembrandt Bugatti — brother of Ettore Bugatti, founder of the eponymous automobile company — was a brilliant sculptor of animals. Touched by the story of Bugatti’s premature death, the actor…
"This haniwa clay model of a horse from 6th-century Japan would have been buried in a tomb on ‘a very grand scale’, explains Japanese Art specialist Mark Hinton."
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"‘This object is 2,500 years old, preserved miraculously by the Egyptian desert,’ explains specialist Laetitia Delaloye, discussing a ‘beautiful’ cast of a cat, adorned, unexpectedly, with a pair…
Standing 9 inches high, the Guennol Stargazer is one of the finest and largest preserved Anatolian marble female idols of Kiliya type.
"The Guennol Stargazer is from the Chalcolithic…
