Beginning this week, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will display the da Vinci masterpiece Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness, on special loan from the Vatican Museums.
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Nat and Corrie cover the Forbidden City in Beijing, China in this Art History BB. As the imperial palace and political epicenter of China during the Ming & Qing dynasties, the Forbidden City housed the Emperor, his family, and his concubines. On this episode the babes discuss elements of the Forbidden City, as well as the lives of its inhabitants.
This focused, thematic exhibition of work by Jean-Michel Basquiat (American, 1960–1988), supplemented with work by others of his generation, explores a formative chapter in the artist’s career through the lens of his identity and the role of cultural activism in New York City during the early 1980s.
As bubonic plague ravaged seventeenth-century England, the afflicted would find a red cross painted on their door, a warning for visitors to stay out. If, on the other hand, a house had been shown mercy while the rest of the neighborhood succumbed–a matter of happenstance more than anything since no one knew the first thing about disease transmission or treatment–it was cause for decorative commemoration.
Doug Aitken is blowing things up again, just another day in the career of an artist bent on transcending the confines of galleries and museums.
A celebration of light and glass, Louis Comfort Tiffany: Treasures from the Driehaus Collection on view through September 8 at Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art, features more than 60 artworks, spanning more than 30 years of Tiffany’s prolific career.
For nearly five decades, Cindy Sherman has been playing hide and seek with her audience. Always not quite herself, her self-portraits in elaborate disguises have offered poignant commentary with humor and mystery. Now the evolution of her practice is on full display in a retrospective at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
C24 Gallery presents a solo show of Mike Dargas, known for his extraordinary skill in photorealistic painting.
Apollo 11 Flight Plans, Degas' dancers, a diamond brooch, impressionist landscapes, and more up for grabs in July.
This summer, a number of auction houses worldwide—from North Carolina to Monaco to Scotland—will be offering up some of history's greatest treasures. These auctions, dedicated to Asian Art, antiques, fine arts, jewelry, space exploration, and more, include such items as a pastel and charcoal sketch of Edgar Degas' famous Danseuses and a signed photograph of Buzz Aldrin at Tranquility Base on the moon. Click below to see some of the summer's biggest highlights.
It may be time to update your bucket list. This week UNESCO (The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ) designated 29 new World Heritage Sites.
