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Dawoud Bey, Three Women at a Parade, Harlem, NY, from the series Harlem, U.S.A.
Dawoud Bey Photographs the American Experience
For more than four decades, photographer Dawoud Bey has documented life in America through his poignant images of marginalized communities.
painting of artist painting outside in front of mountain
Open-Air Painting in Europe 1780–1870
Join curator Mary Morton on a tour of highlights from the exhibition True to Nature: Open-Air Painting in Europe, 1780–1870. Young artists of the late 18th and 19th centuries developed their skills…
Jean-Jacques Lequeu, Temple of Divination drawing, from Civil Architecture.
Jean‐Jacques Lequeu's Fantastical Architecture
The French architect and draftsman Jean‐Jacques Lequeu was little-known and impoverished when he donated hundreds of his drawings to the French national library. Six months later, he died and…
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The Fine Art of Puppetry
Familiar and unexpected characters from around the world demonstrate the artistry and universality of puppetry.
Alfred Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907, photograph, 33.34 x 26.51 cm (includes black border), Museum Library Purchase, 1965 (LACMA M.65.76.1).
Is this the First Modern Photograph?

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…

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Girault de Prangey: A Forgotten Pioneer of Photography
Despite the importance and innovation of this work, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey’s legacy has long been obscure.
Two met workers from the 1920s adjust the head of a sculpture
Rare Footage Inside The Met During the 1920s

 

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;…

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The Art of the Caricature: People on Paper
Celebrating the art of the caricature
drawing by holocaust survivor Peter Loewenstein in black and white ink depicts a scene from the Holocaust using faces, profiles, and jackets with stars on them
Eyewitness Drawings from inside the Holocaust
Through the written accounts of survivors and black and white photographs and films we can begin to fathom the depravity of the concentration camps. A new exhibition is adding another voice to those…
Textile Panel with Embracing Figures, c.1600.
Revealing 500 Years of Unseen Pregnancy Portraiture
Pregnancy is a common experience of women that is rarely seen in historic portraiture.
Panel 8, 1954, from Struggle: From the History of the American People shows figures battling on horses
How Jacob Lawrence Used Art to Correct the Historical Record
Long before inclusivity was a crucial lens through which we viewed everything from history to public spaces, one prominent American artist set out to correct the record all on his own.
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David Hockney: An Evolution of Style
David Hockney's comprehensive retrospective at the Met showed what style means in modernism, and in particular what it means to Hockney, demonstrating the artist's originality as well as his…
display at the Storyworld museum
Storyworld: The New Museum Dedicated to Animation and Comics
Storyworld, a new Dutch museum for comics, animation and games, opened its doors on January 11 with the aim to embody the crumbling division between fine art and visual storytelling.
Pope.L Performing Crawl
Pope.L Recounts his Iconic "Crawl" Performances

Pope.L began a series of street performances—which he called crawls—in the late 1970s. His aim was to address division and inequality in New York City; he wanted to “do a work that didn't require…

Image of sculpture depicting human figure
Sahel: Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara

The western Sahel—a vast region in Africa just south of the Sahara Desert that spans what is today Senegal, Mali, Mauritania, and was the birthplace of a succession of influential polities. Fueled…