COVID-19 closures put a stop to most of the Met's anniversary plans, but with The Met reopening August 29 after months shuttered, the museum is excited to redebut exhibitions that barely had a chance to shine before the museum closed.
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Sarah Herring, Associate Curator for Post 1800 Paintings, discusses paintings showing beach views, including those by Degas, Monet and Constable.
The year 2020 marks the one-hundredth anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted millions of women in the U.S. the right to vote. The Frick is celebrating with a series of videos honoring the stories of women who made, appeared in, collected, and took care of art in its collection. Aimee Ng is continuing the series with a look at Helen Clay Frick, the founder and first director of the Frick Art Reference Library and an instrumental force in The Frick Collection's early art acquisitions.
Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography, on view at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, delves into the rise and fall of this popular form, and how it was a precursor to our current media-saturated moment.
Learn about Mary Cassatt's groundbreaking color aquatints and a dynamic series of linocuts produced by early-20th-century British artists in this discussion with Met experts in conjunction with the exhibition Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Collectors' Collections.
It may not come as a surprise that Edvard Munch (1863–1944), the painter of one of the most iconic paintings in the world, The Scream, lead a troubled life.
"Norman Rockwell: Imagining Freedom" explores themes and events in American history that still resonate today. On view at the Denver Art Museum through September 7. Watch this video sneak peek and learn more and buy your general admission ticket in advance at their website.
In the long months of the COVID-19 lockdown, many citizens have found their cities emptied of human presence and transformed into places of eerie unfamiliarity. Conversely, this experience has allowed many of us to freshly appreciate the architectural achievements that our cities are made of. Meanwhile, the protests following the Black Lives Matter movement and the boarding up of entire neighborhoods brought to the fore questions of ownership and inequity, and the way architectural monuments work as markers of capital.
Grandiose. Monumental. Chas and Dave? Find out what people had to say about Holbein's 'The Ambassadors'.
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) released the findings of a new survey this week that has grim implications for America’s museums.