Unleashed: Dogs in Art
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/45/elizabeth-benge" rel="author">Elizabeth Benge</a>, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/42/elizabeth-pope" rel="author">Elizabeth Pope</a>, <a …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/45/elizabeth-benge" rel="author">Elizabeth Benge</a>, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/42/elizabeth-pope" rel="author">Elizabeth Pope</a>, <a …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/27/paul-jones-2" rel="author">Paul Jones</a> Mills have been used for thousands of years to grind grain for flour, crush stone for ore, pound fibers for paper and cloth, and other …
Visitors to the exhibition Salvador Dalí: The Image Disappears may notice some surprising changes to a familiar painting—clues that hint at a revelatory new finding. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/19/caitlin-haskell" rel=" …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/23/melinda-watt" rel="author">Melinda Watt</a> Her very medium—textiles and embroidery—stem from her late mother, who was a seamstress. Working intimately with the everyday materials …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/167/leslie-carlson" rel="author">Leslie Carlson</a> and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/66/allison-langley" rel="author">Allison Langley</a> …
Artist, scholar, trickster, savant, businessman, punk—Murakami’s layered identities are reflected in the high-gloss surface of his monumental Superflat acrylic screen print Mr. Pointy. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/171/annie-morse" …
A writer, activist, and renowned artist, Kwame Brathwaite (American, born 1938) is best known as a photographer—indeed, not just a photographer, but the photographer of the “Black is Beautiful” movement. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/ …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/170/marin-sarve-tarr" rel="author">Marin Sarvé-Tarr</a> Standing in the galleries with his painting, A Chemist Lifting with Extreme Precaution the Cuticle of a Grand Piano, 1936, he …
When I walk through a collection of ancient Mediterranean portraits, one question comes to my mind again and again: who were these people? By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/169/andrew-crocker" rel="author">Andrew Crocker…
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/27/paul-jones-2" rel="author">Paul Jones</a> Peter Blume All around the rock, there is chaotic movement and action: a destroyed building to the right, still burning, the smoke not …
Hey baby, looking good. Are you gaining weight? You’d be so much prettier if you smiled. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/168/renee-engeln" rel="author">Renee Engeln</a> The everyday experiences of being sexually …
One of Brazil’s pioneering figures in modern art, Lygia Pape has been called an unclassifiable artist. Partly this was due to her prolific output across her more than five-decade career; partly it was her wide-ranging exploration of media: from painting …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/19/caitlin-haskell" rel="author">Caitlin Haskell</a> and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/29/jennifer-cohen" rel="author">Jennifer Cohen</a> The …
Lisa Çakmak January 25, 2023 Dating to the 1st century BCE, this impressive gemstone features the Roman god Mars carved in the intaglio style. From the Italian word intagliare, meaning “to engrave” or “cut into,” intaglio is one of the two primary gem …
These exuberant and luxurious vases exemplify the rich cultural and commercial ties between China and Europe in the early modern period. By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/124/ellenor-alcorn" rel="author">Ellenor Alcorn…
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/147/jonathan-mathias" rel="author">Jonathan Mathias</a> and <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/151/autumn-mather" rel="author">Autumn Mather</a> …
Sammy Aiko Zimmerman January 10, 2023 The left cheek sags like melting wax, the lips twisted to reveal crooked yellow teeth. Every inch of skin is covered with dripping wounds and growths. His eyes, cloudy and asymmetrical, seem as though they might drop …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/70/annelise-k-madsen" rel="author">Annelise K. Madsen</a> Her remarkable career, like those of many women artists, eventually faded from view. Let’s look anew at Vonnoh (1872–1955). …
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/148/amina-khan" rel="author">Amina Khan</a>, <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/17/ken-sutherland" rel="author">Ken Sutherland</a>, <a href=…
By <a href="https://www.artic.edu/authors/82/emily-lew-fry" rel="author">Emily Lew Fry</a> We use these accessible, foundational concepts to guide us as we develop the exhibition’s supporting materials—everything from wall …