Talking the Global Middle Ages with Curator Bryan Keene
Curator Bryan Keene takes questions from inquiring Instagrammers
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exhibitions
7 Things to Look for in Paintings of the Last Supper
Things to know to decipher the images in one of the most depicted subjects in the history of art
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Cleaning 700 Square Feet of Precious Tapestry
Tapestries once owned by Louis XIV receive a high-tech cleaning.
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A Double-Sided Drawing Brings a Baron to Life
The hidden artistry of an 18th-century pastel.
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Ansel Adams Captures the Struggle and Beauty of a Japanese-American Internment Camp
Ansel Adams photographs document life at the Manzanar internment camp during World War II.
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Why Aren’t People Eating in Medieval Depictions of Feasts?
The medieval struggle to resist sin.
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A Smartly Costumed Soldier and His Fierce Cat
An extraordinary portrait of a Turkish soldier and his feline sidekick.
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Celebrating Sugar in “The Edible Monument”
Talking sugar with the chief curator of the Getty Research Institute.
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The Weird and Wonderful Edible Monuments of Early Modern Europe
When architecture was made of food.
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A Sugar Sculpture in Technicolor
A fantastic episode from the history of edible propaganda.
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Hand-Colored Print Depicts the Land of Cockaigne, Mythical World of Self-Indulgence
“Here you only worry about being happy!”
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“A Great Passion for Old Stones and Walls”
Snapshots of Greece’s ancient monuments from an era before photography.
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