If Statues Could Talk…
There’s a new emperor in town—an 8-foot-tall bronze Tiberius, to be exact.
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exhibitions
Letting Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” Speak for Itself
“It was time to do something.” Jackson Pollock’s Mural, conserved.
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Photographs of Africa from the Late 1800s
Six albums by French explorer Edouard Foà reveal African society at the turn of the 20th century.
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Colorful Board Game Turns the French Colonies into Child’s Play
Educating French children to value colonialism.
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This Exhibition Is a Total Trip—Through Time
Time-travel to Victorian England.
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Getty Voices: Portraits of Africa, from Colonization to E-Waste
Arresting portraits that evoke Africa's colonial past.
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Glenn Phillips
“You’re only rewarded by any encounter with an artwork if you get something out of it.” How to approach Werner Herzog.
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Nancy Perloff
“The end is a kind of apotheosis. Maybe that sounds too romantic or spiritual. But the single most remarkable thing is that you lose all sense of time.”
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Anne Woollett
The deep appeal of the imagined landscape.
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Art and Experience in Canterbury and L.A.
A medieval prayer book was a personal liturgical space. Small and portable, one needed only to open the book to enter.
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Ancient Myth, Contemporary Politics
Jacques-Louis David made Greco-Roman myths directly relevant to the contemporary public, as this sly drawing shows.
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Four Minds on Herzog: A Conversation with Paul Young
“I think he sees Hearsay of the Soul as a poem, and doesn’t want to make a documentary—that was a very deliberate choice. It feels very personal, and that’s what makes it interesting.”
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