The Middle East through a Victorian Woman’s Pen
Advice for women travelers to the Middle East.
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exhibitions
Studying Sculpture by Learning How to Draw It
The linked arts of drawing and sculpture.
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PODCAST: David Brafman on Alchemy
Alchemy in art, science, and beyond.
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The Living Room War: A Conversation with Artist Martha Rosler
“What I thought of doing was taking these damn news photographs and putting them on images of our living rooms.”
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Behind the Scenes at the Getty Museum in 2017
The Museum director selects three highlights of the year ahead.
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Meet the Controversial Cupid of Eighteenth-Century France
This Cupid once decorated a king’s love nest.
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The New Ruins of Syria
Monuments as weapons of war.
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The Birth of Pastel
When is a drawing not a drawing?
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The Many Renaissances of Medieval Europe
Don’t call it the “Dark Ages.”
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A Young Man’s Mummy Offers Clues to Cultural Exchange and Technology in Roman-Ruled Egypt
Mummy as art and artifact.
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Three Graduate Interns on Installing Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment
The high-stakes ballet of installing an art exhibition.
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Edme Bouchardon’s Pocket-Sized Masterpieces
The young Edme Bouchardon sketches Rome—and himself.
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