Q&As

The Medieval Clotheshorse: Roger Wieck on the Fashion Revolution of the Middle Ages

Fancy medieval clothes, in manuscripts and real life.

Annelisa Stephan | July 27, 2011

Question of the Week: Do Americans See the World through a Distorted Lens?

Initially designating himself an “ignorant American,” photographer Alex Harris went to Cuba in 1998, camera in tow, without preconceived notions. He simply wondered what... Read More

Jennifer S. Li | July 22, 2011

Three Contemporary Photographers on Cuba

What drew them to Cuba? We asked photographers Alex Harris, Virginia Beahan, and Alexey Titarenko, whose work is featured in the exhibition A Revolutionary... Read More

Annelisa Stephan | July 20, 2011

Question of the Week: When Are Memories More Vivid Than Life Itself?

Do you have memories that feel more real than your life today? British painter J. M. W. Turner did, and they are the subject... Read More

Christine Spier | June 30, 2011

Question of the Week: How Have You Been Called to Charity?

Have you been called to acts of service? Did you answer the call? Saint Francis of Paola, who lived in the 1400s, was called.... Read More

William Zaluski | May 18, 2011

The Museum as Classroom: Q&A with Guest Scholar George Hein

George Hein, a leading authority on museum education whom the Museum’s Education Department invited as a guest scholar this spring, says that museums are... Read More

Jessica Portner | May 2, 2011

Harvard Historian Robert Darnton on Blogging, 18th-Century Style

Opening this week at the Getty Center is Paris: Life & Luxury, which traces the refined activities that took place inside a luxurious Parisian... Read More

Annelisa Stephan | April 25, 2011