Art & Archives

Perspectives on art and art history, from classical art to contemporary architecture.

Art and Poetry: How to Witness the World

Claudia Rankine on art, poetry, and responding to contemporary crises

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Museum director and poet Kevin Young draws meaning from African American cultural production across centuries

38:25

Poet and painter Terrance Hayes on radical record keeping through art

39:48

Inspiration, collaboration, and action in the Kamoinge Workshop

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Exploring the scenes of Hades’s kingdom on elaborate funerary pottery

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Seeing the results of a multi-year conservation project

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Reexamining forced labor and its depictions in metropolitan France

33:27

Objects tell the story of over one thousand years of Persian rule

38:44

Highlights from a 70-year career

Getty Media | May 11, 2022

How artists and doctors made sense of the human form

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Getty exhibition combines 17th-century paintings with antiquities and contemporary dance

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How a 17th-century female artist succeeded in a world dominated by men

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