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I would add Girl with a Pearl Earring. What a beautiful movie that captures the spirit of Vermeer’s paintings.
—Jennifer commenting on best and worst art movies
Bringing museum collections to life online can unfold and reanimate stories for the digital age.
New app streams world-famous works of art into your living room. If you can stream music, why not art?
The widespread use of smart devices in art institutions around the world—from the Met to MoMA to the Louvre—has purists fuming, but their effect on the art world has been undeniably positive.
Tourists once flocked to Luxor for its pharaonic treasures, but as Egypt witnesses sweeping political upheavals, the visitors have simply vanished from this famed temple city.
Prud’hon preferred to draw with powdery applications of black and white chalk on blue or gray paper. Instead of using line, he created contours through stumping and built form through gradations of light.
Head of a Woman: Study for “The Happy Mother," 1810, Pierre-Paul Prud"hon. J. Paul Getty Museum.