The Middle Ages and Modern Abstraction
Abstraction was no modern innovation—it’s been an integral part of art across the centuries.
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Medieval Reading for Our Favorite “Game of Thrones” Characters
Books our favorite “Game of Thrones” characters should consult before heading into season 4.
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Diorama-rama: History Behind Glass
Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto plays with dioramas’ tension between real and fake, fact and spectacle.
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What Ansel Adams Taught Me
The photographer was nothing like this young artist imagined.
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Art History Is for Kids!
Young (but savvy) pirate explorers conquer the Connecting Seas exhibition, offering some telling observations.
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Which Artist Would You Recommend to a Space Alien?
A beginner’s guide to the human mind and heart.
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Struck by Lightning at the Louvre
Sometimes the best way to discover your life’s work is by simple good luck.
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The Museum That Proudly Defies Understanding
If the wall label says it, it must be true. Right?
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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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David Hockney in the Promised Land
Why is vibrant color, like green, characteristic of Hockney’s landscapes of Northern England?
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Giorgio Vasari’s Monumental Painting “Last Supper” Reemerges After Nearly 50 Years
For the first time in 47 years, the five wooden panels that make up Giorgio Vasari’s “Last Supper” are joined together again to make the artwork whole.
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Proclamations in Clay
Make your own regal proclamation in rolled clay with these tips from artist Anna Mayer.
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