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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Children in Another World: The Photographs of Arthur Tress
Sixty-six photographs by Arthur Tress join the collection.
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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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A Love Story Told in Pictures
The greatest romance of the 19th century, captured on camera.
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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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Ancient Myth, Contemporary Politics
Jacques-Louis David made Greco-Roman myths directly relevant to the contemporary public, as this sly drawing shows.
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Lifted Cellulose Nitrate: Conserving an Early Robert Mapplethorpe Object
A conservator’s view of a complex and unusual object by Robert Mapplethorpe.
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Getty Voices: Aztec Idols, Explorers, and Egyptomania
How did a 19th century scholar misidentify an Aztec sculpture as Egyptian?
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A Medieval Soap Opera
Falling in love in the Middle Ages was more of a roller-coaster ride than today’s soap operas.
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The Miracles at Canterbury
Born from Thomas Becket’s martyrdom on December 29, 1170, the stained glass in Trinity Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral reveals some of the most fascinating tales of the miraculous.
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