Kent Monkman: History is Painted by the Victors
a sumptuous new exhibition catalogue, Toronto-based art star Kent Monkman (Fisher River Cree)
Women In Industry with Ruth Goodman
parts 1 and 2
Workers Protest Abrupt Layoffs
at Guggenheim Museum
David Macaulay, America’s “Explainer-in-chief”
Author David Macaulay has spent more than 50 years finding ways to explain things, via his humorous and intricately illustrated books featuring wooly mammoth guides – his attempt to hook…
How Salvador Dalí’s art found a home in Florida
More than 2,400 works by the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí (1904-1989), from oil paintings and prints to sculptural mashups, are featured at The Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg, Fla., which…
The Room Where It Happened: The Delights, Oddities, and Haunted Ephemera of Residencies at Writers’ Homes
In many cases, that strange magic of the in-between, combined with the intimacy of submerging so fully in an artist’s material life, seems to affect residents in unexpected ways. Writers…
Building the Moroccan Court
In 2011, The Metropolitan Museum of Art opened the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia, which house the Museum's…
The ‘Gentle Anarchy’ of the Muppets
Icky Gunk. Moldy Hay. Kermit. You might recognize one of these names. Before Kermit joined Miss Piggy and Big Bird, he was kicking it with Sam and Friends—a local TV…
how knowledge and the understanding of history grows and changes
on display at one museum