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New & Now: A Decade Building the National Collection of African Art
This exhibition features new artworks acquired in the last decade at the National Museum of African Art. It explains why and how the museum collects, highlighting the ways in which these acquisitions introduce new voices or more fully tell . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
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National Museum of African Art
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Materials, Methods, and Meanings: Craft in the Archives of American Art
Materials, Methods, and Meanings: Craft in the Archives of American Art explores how artists working across craft disciplines have redefined their fields through inventive uses of materials, experimental techniques, and radical forms that carry. Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
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Actually, You Can Go Back to Constantinople. A Landmark Exhibition Reconstructs the Imperial City With 1,600 Years of Treasures From Byzantine and Ottoman Times
“Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires” at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum tracks the storied city’s evolution from a 4th-century capital to a bustling 19th-century metropolis—hippodromes, bathhouses and all.
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Faded Over Millennia, the Intricately Carved Sandstone Walls of This Ancient Egyptian Shrine Will See Color Once Again
Digital projections at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum will restore the sight of Egyptian blue, the world’s oldest synthetic pigment, and other colors that once adorned the 2,700-year-old Shrine of Taharqa.
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Lois Dodd stands in her art studio with her hands on her hips looking at an off-image object.
Newly Digitized Oral History Transcripts Reveal 89 Women Who Shaped American Art, Some Identified by Their Own Names for the First Time
The Smithsonian Archives of American Art digitized 89 oral history transcripts of women artists, historians, patrons, and collectors, adding searchable subject tags and biographical details that make their stories newly discoverable online.
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The towering figure depicting a skeleton woman in a purple dress is surrounded by thousands of marigolds.
See the World’s Tallest Day of the Dead Skeleton, Made From Steel, Fiberglass, Papier-Mâché and 70,000 Marigolds
Standing a little more than 109 feet tall—roughly the height of an 11-story building—the colorful “La Catrina” figure in Mexico City broke the previous record of 92 feet set in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, in 2023.
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A tattoo artist with a wide brimmed hat, glasses, and a white beard tattoos a woman's left arm in his studio.
A ‘Poor Man’s Rembrandt’ for a Few Hundred Bucks? At Amsterdam’s Rembrandt House Museum, a Pop-Up Tattoo Studio Is Inking 17th-Century Masterpieces on Human Canvases
Visitors can choose from dozens of designs pulled from Rembrandt’s works, including lions, windmills and even his self-portraits. One participant was selected for a full-back tattoo of “The Descent from the Cross.”
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A black and white photo of Andy Warhol posing with his beloved dachshund Archie in November 1973.
From Hunting Hounds to Modernist Muses, Dachshunds Have Done It All. See the World’s First Art Exhibition Dedicated Exclusively to the Sausage Dog
A new exhibition in Germany traces how the low-slung breed captured the imaginations of artistic heavyweights like Pablo Picasso, Andy Warhol and David Hockney. The museum even lets well-behaved pups tour the galleries.
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