Art & Design
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Join Cooper Hewitt for this illustrated talk on the Royal Pavilion at Brighton by curator and scholar Alexandra Loske. First constructed as a royal residence for King George IV, when Prince of Wales, the Royal Pavilion was remodeled by John Nash . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Join Cooper Hewitt for an illustrated talk exploring a selection of Chinese export paintings from the museum’s department of Drawings, Prints & Graphic Design. During the 18th and 19th centuries, Canton (modern-day Guangzhou) became an important . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
Join Cooper Hewitt for the next Making Home Saturday Series where we consider the hidden homes of our DNA with artist and biohacker Dr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg.
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After years of abuse and alienation, a painter uses portraiture as a way to refashion herself and celebrate life-saving connections with community.
A sculpture on display at the NMAI in New York can both captivate and calm.
We have portraits of people in our galleries. But what if you’re a natural science museum? How do you portray a dinosaur? We talk with Kirk Johnson, Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, about the ways our . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
This mini ‘Blink’ episode celebrates the cherry blossoms that are blooming all over Washington D.C. at the moment by taking a closer look at portraits that feature flowers. Kim visits three paintings in the National Portrait Gallery that use . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.
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Pat Steir (b. 1938) is synonymous with bold painting, and she has been shaping the arts in the United States and beyond since the 1970s. Through exhilarating material experimentation in paint and cutting-edge work in print, Steir continues to . Shortened snippet. View full page for more details.