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How did cabinets of curiosities become temples to the Enlightenment? Explore the fascinating history of museums.
1. A brief history of the art ...
"It is to kill art to make history of it" — the neutralizing effect of the art museum.
3. Art Museums and (Art) Objects
Just as museums have nurtured artistic creativity, they have also become the target of serious critique from artists themselves.
4. Artists in and against the museum
Far from being neutral, museum are deeply rooted in a thicket of political, sociological, and ideological histories.
6. Looking at Art Museums
This snowy image of a bygone Brooklyn is sprinkled with farm animals, townspeople... and casual racism.
Daily life in 1820 Brooklyn
Japanese objects came through Mexico on their way to Spain, and had a lasting impact on the arts of the New World.
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and ...
This snowy image of a bygone Brooklyn is sprinkled with farm animals, townspeople... and casual racism.
Francis Guy, Winter Scene in Brooklyn
Japanese objects came through Mexico on their way to Spain, and had a lasting impact on the arts of the New World.
Screen with the Siege of Belgrade and ...
Suffused with the contemporary racist pseudoscience of Social Darwinism—which claimed that white people with northern European ancestry were the most “evolved” race—the World’s Columbian Exposition cast other races and cultures as the living relatives of white people’s distant ancestors.
The World’s Columbian Exposition: Introduction
Odundo's pottery draws on traditions from around the world and reveals the relationship of clay to the body
Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo, Symmetrical Reduced Black ...
Odundo's pottery draws on traditions from around the world and reveals the relationship of clay to the body
Magdalene Anyango N. Odundo, Symmetrical Reduced Black ...
All artists are influenced by the styles and media of others, even those who stridently claim otherwise.
Copying as innovation and resistance
By the sixteenth century, Western trade involved Africans being forcibly brought to the Americas as slaves.
Africa historical overview: from the 1600s to ...
Twin figures known as Ère Ìbejì reveal how a Yorùbá mother navigates the loss of twins
Yorùbá artist, pair of twin figures (Ère ...
Ghanaian coffins are famous for their creative shapes
Paa Joe, Coffin the Shape of a ...
Textiles remained important items after the Spanish conquest in the Viceroyalty of Peru. Churches were even painted with textile murals to endow these spaces with sacredness.
Textiles in the Colonial Andes
The allure of Paris attracted 19th-century Latin American artists, who eagerly traveled to this artistic capital in the absence of an art school back home.
Latin American artists learning in Paris
Sudan is home to the oldest sub-Saharan African kingdom, the kingdom of Kush.
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