The impressive ruins of the largest colosseum in North Africa, a huge amphitheater which could hold up to 35,000 spectators, are found in the small village of El Jem
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The experimental spirit of the Judson Dance Theater transformed art forever.
Running in sneakers, the Judson Dance Theater
Built by Catholic monks to convert the Indigenous population, these spaces combined Mesoamerica and European forms.
Mission churches as theaters of conversion in ...
In African contexts, masks mean more than a facial covering.
Masquerade basics
Founding the Nation marks the rapid transformation of mainstream art into propaganda during the Mao era.
Dong Xiwen, The Founding of the Nation
In this series of prints, Isaac Mendes Belisario represents the syncretism and expression of Jamaican masquerades in the 19th century.
Isaac Mendes Belisario, Sketches of Character
Baldus’s Cloister of St. Trophîme, Arles aspired to use photography to make an imagined reality visible, tangible, and therefore achievable.
Édouard Baldus, Cloister of St. Trophîme, Arles
While many artists and architects in the early 20th century were drawn to the notion of the total aesthetic environment, perhaps no movement embodied it more than the WW.
The Wiener Werkstätte
From Augustus, to Mussolini, and now Bulgari, the long strange history of the Mausoleum of Augustus.
The Mausoleum of Augustus and the Piazza ...
From Augustus, to Mussolini, and now Bulgari, the long strange history of the Mausoleum of Augustus.
The Mausoleum of Augustus and the Piazza ...
The first monument to commemorate the over 4,000 African Americans who were lynched in the early 20th century.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice ...
Ren Xiong's captivating self-portrait tells us a great deal about the principles of Chinese painting, the roles of self-portraiture and portraiture, and the canon of Chinese art.
Ren Xiong, Self-Portrait
The first monument to commemorate the over 4,000 African Americans who were lynched in the early 20th century.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice ...
This photograph of Sihuana is a sensitive portrait of an Indigenous Peruvian man in traditional dress.
Martín Chambi, Juan de la Cruz Sihuana, ...
On the island of Samothrace, the wind whipped the clothing of this stone goddess of victory.
Nike (Winged Victory) of Samothrace
Horst's Mainbocher Corset photograph journeyed across oceans and time to transform Vogue into a concept and a verb.
Horst P. Horst, Mainbocher Corset, Paris
The Midway Plaisance featured carnival rides, food stalls, and inhabited “villages” purporting to display architecture and customs from around the world.
The World’s Columbian Exposition: The Midway
Byzantine texts praise and slander the empress Theodora, who appears in this famous mosaic in Ravenna.
Empress Theodora, rhetoric, and Byzantine primary sources
A single dramatic overhead shot captures the artist covered in a viscous mud, struggling to free his left leg from the thickly piled muck atop which he lies.
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