What does looking at art mean? Contemporary artist Alejandro Cesarco discusses this question while browsing Giacometti and other art presented together at The Met
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"To use the whole social fabric of our society as a point of departure for abstraction reanimates it, dusts it off."
Mark Bradford on Clyfford Still
Contemporary artist LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses the dignity and complexity given a Harlem gang leader in this photographic portrait
LaToya Ruby Frazier on Gordon Parks’s Red ...
Contemporary artist discusses how Botticelli's "The Annunciation" teaches humility
Mariko Mori on Botticelli’s The Annunciation
Contemporary artist Teresita Fernández discusses the connection between the earthly and the cosmic of the gold used in Precolumbian art
Teresita Fernández on Precolumbian gold
Contemporary artist Xu Bing connects his art training in China's rural areas with Millet's passion and respect for the farmer and nature in this painting
Xu Bing on Jean-François Millet’s Haystacks: Autumn
Contemporary artist Kehinde Wiley discusses the seduction of Sargent's portraits as luxury goods and events of class
Kehinde Wiley on John Singer Sargent
Contemporary artist Mickalene Thomas discusses the use of grayscale and pattern to imbue the richness of humanity in Seydou Keïta's portraits of Malian life
Mickalene Thomas on Seydou Keïta
Contemporary artist Enrique Chagoya discusses the transcendent meanings of Goya's etchings of Spanish society at the turn of the 19th century
Enrique Chagoya on Goya’s Los Caprichos
"I'm attracted to the myths because, for me, it's a language to link with people."
The Artist Project: Nalini Malani
"I don't have to believe in the Shiva, but I cannot ignore what this object was meant to be."
The Artist Project: Izhar Patkin
Shahzia Sikander on Persian miniature painting: "My interest was to understand the social construct of the so-called 'traditional genre.'"
The Artist Project: Shahzia Sikander
How do you paint your own slave? Painter Julie Mehretu explores Velázquez’s answer to this troubling question.
A-Level: Velázquez, Juan de Pareja
Zero in on the beautiful passages of line in this print—and witness the artist at work.
A-Level: Rembrandt, Christ Crucified between the Two ...
Michelangelo transforms a male model into a female figure. Discover the artist’s working process.
A-level: Michelangelo, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl ...
What detail! Dürer studied the human body obsessively and spent four years working on this print. It shows.
A-level: Albrecht Dürer, Adam and Eve
Tiffany and Company used this reproductive technique to create presentation copies of a sterling silver vase.
The Electrotyping Process
An ambitious three-year project stabilized the lustrous wools and dazzling colors of this fragile carpet.
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