From the elements of art to the great goddess Durga — Smarthistory is adding new content every week.
Prehistoric to contemporary
From the elements of art to the great goddess Durga — Smarthistory is adding new content every week.
Prehistoric to contemporary
In an imaginative 3-minute film, Rands envisions the sacred Hawaiian summit Maunakea free of telescopes.
The pōhaku kuʻi ʻai has become an important symbol of Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) life and culture.
In its call to collective engagement, the mural opens space for the viewing public to be transformed in profound and lasting ways.
Feuʻu's work embodies the values of Faʻa Sāmoa (the Samoan way): reverence, compassion, and service.
Jaki-ed mats are steeped in symbolic meaning, from the motifs to their manufacture.
Landgraf's works urge viewers to open their hearts to the histories of Hawaiian struggles and the efforts of the Hawaiian sovereignty movement.
Adorning war canoes, nguzunguzu ensure the protection of ancestors and spirits for those undertaking treacherous ocean journeys.
King Kalākaua built ʻIolani Palace both as an authentically modern and traditional Hawaiian symbol of the prospering Hawaiian Kingdom.
Weaving has been an essential part of Chamoru life for millennia.
Paintings of this size had historically exalted war, but this one suggests that war is anything but heroic.
Through portraiture, Conteh expresses the love and care between a father and his children.
Dreamlike, imaginative, and inexplicable, Bosch's landscape confounds our expectations of Christian art of the Renaissance.