Whether you are in New York, Pennsylvania, Arkansas, Oregon, Colorado, Minneapolis, or Illinois, there's almost always a great museum nearby.
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Beyond the Great Wave — Hokusai at 90
A fisherman and a woodcutter — at age 90, the great Japanese artist Hokusai painted these moving images of contentment.
The Renaissance in Spain, The Morata Master
Get to know fifteenth-century Aragonese painting, which draws on Italian and Northern Renaissance influences.
St. Michael defeats the devil in Renaissance Spain
Roll over Bellini, and tell Tintoretto the news. The Renaissance in Spain.
Millard Sheets, Tenement Flats
Cats, gossip, and laundry — a view of Los Angeles during the Great Depression.
In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing by de Kooning
When an artist erases another artist's drawing, is it still a drawing, and whose? This work challenges the art definitions and contexts of its time.
The City at night, Joseph Stella’s The Voice of the City of New York Interpreted
An interpretation of the city's colossal skyscrapers
Thomas Cole, The Architect’s Dream
Cole, the great American landscape painter looks across the vast history of Western architecture
Duane Hanson, Executive, originally titled, Another Day
Museum visitors often mistake this sculpture for a real person
