This early skyscraper stretches the limits of how tall a brick building can be
Location City: Chicago
A rare and elaborate child portrait from Venezuela by an Afro-descendant artist.
Diego Antonio de Landaeta, Portrait of Petronila ...
A painting of a miraculous statue in Caracas, Venezuela also has its original frame.
Juan Pedro López, Our Lady of Guidance
These portraits of a couple show us what the sitters want us to see about them, and conceal the less glamorous details of their lives
Portraits of Francisca Ramírez de Laredo and ...
This luxuriously dressed Virgin Mary as a child spinning cloth may have spoken to the rich textile traditions of Indigenous cultures in Peru
The Child Mary Spinning
How Chicago architecture sprung up thanks to new technology at the turn of the century
Burnham and Root, Reliance Building
The Trinity visualized as triplets was a common subject in 18th-century Peru—and beyond
The Coronation of the Virgin by the ...
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
The white, Beaux-Arts buildings declared that the center of the world's innovation had moved to the U.S., and was under the exclusive control of white men.
The World’s Columbian Exposition: The White City ...
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
What does a Kwakwaka'wakw belt have to do with photographic manipulation?
Ceremonial belt (Kwakwaka’wakw)
Abstract expressionism invites us in
Finding meaning in abstraction
Must art be beautiful?
The Old Guitarist, and the question of ...
This jug is one of the earliest known alkaline-glazed stoneware face vessels made by slaves or their descendants in the Edgefield District of South Carolina.
Cultures and slavery in the American south: ...
Revisiting a frozen sea, memory and science in the 19th century
Frederic Edwin Church, The Iceberg
The Wyeths have a long history of painting the American story.
Jamie Wyeth, Kalounna in Frogtown
There is no open road
Tooker, Highway
Cuban cigars, Cuban independence
Metcalf, Havana Harbor
Celebrating America's place in the world
Childe Hassam, Horticulture Building, World’s Columbian Exposition, ...
Cotton, oil, and the economics of history
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