Kahlo’s art looks at Mexico's indigenous heritage, colonial history and post-revolutionary future.
Location Country: United States
Take a trip across the U.S.A. with Nam June Paik's "Electronic Superhighway: Continental U.S., Alaska, Hawaii, 1995."
SAAM: Nam June Paik, Electronic Superhighway: Continental ...
A totem pole records Tlingit claims to land in southeastern Alaska by acknowledging the first sighting of a white man, who happens to be based on the likeness of Abraham Lincoln.
Proud Raven totem pole at Saxman Totem ...
Arndt’s choice to pose herself among so many textures, clothes, and props in Self-Portrait with Veil suggests she was well aware of the power of photography to interrogate gender roles.
Gertrud Arndt, Self-Portrait with Veil
Who was this dancer, and why was her body not shown?
Lotte Jacobi, Head of a Dancer
This swaying juke joint belies its purpose as the central meeting place enlivened by music and dance in many African American communities, but its jubilance is tempered by the painting's ominous atmosphere
Vertis Hayes, Juke Joint
Taking the name from Toni Morrison's debut novel, this painting's figures and scenes show the clash of innocence and the adult violence of bigotry and hatred
Stefanie Jackson, Bluest Eye
Leger's late Cubism so elegantly seen in this mural for a fireplace.
Fernand Léger, Untitled (Fireplace Mural)
A taxidermy deer covered with crystals changes the way we look at reality
Kohei Nawa, PixCell-Deer#24
In the Third Intermediate Period, lapis represented two of Ptah's roles: that of creator of the world from a watery darkness, and Lord of the Sky.
Cult Image of the God Ptah
The precision of the line and the attention to texture allow this drawing to stand on its own as a finished work.
Groom and Rider drawing
This tradition of highly decorative saddles continues uninterrupted in Tibet for at least a thousand years.
Saddle (gser sga)
This exceptional mask has a solid wooden core carved with two similar faces in opposing directions, often referred to as a Janus face.
Janus-Faced Headdress (Ejagham or Bale peoples)
The composition of the painting seems to have borrowed depictions of the Three Laughers of Tiger Creek, a popular allegorical story about the meeting of three famous figures.
Shakyamuni, Laozi, and Confucius
The smoke from incense was used as a link between the earthly realm and the heavenly world.
Li (tripod)-shaped cloisonné incense burner
Artists during the Ming dynasty often honored their patrons by portraying them in a garden studio, thus commenting on the owner’s character and aesthetic taste.
Shen Zhou, A Spring Gathering
The artwork is based on a well-known Chinese folktale about a group of monkeys attempting to capture the moon.
Xu Bing, Monkeys Grasp for the Moon
This Chinese calligraphy piece is written on a folding fan.
Wang Wen, Poem in cursive script
Painted in lavish mineral-based colors of blue, green, and brownish yellow, this painting is a typical “blue-and-green” landscape in Chinese art
Qiu Ying, Journey to Shu
A scholar playing a zither while enjoying some beautiful scenery is a popular genre in Chinese landscape paintings.
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