Alexander, the Mongols, and the great epic of Iran.
Location Country: United States
The angry ducks of Bada Shanren.
Bada Shanren, Lotus and Ducks
A red so rare, so impossible to make, the process was lost before the end of the Ming Dynasty.
A Ritual Ming dish
A fisherman and a woodcutter — at age 90, the great Japanese artist Hokusai painted these moving images of contentment.
Beyond the Great Wave — Hokusai at ...
Get to know fifteenth-century Aragonese painting, which draws on Italian and Northern Renaissance influences.
The Renaissance in Spain, The Morata Master
Roll over Bellini, and tell Tintoretto the news. The Renaissance in Spain.
St. Michael defeats the devil in Renaissance ...
Cats, gossip, and laundry — a view of Los Angeles during the Great Depression.
Millard Sheets, Tenement Flats
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.
In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing ...
An interpretation of the city's colossal skyscrapers
The City at night, Joseph Stella’s The ...
When movies were new and lights transformed the darkened city streets.
John Sloan, Movies
Cole, the great American landscape painter looks across the vast history of Western architecture
Thomas Cole, The Architect’s Dream
Politics, experience, and humanity on the streets of 1970s New York
Faith Ringgold, Ben
Museum visitors often mistake this sculpture for a real person
Duane Hanson, Executive, originally titled, Another Day
At this party, everyone has the same face and seems profoundly alone.
Marisol, The Party
The dubious justice of the anti-immigrant Know-Nothings.
Blythe, Justice
Aspiration was one of only two panels to survive the Texas Centennial where it pointed to a future that transcended the racism of the day.
Aaron Douglas, Aspiration
Martyr or murderer? John Brown has polarized political opinion from the Civil War to the Civil Rights Movement.
Thomas Hovenden, The Last Moments of John ...
Before T.V. and Twitter, politicians talked to voters face-to-face.
George Caleb Bingham, Country Politician
The Winchester Bible is among the most magnificent illuminated manuscripts made in England in the twelfth century.
The Morgan Leaf from The Winchester Bible
Living in peace—predator and prey, and Native Americans and settler colonists—but for how long?
