Although there are no figures in Suchitra Mattai's massive tapestry called Exodus, the presence of the South Asian diaspora is manifest through the almost 200 globally sourced saris.
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Kahlo’s art looks at Mexico's indigenous heritage, colonial history and post-revolutionary future.
Frida Kahlo, Self-Portrait with Monkey
Learn about Joseph, Mary, and the representation of marriage in New Spain in López de Arteaga's painting
Sebastián López de Arteaga, Marriage of the ...
A conversation that took place on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, July, 2021
Monument Avenue and the Lost Cause
Dedicated in 1890; removed in 2021
Defeated, heroized, dismantled: Richmond’s Robert E. Lee ...
Victorian art is often dismissed as an overly sentimental and cutesy style of painting, and nowhere are these qualities more apparent than in Bubbles.
John Everett Millais, Bubbles
Napoleon masterfully manipulated his image, and this painting meant for Parisian audiences is pure propaganda.
Baron Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the ...
Two important media were intertwined in 1950s Brazil: architecture and photography.
José Yalenti, Architecture or Twilight
At the Telephone reveals Rodchenko's ongoing interest in depicting the rapidly changing world (of newspapers, cameras, and telephones) in new and unexpected ways.
Alexander Rodchenko, At the Telephone
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 ...
Delacroix's orientalist fantasy exhibited to great acclaim in the Paris Salon.
Delacroix, Women of Algiers in Their Apartment
HOWL, eon (I, II), by Julie Mehretu at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, was inspired by 1950's San Francisco and uses digital images of contemporary riots and protests overlaid with paint. Explore this masterpiece further with Neal Benezra, the Helen and Charles Schwab Director of SFMOMA.
Julie Mehretu, HOWL, eon (I, II)
Understanding geography is particularly important for the study of art of South Asia.
Geographic regions of South Asia
Opie has been using photography as a means of self-expression—and making friends through taking their portraits—since she had received a camera at age nine.
Catherine Opie, Self-Portrait/Cutting
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 ...
The writhing agony of the Trojan Laocoon made this Hellenistic masterpiece famous throughout history.
Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoön ...
The Mosque of Bāb al-Mardūm—and its conversion into a church—embodies the multi-religious reality of medieval Spain, where architecture and art were informed by the cultural complexity of such a dynamic setting.
The Mosque of Bāb al-Mardūm (the Church ...
This picture was taken to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s official state visit to the United States in 2007.
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