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Fashioned by Sargent
“The coat is the picture,” John Singer Sargent explained to his fellow artist Graham Robertson in the summer of 1894, tugging a heavy garment ever…
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Dutch Art in a Global Age
The seventeenth century has long been considered a “golden age” for Dutch art, fueled by the Dutch Republic’s growth as an economic world power…
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Strong Women in Renaissance Italy
The story of the Renaissance in Italy is often told through the work of great male artists such as Michelangelo, Raphael, Donatello, and Leonardo. But…
![Artist Toshiko Takaezu sits among her works of pottery and looks out the window.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC459050_16x9.jpg?itok=zaTT1qXH)
Born in Hawaii to parents of Okinawan ancestry, Toshiko Takaezu (1922–2011) was a technically masterful and innovative artist best known for her…
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Tiny Treasures
The Magic of Miniatures
Intricate and appealing, curious and uncanny, miniature works of art exert surprising power. Over thousands of years and across cultures, artists and…
![Black contour line drawings of abstract shapes resembling fruit, branches, and leaves against a white background.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-06/SC315332_SC315331_SC315351_16x9.jpg?itok=UHuukYle)
“Since birth we get accustomed to seeing and thinking at the same time. But I think that if you can turn off the mind and look at things only with…
![Four screen prints of traditional Indigenous outfits—one blue, one yellow, one green, and one red—all with metallic foil and cross decorations.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-10/SCs426440-3_16x9%20%281%29.jpg?itok=tG8d1DNk)
Resilience often manifests in work by Indigenous North American artists, for example in its content or simply by increasing visibility to combat…
![A black-and-white photograph of a man in a white lab coat with a blurred face standing beside an easel on a rooftop.](https://d1nn9x4fgzyvn4.cloudfront.net/styles/scaled_562_wide/s3/2023-10/SC334794_16x9.jpg?itok=yyZZliEA)
A photographer’s studio is a laboratory of creativity—a physical and psychological space for meditation, collaboration, and experimentation. “Creative…
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In the years around 1900, before Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) created some of the most recognizable abstract canvases of the last century, he turned his…
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Jell-O’s presence in contemporary art is an extension of its visual and cultural history. Since its invention in 1897 the cheap yet luxurious pantry…