Japanese prints at the British Museum

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by Carolin C. Young | Lovers in the Upstairs Room of a Teahouse from Utamakaura (Poem of the Pillow) by Kitagawa Utamaro, c. 1788. Sheet from a color wood block-printed album. © Trustees of the British Museum. Those seeking salacious content, accompanied by illuminating explanations, can explore the sexually ex­plicit Shunga art of Japan in an exhibition also hosted by the …

Ancient Colombian gold at the British Museum

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by Carolin C. Young | Anthropomorphic bat pec­toral, 900–1600. Gold. © El Museo del Oro del Banco de la Republica, Bogotá, Colombia, on view at the British Museum, London. The British Museum this season proves that gold has more to it than mere sparkle in a major exhibi­tion devoted to the metal’s uses and meanings in pre-Hispanic Colombia. Including more than …

Tudor portraits at the National Portrait Gallery, London

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by Carolin C. Young |Three Unknown Elizabethan Children, artist unknown, c. 1580. Oil on panel. Private collection, on view at the National Portrait Gallery, London. London’s National Portrait Gallery invites visitors to have a firsthand look at the personalities who inhabited Elizabeth I’s realm. Including portraits of the queen and many of her most re­nowned subjects, such as Bess of …

Renaissance music at Écouen, Paris

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by Carolin C. Young | King David and some Musicians, artist unknown, c. 1500–1510. One of three oil on wood panels. Musée National du Moyen Âge-Musée de Cluny, Paris. © Rmn-Grand Palais, photograph by Jean-Gilles Berizzi.  Those seeking a lyrical re­pose from the bustle of the Parisian art world should head to France’s National Museum of the Renaissance at the Château …