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A cultural and historical look at Black style in Europe and beyond from the eighteenth century to today, it’s the Costume Institute’s first exhibition in over twenty years to focus exclusively on menswear and the first to explore the importance of fashion to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora. ⬬
In an act of vandalism on par with the burning of the Library of Alexandria, during the sixteenth century Spanish conquistadors and priests destroyed the Maya codices, or the written sum of that civilization’s history and literature…
Thanks to the late Jayne Wrightsman, the Met now possesses the nation’s finest collection of work by the Venetian scenic painter
I wondered how cultural institutions, desperate for attendance, were handling the restrictions forced by the coronavirus pandemic, and took a stroll along New York’s “Museum Mile” on Fifth Avenue.
Check out what’s going on this week at museums at home and abroad!
See what’s going on in person and online at museums across the US!
A cultural institution of transcendent richness and breadth, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York enters its sesquicentennial year
A new exhibition at the Met explores the amazing creations that filled courtly cabinets of curiosities.
See what’s going on this week in the art and antiques world
Born to a conservative Protestant family in Lausanne, Switzerland, Félix Vallotton rather intrepidly moved to Paris in 1882 at the age of sixteen to study art.