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Detail of a medieval wooden architectural support with a Jester

The Paradox of the Fool

Unpack the peculiar ways the jester challenged the medieval social order

Detail of Georgia O'Keeffe's painting, "From the Faraway, Nearby" with an imaginary mule deer skull and antlers levitating over a rather generalized desert landscape

Revisiting “O’Keeffe Country”

Two Indigenous scholars discuss what—and who—the artist omits in her depiction of New Mexico
Secrets of the Tudor Archives

Secrets of the Tudor Archives

Hear from a scholar whose recent discoveries in British archives have transformed our understanding of these artists and their royal sitters.

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England Virtual Opening

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England Virtual Opening

Join curators Elizabeth Cleland and Adam Eaker to explore The Tudors, which traces the transformation of the arts in Tudor England through more than 100 objects.

Using the Astronomicum Caesareum Book

Using the Astronomicum Caesareum Book

This most sumptuous of all Renaissance instructive manuals explained the use of the astrolabe and other instruments used for computing planetary positions

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina Virtual Opening

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina Virtual Opening

Join co-curators Adrienne Spinozzi, Ethan Lasser, and Jason Young for a virtual tour of Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina.

Reimagining Peruvian Portraiture with Ana de Orbegoso

Learn how the artist updates ancient Andean aesthetics to reflect the world today.
Detail shot of the keys of the Cristofori Piano

Inventing the Piano

How Cristofori’s invention gave a new voice to the harpsichord
Limestone Assyrian relief with a low-relief carving of two men bearing gifts

Keeping Culture Alive

Two scholars consider the displacement of Assyrian people and their art
Bernd & Hilla Becher Virtual Opening

Bernd & Hilla Becher Virtual Opening

Join Jeff Rosenheim, Joyce Frank Menschel Curator in Charge, Department of Photographs, for a virtual tour of Bernd & Hilla Becher, a retrospective celebrating the renowned German artists, Bernd and Hilla Becher (1931–2007; 1934–2015), who changed the course of late twentieth-century photography.

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