Join journalist Alina Cho and fashion designer Christopher John Rogers for a conversation about the acclaimed designer’s upbringing and the launch of his brand.

Among the most influential and best-known American sculptors of the nineteenth century, Hiram Powers enjoyed international recognition for marbles executed in the prevailing Neoclassical style.

Artist Andrea Bowers reflects on Howardena Pindell in this episode of The Artist Project.

By carving symbolic designs into recycled tires, Betsabeé Romero creates artworks that reference ancient motifs and evoke reflections on movement.

While images of dynastic ancestry were an important chiefly art form, so were images of living rulers.

Their personal maxim was: sibi soli vivere sed et aliis proficere (“not to live for themselves only but to serve others”).

Fenton had played a pivotal role in demonstrating that photography could rival drawing and painting not only as a means of conveying information, but also as a medium of visual delight and powerful expression.

Inclined by training and temperament toward endeavors that brought together the fields of painting and chemistry, Robert was among the earliest French artists to take up paper photography, around 1850.

The spring 2010 exhibition organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity, the first drawn from the newly established Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at the Met. The exhibition, on view from May 5 through August 15, 2010, explores developing perceptions of the modern American woman from the 1890s to the 1940s, and how they have affected the way American women are seen today. Focusing on archetypes of American femininity through dress, the exhibition reveals how the American woman initiated style revolutions that mirrored her social, political, and sartorial emancipation. Early mass-media representations of American women established the fundamental characteristics of American style – a theme explored via a multimedia installation in the final gallery.