Two staff members from our Division of Academic and Public Programs discuss how the museums foster museum literacy and a ...

In a lavish room with ornate tapestries, a young woman with fair skin and long light brown hair lies against cushions on the floor, with only a silk sheet wrapped around her legs. A hookah and a fan ...

The monkey steps forward in three-quarter view, bent slightly at the waist, holding a long pole behind his back with left arm, while his right arm is upraised. From his open palm a release of golden ...

Hatoum, a Palestinian born in Beirut, uses everyday objects and personal artifacts to examine the effects of exile and alienation. For this work she collected strands of her own hair and painstakingly ...

The drawing in black chalk on white paper depicts a woman from the waist up, her left arm cropped by the edge of the paper. She leans against a cushion propped under her right arm, and her right hand ...

From a circular base, the pitcher expands in a bulb shape, to a narrow neck, which then expands again into a smaller bulb shape with a small opening at the top. An upward curving handle on one side is ...

Cézanne painted this landscape when he was working alongside Camille Pissarro in the Oise valley, north of Paris. Their work from this period shares many of the same features; the houses at the center ...

Dramatically lit with light entering from upper left, highlighting the man (Christ) in an open stage-like area inside an antiquated courtyard. Armored Roman guards with spears stand behind him. A man ...

A terracotta sculpture that is made of three round forms pointing to the right shown on a faded grey background. The two bottom forms are flat on the surface, the top form sticks up a bit and is ...

A growing metropolis in the early 20th century, Berlin attracted diverse ethnic groups, particularly in the realms of art and theater. When he visited, Nolde avidly depicted scenes of modern urban ...

A rectangular marble relief portrays Hermes striding to the right in profile with only his right arm in view holding the infant Dionysos in front of him. The infant is wrapped in an ample folded ...