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There’s more than initially meets the eye to this exceptionally intricate lock, which was forged in iron by metalworker Frank Koralewsky and illustrates a scene from Grimms’ “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”
Look closely and you’ll...
Bernat Martorell's dynamic 15th-century painting is based on a widely read collection of stories about the lives of saints and depicts the heroic tale of Saint George slaying the dragon. According to the legend, a dragon was terrorizing...
Tomorrow, for the first time in over 60 years, the painting famously known as "Whistler's Mother" will be on view at the Art Institute. We've paired this famous portrait with a selection of other paintings, prints, drawings, and ephemera...
Opening on Friday to the public, Hélio Oiticica: To Organize Delirium is the first U.S. retrospective for arguably the most influential Latin American artist of the post-World War II period. Oiticica is known for always pushing the...
This mask would have been worn by a woman in the powerful, all-female Sande society, a group in Sierra Leone through which many women were educated and exercised their political, religious, and social power. The society provided members...
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