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A research conservator and a conservation scientist offer an up-close look at the history and makeup of key pigments in one of Monet’s iconic paintings.

What happens when you shake up someone’s thinking process with something counterintuitive? 

This fall’s major exhibition devoted to sculptural arts across the African continent focuses on how the originating cultures of these objects view, value, and talk about their art.

The artist’s basket making, rooted in time and place, tells of the urgent measures needed to ensure its practice by new generations.

From ancient Rome to 19th-century New York, the use of ancient Egyptian motifs demonstrates the influence of the illustrious North African culture.

Fine Indian textiles became sought-after commodities in the 1700s, impacting fashions from France to Japan.

Takaezu’s artworks not only merge the energy of Abstract Expressionism with the forms of traditional Japanese ceramics—they have a life of their own.

Take a closer look at the making of the artist’s recent series of iPad paintings—plus discover his past works, inspirations, and Chicago connections.

Takashi Murakami’s painting, a Superflat mash-up of religious iconography, Japanese artistic tradition, and pop culture, needs to be seen to be truly perceived.

With trust, communication, and “just the right amount of nerves,” she leads the museum’s team of art handlers, getting works from here to there and on the gallery walls.

Best known as the photographer of the “Black is Beautiful” movement, Brathwaite created images that were inspired by jazz and popular music of the 1960s and 1970s.

Marin Sarvé-Tarr discusses how the unconscious desires, fears, and anxieties that Dalí explores in his painting reveal a society in crisis.

Their images may have been carved into stone, but their identity has been lost to time.

With a critical eye, writer Renee Engeln subjects historical paintings of women to the same impossible, contradictory standards imposed on pictures of women online.

Learn more about the pioneering Brazilian modernist, the art movements she founded, and the upcoming exhibition featuring the woodcut prints she would come to call Tecelar.

His works are horribly, insistently, uncompromisingly grotesque and repulsive—and that’s the perfect reason to spend time with them.

This large gemstone featuring the Roman god of war, a prime example of an ancient carving technique, makes quite the impression.

A photograph brought into a home brings two strangers together—and inspires another photograph.