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Nancy Elizabeth Prophet, Discontent, 1929 In her first ever solo exhibition, "I Will Not Bend an Inch" at the Brooklyn Museum until July 13, 2025 #rediscovered #sculpture #art #arthistory #smarthistory youtu.be/g8H9vO2GwEU

Hughie Lee-Smith, The Walls a new Smarthistory video youtu.be/kAMWnCP5v0A "What a beautiful and moving painting." –viewer comment #underappreciated #art #arthistory #smarthistory

Archibald John Motley Jr., Bronzeville at Night, 1949 a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/wMzwo5uQcI8 #art #arthistory #smarthistory #Bronzeville #Chicago

youtu.be/j7ZhVtK6g9A brand new Smarthistory #art #architecture #Romanesque #Medieval #England

I was really looking forward to seeing the Portus Relief in detail at the @artinstitutechi.bsky.social, but the problem was that I couldn’t really *see* it when I got there. Not placing a highly reflective case opposite a bank of bright windows should be taught in Curator 101. Disappointing. 🏺

and to round out this little posting splurge, a wonderful work by JooYoung Choi that may make your Saturday happier, youtu.be/Qsz0AbbhiaQ

This stunning Khmer Buddha was made in Thailand and unearthed in Vietnam, youtu.be/DFDdtxCN0aE

From 1832–34, the artist Karl Bodmer documented Prince Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied's expedition along the upper Missouri River, learn more... youtu.be/d-t72oPXw3s

There is even more new content: The Qajar Shah commissioned this beautifully decorated pen case, possibly as a gift for one of his sons. youtu.be/vXAmNXF8Qvw

This early Kay WalkingStick from 1969 reframes her later work: youtu.be/mts7BoWPt18 #art #arthistory #smarthistory

Join a 13th-century Buddhist monk as he comes upon the historical Buddha in his dream. Myōe Kōben, Dream Record (Yume no ki) with Dr. Frank Feltens, Curator of Japanese Art, National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution smarthistory.org/myoe-koben-d...

Read this terrific article, written by the co-author of The Sun King at Sea: Maritime Art and Galley Slavery in Louis XIV's France! Her incisive reading of the painting charges beyond the standard airy representations of rococo art and is perfect for the classroom.

Need a little drop dead gorgeous Roman mosaic? Take a peek at the House of Neptune and Amphitrite at Herculaneum by Dr. Elizabeth Macaulay: smarthistory.org/neptune-amph...

Lots of wonderful new content is being published on smarthistory.org Antoine Watteau, The Pleasures of the Ball by Dr. Meredith Martin was published yesterday and explores the Rococo but unlike so much writing on the fête galante, does not ignore race: smarthistory.org/antoine-watt...

Isamu Noguchi, Gregory (Effigy) a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/mlbM29X1v-k #art #arthistory #smarthistory #Noguchi #sculpture

Check out this new @smarthistory.bsky.social video about provenance using the Getty Provenance Index www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZWR...

What is art provenance? A Getty Research Institute case study and a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/pZWRxUxghVY #art #arthistory #Smarthistory #Getty #GRI #provenance

A Buddhist Monk’s Dream Diary a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/ehZAkNlzobw #art #arthistory #Smarthistory #dreaming #Buddhism #Siddhartha

Want to learn more about the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore where Pope Francis was entombed? Smarthistory can help: smarthistory.org/basilica-of-...

El Greco, The Burial of the Count of Orgaz a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/N09QNm3XKW4 #art #history #arthistory #counterreformation #Spain

Shizu Saldamando, Sandra and Tammy, Hollywood Forever a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/lxBBYhh_Po8 #art #arthistory #smarthistory

Georgia O'Keeffe, A Piece of Wood II/From Knot of Wood a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/NhrWaUmYGy0

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas a new Smarthistory video youtu.be/_IBntk3Oj24

New Smarthistory video alert! Joe Overstreet's Boxes: youtu.be/25xkFNyipnw #art #arthistory

from the Paris 1900 Exposition, Louis Comfort Tiffany's Favrile glass masterpiece, and a new Smarthistory video! smarthistory.org/louis-comfor... #ArtNouveau #Paris1900 #art #arthistory #glass

New photo set of Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party, 1974-79 www.flickr.com/photos/profz...

New video! Mark Bradford, Thelxiepeia youtu.be/r1UMt_XLmmY

Rogier van der Weyden, The Descent from the Cross a new Smarthistory video: smarthistory.org/rogier-van-d...

Doomscrolling? Beauty and creativity can help. Explore smarthistory.org #art #arthistory #doomscrolling #selfcare #learning

Light, color, and texture as pure visual pleasure, a late watercolor by Winslow Homer is the subject of a new video by #Smarthistory youtu.be/cXda4w97pBc #art #arthistory #watercolor #technique #fishing

"Who accompanied the jíbaro’s prayer in the isolated mountains of 19th-century Puerto Rico" Learn about Santos de palo (wooden saints) in a new essay by Dr. Tamara Díaz Calcaño: smarthistory.org/caban-group-... #art #arthistory #Caribbean #19thc

Thanks to Dr. Stacy Kamehiro, Executive Editor, Pacific Arts: Journal of the Pacific Arts Association, Smarthistory is publishing ten essays on art by Pacific Islanders, written by Pacific Islanders. Here are two: smarthistory.org/kapulani-lan... smarthistory.org/ola-ka-wai-o... #art #arthistory

An Introduction to The Garden of Earthly Delights & Hieronymus Bosch’s Wildly Creative Vision

Picasso's Guernica a new Smarthistory video: youtu.be/a3IX1YgRG-g #art #arthistory #ModernArt #Spain #CivilWar #War