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An immersive art exhibition by an international art collective is debuting in the Middle East. “All That Is Unseen” at the Media Majlis Museum in Qatar's capital Doha explores the hidden biological and cosmic systems connecting all life.
After working for years in film, fashion and graphic design, visual artist Kelly A. Boesch found a new collaborator to work with: AI. She walks through how she uses the technology to create dreamlike images and music that remain hauntingly human, exploring the two questions everyone keeps asking her — how do you make it, and is it really art?
If you've ever wondered why there's an entire ancient Egyptian temple in the middle of New York City, you're in good company. Smarthistory's on the case! We know art history doesn't stop when a work of art is finished. The histories just keep going and going 😮📚😏. Find the full story at https://smarthistory.org/temple-of-dendur/
Claude Monet, Camille at the Window, Argenteuil (Camille à sa Fenêtre, Argenteuil), 1873, oil on canvas, 60.3 x 49.9 cm (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)
Speakers: Dr. Theresa A. Cunningham, Associate Curator of European Art and the Mellon Collections, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and Dr. Beth Harris, Smarthistory
Edgar Degas, At the Milliner’s, c. 1882–98, oil on canvas, 61.6 x 73.66 cm (Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond)
A conversation with Dr. Theresa A. Cunningham, Associate Curator of European Art and the Mellon Collections, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Dr. Beth Harris, Smarthistory
Kashmir-raised, London-based artist Raqib Shaw walks us through his monumental autobiographical painting Paradise Lost, sharing insights into the rich details and symbolism that pervade the spellbinding work.
Artist Kira Freije brings metal, fabric, plaster and found materials together to create sculptures that feel strangely human.
Working intuitively, Freije casts parts of her own body alongside the faces of people close to her, allowing figures to slowly emerge in the studio. She reflects on embracing the unknown, making works in relation to one another and the feelings she hopes they might evoke in those who encounter them.
The highly original works of Victorian artist Richard Dadd, best known for his fairy paintings, draw upon literature, legend and memory to portray elaborate worlds that radiate imaginative power.
His work has continued to inspire artists, writers and musicians, including the band Queen, who named a song after one of Dadd's most celebrated paintings, The Fairy Feller's Master-Stroke. Bringing together more than 100 works, this exhibition tells the story of Dadd's life and art, as radical and imaginative in his time as it is today.
The radiance of the French Riviera left an indelible mark on artists. It roused the imaginations not only of the 19th and 20th centuries' greatest painters – among them Picasso, Matisse, Cezanne, Renoir and Klein – but giants of literature, cinema and fashion, whose works helped define the carefree glamour and eternal romance of the Côte d'Azur.
Before museums, there were rooms of wonder filled with unicorn horns, automatons, coral, coins, and relics from around the world.
Discover how the Wunderkammer—or cabinet of curiosities—emerged from the Age of Exploration and a desire to collect and make sense of a rapidly expanding world. What drove collectors to gather, classify and display its wonders—and how does their legacy live on in museums today?
What does it mean to make art on the internet? It's not a new question, but it's far from a settled question. From very early on in the history of the World Wide Web, artists leapt in to start experimenting, and very shortly after that, the organization Rhizome was born. Dedicated to digital art, it quickly became one of the most important advocates and keepers of its history.
Art21 proudly presents an artist segment featuring Delcy Morelos from the "Human Nature" episode in the twelfth season of the Art in the Twenty-First Century series.
"Human Nature" premiered in June 2026 on PBS.
Delcy Morelos was born in 1967 in Tierralta, Colombia, and lives and works in Bogotá, Colombia.
A Palestinian exhibition opening simultaneously in Bethlehem and Gaza has a novel way of highlighting and challenging Israeli restrictions that prevent artworks, people and products from moving between the two locations.
In this edition we're pleased to welcome back Lauren Jimerson to discuss the Mary Cassatt exhibit entitled "The Choice of Independence" that's currently showing at the Musee d'Orsay in Paris. Lauren is an art historian and author, specialising in modern art and women artists. She tells us why Cassatt was a key figure in the Impressionist movement and why this exhibition is so important.
In the heart of Berlin, Maurizio Cattelan's show "Night" features a mini Hitler on his knees. Is the dictator maybe begging for forgiveness? Cattelan's pieces tackle our collective memory head on.
The "Odyssey," an Ancient Greek epic by the poet Homer, recounts the story of the hero Odysseus and his decade-long journey home from war. Three thousand years later, the tale continues to inspire artists, authors, playwrights, and filmmakers around the world.
Hear from Lisa Ayla Çakmak, Mary and Michael Jaharis Chair and Curator of Arts of Greece, Rome, and Byzantium, and Ginia Shubik Sweeney, director of interpretation, as they discuss the influence of this iconic story on works from the Art Institute’s collection and consider the ongoing resonances it has with contemporary audiences.
Artist Simeon Barclay explores the relationship between memory, place and performance.
Returning to the landscapes of Huddersfield and the Yorkshire Moors, Barclay reflects on the places that shaped him and his spoken word work The Ruin. In his studio, he brings together text, movement and memory, considering how performance can transform both performer and audience.
Artist Marguerite Humeau creates speculative worlds that explore what might exist beyond the limits of human experience.
Drawing on sculpture, mythology and different forms of knowledge, Humeau reflects on an enduring fascination with transcendence and the connections between humans, landscapes and other forms of life. Working with foragers, clairvoyants and geomancers, and creating landscapes such as a forest installation in Norway, she asks how new mythologies might help us imagine our place within a much wider web of life.
The highly original works of Victorian artist Richard Dadd, best known for his fairy paintings, draw upon literature, legend and memory to portray elaborate worlds that radiate imaginative power.
"When I see Kiki's work, it helps me feel OK with the grotesque." — Loie Hollowell
"Exquisite Corpse" at Pace Berlin takes the forward-thinking work of Kiki Kogelnik as its starting point, placing it alongside work exploring bodily abstraction by Hollowell, Sascha Braunig, and Veronika Pausovoa.
Coulter Fussell, a diner waitress turned artist, makes her kids’ Snapchat messages into art.
In a storefront studio on the main street of her small town of Water Valley, Mississippi, Fussell turns donated fabric, photographs from her father, and her kids’ videos of fireworks, lake jumps and pick-up truck hijinks into complex textile art. Her creations illuminate the optimism, humor and technique instilled in her by her mother's quilting practice. As Coulter says, ”I grew up in a household where what people would consider higher arts was on the same playing field as craft work.”
In this clip from 2001, artist Shahzia Sikander recalls the "amazing visual memory" of reading the Quran as a child, explaining how she captures a similar impression of movement in her manuscript painting.
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