Happy birthday, Ansel Adams! The San Francisco native and photographer-activist received his first camera at age 14 during a visit to @YosemiteNPS. 📷 El Capitan, Yosemite, 1938; printed 1950, Ansel Adams. Getty Museum. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust https://t.co/NLSVzDIeOo
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This armor steels the show ⚔️ This ornate 1540s armor owned by Ferdinand I was crafted by Kunz Lochner, Nuremberg’s most celebrated armorer of the period. Lochner made several armors for both Ferdinand and his son Archduke Maximilian. Learn more: https://t.co/l8RAzTxOqk https://t.co/M1qy2rotfg
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On what would have been #AnselAdams' 120th birthday, we're sharing one of the photographer's most popular late works. đź“·: "Moon and Half Dome, Yosemite National Park" (1960), The Lane Collection https://t.co/5DAVQzsIbu
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Top five this week | A new play about Andy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat has opened in London. https://t.co/YMyj1QzQUS
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Explore his life's work: https://t.co/lz8qx81G5m 📷 Monolith, Face of Half Dome, Yosemite Valley, California, 1927; printed 1980, Ansel Adams. Getty Museum. Gift of Carol Vernon and Robert Turbin in Memory of Marjorie and Leonard Vernon. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust https://t.co/3jPUxshIK5
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On Tuesday, February 22, tune into the #MetLiveArts digital premiere of "A Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes in Song." 🎶 Enjoy powerful and incisive poems by Langston Hughes set to music in a recital curated by soprano @_JuliaBullock. https://t.co/N2TyMZZ5Bw
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Top five this week | New initiative by Save Venice will focus on more than 30 female artists who worked in the region between the 16th and 18th centuries, from Marietta Robusti to Rosalba Carriera https://t.co/a43yyX9S07
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Here are the 15 most expensive artworks sold at auction around the world in January 2022. https://t.co/3jQ3oUoyR1
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Feeling like you don’t belong in your community? That your art isn’t good enough? Paddy Johnson walks us through some essential advice in “Art Problems.” https://t.co/jnsEKXOEHv
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Adams began his photography career in the 1920s by manipulating images as a Pictorialist. He later switched gears to a more sharp, realistic style in the 1930s. 📷 Yosemite Valley, Winter, 1943, Ansel Adams. Getty Museum. © The Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust https://t.co/liMHlcgjDT
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Discover the legend behind the ghosts at the Vezio Castle in Varenna and why they dot the gardens of the fortress over Lake Como. https://t.co/s6NPxOwqQ0
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Top five this week | Aggrieved owners of NFTs from the online project, Art Wars, which is the centre of an ongoing dispute, are speaking out—as the art market continues to get to grips with the realities of digital ownership https://t.co/7vDzItUarw
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7 questions for Charly and Hanna Bailly, the husband-and-wife owners of Geneva’s Bailly Gallery: https://t.co/x4Z2DnidE0 https://t.co/E84FDm1nuZ
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Breathtaking Concept Hotel For Daredevils https://t.co/30huEWA4Vg https://t.co/leBMq1jRmC https://t.co/8jMUhBI0ip
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