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#MetKidsFunFact: Back in 1863, when this painting was made, traveling wasn't easy! This landscape painting allowed people on the East Coast of the United States to see the snow-capped Rocky Mountains in the West without the long journey. ⛰️ Learn more: https://t.co/WmLeGMrbnn https://t.co/Ap3aXxshLU

Do you enjoy spending time outdoors? So did the Impressionists. “Plein Air” painting—painting outdoors— came to define landscape practice in the 19th century. [THREAD] https://t.co/vWC4zYXyTr

In this dramatic close-up of the Arrest of Christ, each person is shown reacting in the moment after Judas's kiss revealed Christ to the soldiers; St. Peter raises his knife to smite off the ear of an enemy, others recoil in horror. 🎨: "The Taking of Christ" (~1620), Flemish https://t.co/2nAAMBMmVP

An international three-museum Matisse extravaganza will kick off in Philadelphia this fall + more art industry news: https://t.co/9gyTFacAP6 https://t.co/RVbmCOTYCn

An artist in St Petersburg faces up to ten years in prison for an anti-war protest in which she replaced supermarket shelf price labels with short news texts about the bombing of an art school and drama theatre in Mariupol, the besieged Ukrainian city. https://t.co/G1aINNqro7

A new system called DALL-E seems to have cracked the code on true AI-generated art. The implications are staggering: https://t.co/SYKy4FcNof https://t.co/aX2Q3DhpFX

The Impressionists, however, prioritized plein air over studio work and blurred the distinction between sketch and finished painting. This informal aesthetic was meant to convey the idea of a work executed rapidly and spontaneously outdoors, in the flux of nature. https://t.co/MxEG2nYZM7

A new exhibition at the @agotoronto features a 24ft-wide David Hockney painting that has not been publicly displayed in nearly 30 years. https://t.co/ko6AtNX2Xm

More and more organizations are returning the Benin Bronzes, looted from the Kingdom in Benin by British troops in 1897, as recognition of museums' role in colonialist conquests. https://t.co/AXiPjxeoGh

Betty Reid Soskin was the oldest active park ranger for the National Park Service. She recently retired at the remarkable age of 100. https://t.co/d1RI2QR1Wq

While previous generations of artists, going back to the late 1700s at least, made oil studies and sketches outdoors, their important landscape compositions were always done in the studio. https://t.co/xzTNtRX3zR

See Jean-Michel Basquiat’s boyhood home, New York studio, and unseen artworks in a blockbuster show curated by his family: https://t.co/6JgTor3lOW https://t.co/g4eT0YWbTf

Pioneering paper quilling artist Yulia Brodskaya has recently launched a fundraiser to support the charities working in Ukraine. https://t.co/yaHutFe8ch

George Gittoes is an independent war artist of decades’ standing. He and his wife Hellen Rose, an Australian singer and performer, arrived in Ukraine in late March with a goal of making art and bringing hope to Ukrainians under siege from Russian forces. https://t.co/A0bY9Kyjnc

Has COVID-19 altered the direction of contemporary sculpture? The comforting act of physical contact took on new resonances in Yale’s 2022 Sculpture Graduate Thesis Show. https://t.co/xXxc4tEP7N