Art Contents Archive

How did people tell the date and time before the introduction of the Gregorian calendar and automated time-telling devices, like computers and alarm clocks? In honor of #AstronomyDay, decode the medieval volvelle: part timepiece, part floppy disk, and part crystal ball. https://t.co/4umQKdiOi8

Finally an answer to the age-old question: How'd they do that?! 🤔 Explore the most common techniques for making prints and drawings through these in-depth explainers, courtesy of The Met's Department of Drawings and Prints. https://t.co/vbF3RX5A6S

Supercharged by a $103 million Picasso, Christie's ended New York's spring auction week with a mammoth $481 million sale: https://t.co/yWOdngsSqy https://t.co/5CqHULGbxn

Mariko Kusumoto was born in Japan where she studied art before continuing her education in CA. Today she combines a love of the ocean, creative shapes & found objects to create whimsical themes from her Lexington, MA studio. #AAPIMonth 🎨: "Sea Creatures" neck piece (2015) https://t.co/doAUuiM73v

🌤 Paradise.

Volkswagen is bringing back its iconic “love bus” with a modern electric twist to the U.S. https://t.co/62WvLlVCLj

The #MetBritishGalleries are newly reinstalled, and there’s more on display than just formality and frills. Uncover 400 years of British history and ornamentation on the #MetPrimer. https://t.co/EpJCLi6DXC

Here’s how it works: 🌟 Layered circles of parchment are tied together at the center. 🌟 This setup allows the user to rotate pointers to calculate the position of the sun (Solis) and moon (Luna). 🌟 A circle with red letters indicates the current astrological sign. https://t.co/zhEuK4akyd

The Uffizi Gallery in Florence is turning some of its most prized artworks into NFTs and selling them to raise funds after a cash-strapped year. And it’s starting off with a bang: an encrypted Michelangelo painting just sold for €140,000 ($170,000): https://t.co/Qu9VDuaYfZ

Even as Rachel Whiteread steps forward to greet us, she takes a small, deft step back, away from us. https://t.co/7SzY3BbkV1

New images of Jupiter show the gas giant planet under UV, infrared, and visible light. https://t.co/ohv1TsL2PF

The device can even tell time at night if aligned with the stars and your eyes just right! Visit the https://t.co/ZgfZia3B8Z for more.

Book Club | As a new Barbara Hepworth biography is published by @thamesandhudson—to coincide with a major survey @HepworthGallery—its author @EleanorClaytone gives us her top reading tips #TANbookclub https://t.co/gbg660Tr6Z

L. Brandon Krall's combination of humility and probity is rare in today’s ego-inflated art world. https://t.co/7JBrLE4vTU

Most of the poems in Andrew Levy’s stunning "Artifice in the Calm Damages" are polemical tapestries of unrelenting rhetorical force. https://t.co/TkbMVxf5Jz