Art Contents Archive

'Curlew in flight' by Irish artist Carol Nunan, based in Northumberland, UK #WomensArt https://t.co/gxcQTd2HkI

Happy birthday, James Van Der Zee 📸 ✨ ⁣⁣⁣ Born June 29, 1886, the prolific Harlem photographer was a lifelong artist and musician whose 1926 self-portrait, with its expressive applied color, is one of 20,000 photographs in the recently establish James #VanDerZeeArchive. https://t.co/L7Bp2Y0R77

How did a third-century Catholic saint become a contemporary gay icon referenced on everything from the covers of men’s magazines to art and films and an adopted pseudonym by Oscar Wilde? We investigate: https://t.co/yFrxCQeBDx https://t.co/4pJKtPfHHt

Aaron De Groft lost his job as director and chief executive days after the FBI seized 25 works with a contested attribution to the artist. https://t.co/0mAX0FsC9x

Flemish artist #PeterPaulRubens, famous for his Baroque style, was born #OnThisDay in 1577. 🏛️ @SPSGmuseum https://t.co/P9CoiVixEQ

The Met and @studiomuseum announced the #JamesVanDerZee Archive earlier this year—a landmark collaborative initiative to research, conserve, and provide public access to his work. See more photographs by Van Der Zee: https://t.co/f3t42KN85A https://t.co/hR8ewkH4ig

Israeli archaeologists have discovered one of the world’s oldest mosques in the Negev Desert: https://t.co/Ua4DLkqaIC https://t.co/yrI1oqTiob

It's way back Wednesday! Do you remember that time when contemporary art took over Getty? It was the year 2000 when 11 L.A. artists showed their works inspired by Getty's paintings, sculptures, and drawings. Check them out: https://t.co/mjcn4v61DE

“I think before you get onto a public platform, you have to deal with yourself before you put yourself out there. Things like sexuality always come out, and you come off worse by not being true to yourself… Yes, I think my sexuality has helped my designs.” https://t.co/nOTHa7Fzsv

Margaret Keane's kitschy, doe-eyed figures became a ubiquitous part of the mid-century American visual landscape https://t.co/wWfScr1AtP

Missed our employee art show? You can still experience some of the works on view through stories shared by Met staff members—the artists themselves. https://t.co/Opu4owXovM

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is raising its admission fee to $30 as inflation comes for us all + more art industry news: https://t.co/TypuBUyA3V https://t.co/TaqmiEIZe4

Alex Zane and his daughter have put a creative spin on daddy-daughter time–they recreate scenes from classic films with the girl as the star. https://t.co/mQl00amq0k

From the archive, a mesmerizing swim with two Blanket octopuses near Romblon Island in the Philippines. 🐙 https://t.co/hQpn1bPZp0

Arts workers and reproductive rights organizations collaborate on educational resources for accessing safe abortions. https://t.co/Nh2W43Puja https://t.co/7UTNYIXfHj