Art Contents Archive

Roll call! How well do you know the Medici family? Start scrolling to get to know some of the key players before you visit #MetMedici. ↓ https://t.co/tVRqsEeD2Q

A new documentary from @art21 visits Wangechi Mutu’s Nairobi studio to explore her profound ties to nature and the feminine https://t.co/ZW5yDm2zcK https://t.co/9kxPZJiaVS

But what if it wasn’t early man — but rather his female counterpart — who made these iconic cave drawings? Would our ideas of art change? https://t.co/gNpZKnbvL0

In the underwater Egyptian city of Thônis-Heracleion, divers have discovered an ancient warcraft: https://t.co/IcwgLGT4OR https://t.co/Zuos2iMgC0

Did you know the Olympics originated in ancient Greece? The competition was just as fierce, as athletes participated in chariot racing, sprinting, and wrestling. And they did this all naked! Dive into our guide to the ancient Olympics: https://t.co/bdebPd9FUe

On your mark...get set...Olympics!!!⁣ 🥇 🥈 🥉 ⁣⁣ Did You Know: The crouching start was popularized in the late 1880s, not long before Mexican-born American artist Charles Albert Lopez modeled "The Sprinter" in 1902. #Olympics2021 https://t.co/m6CltgDS4X

Enthralled by fabric and guided by her intuition, artist Mariko Kusumoto creates sculptures inspired by the things that fascinate her. https://t.co/qI9gLBYphl

Seoul's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art is offering the public its first look at the Lee Kun-hee collection, which features masterpieces of Korean art and French Impressionism https://t.co/Dn5P8DbH8l

"We know the people in her pictures, whom Holmes renders in their individuality while also evoking the community and era of which they are a part." @BayStateBanner on our newest exhibition, "Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes​": https://t.co/HNCUgldPna https://t.co/SuI4bXD7rI

Curator and museum trustee Isolde Brielmaier has been named deputy director at the New Museum: https://t.co/h36HOlWH7c https://t.co/DS8GIFyvko

Glimpse exquisite armor, ornate swords, and other finely crafted weaponry created over the course of 1,500 years in "Emperors, Artists & Inventors: Transformative Gifts of Fine Arms and Armor"—on view through February 21, 2022. https://t.co/oxPHcL4rAd

UK-based artist Justin Bateman recreates famous works of art by arranging colorful pebbles by hand. https://t.co/W17YpehFaW https://t.co/gdJU9MhGHf

"Through color, I have sought to concentrate on beauty and happiness, rather than on man’s inhumanity to man," Alma Thomas once said https://t.co/xBTUNpBtVt

Around the time he painted this work, #NormanLewis had become one of the founding members of Spiral, a Black artists' collective concerned with their work & political role in the civil rights movement. He was born #OnThisDay in 1909. 🖼️: "Untitled" (about 1960–64), oil on canvas https://t.co/xFkDROKhv9

In the late 90s, a 10th-century sandstone statue of the Hindu war deity Skanda was stolen from the Prasat Krachap temple in Cambodia — more than two decades later, it’s finally heading home. https://t.co/HOK5vkkD5O