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'At a symposium in 1949, the question arose, "Where do we go from here?" Paul Strand's terse reply was, "Go to the Metropolitan Museum."'⁠ ⁠ This epigraph ⁠accompanies 'Iconographia,' an exhibition of photographs by James Welling which revitalize sculptures and artifacts from Rome, Greece, Egypt, Syria, and North Africa with features excerpted from old master and modernist paintings. Visit the exhibition at Regen Projects through August 20.⁠ ⁠ Photos: Evan Bedford⁠ ⁠ jamescwelling #JamesWelling #Iconographia #RegenProjects #Cento #Personae #contemporaryart #photography #antiquity

Paintings by Soumya Netrabile⁠ ⁠ netrabile #soumyanetrabile

Sympathy (Madness of the cat), 1955 by Spanish-Mexican surrealist artist Remedios Varo,#WomensArt https://t.co/Kl5tfktSLU

Not your average office lunch 🥂 ‘Still Life with a Lobster’ by Willem Claesz. Heda features objects that proudly display the exotic items from far-flung parts of the globe brought back by Dutch merchants: https://t.co/RzYvK11dDY https://t.co/HjSsRScAJE

A peek at one of our two new galleries for Renaissance art 👀 We're obsessed with this wall color! 🖼️: "Saint John the Baptist" (~1505–15), Rustici; "Virgin and Child" (~1509–10), Andrea del Sarto; "Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist" (~1500), Botticelli https://t.co/gY421O4EtF

UV light unveils the extraterrestrial luminescence of the American West in Cody Cobb’s photos https://t.co/1IIbgd36uh https://t.co/2zUpHBWCrM

Italian tax police seized $144 million in art and other assets from the architect who designed ‘Putin’s Palace:’ https://t.co/Jb4u19b0Le https://t.co/4i1Re6ReHW

'Stop Talking' by Martha Rich, contemporary US painter and illustrator based in Philadelphia #womensart https://t.co/ORXLNHRAe9

Postcards from Venice 🎭 Join us next week in the Gallery for our free lunchtime talk, 'Canaletto and the Grand Tour'. Gallery Educator Ed Dickenson takes us for a trip down the Grand Canal to learn all about the work of Canaletto: https://t.co/SvV9aAN0jw https://t.co/JV7DHwPblE

It's Friday and it's #InternationalBeerDay! Raise a glass and tell us your favorite brew 🍻 🎨: "Liquor cask" (around 1760), Dutch (Delft). tin-glazed earthenware https://t.co/DIVMCSGBBO

Lanfranco Cirillo—the architect of the mysterious Black Sea mansion believed to be owned by Putin—has had $144m worth of assets, including works of art, seized by Italian police in Brescia https://t.co/y98mq1AVA4

“How to write it … Well, please: no ars amandi in the museum!” A Polish museum is asking attendees to cease all sexual activities on its premises. https://t.co/4eSAmUq6pm

Why is this little angel covered in bees? 🐝 Ouch! Join Charlotte, our Simon Sainsbury Curatorial Fellow as she tells us the story behind this sticky situation from Lucas Cranach the Elder's 'Cupid complaining to Venus': https://t.co/9i5PVFo0Xy Supported by @BloombergDotOrg https://t.co/IfxpkNexWP

George Tooker, an American figurative painter associated with Magical Realism, was born #OnThisDay in 1920. “Self-Portrait” 🎨 #GeorgeTooker 📅 1969 🏛️ @natlacademy https://t.co/M9FWraafB8

Comment | The war in Yemen between the government and Houthi rebels is still going on today, seven years after it started—even if the rest of the world has forgotten, says Sana’a-based artist Ahmed Jafa https://t.co/67ChW4nveI