Art Contents Archive

🗣 If you can't crown yourself, how the heck are you gonna crown somebody else? https://t.co/RZuD7HjyAZ

If it fits, I sits 🐱 Celebrate #InternationalCatDay and visit this sweet kitty in "Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography, 1870-1900" opening today! https://t.co/jkbH8lVPZH

Headed to The Met soon? We can't wait to see you! Plan ahead by reviewing our visitor guidelines to ensure you get the most out of your Museum experience. ↓ https://t.co/7qAX9iDbBz

In “Planetarium,” visual poet Monica Ong rewrites the lines and tales associated with the asterisms through a feminist gaze. https://t.co/8lTQCdjqYO

Take a look at the incredible winning images from the 2021 Minimalist Photography Awards! https://t.co/GJTQ5Ppm5n

What would the internet be without our furry friends? Here's a purrfect selection of kitties in our collections—meow! #InternationalCatDay https://t.co/73CV4BzjrA

While Sojourner Truth and Harriet Tubman are among the most recognized 19th-century black women activists, a digitization project at the Library of Congress spotlights rare photographs of Black women active in suffrage, civil rights, journalism, and more. https://t.co/5BdEJXzoWO

"Acting Out: Cabinet Cards and the Making of Modern Photography, 1870-1900" is on view in the Resnick Pavilion through November 7.

Camille Henrot challenges unquestioned, idealized, and traditional representations of motherhood and clichés of maternal happiness in “Mother Tongue,” on view at at Kestner Gesellschaft. https://t.co/51eJBWEoZw

Image: A. M. Nikodem, Chicago, IL, "[Cat]," 1880s, albumen silver print, Robert E. Jackson Collection, photo courtesy of the Amon Carter Museum of American Art

In Ovid's "Metamorphoses," nymph Daphne escapes the pursuing Apollo by turning into a laurel tree. Apollo then pledges his unrequited love: "Although you cannot be my wife, you shall at least be my tree; I shall always wear you on my hair, on my quiver, O Laurel." https://t.co/aARE3RUnco

Joshua Marsh’s motifs raise questions about what we are actually seeing: hoof prints, spreading puddles of color, quotation marks — What is real and what is illusory, and where is the border between them? https://t.co/6H3m7LSA1z

Earlier, getting a photographic portrait was a rare and formal event, but cabinet cards allowed portrait photographers and their sitters (both human and animal) to focus on fun and personal expression.

Sunday fun day? Santa's reindeer enjoying summer vacation? Let us know what you think is happening in this image. https://t.co/1I42vfKvtp

Inexpensive and sold by the dozen, cabinet cards were America’s main format for photographic portraiture through the last three decades of the 19th century.