Two staff members from our Division of Academic and Public Programs discuss how the museums foster museum literacy and a ...
Under a bower of twining flowered branches, a woman and a man sit naked, side by side in a garden, sharing a kiss. A long, pale orange serpent is coiled along the ground at their feet, its head rising ...
A scene in which the sky is vast and stormy, and the ground seems barren. On a hilltop a woman wearing blue cloth draped over her head and body holds a man who limply leans on her. She has a round ...
At the bottom of a wide black dish with two handles in red there is a man and woman within a ring of repeating spiral designs. He is nude with a tail and holds the woman's arm while she turns toward ...
A resident of Utrecht, one of the cultural capitals of the Dutch Republic, Wtewael specialized in pictures of biblical and mythological subjects. Whether executed on large canvases or small copper ...
In a lavish room with ornate tapestries, a young woman with fair skin and long light brown hair lies against cushions on the floor, with only a silk sheet wrapped around her legs. A hookah and a fan ...
A watercolor showing a man kneeling on a low dirt hill facing the viewer. His left hand is pressed to his chest with the right arm extended out towards the ground. He has long dark hair and is clad in ...
The monkey steps forward in three-quarter view, bent slightly at the waist, holding a long pole behind his back with left arm, while his right arm is upraised. From his open palm a release of golden ...
The drawing in black chalk on white paper depicts a woman from the waist up, her left arm cropped by the edge of the paper. She leans against a cushion propped under her right arm, and her right hand ...
Hatoum, a Palestinian born in Beirut, uses everyday objects and personal artifacts to examine the effects of exile and alienation. For this work she collected strands of her own hair and painstakingly ...