Art Museum

How to deal with the colonial history of art in museums and monuments in the public realm is a thorny issue that we are only just beginning to address. Alice Procter provides a guide for deconstructing everything you thought you knew about art history and tells the stories that have been left out of the canon. A much-needed provocation to look more critically at the accepted narratives about art and rethink and disrupt the way we interact with the museums and galleries that display it.

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Jennifer Chiaverini’s beloved and bestselling Elm Creek Quilts series returns with the first Elm Creek Quilts novel since 2019’s The Christmas Boutique. Summer Sullivan, the youngest founding member of Elm Creek Quilts, has spent the last two years pursuing a master’s degree in history at...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art: The History and Legacy of America’s Largest Art Museum chronicles the remarkable history of the museum and highlights some of its most important pieces. You will learn about the Met like never before.

To rebuild her life, grieving widow Maya Bishop moves to a cottage she inherited in the Pacific Northwest, next door to a charming new neighbor, Nick. She is looking to regain some peace. But one day Maya finds a painting with a bloodstained frame hidden in a linen chest. On the back of the canvas is a confession—I killed her. I’m sorry. Before she knows it, Maya is drawn into a decades-old mystery.

Art looting is commonly recognized as a central feature of Nazi expropriation. After the war, the famed Monuments Men (and women) recovered several hundred thousand pieces from the Germans' makeshift repositories. Well-publicized restitution cases, such as that of Gustav Klimt's luminous painting featured in the film Woman in Gold, illustrate the legacy of Nazi looting in the art world today. But what happened to looted art that was never returned to its rightful owners?

There she stood. A goddess. I was in love with the marble goddess. When Rika Horauchi accepts an unusual new part-time job, she never expects to fall in love. Rika has been tasked with talking to Venus, to keep her company when the museum is closed on Mondays. As Venus comes to life in the quiet...

The Maryhill Museum of Art is located on 5,300 acres in the Columbia River Gorge. Miles from any sizeable town and surrounded by the gorge's spectacular scenery, Maryhill is an internationally recognized - and undeniably eclectic - repository of art that ranges from one of the nation's best Rodin collections to one of the world's largest assemblage of chess sets. Dancer, Dreamers, and the Queen of Romania is the story of the four widely disparate people whose lives intertwined in such a way as to lay the foundation for the museum.

London, 1873. Madeleine Brewster's marriage to Dr Lucius Everley was meant to be the solution to her family's sullied reputation. After all, Lucius is a well-respected collector of natural curiosities. His 'Small Museum' of bones and specimens in jars is his pride and joy, although firmly kept...

Join the art critic Ben Eastham on a private tour of an extraordinary museum. Let him walk you through a building constructed from memory and filled with a series of bewildering art works, while he delivers a guide comprised of personal experience, professional expertise and sympathy. In this...

The Louvre. The very name conjures up scenes of art and elegance, and of long halls filled with beauty and people strolling through them whispering quietly among themselves about the glories they are witnessing. Even those who have never been to the Louvre know some of its most prized possessions, from ancient statues to Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa. As the world's largest museum, the Louvre is the cultural highpoint of Paris, a city that has long been considered the cultural center of Europe.

Wer Franz Kafka liest, betritt eine Welt, in der Türen sich schließen, Regeln sich verschieben und ein einziger Satz das Gefühl auslöst, beobachtet und beurteilt zu werden. Dieses Hörbuch lädt Sie zu einer Kulturreise ein und vermittelt verständlich, unterhaltsam und klar strukturiert Basiswissen zu Leben und Werk Kafkas. Sie entdecken, wie aus Alltag, Bürokratie und innerer Unruhe eine Prosa entstand, die Angst, Komik und Erkenntnis zugleich erzeugt.

Dieses Sachbuch zeigt Ihnen, wie Salvador Dalí das Unbewusste in Bilder verwandelte, die man nie wieder vergisst, und wie aus einem jungen Provokateur der bekannteste Surrealist des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts wurde. Wer Dalí nur als exzentrische Figur kennt, entdeckt hier den präzisen Denker hinter der Pose, einen Künstler, der Wirklichkeit, Wahn und Werbung so geschickt mischte, dass daraus eine völlig neue Bildsprache entstand.

Wer Vincent van Gogh nur als tragischen Mythos kennt, hat bisher vor allem den Rahmen gesehen. Dieses Hörbuch führt mitten hinein in Van Goghs Kunst und zeigt, warum ein niederländischer Maler mit radikaler Farbigkeit, vibrierender Linie und kompromissloser Intensität den Postimpressionismus prägte – und der modernen Malerei entscheidende Impulse gab. Bert Alexander Petzold erzählt faktenreich, klar und verständlich.

Wer Rembrandt van Rijn betrachtet, sieht mehr als niederländischen Barock. Er sieht Licht, das aus Dunkelheit hervortritt, Gesichter voller Innerlichkeit und eine Malerei, die noch heute wie ein stilles Gespräch wirkt. Dieses Hörbuch führt Sie auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise durch das Goldene Zeitalter der Niederlande. Es macht Rembrandts Leben und Werk zum Schlüssel eines neuen Sehens.

What motivates an art forger? How easy are they to catch? And to what extent have AI and other technologies changed how we approach matters of authenticity, derivation and forgery? In The Art of Forgery Noah Charney, celebrated art historian and the world’s foremost art-crime specialist...

Tonight, inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art - somewhere between the hours of 8 PM and 5 AM - Auden Peck will fall in love with Miki Kawamura. That's Miki's plan anyway. And the plan is destiny. Her grandparents fell in love after accidentally being locked in the Met overnight in 1965. And so...

Coworkers at a legendary but troubled New York City museum struggle with issues large and small over the course of one extraordinary day in this whip-smartnovel that is “satirical and incisive...like nothing you’ve ready before” (Town & Country). When Diane Schwebe, the director of a major...

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"A yearning rush that builds into a full tidal wave of desire." —Stephanie Perkins, New York Times-bestselling author of Overdue and Anna and the French Kiss DELUXE EDITION featuring printed edges! Tonight, inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art—somewhere between the hours of 8 PM and 5...