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Arthur Dove, Sunset

Arthur Dove, Sunset, 1935, oil on canvas, 61 x 83.8 cm (Art Bridges Foundation) © The Estate of Arthur G. Dove speakers: Dr. Javier Rivero...

Eldzier Cortor, Southern Souvenir No. II

Eldzier Cortor, Southern Souvenir No. II, c. 1948, oil on board mounted on Masonite on wood strainer, 90.2 x 163.8 cm (Art Bridges Foundation)...

Frank Blazquez, The Gallegos Twins from Belen, NM

Frank Blazquez, The Gallegos Twins from Belen, NM, 2019, archival pigment print, 25 x 31 inches (Art Bridges Foundation) © Frank Blazquez A conversation with Dr....

Black Raku, Green Matcha

In this video, we examine a nineteenth-century Raku ceramic tea bowl made in Japan. We discuss the history and process of making Raku ware,...

Sanford Robinson Gifford, Twilight in the Adirondacks

Sanford Robinson Gifford, Twilight in the Adirondacks, 1862, oil on canvas, 26.7 x 45.7 cm (Art Bridges Foundation), a conversation with Dr. Javier Rivero...

Status Embroidered in Late Imperial China

Examine three embroidered badges from China’s Qing dynasty (1644–1912) with us. We go over what various details symbolize, from the wearer’s rank to references...

A Tea Caddy Unwrapped

In this video, we examine a ceramic tea caddy made in China during the Yuan dynasty and used for centuries in Japanese tea practice...

Laocoön and His Sons

Athanadoros, Hagesandros, and Polydoros of Rhodes, Laocoön and his Sons, early 1st century C.E., marble, 7 feet 10-1/2 inches high (Vatican Museums) Speakers: Dr. Steven...

A One-of-a-Kind Canteen

Closely examine one of the greatest—and most mysterious and curious—metalworks of the Islamic world: a large brass canteen from mid-thirteenth-century Iraq. Explore the dense...